The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-22

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PARLIAmEsrARY.-Mr PopuLus: ri.s
.ir for the purpos, Of ssrins an amendment to ID.
sir. to strike oct the name of RoBgRT c. sTlE.sn'
Esq, and insert 10 liea thereof the mans ~ ~
IoHH DOVE sr., Of Jsfsrson Ward: W.
RIcHMOSD CONGREssIoNAL DrsrRIcr-
At meeting of the Democratic Association n,
Thursday night. Messrs. 7: T. Giles, @. W. Monford
were appointed q COMMITTEES to prepare and pubII.b
address to the voters of this District. The follow
ing sdmirsble paper has been furnished to By Ii.
committee for publication 1t presents, in ihs strong
est and csar light tbs csims of on,
faithfol representative John g. Caskie to the rensw
ed 3nfiienee of his fellow northumberland
The Democrats Of Richmond to the Voteys The TA,s
Congregational Distyict- Greeting:
As brethren Of the same "a niiy, equally dsyotaa
to the interest honor and welfare Of our couurry w
address you. The election of member to reprsssnt
band. and feeling amply the Importance of it.rs.
farding it. in fact from tbs novel and peculiar cir
cums's nces which attend il, of the most i'm.
ished the sscendancy ofths Republican party under
the lead of Thomas Jefferson, we come forward to
confer with You In respec.t to 1t.
Whig and Democratic. or Republican parties 10
that array the Democratic party was Triumphant and
10 IL last election. aided By many patriotic whin
ist, ait had done at the preceding election. Hav.
ing faithfully represented s and served
ta. sa sn,1sd and sss. %
reelection. He asks for continuance of that conf.
dsncs which has Lasn 40 generously bestowed upon
him heretofore. Bhali be receive It'll
In timer past Wa shculd have answered this CUES.
ton without hestaiiou, AID, emphaticailY, In the ar
flmative; for then 1t was principle beid saesed 10
pie With honesty, fidelity and ability should receive
That hgasat and beat reward Of a Republican ser
vsnt, of upright and iesrless rspresenatve--ths
appreciation OF his constituents The people of Viz.
GINA have never taen ungrateful or un generous
have COMPOUNDED ths slothful and faithlsss
servant With the Visiiant aud faithful. tnd never
driven with shanls aGd malas Of contunsy from
theT presence the lnan " no had been true 10 them
to his country, and TO liberty.
lfsuoh bs stili tho characteristics of our people,
thsn the answer will be the same. VirEipisus will
never dishonor faithful representative and John s.
CasAs will be Reelected to the post which, for
ans. he has filled so nobiy.
But the times much chan sed and 1t Is said our
psople are chan sed too. The old array parties no
longer exists. The cid Republican. the true Demo.
cratic party still nobly bears alof the ancient banner
and battles for the sacred principles OF which 10 the
emblem. But thu Wing party no logger appears 40
its opponent-ts flag has been torn down and its
lumns disbanded, and 3 new party has sprung up In
its stead for the most part from its ruins fill like
Banquo's shosi, ths ssst once filed By living en-
bodiiDent 1t was born 10 Massachusetts. 1t &C.
nsrated by that spirit from which sprung the infa.
NOUS Hartford Convention. AID prompted resistance
to the law for the protection OF those who plumber
of your slaves which deies and rssists the Con
sttution Of the United Ststes and its vital principle
was and in the land of Its nativity and the North no.
nersly, is hostility to the insttueions Of the South
hostility therefore to you. It's name 10 Know No
thing" Its putative father and emisssry Is called
Sam. The objects of the monstrous formation are
Ia pursuit of them, it has ventur4 to sssa Virginia
and claims The right to appoint 1t epresentstiv.s
Without announcing one singl political principe
upon which they mean to stand, tnd by which they
win govern the country, if they OBTAIN the power to
do so; without informing you whether they favor the
old doctrines ofthe Wing party or net; whethsrthsy
whether they for ag ,inst tbs wilmot Provo.
by which the South is to be excluded from all new
territories whether they are for the repssl Of the
ton of the odious Missouri line no.; without
word of denuncation OF the Abolitiouis;s the Virginia
Know Nothings, in secret session at Winche.isr.
have put forth parcel of empty seneraltss called
platform. which will apply equally well to asy
party and to every party And la return for such
and time honored principles of Virginia. and to dis
card from your service your well-tried and faithful
representative, the able, upright fearless Caskis
Nay. worse than this they require You to sblst with
them in crusade against religion; to light again the
faggots of proscrptve and intolerant fsnaticsm, 10
that BY their light and in the uproar snd alarm
which they will occasion, thew may despo the pee-
pie Of their power and their ofices.
Nor is this all They wage war against every
1y forssner .bous ia ee onr ssores =. II thew wsrs
polluted; or become, If he lands, civly snd poit-
oalIya slave, with the privilege of paying sll TIE
tax % whch may be levied, and fighting bsttess
but without the capacity of enjoying that first great
privilege of freeman, which alone distio guishss
him from the subject Of q dsspot-ths privilege OF
voting for tho men who are to govern him. Thus
violating the great principles of our revolution,
which were Freedom of conscience to all men!"
Taxation and representation must go together"-
For these principles. Jefferson, Madison and Henry
spoke aud wrote; and Washington led your armies to
battle and victory. For these principles the .re.t
Will Won desert them? viii Won allow ths worss
than Gothic principles of the Know Nothings, which
come tesming hot from the land Of federalism. "a,
the principles of Washington be exchanged for those
Of Ned Buntline2 God forbid! Let the people for.
bid also. Come to the rescue Of your country and
her principles and save both from the hands OF the
heartless unhaliowed. ruthless Invader.
We have said THAT the Know Hothings hsve pro-
claimed no political pInciples of distinctive char
acter, but they have proclaimed principle which
ought to forever exclude them from the political
councils of Southern men. IL Is this: They ssy
that they the national Party which. If Il means
throughout the nation; and II this be true, then the
whole Know Nothing party must be an .ooiiti9n
party; because that party at the Nortn eertsnlyn'
and that party thu North constitutes the nsoTty
Of this, additional proof will be found in the aes
that they have lately held Convention In Syracuse
In the State Of New YORK at which i va. poesin,
down platform 90 Southern and 90 conservative
that Virginia would be satisfied with it-snd stand.
ing upon IT, would s5ps from her se9ns saa . nT.
wants would absn Ion and renounee all her pIiasf
pies And what has been donel Here 10 thsif pls''
form Look at it. read IT examine it;
|. Americans shall rule America.
2 The Union Of these States
5. No North-No South-No Esst-No West
The United States of America as they are oa'
and inseparsbIe -
5. No sectaran interference In our les,iAtson' OF
the administration of American iaws- 49,.
6 Hostility to the assum ptops 9th Pope thtoa..
the bishops priests and preistes OF the hemso esr
thorc church, here, in republic sanctifed BY nv
!. Thorough reform in the naturalization law, II
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