Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1855-04-07

lltnY Ml1e Is II SDliuc lIldt Wcz Ctusteo NOuiu ~
spared to our State.
He Assaits tie Freedom of Religion.
He maintains that Roman Catholics ..shoud b.
excluded from the offices of the government in all it
departments, and promises fidelity and vigilance il
this brave work. That any sect OF Christians should
be prescribed for their religious faith is sentiment
which we thought had been secuted out of our coun-
try as long ago the establishment OF our free in
situations, which even England is become ashamed
of and FESTIVE under, and of which the eny reuain
ing stronghold, home and sanctuary at the present
day, is God -forsaken Spain and her sister despotisls
of Europe. The present is the first OCCASION, in Nr
gina, for century, in which person holding an
honorable position in society, above the level of the
Jack Cades and H. audsons OF the mob, has stopped
| to appropriate it as political hobby, and to pro-
claim it partisan shibboleth.
He Dsclares for the Perpetual oyitotioa Of Bgoted
Seata;eat.
Mr. Flournov's mode OF efacins this shameful pro-
scription is unstatesman.ike as it is unmany. lie
would accomplish his object by neessant demaeosue
agifotion; but would ''unconpromisinely oppose
calculating it BY the direct and honorable means of
'legal enactment" What is worthy of being done
at all, is worthy of tnng done WE'LL and it is suli-
Gent to damn any scheme Of public policy, that 1t Is
too vicious unjust and unrghtcous to be carried into
lac, And how pitable and un,nanly is the states
maaship which propounds measure Of reform, but
skuks from the only bold, honorable and efficient
means Of carrying it into effect! That lac shrinks
from carrying his scheme OF politics out into prac
teal legslation proves thatit is agitated tor any
thing else but the public good, that it is agtated ex
clusively for the ends OF demasogues. In the be-
ngnancy of his statcsmaaship he would the ele
ments of dscord and strife broadcast the COM
munity, and make il the leading effort of his di
pomacy to keep the flames thus cnkindled ever
burning and exploiting! Lie would not execute the
victims OF his prescription by single blow of the
or the guillotine, but roast them eiSurey upon
the slow fires of the rack, that he might continue to
goat their tertucsl Consummatc is that states
! maaship which studies to supply perpetual incen-
tive to strife, hatred and mob violence between class
and class, sect and sect, and race i'll the bosom
of the same community! We know OF no better def
milton of demageguism than that it is agitation for
the mere purpose oil fomentng ill-blood and strife
between classes and sects the means Of elevatng
the agitators to office. 1t is sort Of politics that
might be tolerated in irresponsible clubs convened in
secret, and in vapid paitzaus of low degree; but
that man OF education, aspiring to the control OF
public affairs should have proposed il III public
letter his name, Is event that shocks the
sentative citizens. We are sorry that a man has
been thought worthy OF grave public responsibilities
in Virginia whose moral obliqaty is such thai he
plumes himself upon advocating the very plan Of
politics which he vaunts it as virtue that he "nn
comprosngly Opposes making the subject OF s'lega.
enactment OF course, it is too intolerant,
despotic, proscriptye and bigoted to deserve place
upon the statute bookl
He Psopounds an Abolition scheme of politics.
MIR. Flournoys positions on the subject of immi-
grafton are ridculousy weak, absurd, and untena-
BILE. Borrowing the idea Of Governor Smith, he
1.-THE South is especially and deeply interested in
this question This immense and annual addition To
population settle in the MISUNDERSTANDING States
aud the extensive territories of the West and North
West out Of which Free States WILL in sequence
be more speedily formed, increasing with fearful
rapdity the balance OF power against Vs..
In previous paragraph be s'endOrses fully" the
"Basis Of Principles vi the American party" one
"No obstacle should be interposcd to the i,nmigra-
on of all Foreigners Of honest ana industrious lab
it's
which language il coupled will, clause excepting
.'paupcrs and crianinals' from the privilege.
Excepting paupers and criminals, which men oi all
classes aud parties in the Union would join ha in
excluding from our shores, Mr.. Flournoy would let
foreigners into the country al Ht,tuR. What then
is his position? Conccding that immigration goes
almost altogether to the North, and that little Of 1t
to the South, his mastery craftsmanship pro-
poses to agitatc in Virginia a subject peculiarly
northern and domestic. and strictly within the scope
OF State and police regulationa doctrine, Of abel
ton invention, and utterly abhorrent to all South
ern ideas OF State sovereignty. He would prosecute
this mad policy under the pretext, and in the dog
Of political power in the North" than in the
South. 1t is bumatingly in conflict with the chic
diroas temper OF the South to resist movement,
right, and worthy Of '.full endorsements in itself,
from the motive of jealousy but such is Mr..
Flournoy's craftsmanship and Virgtnian mahlincss!
But is Mr.. Flournoy ignorant Of the fact that
long honest and industrious foreigners arc let into
the North al Hjitum which he approves, the mere
denial to them of the right of suffrage and of Official
position cannot prevent that augmentation Of North
crn representation in Congress of which he com
plains? Is this Governor of Virginia, expcctant,
ignorant OF the notorious constitutional fact that
is population and not Suffrage which determines the
ratio OF representation in Congress? Has he not yet
learned III the horn-book OF constitutional law, that
five sioces even, count as many rs three whites in
determining Southern representation in Congress-;
and that Immigrants once landed at the North,
without naturai,zati0n count rs much i'll augment
ing Northern representation i'll Congress il each
n,,tU va N u
know that the know Nothing party belle by their
action every principle ayowed in their Basis. and
that that plausible schedule, chiefly OF trtisis that
nobody will dispute, is put out as decay for the
shallow and unthinkng but we really did not think
that Mr.. Flournoy would commit himself i'll black
and white to preext so transparent aad disfeputs
BILE, as that denial of office and suffrage to nmi
grants could swell the rapid increase of the Northern
balance of power. The Basis principle which he
,fuly endorses admits all honest and industrious
immigrants, and itself permits to be accomplished
Ihe very evil OF which he complains, whether the il7
migrant ever afterwards secures vote and olice "a
not.
lie Borso.cs Bad Argua,ent from Coz. Smith.
But imitators and quaeks are prone to get swamp
ed i'll quagmires Mr.. Fournoy borrowed Governor
Smiths idea withoat having the sagacty to perceive
the necessity OF borrowing also the limitations which
that gentleman coupled with the stolen article Gov.
Smith did not like his imtator, "eadorse fully" the
Basis Principles OF the new party, but only approx
ed some OF them. lie goes Il bow-shOt beyond the
decay doctrine, and far from protesting that mo
obstacle should be interposed to foreign immigra-
tion," re-" 'dcpreeates immigration as great ca
amity," declaring it to be 'our highest duty 10 ar
rest the iaportioa Of Foreigners" Poor Nj. Flour
noy appropriates Governor Smiths argument OF UNI
duly augmented Northern representation in Con
gress but stumbcs and fractures his shin over the
s'no obstacle clause in his own Basis Principles
Ie and Gaeernor Smith both tumble into an Abolition
Hercy.
1t is an easy but unpleasant task, to show that
Gov. Smith, in taking this position on the immigrant
questi, n, bids farewell to State Rights politics, Il
is monstrous for Southern tn propound a doc
tine requiring the Virginia people to neiere with Il
strictly domestic question of the North, upon the
whining pes-oi envy aud jealousy, that tue North
is outstrippng i'll the march to empire. 1t Is cal
ling upon the South to violate principle of politics
which she has considered OF vital Importance to her
safety, and that, from the meanes aud most pnslia
imous of all motives With what indignation would
VIC ourselves resist the like doctrine, ii brought to
bear by the North against own physical deyei7
opment What ii Virginia, as Is not UNLIKELY,
should herself take steps 10 import MINERS tiieiefs,
| manufacturers and laborers from oveGstocSei nm
rope for the development OF her own latent wealth;
and if the Aboioniss oil The North, borrowing the
policy of George ILL., should demand oi Congress to
| exclude this foreign immigration, ON the Smith
Flouru oy- X now Nothing ground that it would ul,-
duly augment Soathefa representation i'll Congress
| Would Virginia tamely submit to the insolent de-
! mand and gratuitous insult How has she not re-
santed the conduct OF the Abolitionsts bottoed on
the similar plea OF checking the extension of sape
power in imposing tho Missouri Compromise upon
u.s. in urging the Wimot Proyiso almost to the disrup
ton OF the Union, in resisting the purchase of Flor