Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-06-15
InE t. sssriSG.." AND TIE nrSlos,"
Loxnwoon, Jnae z, 1855.


14E "s.NTiSEL" AND TIRE vi SloS'
! - me ga,lo; u ~ E13raer:
J Luyawoon, Juae g le'j.
| -.,,,,o,,or.Iu the Washington Sentinel OF ia
i,L nj Tuue il 10 be found II severe crf!lne upon
nr,cl, in the Euiun headed, "Tho pcindctaIic Tor
t,I, OF, the Slavery Question" which Is deIel !"
tbut no party embracing ineIibers nj he worm o."
-, ,La Snut can bp national unanimous III its Oh
at 80: which does not exclude the question q
! 80. from irs creed" As the Sentinel admits I'd
o.Lty That it has mot caught the true intent nm
ar;mr' Of the article, and invokes the grave cons
drrnon of our Southern contemporaries my oe p"i
dnned for suggesting, i'll all indncFs' thnt II mas n"
',t rho true meaning or nj ell events, tor h0pn:
that such ia the case. ,.o-,. .,;o,;,o
Questions. The one is defined in the Srntihc ; owl
su,,unre as the State rights doctrine OF 'resistaNc'
To the fanacal Gucroachment upon the institution I"
slavery" The others that which IS referred TO By
the Union the 'qucstiun il slarery'; moral an'
social wrong = or is it moral and political blres
ing ~ and such like expressions. Now, while yield
10 70 man in this republic in uncomprumsing resist
ancc to everything, come from what SQUIRE il
may, which tends to the smallest concession of the
ri. hts of the South am not willing to pronounce
Judgment too hastily upon those WHO have hitherto
been consistent defenders of those rights And |
must say, from calm pcrusal OF the Unions views,
pref thinking that the Sentinel has done il the i'll.
justice ~ ut the wrong construction upon its words.
| cannot suppose that tie Washington Union, even
were it To give other evidences nf trucking Ia North
presumption, would be guilty of the suicidal ab-
sury of iakn., position upon this subject far be-
hind that OF the Democratic cohorts of New liamp-
shire, New York, Connecticut, &C. And this il would
be doing. beyond all cavi Were it to assume that ;hc
question Of observation-disclosures with the rights of the
south must be excluded, in order To form national
party. The conservative democracy Of tho North
have, in their Conventions and Legislatures, boldly
planted themselves in front vi Southern rights the
Fugitive Slave law, Nebraska bill, &c. aud il would
take stranger proof than anything which appears
in the Unions article, TO induce the belief IN
an impartial mind that the Orion advocated the absur-
dty Of Excluding these matters from Il national
platform. Indeed lis own language throughout, 50
ahundgntly rtutrs any such idea and shows what Is
the truu intent and meaning thereof, That, to usr
the words Of the Sentinel. the question Is constantly
recurring tn me, have not mistaken the meaning Oi
the Sentinel
The question" discussed bv the Union is. "can
R0tiOaa party Greet bs framed with the recognition
by Northern men OF slavery a- a moral ar political
good; or bv Southern men. OF slavery rs moral or
political ryp" This is m construction Of its Ian
rllagr and If be the true one submit that II ren.
drrs the Scnf!nes structures totally nappIcablc IT.
short in lis own words, and in the quotation Of :hr
Baltimore resolutions, the Union INSERTS broadly en1
nil that the Snn'h With any show o JUS
,ce can ever ask. Anh in the conclusion at which il
arrives the, the "nurstion of Slavery, in ts moral or
poltical aspect mus, he excluded frnm any national
party 'rGei, conceive il clG.ry defines what always
hus been the "Demnrratir position, and announces
II truth, which the Intelligent editors o! the Sentinel
Womb ind it no easy tasl: 10 camhnt.
The "S.uinel" contends that the doctrine Of the
-" nicn" as 10 the exclusion of the 'absiract qurs-
ton" of slavery for bear i'll mind that ia the sole
"Gurstion" which il proposes 10 cNcndrj would open
the door to Wilson, CHASE, Sumner GI'din.4, &c.
Well now, | sluuld bo rruly glad ii the "Scnturl'
would piye us ;nst few III The nhincs II those "siu
riols Stntcs.RighS men of the North" OF whom IL
spcaks in mn shuinipg cOumn,ns defending the constr