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The Richmond Enquirer.
We notice that Ambassador to Greece has
turned--an event which the readers Of the Rich
mond Enquirer ought to hail with EXCEEDING great
10y. His substitute for the past six or sight months
whatever his qualifications may be a. 10 other
things, has exhibited but little Judgment discretion
tact in the matter of conducting political news
paper. The bunders he has committed, dAy after
day, have been almost multitudinous the sand.
upon the sea-shore; and to his political opponents
in the highest degree lsughsble and refreshing. On
account OF his happy talent for involving himself in
the startling inconsistencies and consequently,
putting his party in nnumerable fixes the
awkward and diSsgreesble, shall deeply regret
his retiracy from the position he occupies
With the best wishes however for his prosperity in
other fields of labor better suited to his extravagant
capacity for laundering, and more congenial perhaps,
to his tastes, we bid him a mournfu adieu.
We cannot however, in justice either to him
TO our own feelings, pronounce that painful word,
without aluding briefly to one or two more articles
Of his full of the most fascinating blunders and char
acterized by reasoning clear as mud, which
made their appearance in the Enquirer of yesterday
In its leader, il tells its readers, with air of great
gravity, that Southern Know NothngiSm"-in sup
porting Mr. Fillmore" has involved and implicated
itself with Abolition, by seeming approval of the
Missouri compromise" We reply that this assertion
is totally groundeSs-for, stated yesterday the
convention which nominated Mr.. Fillmore voted
down proposition TO restore the Missouri COmpro-
mise by an overwhelming majority Does this We
inquire look like an "dPprordt of the Missouri Com
promisey ~ Besides if the Enquirer charges all men
with " endorsing fully and unequiyocally the Adolf
tion principle" who were opposed to disturbing the
a.
not because it was constitutional just, right in
itself because they afraid its repeal would
open afresh the flood gates Of sectional agitation If
we say, this be the argument of the Enquirer, how
it affiliate with the great bulk Of its
own party at the North 1t is notorious that
large and overwhelming majority of the Northern
wing of the Democracy were, at the time of the in
PRODUCTION of the BILL opposed to the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. The vote upon the question
in Congress is sufficient evidence Of that fact
While, admit, tort flour Northern Democrats
ted for the bil-and most of them has been clear
ly shown since, on the avowed ground OF its con
tanning the odious doctrine of squatter sovereign
"" which doctrine the Enquirer itself has said
the South will necer submit to"-yet quite
a many Northern Democrats voted against
IL We ask, now. whether the Enquirer in
who voted against the kansaS-N Nebraska bill,
dors ment of Abolitionisln If it does, the Cincin
natl Convention will be composed almost exclusively
OF open and ayowed Abotionists Ii il does then
the national Democrats at the North will be found
TO number scarcely corporal's guard. And, if you
take from those who sustain that bill, those
who sustain it account of its alleged ''>quatter
sovereignty" feature, then you will hardly be left
with bakers dozen in vour pntire Marty IN, tI,.
North In other words if you mean to say that ON
~ those true Democrats and worthy of admis
sion into the Cincinnati Convention, who ori-
gi"aiiy in favor of the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise then your boosted Democratic party is dead
and damned throughout the whole OF the Northern
States. We repeat, is this the construction you de-
sire to be put upon your confused and muddy arti-
Giles; Ii So speak out plainly, that may have
a clear understanding of your position.
As for ourselves, far the issues at present eN-
listing between the North and the South are concern
ed, We care not to inquire of Northern men of any
party whether they not in favor of the
repeal Of the Missouri Compromise. We are amply
content with AN assurance from them that they arc
opposed to its restoration And this assurance the
American party have in the vote in the nominating
convention at Philadelphia rejecting the proposition
then and there made to restore it,
The most notable declaration of our laundering
neighbor is this in his own language-"In the
South, Mr. Fillmore is sustained as true u the rights
Of the South, while at the North he is supported up-
on AN exactly opposite platform" Now, if the En-
quirer knows any thing at all in this word-and
we will not rashly assert that it does-it does know
that this statement to say the least Of it, not cor
rect ltknows that the entire Abolition party vi ia
scarcely an individual exception. is opposed to MIR
Fillmore aud upon the ground openly avowed by
them, of his being too much of a Southern man A.
proof Of how his nomination is received by th,
rree-soilers of the North we copy the following
from the same issue Of the EaqWjrer in which ia,
statement above made is found-that is in its yes
terday's issue:
GLOW rHE NoNSArIoN ~ REcEiyED.--The Phiadelpbi,
North American that Mr. Flmores nomination il
that quarter falls coldy and guimpassvely on the pI,
mind" The New Haven Connecticut Register saw -
I'VE take II for anted that important section OF h,
American party in the free States will support the noni
nation Of Fillmore and Donelson ode by the Pbi,drl
phia Convention very large number-estinated a
high as one-halfof the lodges in New York openly re-,
pudiatc the nomination Of their "svohte SON n New
Jersey Out one know Nothing paper has hosied th'
names OF Fillmore and DOnelson."
II this statement, published by the Enquire, il
self be true why is IL true; Why is il that the mo-
minaton Of Fillmore falls codly and unimpassive
ly on the public mind" Of the NORTH WHY is
that "no important section Of the American party il
the free States will support that nomination. f.
short why is not Mr. Fillmore acceptable 10 IN
Northern people, Will our slow and blunderin
old Democratic coach be kind enough to squeak OH
satisfactory repyY' If not il certainly ought ,
quit squeaking ont such feeble and stupid article
those to which we have alluded They can't iniur
Fillmore, aud will only cause every sensible man
wear upon his face perpetual grin at your own il
eiable greenness and folly.
AgOniIingly Sublime