Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-06-09
To CON q RESPONDENTS.
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The Game Of Fraud.

II IL almost a waste of ammunition to shoot nj the
Democratic Platform. II would require swell
muzzled gun of hugest calibre to hit the whole of
in weeks steady firing. IL is forest of vcrbage
OF every hue. BY succession OF quadrcnnial acco
mutations and abrasons, it has come to resemble the
delta of great river, where every variety Of in
congruous sediment has been deposited.
We see that the additions pledge the Demo
cracy to carry out the Monroe doctrine rigdy
is, to permit no European government TO COLOMBO
this continent TO interfere with the government
Of any portion Of it "Free and progressive
free trade throughout the world is also declared a.
be cardinal principle Of the Democracy. This
would indicate disposition Tor universal war, and
is scarcely practicable short of universal conquest
Some Of the Virginia delegates made exception
to this new item of Democratic faith, and protested
that it was not to be regarded test Of ortho-
doxy. But their objections were little needed by
the tumultuous Democracy. Our ascendancy in
the Gulf OF Mexico" likewise asserted-which
means, suppose, the conquest of Cuba, St Do
mngo and the rest Of the neighboring Isles We
presume the Virginia protest was designed to apply
to this portion of the programme well tn.
progressive free trade"
As sample Of the candour anG righteousness
which distinguishes Democracy, we have in one of
the first resolutions strong denunciation of In
ternal Improvements by the Federal Government,
and the very last act of the Convention was reSo-
luton in favor of railroad to the Pacific ocean =!
Such brazen duplicity is part and parcel OF Demo
cratic tactics aud is not merely discredtable to the
character Of the country II has wrought vast and
irreparsbe mischief 1t has made the politics of the
country base and degrading game; has Subsutu-
ted expedency for principle and generated the
4 -lN fnfnS thn
1t has given vitality the slavery agitation, and To-
mcntcd it into n dangerous element of domestic dis
cord We sec its practical effects in the diverse in
terprctations put upon the Nebraska-KanSas act
the President and his Northern followers proclaiming
that act to be measure for freedom and the
Southern wing, guarantee for slavery" This
shameless double-desling, reduced to.syStem, and
put forth under the sanction of one Of the great pan
ties of the country, is the immediate parent of the
abolition outbreaks in the North and the civil
in Kansas 1t tends to destroy the moral bands
which hold society together and its baneful effects
will continue be felt in the future 1t may achieve
the success Of SpoilS party but it threatens ruin
to the country. An election carried by such AN
agency settles nothing, except the individual who
shall distribute the oaves and fishes; it leaves pub
lie questions unsettled-it exasperates sectionS-it
keeps the public mind nlamcd Say Mr.. Buchanan
is elected on the principles the Nebraska act
with its contradictory interpretations His North
friends every where sustaining him as the advo-
cate of squatter sovereignty and the friend Of free
Kansas and thereby encouraging their followers TO
initiate the conduct of Reedcr, in trying To subver
the government by force: what is gained by it? -
Or take the Internal improvement question the pc"-
pie who voted for the Pacific Railroad in the Cot
vention, and those MchiganderS, who last week de-
nounced Gen. Pierce for his veto they will be dis
appointed and indignant, if Mr.. Buchanan should
put his veto upon Internal Improvement bill
should he withhold it, he would incur the wrath OF
his Southern supporters. But propositions for
improvements will only come from those sections IA
vorable to the policy, and the resolution in favor
of the system of later date than that against
it; the only effect of this doubledealing will be e
pass bills for the benefit of the North and ior
that of the South.