Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-02
TTaduction Of the Living, and the Dead,
by the Richmond Enquirer.

Traduction Of the Living, and the Dead,
by the Richmond Enquirer.
To injuriously affect the " American party"
and to serve the ends Of the present "foreign
party" the Richmond Enquirer, of last Thurs
day, praises Judge Douglas Of Illinois, and
abuses Mr.. Beale of Virginia OF the recent
speech of Judge Douglas, it says everything
that is Mandatory, and even fulsome. 1t begins
thus:
ave wish that every Virgnian could have heard
| the powerful speech of Stephen A. Douglas, the
able Senator from Illinois, delivered before an i'm
mense crowd In the African Church on Tuesday
night"
Among its assertions is the following
| "Senator Douglas shoped eonclasipely that tho
Know othings of the North and West were under
tho control of the Abolitionsts."
| If he did, he "showed conclusively" that
| which is utterly untrue and unfounded But
let that point pass for the present At this
distance from Richmond, people naturally in
quire whether "nigger" church was not a
| fit place for such assertonsr
We are Of the opinion, that the slanderous
and sooty assertions, thus attributed to Judge
Douglas, wers .fttingly uttered in a sooty
! place. 1t has smutted the slanderer and not
those whom he slandered.
OF Mr. Beale the Enquirer speaks thus:
" The nomination of so Insignificant and impo-
tent politician Mr. Beale by the Know-N Nothing
party, has excited no little SURPRISE especially in
the quarter of the State where his utter ncapacity
| and want of weight are best understood"
"When it was announced that Mr.. Bealc was
the Know Nothing candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor the public were puzzled to understand the
meaning of so singular movement
In that impersh-
able repository of the past-in that charnel house
OF dcfunct reputation, where the memory of short
lived politicians is embamed and preserved for fu-
tue ages---in the Congressional Globe, we found
| the secret of Beae's nomination by the Know
| Nothing party"
g The Know Nothing party aspires to the acqui-
sition of Federal power 1t has its eye the Pres
idency, and lust for the spols is the vital princ
Pile of it's existence. To this end it is essential that
| the national organization of the party shall be
| maintained at every hazard. Hence, when it is
ascertained by the actual developments of its poll
cy that Rnom Nottingham in the North is identi-
cal Nth abolifionism, the southern members of
the party constrained, By regard to the great
objects Of the order, to cultivate friendly feeling
with their northern allies, and to concede some
thing to their adherence of slavery"
"Our researches among the files of the Congress
sionai Globe have been rewarded with a discovery
| which fully establishes the claim of Mr. Beale TO
the confidence and sympathy of the Know-Nothing
abolitionists. Among the votes recorded tn favor
oft the abolition of tie SLAVE trade in the District
IF Columbia, ICE ind the name Of ]. NJ. II. BEALE,
IA association nth Preston King, Harlan, Colt,
Thadeieus .Stevens, Wentworth, Horace Mann,
and The other rabid abolitionists Of the House Of
| Representotivesp
Nearly all the foregoing extracts from the
Enquirer are false in their assumptions, false
in their reasoning, and false III their insinua-
tons. They are reproach upon their living
coiner, and a reproach upon the memory OF
the patriotic dead. They reproach the living
conductors, and stigmatize the deceased pro-
prietor Of the very paper which publishes
them The anathema upon Mr. Beale for his
support of "the act to suppress the slave trade
in the District of Columbia" equally reflects
upon the memory of Thomas Richie and Hen
ry Clay 1t contains glowing libel upon
Stephen A. Douglas, Samuel Houston, Daniel
S. Dickinson, Lewis Cass, Augustus G. Dodge,
George w. Jones, William NJ. Gwin, John c.
Fremont, and many other living men, includ
ing the President of the Senate, most of whom
are quite as reliable on the slavery question
rs their present assailants.
| And how are those men characterized, who
voted for that bill with Mr. BealeS Look Mt the
heading of the article, thus
"a REVELATI0N--THE KN0W-N0TH-
ING TICKET ROTTEN oNTHE SLAVE.
RY QUESTION"
"RorTEN" on the slave question, chr SO,
then, is Stephen A. Douglas "rottea" on the
slave question: For Beale and Douglas
voted for this same bill Beale and Clay,
Beale and Cass, Beale and Dickinson, Besle
and Sturgeon, Bcale and Underwood, Bcale
and Bright Beale and Dodge, Beale and Spru-
ance, Beale and Wales, Beale and Norris
(the bosom friend and confident Of General
Pierce) ALL voted together on the same bin,
and ALL are therefore "rotten" on the slavery
question are theyf And Thomas Richie
sanctioned, approved, applauded, and defended
each and all Of the Compromise measures, and
those who sustained theml
And the present editors Of the Enquirer have
for four years past, " aequisseed" in this mea-
sure, and in the very article upon which we
now comment they extol to the skies the
speech Of one Of these prominent men, who is
rotten" on the slave question: This Gerry
biz for which Mr.. Beale voted, is one of the
Compromise measures Of 1850, In the passage
Of which the father toiled, and the son "acqui-
esced" dRd pere they dlso rotten" on Tie
Stare questionf But Clay and Richie have
passed from the theatre Of their patriotic la
bors the Compromise measures Of 1850, the
result Of their joint labors, are nOp to be repu-
dated by the Richmond Enquirer, those who
voted for them are rotten" on the slave ques-
tion--the fell spirits Of notification and aboli
ton are to be again aroused, and let loose upon
the country, and the Union is to be again en-
dangered by sectional strife Thus wills the
Richmond Enquirer.
What means this assault from the South
upon those who voted for this particular mea-
sure Of the Compromise seriesg Have the agi-