Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-09-26


FRIDAY, sEPTEMBEIs "G, 1856.
BLACK REPUBLICAN IN RICHMOND
FENY WINTER DAVIS AT THE FILLMORE
RALLY.
Notwithstanding the positive ASSURANCE which h.
communicated by telegraph 10 his friend Mr.. Thomp-
son. OF the Literary Messenger, people did not really
expect Mr.. Henry Winter Davis presence al the
"Fillmore Rally" in this city. That iuan who is
denounced by his own press in Baltimore as az ac-
cessory TO the election of Banks, and who is repu.
dated by his party in Maryland because of his
operation with the Black Republicans in support
OF their revolutionary proviso TO the Army Apprc.
priation Blll-that all individual who had betrayed
his indelty to the interests nf the South by these in
contestible and criminal acts of apostacy, should be
invited into the bosom Of our people, all irnpu-
tatiou the character of the city and the State,
which touched the sensbiiiies Of every true born Nr
gnan. That tho more ntolerable disgrnce of the ac-
tua presence Of the man, with all the ignonny of his
recent trenchery rcekng about him, would be inflict
ed upon us, nobody could anticipate with confidence
and composure. The special dispatch announcing
the certainty of his presence, was Intended TO diss
plate 80 disagreenble contingency.
Encouraged, perhaps, by the response OF sympathy
and applause with which Bolts Black Republican
speech had been received in this city, Mr. Davis
Justly anticipated equally cordnl welcome from
the same class III politicians. He came; and signal
was the ovation to his honor. Mr. Marmaduko john
sons eilerninate oratory consecraed pole 70 the
cause of Fillmore and Donelsun-a solemn and sisni.
tcant ceremony! procession, the ranks of which
were recruited from Hutchertown and Screamersvie,
then paraded through the streets, bearing banners
with meaningless mottoes, and dischargug torpedoes
about peoples ears. Into the spacious bosom of the
African Church-the temple in which Know Nothing
ism is wont to celebrate lis festivuls-the motley
throng precipi,ated itself with eager impaiieDce.
Mr.. James c. Bruce, an ornamental men Der Of the
Fillmore party-a genuine jewel which Know No.
thingism inherited from the wreck of the old Wig
organization, and which seedy Sam sports with aun-
ty air on holiday occasions-Mr. james e. Bruce de.
livered the opening address Of the evening. His
speech was in the forcible feeble style; aud w9s SO
pointess and powerless tina! no;as redeemed j; from
instant ob,iyion Dut the enormous absurdy Of It's
sentiments.
In the philosophy of that school of pol'c!ans who
maintain the "diviue right" and acucete the duty OF
"passive obedience i. 10 taught that the people arc
pothng and the government severything-hat subject
and citizen exist for the exclusive benefit OF the III.
l;n, class. Bor the first tiIas Mr. bruce broached
this preposteroas principle, when he declared
in his speech on Monday night, that "o"!d BE- 6ct-
ter that crery iiring Jeng nj: LH"sG StH'rs M0"d
perish from tic earth rather than tia, tie mo" ana
the form of our government ShoHid BE- atstfo~d. By
the theory of republicanism government is nssiied
for the protection of life and pru:e. ye; r bruee
rates the mere forn! vi government above ali 'ha'
aggregate Of human rights, TO protect when Is the s&
clusi7e obl5c, and the single use OF goTarnpeat'-
The Constitution was adopted, and tue union OF the
States was organized for the security OF the lives aud
liberties of the people, yet Mr.. Bruce p-oclams that
i, is better that the people SHOULD perish from the face
Of the earth, than that the Constitution and the Union
should be destroyed! This may have been mere
rhetorical flourish but Mr. Bruce is thought t" aspire
70 the character Of statesman, aud no Statesman
would have uttered such all absurd and mschievou'
sentiment for mere display.
We see the object. II is 70 prepare the peo'
pie of the South iur abject cuoulisson unoe'
eyery extremity OF insglt and aggression Du' 'ie
spirit of or foresa:hers still survives. ihey uiu
not consider that the value OF the then iFeest govern
rnent on earth compensated them for al unrish'eous
tar OF few pence.
The sn..cb Of Henry Winter Davis was CONSISTENT
with the character Of the The aud'enc" were
prepared for Black Republican harangue and shey
got il, in spirit and in substance What .s more, :ney
seemed to relish it with eager appetite.
If we had the patience 20 crcise sach produc
.ion from such lnaa we tight easily expose the III
constituencies aud absurii;ies OF Davis speech 70!
eramv.e Davis arraIgued President Pierce Tor n"
interpesing with more energy to prevent violence GHc
blooised in Kansas; ap yct has s';H' man rotsd N
me Black Republicans deny the Ec"caiir' The n.so
he army for Ma, -ery purpose. Again: Davis com
nended the Union with the plea that under IL pro
tectiny ngs the shareholders property is stf- u The
waters along our coast. " 1.-THE candidate whom Davis
supports for the Presidency proclaimed the principles
by recorded vote in the Congress OF the United S'as
that negro slaves on the high seas are not only en
tied to their liberty, but justified in attaining taa
liberty by the massacre Of white men. |. The ,n;o!
guarantees any such privilege, it would be worth bu
little 10 the South under the administration Of Mi!!a:C
Fillmore.
and Who had voted for the iniqutous proviso OF h'
BLACK Republican traitors in the House ot kePre>en
tatives, we were prepared to hear any utt"r"nce Z"
ree.soiism no matter how revolving 10 the ie-iing
of the Southern people We were not surprised there
fore by his declaration that h" k"eT no S2th, ant
that he rocoepized obligations only to Maryland anC
to the paramount power aud authority ot The Fedora
Government Neither was it astonishing that maj
.ho kno,cs no South should ienounce the Southern
smiorsnts 70 Kansas as trai,ors-tho5e emigran,
of whom Virginia has furnished her proportion
Of palant spirits. No doubt the cowardly &C
accusation fell upon the ears OF persons who have
brothers and sons in the band of devoted pstrni-.-
And We, the sentiment provoked TO indignant prHtes
from the audience o! Southern people That gentene'
who have renounced the security and the happiness
Of home and have encountered the hazards Of bnrde
warfare with no other view than to defend the right
and prono,e the interests of the South, shOult
bs arraigued o. traitors" by Southern maI
and before q Southern audience, argues debase
ment Of Southern character and sentiment, upoi
which Black Repubieanism may well presume IL
its schemes of ambition and aggression
In truth Black Republicans are invited b.,
Davis and Bolts to invade the rights Of th'
South, not only by pledge Of ahject sub
mission to outrage, but by the more poten
inducement OF promise Of actual sympathy ant
succor. When Southern men thus basely benz
their neck to the yoke, and degrade themselves in h
dust who can wonder that Abo.itlonism ventures up
m the measures of wrong and oppression, which th
soutb ia doomed to suffer- Or to resent with the sprl
of patriots, Since the sentiments Of Davis and Bolts
speeches are received with applause in the capital o
Virginia, may not the Black Republican party ancI
pate an easy conquest of the South
This is the mischief of the thing. 1t is no
that we fear the propagation OF 'ae'r primer