Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-08-08
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The Richmond Enquirer, Of yesterday, re-
ten by the Hon. A. III. II. Stuart, on the 18th
of March, 1852, in response to on invitation
to be present at the celebration Of the annivef-
sary of Saint Patricks day, in Philadelphia
and in which letter this gentleman compliment
ed the Irish Immigrants to this country Ms
adapting themselves with facility to our In
stitutions, rightly entering into their scope and
spirit-becoming, in word, thoroughly Amer
icanized," &C., &c,--and thercupon the de-
lighted youth of the Enquirer is in ecstacics,
and assails Mr.. Stuart as guilty of tergiversa-
ton, rs II . gentleman who had not seen and
felt the evils of foreignism in 1852 had no
right TO discover Them and to change his views
upon that discovery at any subsequent period
When our Revolutionary fathers in 1772
1878, and l774, complained Of the unjust legis-
iation Of the British Parliament towards them,
and appealed to the King for redress they pro.
fessed the highest loyalty TO their sovereign,
believing that it was no fault Of his but rath,r
Of his bad advisers that the Colonies were OPP
pressed; and yet, in July, I776, in that Decla.
ration OF Independence which has immortal
lied ats author, and which exalted our nation
above all others, they pronounced the King
guilty Of o0ery crime that could define ty-
rant" This change in their opinions was
wrought by an experience of about the same
space of time which elapsed from March 1852
to the summer of 1866.
II was no longer ago than. the winter Of
1882, that the Democratic Assembly of the
patriotic State of Virginia, resolved that if the
Congress of the United States should, in VIC,
lation Of good faith, disregard the principles
Of the Missouri Compromise, then that potri-
otto State would resort to the !" last e1trenti-
IT," to wit: rebellion and disunion, to avoid
the dire calamity resulting from such "disrc.
gard, and now the nlouth-piece of that same
Virginia Democracy declares, substantially,
that the American party arc abolitionists, be-
cause they, forsooth, condemn that sectional
agitation" which was created by the disqe-
gard Of that Compromise, the penalty for
which disregard" six years ago, as de-
nounced by the Virgin, Democracy, would
have been ciUil soarl
half dozen years ago, one James B,tclan-
an, now known, and in some parts admired,
as sold Squatter Sovereign" maintained that
Congress had unlimited and exclusive con-
troll over the question of slavery in the Terri
tories !" and, moreover, he maintained that the
Missouri Compromise above named (and for
the apprehended disregard of which blood and
thunder were threatened by the Virginia De-
mocracy, as before stated was as sacred as
constitutional provision, " and no1 this same
old gentlemen considers the opposite doctrines,
laid down by the assembly Of wise men at Gin
cinnati, composed mainly Of the Buffalo Free
soil Van Buren, Democrats of the North, as the
very perfection Of human reason
We might indefinitely multiply examples of
changes In political opinion, were it necessary
or proper to do so, to demonstrate the rio6t of
gentlemen, to discoper those evils in fore;pnism |
and demagoguism to-day, which they had mot |
discovered on yesterday and were we dispo..
ed to do 1t, perhaps we might cite examples Of |
such changes, which it would be quite difficult |
for parties themselves to explain to the salts.
faction Of a discriminating public. one in
stance has just occurred to us, which "a we
hope we don't intrude ~ with the permission
Of the Richmond Enquirer we will casuaUy
mention, to.wit:
Not more than one hundred years ago, the
richmond Enquirer stated IL our memory
serves us, that 1t wGs Of the opinion cat first"
that the Kansas Nebraska bin contained the
odiovs doctrine Of "squatter sovereignty -" |