Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-09-16

male virtue, if not unknown, is certainly es.
teemed vulgar and discreditable At our North
every shade of the Blncli Republican party
more or less, repudiates Christian marriage and
male and female nodesty. Fremont has been
selected as their candidate, chiefly because his
name his antecedenis and his life set at defiance the
ordinary notions Of parental and marital authority,
and of female virtue and subordination. His wife,
respectable lady, is worshipped above himself be-
cause she INDUCED childish caprice at the expense
OF violating the commands and laceratinS the hearts
of tender parents. He is hero because he is
the 'sbastard son OF French fiddler
The birth aud growth Of Mormonism at the North,
would alone show that they are among the most sensu
al people in the world The popularity and vast cir
culaou Of Greeey's TriJ"mcwoud OF itself show the
same thing, and also prove that every moraIregous'
social and political duty WAS i'll dIscredIt With the
iss Of tho North. The saloon Of Free Love, set up
| by Andrews in the midst of the city of New York,
| and approved, frequented and patronlzed by the
"better classes" shows that all have grown restye
under the restraints of marriage, confluence and
chastity. At village in Omeid" county, incest ID
mad. a religious duty and practised with the ap.
probation of the surrounding population. oWeh'
and Andrews and Greeley start or suggest hundreds
of settlements, where wife aud children as well as
uroperty ure more or less in common. Marriage has
,lwudIed to temporary partnership, contract
ed with Us little form, forehousht or ceremony az the
purchase Of calf Women wear masculine attire,
preach nlel sermons make political speeches, abuse
the constitution and the marriage tie, and yet do not
lose caste in society. We solemnly Declare after ma
ture deiberation and investigation, that We believe
Fremont is run quite as much as the antmarriage
and anti-femals virtue candidate the anlslavery
candidate.
WiIlthe conservative press Of tile North the old
Fede-alists, the od-line Wings and the Democrats
Say whether we state propositions TOO broadly
.--
Refusing 10 Change Front-Protest from the
President Of Il Know-NOthing Council.
The most daring experiment ever attempted on the
Independence and patriotism OF party Is ven
tured by the leaders Of the Fillmore forces IN
this State, in their denunciation of the Kansas
Nebraska act There is audacity enough, one
would think, in their own shameless apos-
tacy from prnciple; but when these leaders under
tax. to seduce the masses of the Fillmore party from
suad. them to occupy the Back Republican ground
of opposition the repeal Of the Missouri restriction
il ia time that every honest man IN the community
should excaim against the wicked etfrontery OF the
enterprise. For guilty presumption there IS Il
parall,l only in CataIines presence among the pa
lriots whom he had already devoted to destruction
and for an adequate rebuke OF the brazen-iacec
treschery we must revert tu the mmorta! lnveetFt
of The great orator.
By individual conviction, by the declarations o
their public press, by the resolutions of popular as
.emb.s and the platforms of their party conventions
the friends OF Fillmore in this State are pledged tc
tie approval and support of tie Kansas Nebraska
act, No recent revelation has dsparaged the prIncl
ole nf that measure no subsequent experience ha'
discrrded its policy. On the contrary iormer con
vctions in its favor confirmed by every later de
velopmen.; and although some apology might be ot
far.d for the Southern men who opposed II III ihe hrs
irsonco il is the obvious and imperative duty oi
all to support and defend it, now that 1t Is Hssaea D.
those who conspire the overthrow OF our institution
Yet in the face of these notorious facts and in desp
| of these solemn obligations, the Fillmore leaders Il
Virginia ara attempting to compel their party to de
sa.t lta patriotic POSITION and to beray the engage
I men;s Of honor aud duty which it has publicly rs
.urned, and which it cannot now renounce wlthou
stain of corruption and treachery.
To conceive it possible that this bold experiment
on the integrity and consistency OF the Fillmore
party in Virginia can be successful would be to i'm
ply that the Of that party are as destitute
principle as it, leaders. We suspect, We imagine ne
such thing; but, the contrary, we freely conced'
to the bulk of Filmores friends in this State The
same honesty Of purpose aud sincerity ot attachmen
to the South which We claim for our own party. Aut
| il is because We believe The masses OF the Fillmore
party in Virginia To be thus honest and thus patriotic
that we rcpel the suggestion that they VIII betra!
their solemn engagements to the South, at the bid
ding of John Minor Bolts and his freeso associates
Perhaps the Fillmore party may not redeem ou
opinion Of its patriotism. It may be that the masses
will blndly obey the behess of the politicians. Al
ready, however, has Of the most active and lnfu
en,ia members of the party in Virginia, publicly pro
tested against the apostacy of its leaders, anu rs pub
lcly pledged himself the support Of the Democrat
candidates. Mr.. George ID. Gray, of Culpeper, wa
one Of the few pervers to Know NO;hingism who's
luss the Democracy deplorcd. a gentemnn oi char
acrur and talent he very soon attained position ant
influence in the new party delegate TO the tamou
Winchester Convention. n member of Il committee Il
inform Messrs Elorrnoy, Beaie and Patton of thei
nomination; II member Of the committee to proinu!
gate platform for the party; he has received, indeed
every mark Of respect which his party could confer
This gentleman is author of the following publication
"A publication which every candid and intelligen
person will endorse as correct in its statements ant
irresistible in its conclusions:
TO THE FILLMORE AND DONELSON CLUI
OF CULPEPER.
GENTLEwEN AT the first meeting of your Club
held more than month s!uc you did Inc the homo
I rirci NE your President, much agAinst my owl
wishes. then stated to you YOU will remember
both before and after my election. that reserved f
myself the right to vote for Mr.. Buchanan should
thereafter become convinced in my own mind tha
Mr. Fillmore had no chance for An election, aud iha
the contest for the Presidency Of the United State
WAS between Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Fremont. Tia
| cJutinccqcg has happened. : am R0r Moro"gM.
c1EriHc,d thai TIER. not u Shd0lc Ot ch1Hct jO
| NJ. F.il,nclrs ciectiOn by Mc ysop'c
This ia conceded indeed by his warInest friends. bu
it is contended by of them that he will get State
eunugh 10 prevent any election by the people, am
thus throw ie chance "I President upon the House
Representstives-an event greatly 10 he deplnred
all times, but especially now when II II re
that the election must b- lhads by the sam
IIuus. that elected y. p Banks of Massachlset hei
SPEAKER. They then argue that MIR. Fillmore hts th
best chance o election by this House "f Represe
tativrs. Let how they arrive at this wonder
| fui conclusion. 1t takes sixteen States I" make nj
election. Mr.. Fillmore ha- only three in Congress-
| Delaware Mar yaud and Kentucky. II the three par
stand firm by IeIr respective can'ildates, ther
can be no election by the House. In this event tn
! Elrr President whose election will dcyoye uDon th