Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-07-17
A NORTHERN PARTY.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY ~, 1858.
a NORTHERN PARTY.
From the Montgomery (Alabamal Advertiser and
Gazette we copy tho following:
ave soe that a simultaneous and enthusiastic ef-
fort is making at the North to form an extreme Sec
tional party, based upon the cardinal principle ot
deadly hostility to the South, or perhaps VIC should
speak accurately say, TO give to that principle
by means Of Organlzation more lively activity and
more thorough efficiency. In tho of this move
ment may be found tho leaders Of the new party
which has attained political favor IL most of III"
Northern States. Leading compact and effective
party, they have absorbed almost every unatlcal ce-
ment at the North. Indeed for all practical purposes
there are but two parties now at the North, the M
tiona Democracy, aud the Know Nothing anti-S Slave
! ry party. The chivalry with which our noble De
mocracy upon the hosts of tratOrous fanatics
warns our heart within U.s. But they need some
| thing more thnn onr tacis sympathy. They Wish 10
have our aid in their difficult task they desire TO hear
our shouts in the hour Of their sore extremity Lei
| them the approaching columns OF VICTORIOUS
| Southern Democracy advancing, and tho old Guarus
will meet detianty the charge oi fanatics: ai" o''
combined forces will tivouac on the l:lu ol RScto.
Is signal as Blucher and Wellington won at Water
ioo.
We equally admire and approve the sound sense
and Just sentiment displayed by the Montg"me-
nv Advertiser and Gazette, in the extract which we
|
is intelligent, patriotic, and faithful TO the
Union and the Constitution Tho defecons from its
ranks have bat purified it, and will eventually
strengthen it, and strengthen the cause o inc SCUM.
The great Northern party forming at the North under
the lead of Seward, will drum up collect t"Sc'her'
and embrace in its ranks, oil the vile lsS anu heie
sies that threaten and disturb Northern society. Inc
contrast presented by the scrried ranks OF the De-
mocracy to this heterogeneous aud chaotic COMPOUND
of odds and ends will deter and drive OIL the eoou'
the wi,c and conservative from the latter and invite
and lead thom into the orderly, aw-abidihS anu III"
loving camp of the former. The very name vi
sectional party CRATES harshly on the ear ana ope-
rates repusively.
To the opposi,e section it formally bids defiance
aud ,hre,tens assault instead Of holding out invita-
ons and beating up for recruits. To the section IN
which il formed it in effect declares, We are going
n war with our ncighbors if not yet war of swords
ve, into that war Of words and arguments and votes,
tbat often leads to the war Of swords Such party
40 an offensive measure land such will be the pro-
posed Northern party,l can never be justified. AS
defensive measure it is tho "uitima ratio, tile last
resort of an oppressed section. Southern party
would be party of defence; but the time has not
CONCEIVE hope and believe never will come-whcn
such measure will be either necessary or cxpcdlent
Should it arse, none will be reader 10 buckle on his
arrnor and enlist in the ranks than we. We wish to
see this Northern party formed-wc don't like fight.
iur in the dark. We wish TO know who are our enc
nies-the enemies Of the Constitution and the Cnlon
of peace, property, religion marriaGe-nay, Of So
ciety itself. We wish also to know the proposed
mode and manner Of attack on society at the North,
and on domestic slavery at the South.
What piece Of mischief will you beg in with Shall
that Machiavel or TaIcyrand, orMetternlch, pet.
TO- Seward, first pull down the constitution and set
up in its place the Higher Law1 Or shall Smith and
Phillips begin, with Parker as chaplain, by pulling
down the Churches and burning the parsons-n or
der to advance the interests of procrcs'rc chrisnl
,y-of christianity .'mclting into n6de;y" Or
will you recall your great High Priest, Greeley from
Europe brmiul of Partisan social hercsics md Anne.
rican isms 10 knock all society Il; once into p, set
up in its place Fourieritc Philnnstercs, living in
primeval innocence, and prmcval simplicity on rc-
soa,an Diet and substituting the sensual philosophy
ot Owen and Of Fourier for the precepts Of the BIZ
hle! Will no the unti-ren,e-s, and the vo,e-nysclf.
s-faru-Inen, headed by Gerr:, Smith and William
GoOdel, inaugurate millennium, give to every man
Ibis vino and his fs tree" and make the enjovments
OF land as common as that Of arand water!"
Whilst the pLilanthropc Andrews is making still
higher enjoyments equally common, shall Shakerism
with no wives prevail. or Brigham Young aud his
Mormons with thirty! Will the Boomers, or the
strong minded "woman's rights ladies' take prece.
dence at court! Will negroes be permitted to inter.
marry; or, to show your devotion 10 equality will
YOU insist that in all marriages the colors shall be
mixed Will you establish Drlphic and Cumean
oraccs, with cunting Priestcscs not half 80 crazy
but far more cunning than those Of Dclphos oil Gu
lnas' But first and foremost, and we had like 10 have
forgotten it, will Parson Miller pull off his ascension
robes and grant you reprieve in order to try your
delightful experiments ! In view OF your many Of
fences, were we the Parson. NC would wind up the
whole business md reply to yeu in the words Of the
Swedish officer, when Charle, the Twelfth was shot
at Froderickshall-"V VosIa la piece fnic, alions
soupcr!" Not many ofyou tosup with the ParSou in
Hrarcn, we fear!
Badinnse csde-thc materials that will compose this
Northern Abolition Party will demonstrate that abo
lition itself is the prolific parent or the constant ally
and associate Of moral social, religious and political
heresos, more numerous, hateful disgusting and dan
gerous than ever were before grouped together under
one standard to make war OH Law, Morality and
Christianity,
The Democratic party that has como off victorious
from hundred helds-that has often met and con-
ouered opponents more numerous, and u thousand
times more respectable than these is not destined to
fall before troops shabbicr than FastalTs. The
sooner the piebald banner of this Northern party is
unfrled to tho breeze, the better for the Democracy
of the North and Of the South-the better for the
good, the wise and the conservative of all pnres-or
they will then know whom to shun and whom to op-
pose as enemies Of their country.
AutI-Southern and Anti.States Rights Feature
In the Know-So.hing Platform.
! The National American vindicates the Federal and
anti-States Rights doctrines of Mr. Bolts which would
make the federal government, through s Judiciary,
the arbiter to determine the limits of it's own power
and thus in effect make it government of unlimited
power The mass Of the American people, but
especially Of the people Of Virginia, have al,
ways secuted this doctrine 1t was no doubt
adopted, sub silentio, and without examination
generally, the ith article of the platform: for bad-
! ly as we think of many of the Know Nothings, we
know that there are among them men attached TO the
South and to tho doctrines Of States Rights, who new
er dreamed that in subscribing to ts platform, they
were delivering up the proud old Commonwealth OF
Virginia, bound hand aud foot, to the mercy Of the
Federal Government Now, no man who cares fig
for States Rights rend the l article Of the plat
form of the Know-Nothngs aid remain in their
ranks That article, quoted by the American of the
10th july nnnihates States Rights, and gives to
dominant majority Of the Federal Government,
through i,s courts unlimited power. At all lines such
n doctrine is fraught with danger. Now, the North