Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-06-24
BUCHANAN AND STATE EQUALITY

| The Convention that nominated Mr. Bucbanan !,
Pennsylvania was, we think the first to unfurl. dis
tiucty and emphatically, the banner of State Equa
~. Other Democratic Conventions followed this
lead, and the browning work has been done by the
great Convention at Cincinnati. Mr.. Buchanan is
the hrst candidate for the Presidency whose preten
slons to that office have been urged by himself and
his friends OH the grounds Of his advocacy of the
equal rights i'll property and person, of the citizens
OF every section Of the Union who may migrate TO
the territories.
On the other hand, Mr.. Fillmore is the first candi
date whose claims to that office have been distinctly
and avowedly based, by his friends, North and South,
the doctrine of Southern nferiority of right. For
whatever else may be in his platform, it certainly
contains denunciation ot the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. 1t is equally certain that his organs,
North and South, unite with him in denouncng that
repeal. We have often shown that there could be no
State equality under this compromise because it ex.
cluded the South from half Of the territory of the
Cnion whilst it admitted the North into all. What
added to the grOssness Of the iniquty the fact
That the Cnlon is almost exclusively indebted to
Southern States, Southern statesmen, and Southern
arms, for all her territories But, Southerners Mr. Fill
more and his organs, think inferior to NOrtherners be-
cause We hold slaves. Slavery is immoral, unrghteous,
profane and inexpedient, lsay they) aud whilst
they will tolerate it where it exists. they will not al
low it to spread. We ask them, ii it be- wrong why
tolerate it at all If there be better form Of suce
ty, why not slowly, gradually and safely adopt TINT
form! We, of the old Southern States, are as good
and respectable the people Of the territories and
if slavery be- too bad for them, is too bad for
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one hand, to exclude slavery from all new States
aud territories, and, with the other hand to liberse
the slaves Of the old States. The Missouri compro.
mise contained the germ Of abolition, aud soon
brought forth the rpened fruit. Its repeal abso
uely essential to the assertion of Southern rights and
Southern equality. 1t is repeaed-ani Democrats
North and South, with Mr.. buchanan at their head,
hail the fact with Jealous unanmity, and proclaim III
its stead, the broad just patriotic and natiusl doc
trine of State equality whilst Fillmore and his
| friends denounce thi1 repeal.
That compromise asserted in theory, and enforced
in practice SOUTHERN lNFERloRITr! The issue is
distinctly made up between STATE EaUALlTY and
SoUrHEnS INTERIuRITY; between the old Roman, Bu-
chanan, and the feeble conservative the milk and
water abolitionst, Fillmore. People of the South!
lnsued, injured aud wronsed as you have been, will
you ratify, confirm and approve the injustice, by
voting for Fillmore, try to redress it by voting for
Buchanan
The opportunity is afforded you-nay, the necessity
is forced upon you, either proclaim and assert your
equality, or to acknowledge your inferority, and to
help to rvet The chains that bind you!
AN UNDIVIDED AND CONSERVATIVE
| SOUTH.
Could the South present, unde. .le lead of Ruchan'
an and Breckenridge, undivided and conservative
front Gil the pes'lcntial isms of the North, which
threaten and asss society, its moral influence would
be saluary and certainly triumphant. Already, 1t is
probable that the Democratic party is in majority
in most of the Northern States. That party is every
where equally the friend of law, order, the Consu
! ton aud the Union. 1t has been purged Of all its
base material by the detection of men who have JOIN.
ed the Black Republicans and Know -Nothings, and
compensated fur s luss OF numbers, by equal acces-
sions Of numbers and better material from the o.
Line Wings. The opposition is split up into thou
ssnd cloues and factions, but all agreeing IN their
anarch;cal auti-conservaye and radical doctrines-
All threatening the safety of the South the perpetui-
ty of the Union, the ssnctity of religion, purity OF
morals, and security Of property. united and con-
ssrvative South would be looked to as GEeet
anchor of hope and security by every man of pro-
perty, by every patriot, sood man and Christian of
| the Nor:h 1Ley would look to the South to aid
them to defend and conserve every thing valuable,
moral or sacred in their domestic institutions, now
ruthessy assailed by the multitudinous :rI.. Such
union of the South in the cs;ss OF all that is good,
venerable ard saorsd would win for her and her in
s,i,utious the respect of the wordor no man could
J,,,,ro from at
tenn, which, in the midst Of world tempest toot with
change, civil war, rcvouticE. anarchy aud famine,
secured to thoca who lived under it, quiet, content
laent, physical comfort, religious fuiih and moral,
social and political conservatism. The opportunity
now presents itself to the South to Vindcso neT in.
st,utons from unjust obioquy and reproach, to ae-
cure her property her peace, morality and religion,
and to win the respect and admiration OF the world
Let her but forget and forgive little domestic differ.
ences of opinion aud unite in firm, solid and serred
rank to meet and drive back the black hosts Of Abo.
ton and its spawn of kindred isns, and she will effect
all this and more. Such condact,wt its certain effects
for general good would carry her name down to pos
terity as the greatest beneactor of mankind Ter:
would become the model Institutions io- tie ilal,aon
of world that hs5 already, aud repeatedly, declared
itself socially, politically and religiousy bankrupt
fhe old civilization Of Europe is ctiete worn OUT ex
austed. All is riot, oo,aIotion, famine inhdellty,
chauge end revolution. In view of this transve
state of society," tending towards what no one can
forstel all are ready excla, with Carlyle "There
must be new world, if there is to be any ;Tc:d at
alm
With such sp1:i this crisis should bring FORTH
20 hight triumphantly say to them, "Dont try
.ormon world-an infidel and licentious Owenite or
rourierts word-nor Free Love world all thcse
hrve been tried and have failed but tsy world like
ii RS, which, from tie days of Abraham to the pre-
ii, hsS never failed
If the South will be but true to herself, uuited and
conservative, che will achieve victory more poten'
III in its influences Oh the future destnes OF man.
I kind than any othsr which history records-and 1t
viii be potential only for good j vii! ie:ute the
sceptic and the infdel sllence The agtator feed the
hungry, clGtho ind shelter the naked and the home
ess dsarm the traitor, secure property, sancty mar
riage and bege general peace, plenty and conte''-
meut.
SAM, SCROGGS AND FlLLMORE.
Most of the Old Line Wing Editors would consider
hemseyes ;asulted by any one who proposed to them
to enter the cuvert take the secret osth and learn
the fraternal grip. If such conduct would degrade
| l.,r d,au II p,t mora dsorede a candidate for the