Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-08-10
FRIDAY MORNING, 10, 1859

great national party can be formed upon bass,
misca!leI .imc'icaa that will control the dcsiinics o.
this Republic for good The experiment will fail
There is no national party in this country but the D'm
oc'n'ic party. 1t has preserved the Union thus far
and H means 10 perl"t~atcjt.
In illustration of this subject, we rcpuhlish the fol-
lowing admirable article from the Dayton lO.s I'm
pre, sound and able Democratic journal:
TO THIS COMPLEXION HAS 1T COME AT
LAST.
The great question u bc decided in the approach
ng political contest is this Is Dt0 Ia BE- ioIOaehly
"LMh0ni:d ant 10 take her phtcc by ne s"f" Of .MS-
sarhmsrrs ~ Tic rH9nai rrpad,aiionot Hc Umoni
The fusion pnrty in the nomination inr Governor
Of Salmon J.. Chare the most prominent well as
the "blcst aboitionis Ohio ever Produced has made
ikis the issue 10 bc tried
If the platform mems any thing else than this the
nomination "i Mr.. Chase at the mitigation Of Joshua
*. GiddlnSs, staBps ii as base fraud.
The time is past for hoodwnkins the people by
speclohs resolutions, cnncOctCd lilo dupllcItv, and
hung along III string, like bniis ou Il trout.ne To
catch the simple. The arts of purity constitute the
hri"g' fa!kt"s 'acs by which it must be judged.
IL mn. be an Inwccomu truth TO some but it IL
nevertheless lndioputabe that Joshua Il. Gddings
the sefconS!iilfcd and conceded leader uf the mot
ley h"s n"w gathering under the black banner OF
the Fusion party III OHn. Ills bearing in the Com
vci"n Wao that of an cXuuut innstur spirit, cnuti-
den! ot the success 0: his plans and the triumphant
tru!iion ut his hopes lie WAS tho Warwick OF the
Crlscs-ChHsc was the king le made. He do
mlnccrlng Doctor OF the Convention, and held the
unsteady pael.t, close between his iron knees, in
avicr I'LL he cn!npcte', it, inocuiutIon with the natu
ral pnCk "i abolition in it's most aggravated stage.
He drhgonnCd the timG, lashed the refractory. whcc
died the designing and scoicd defiance and contempt
upon the violent, but harmless ravn5o ot poor, dis
appointed and brnkcn-backcd "Sam" II" baitrd
the silver gr,ys with hr icusve prospect of an Of
&c" or two, ~l!tcd with ls withcrinG the wa
vcring modcrScs who offered 10 his shvage meat
craving appetite their sucking bottles with il. mill;
fur babes and Mingled his c1untions with those ui
the renegade aad wind. broken political lIncks Rufus
l.. SpaGi1g and Jacob BrEkcrhOif, over Il PROSTATE
opposition whose feeble struggles he had pmrayscd
with his tudaclty.
Such the leader who il now suTnmnning tn ell
his ranks with the scattered Gatiaiuns of that once
gallant party in Ohio, who but few years since
rallied by the clarion voice of Henry Clay. How
many Cd those d!sban;ed but uncunqucrcd soldiers
will nov insult the memory OF their dead champion,
BY cnroling themselves under the black banner of
his surviving tra,ncer!
Let the issue then he fairly made and met.
Ii ls not Nebraska and anti-N Nebraska il is not free
soil aDi anti.lree-s, nor is it bank aud unii-hank il
is simply. solely and purely, nnGdHtratcd dbOiHIOR
the one side with all its fearful consequences, aud
upon he other fidelity to thosc principles aud com
promises of The constitution, 10 which We already owe
80 much, and upon which depend tie peace and hnr-
mnny ofthe Country, and the pcrpctuy of the Fcde.
raj Union.