Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-03-07
FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH z, 1

Boiling, nominated by Mr. Bolts to represent Vrgi.
MIA In this Abolition Assembly.
We are glad that MIR. Imbodens name Is not found
in the list OF The captured But what of tho last clause
of this section7 Until declared null and void by
competent Judicial suthority7" Who is "compe-
tent judicial authority Z" Any Judge that de-
cides, or who1 Perhaps the Supreme Court Of IEs.
coasin would be deemed the highest judicial authori
ty with these gentlemen.
- Where ia our friend of the Richmond Whip Wo
should like to hear from him, aud know whsthor he
does not knock under now to "Bots and the little
gan What says our neighbor of the Times1 Can
he go this platform If he can, how long since he
made up his mind TO take the pill, however btterl-
Whero now the safe, conservative, and National plat
iormlwhich the party hoasted Of last SPRING. Where
now the guaranty Of rights and property TO the Souh
We want to hear from our friend of the Times. We
would like to hear him on the Platform, apart from
the nominees. AIR. Fillmore ia respected by all. It
is not known that he will accept If he dosa, we
shall speak Of it. As for the second, expect
| ed his nomination, and Jerr rM sanction IL. But Of
| this hereafter.
| The Columbia Is. c. Tunes, an advocate Of the
Nothing party, protests against the emascula.
ton of the old platform, particularly with regard to
the famous 10Th section. 1t says;
"I}ut what shall we say Of the alterations which
the twelfth SECTION has underground Before, II was
clear aud precise, upon one point in relation to
the questions touching slavery. II denied, III un.
mistakablc terms, that Congress has the power 10
exclude State from the Uuion because 1t may have
established or prohibited slavery. Aud although It
preterinitted any expression of opinion with regard
TO the power of Congress to establish slavery IN the
territories Of the United States, to exclude II from
them yet declared that the exercise Of such pow
er would be un ust and unequal. 1t is true, there
was little dodgiDg upon this point, but 1t was, at
| least, manifest dodge.
"Now, however, in place Of the 18th section one OF
vagus generalilies that may bo twisted to mean any
thug one may desire it 10 mean, or just nothing at
ALL has been substituted gotten up after the most ap
proved mode Of the Democratic party, for such pur'
poses made and provided. 1t is bungling effort to
barmonize, for the sake Of party unity and success,
the most diametrically opposite opinions upon the
slavery question-to keep together the Northern aud
Southern sections Of the party, at least until after the
Presidential election. There, however, peers forth
| from bsueath the hmsy veil which has been thrown
over the slavery question, the odous feature, squater
sovereignty. Bah! We, SPIT upon the new section
trick canaingiy depised for lie pmpos, 81 dupnS
ihc South into political alliance ruth F'eesoH and
Black Republican North Americans, gotten up IN
those rerkiag bedS of seRli.aboit1oHisn about Wash
| ing,on CITY and Richmond"
But the true character OF the new platform, in Its
triumph over thel2h sectiones, ID shown by the ju-
bilatons of the American Organ at Washington,
..freesoil" paper, according to the Wing and other
Flrnorean journals. The Organ thus sings p~ans
to the new platform:
Ii is doubtless mortfyng to the nervous editors o
those presses, (the Richmond Whig, &c.,) and t
others to reflect that the positions we have MAINTAIN
ed in our recent contests with the utraists OF The
South, hare been tuVy and n0ronghly eEdorS'
ed 6y the National C0mncHs an the adoption o
The District Of Columbia Pintform and w
may be permitted to say to these gentlemen, that w
sha cheerfully submit to the country to decide whe
ther they manifest the most regard for the sue
: cess Of the American party.