Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-03

Black Republican party, III IFS avowed hostility to the
South actually represents the North or majority of
the people Of the North This question will be de
cided in November.
lfit is decided in the affirmative, then we shall say
unhestatngly, that the great blow of disunion has
been struck. The South will not wait to be '.smbju.
gdtcd. 1t will never trust itself to the tender mer-
ces OF party whose very existence rests upon hatred
Of its people and hostility to its institutions.
Men Of Rhode Island you may rs well lcok this fact
squarry in the face No Hjtren States Of hiS Union
Northern, Southern, Eastern or Wesern-mW srcr
snbmH 10 be gorrrned by s1l"'a 0a"r States, rhOsc
h'"mph has been scrured by appeals 10 prcj"dices
against Their institutions, and by proclamations Of
hostility To their cHi-rRsi
Should John T.. Fremont take The Presidential
Chair to-day as the representative of the party which
placed him in nomination, and which supports him by
appeals to sectional feelings and preudces, he would
have to sit there without single cabinet officer from
any Southern State No 'n the South, with a
particle Of reputation, rOud ddrs 10 accept ar0nd
~nnt 10 nccrpt, appointment one of has adrsrS!
Gould President thus Circulnstanced administer
the government thirty daysi Could he command the
respect Of the army or navy thirty hours! Would
Congress ever assemble to legslse for the country!
with thirty Senators and ninety Representatives vo-
UNFAIRLY absent, what would its legislation be WORTH
With cabinet and all the important officers of the
government appointed from the North, how long,
think you, could that government be sustained?
It's folly to talk, at such time this of the i'm
portance Of the Union to the South. So far as main
tanning slavery is concerned the South gains nothing
by the Union, if we except the occasional return OF
fugitive. Slavery would stand on firmer basis, with
the Union dissolved. than it does to-day. II would
only have to eIpatrae its thousands of free negroes
and send them North in a single avalanche. to place
Itself beyond the reach of internal disaster. This
done, the West, following its rivers would become
its ally and in less than three years, Ncr England
~ouid stand daIomc-baakrnp and d,ttaeeicss.
This is only one specimen of many editorials which
nee. our eyes every day in Northern Democratic
journals. Black Republicanism is denounced with
much energy, and the fatal results of the election
John e. Fremont are as clearly pointed out in them
rs in the Southern States of the Union. And not by
few papers, not by paper in one or few States,
but by all the Democratic journal, in all the free States
without exception. We could ill our columns, in-
cluding those devoted to advertising, every day, with
just such extracts all breathing the exalted tone
of devotion to the Union, Of justice to the Southern
States Of the Union, and Of unyieding and implaca
be hostility to the fanatics and fools who support
John e.. Fremont. Are not these indications of the
nationality of the Democratic party overwhelmingly
conclusive!
Who can peruse these suggestive paragraphs, and
contrast them with the milk aud water editorials of
the Southern Know Nothing presses, aud with the
speeches of the semi.abotonists who are supporting
Fillmore at the South without admitting that these
Northern Democrats safer and sounder on the
issues of the day than such seudo-Southerners!-
1t is impossible TO resist this conclusion. AS the
stream is, 80 is the fountain, and when tbs speech
is seasoned with the savor of Black Republeanism,
you may rely upon it that there is Black Republican,
ism in the heart. If the Southern supporters OF Fill
more were worthy to be trusted with the destinies Of
the South, we should find them where they were one
year ago-ardent supporters Of the principles of the
Kansas Nebraska bill.