Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-05-07

The Washington Sentinel makes the following

enquirer on the cuufcr Mt. buehhhhh iiitho'
were pursuing in a-sailing Gen. Pierce;
General Pierce came into power almost by ao-
-olamasion. The harmony Of the Democratic
party was so complete that il bad almost broken
IN anything like an organized opposition. Inn
few shert months his anti Democratic course,
by interfering with, and employing hi patronage
10 effect State elections, produced the first blu
of dsoord and revolt. What was this Tho
New York controversy Of Herds and Sofis, a. II
was termed.
Now we ask the EngHir,r, if II considered tho
course of the Administration in this particular
wise or Democratic Did the Enquirer reli-h
the vi,alizaton. which was the immediate result
Of this policy. 81 fbe sshois FreesoH party in the
Norhi Did DOT the pnans that went up from
this party and its organs everywhere. in graft
fude to Frank lin Pierce, grate harshly upon the
ears of our contemporary Was he net our CO.
sdjutor. and able coadutor. for months in the
most earnest remonstrnnces and condemnation of
the prostration of the constitutional of the
North. which was the confessed result Of this
ant.Demoeratic aud unpairotc act 81 this man
whom he.has aneinted as the great "Cbief md
Representative of the Democratic party !" LET
his orn columns ans,ctr. Then surely in this
we have snned not more than the Editor of the
Enquirer against the great chief
Were not the constitutional sensibiliies Of the
Enquirer equally shaken with own at the
proposition of two members Of the cabinet, and
in the hearing of this "Chief Of the Democratic
party" TO construct Pacific Srailrond ont of
Government means How long would Old liok-
DRY have stood by in silence at such vandalism
upon one Of the most prominent and cardinal
principles IN the States rights creed Was this
being the Representative of the Democratic
party p Let the Enquirer consult lis own
columns again for its opinion Of this heresy.-
Free trade and opposition to protective tariff
is one of the principles which 60 TO make up The
Democratic party, and yet this wonderful Chief
and Representative Of the Democratic party"
permitted his own Secretary of the Treasury
(who had before pledged the surplus in tho treas
ury TO the construction of railroad TO the Paof-
io) to recommend in his report the establishment
of the most odious feature in tho revenue sys
TEN. to- wit the PROTECTIVE feature Did,
does, the Richmond Enquirer commend this net
as one of the cluster which constitute the claim
of Franklin Pierce to be regarded as the great
Chieftap and Representative of the Democratic
party We have too good opinion of our
Richmond contemporaries States.rights' opin
ions to charge it upon him
The two Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
were TO be organized. and bill for that purpose
was reported by Judge Douglas. The repeal of
the Missouri Compromise and tho other features
OF the bill met our warm approval, aud tho I'm
gnirer and Sentinel fought side by side in the
trtIhc Cbniest tiui tHSueu. WV VIII ubl w HihTe
than allude TO the course Of the President and his
organ the Washington Union. The former cleo
pioneering for the bill bill for freedom, while
the latter would at one time advocate the bill
at another. violently denounce the amendment
repeating the Missouri Compromise then making
the same amendment test Of Demooracy-then
for the purpose OF being elected Printer to the
House declaring the Nebraska 10 be no test OF
Democracy indicating every reasonable oppo-
To Nl..s.
who might use his utmost power to defeat the
Nebraska bill was good Democrat ms Bright.
Sldell and Brown. and should be kept in as good
communion and fellowship those gentlemen
themselves When the bill, however. passed.
the President sl ned it,but still continued in high
and numerous Offices the men of that fraction of
the parry who so tratorousy opposed it. But
in the organization of tho Territories it was con
fdently expected that Kansas or the Southern
territory would be organized by Southern officers
while the opposite policy would be pursued to-
wards Nebraska. Not SO, however. The nm
natural policy was adopted by the President,
which has resulted not only in danger and
trouble -ceaseless it may be-to the emigra.
ton from the two sections of the country,
but has clearly endangered the admission
Of Kansas as Stare State! Now, we ask
our friend of tho Enquirer If it is prepared
to justify this course of the chief" or
to reconcile the fatal Inconsistencies which
marked it 1t has. admit, an offset to all this
in the special message of the President twelve
months al fer the damage was done and eren then
not basing his removal of Governor Reeder upon
the true ground, to wit: his hearty utilization
with the Freesoilers. and his operation with
the. nefarious purposes of the "Emigrant Aid
Soeistiesi" Does the Enquirer endorse and APP
prove the treacherous conduct of the Admins.
traton to our three distinguished representatives
abroad, in the Ostend Conference, which excited
the Indignation not only of the whole country.
but of these gentlemen themselves! What would
our contemporary have thought, if, in his late
embassy, his ODE dience to his instructions of his
own Government was made the cause of rcpudid.
ton and reproaeh to him Still the are
quite analogous. This. then, is the boasted Dem
ocratic Administration at whose head stands this
Wanted "Chief and Representative of the Dem
ocratic party" Is there no cause too for the
Regeneration of the Democratic party through
out the cpuntry-no cause for the predom :
nance in the popular branch of Congress of
tho Black Republicans, and in the Senate of
the United States for the great increase of
Freesoilersl Surely it lies at some ones door,
and at whose but his famous Chief of the
Democratic party!' Again, says the Enqui
rer, 1.-THE Cincinnati Convention will endorse
President Pierce, and the Democracy will go
into the fight on the iseues presented by his
ADM nistration," and again; "Tbe party would
not. if it could. get rid Of the responsibility for
the acts of this Administration :" We are glad
to know that our contemporary is not to be deemed
as speaking by the card for either the Cincinnati
Convention or the Democratic party, when he SO
positively makes these assertions. The Cincin-
natl Convention will not, we believe, place upon
the name It presents to the American Democracy
any such crushing incubus as an endorse
menf Of President Pierce twill not SO stuifify
its action, if it does 30. in presenting another
name than his, flor we hold that there is no con-
stitutitonal ineligibility for second term y anu
if the Cincinnati Convention, therefore, are pre-
pared to endorse Mr. Pierce and bis aets,it should