Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-21
POLITICAL.
MIR. AYLETT'S SPEECH AT LYNCHBURt

MIR. AYLETTS SPEECH AT LiNCHBURG
Mr. p. II. Aylett, of Richmond. addressed a crowd
ed house u, Dudley Hail. in Lynchburg, on Saturda,
MONT last The speech delivered here by him du
RIM, the Gubernatoral canvass had left deep i'm
preston upon our people, and :hay came together or
Saturday evening evidently anticipating rich intel
lec,ual treat. They were not disappointed. For
nearly three hours he entertained the large and aen'
five audience with one of the very best speeches
which We ever heard on political subjects We can
give only brief synopsis OF his address ana 10 MOI
pretend 10 do justice to his unanswerabe arguments
sparkling wit, biting sarcasm ana lo,y s'o2aense
commenced with an auson TO the difference between
the issues now before the people and when he ad
dressed us few weeks before the fourth Thursday IN
MAY, iS55. Now, for the first time, the Northern
STATES had presented candidate for the Presidency
who embodied their peculiar politics, their narrow
and dangerous sectionaiism. This movement was the
r-sut of a terrible excitement, whose history he de-
sighed 10 trace and he intended TO prove that itowed
ii- origin TO that bigoted secret political orSanl
24,iun-the NohnGs-who now presented
Fillmore as their candidate and claimed for him the
support Of Southern voters. This he intended to prove
before ne got through lie then proceeded to discuss
the issues between the South and the North, auu
showed that the South never aggressed upon any
right of the North. On the contrary, Virginia had
OF her own free will, given the North Ill imperial
bounty of 80 100 square miles of her richest terrific
ry From this territory Ohio, Michigan Illinois, In.
diana now teeming with swarming population and
countless wealth, had been carved. Like King Lear
IN. Generous and conhding old mother had divided
her substance. The North, Ike taithless Gonerl and
Regain had received the gift and was using It TO OPP
nrr.s and ruin the old mother; but he thanked lea-
Ven that they were not all mad with selfish ingrati.
tud- and that good and faithful Cordea sill re-
maned to ssve and protect the unfortunate parent
He then examined the famous Missouri Compro.
mise the repeal of which has been made hypocriIi.
cal uretext Tor upon the South lie showed tina;
Nebraska and Kansas were territory acquired from
Frace by Virginia Statesmen Jefferson, the iresi-
dent, and Monroe, the commissioners who negotiated
and effected its acquisition; that it was pad for out
of a treasury to which Virginia anu South Carolina
then contributed more than Pennsylvania and all the
New England States combined That The treaty, by
which this territory WAS acquired was violated by the
Missouri Compromise; Tor that treaty CAV" 10 The
slsY.huldng population of Louisiana the unqualified
right 10 go TO the whole territory without lei or Inn
drauce upon immigration; and that the Compromise,
j! il ever deserved the name OF compact, ceased L"
be such i'll twelve months after its passage. when the
North refused to admit Missouri "a State upon
Il may and senseless pretext, though that anything
wasthe only consideration which the North had grant
ed .ur the exclusion of slavery North OF 80 ~. The
Compromise WA again and most shamelessly violated
in lSl6-7 when the North repudiated It aud HAUNTED
the Wil,not Provso in the face Of the South "a the
only principle of territorial legislation, which il would
accrp; or tolerate, and finally thst 1t was forever
given up az principle of Compromise between the
North aud South, When in 1885, the North refused 10
extend il 10 territory acquired from Mexico and adopt
ed the other principle of Congressional non-nterter.
ence with slavery in the territories. Mr. A. demanded
if the Missouri Compromise right and good at one
time. and applied to territory, why was II not
good for all time and for all territories Or, II 1t be
bad at one time and applied 70 one territory. why
should it not be bad forever and every where II the
principle o. the Compromise OF 1870 be good Tor Next
territory, why it not good for Kansas and Ne
braskn
Seeing these things-,hat Virginia President and
a Virginia Commissioner had acquired this territory;
that il had been paid for out of money contributed
mostly by Virginia and South Carolina that the Mis-
souri Compromise violated the treHty with France,
aud was itself repudiated by the NORTH M soon as
made. rcpudiated in lSi7, i'll 1871, what wonder that
Virginia end the South should seize the first Opporiu
nity relieve herself from the false and ignon,nious
discrimination against her rights and her institutions!
They had done 80, when they voted tor the Kansas
bill. The whole South had voted for IT.. NJ voice ol
opposition WAS heard from Whig or Democrat. The
proposition was made by Wing Senator and accepted
10y Democratic Senator. Mr.. Badger, Wing Sena-
tor from North Carolina, pledged all his Wing col
leagues from the South TO the repeal Every where
their position was seconded by their party press at
the South. and none boder, none more enthusi.
as,c than Ridgeway. Of the Wing, and Mcdonald, Of
the Virginan.
But here change came over the political horizon.
a secret organization, with passwords, signs and
prius innumerabe, suddenly sprung into cXi,tance.
They spread like wild fire over all the North; assailed
the Democratic party for its pro slavery tendencies,
and dashed the Northern mind into maadened frenzy
uuder the delusion that the South had broken u
solemn compact, violated plighted faith and were
taking possession of the federal government by force
and fraud. Joining this issue win the ogoted or!
against Catholics aud exciting the mind ol the lower
Classes against foreigners, they swept the North and
turned out the faithful national Democrats who ha'
supported the rights of the South in the repeal o
the Missouri Compromise. They sent Banks ant
Buflingane to Congress-; made Wilson Senator, ant
put the federal Congress into the hands OF base fanat
les who scruple to Cypress and ruin the South BY
all the means in their power.
Bat this party bore two faces. 1t met in Phadel
phs in June, 1885, and passed platform which spil
the famous twelfth section. With this they came
South in ecstasies. of joy and song. Every where
they sung hosannas TO the great national party, thu
only party that could protect the Souh and save tn.
Union. Only one man i'll all the South raised his 81
voice against this great twelfth section Only
Bolts followed hoarse!y in opposition, and every
where Bolts was denounced traitor and aboition
list. The Richmond Wing opened on him the blazing
artillery of lis inp.acable wrath and every porten
seemed 10 threaten irretrlevable ruin to the roaring
bison. But things changing fast. The l2tt
section had ruined the party That plain I,
every eye. 1t had wen birth and power to the grea
Black Republican party and was fast driving Sam
ship To pieces Something must be DONE all was lost
The exped;ent was easy. The mountain of opposi
tion must 90 to Mahomet Bolts. The ppans suac il
praise of the twelfth section must be hushed, and tina
blank 40 dear to Southern hearts, must be ripped ou
and thrown to the whale. Bolts triumphcd. Ii,
corous!y beat down the shouting hosts who oppose,
him, and he now stands Lord and King of Ku"v
Nottingham in Virginia. Now they nominate can
dda,e for the Presidency They bring forth Millar
Fillmore He joins his voice with the North III de
rnurcing the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise =
When, behold q mighty change comes over tn
Southern Know Nothinrs aud Wings! though III
for,nrr had passed the twelfth section though tl
latter had demanded the repeal Of the Missouri Com
prouise and though every Wing Senator, aud all il
Southern press. had supported that pea-thoug
the Democratic party had sacrificed its heroes at I'll
North upon the altar Of patriotism, by sancionin
wha, Southern Wings demanded and applauded q
the only right course. Now the song is changed
They all now chant willing chorus to the bison
song and swallow their denuncia.ions of him aun
with all their praises Of the Kansas bill.
Thus the Know Nothing party had begntten tn
terrible sectionalism which rh ea,eu.d the country
existence; thus the Wings Of the South had ,lenant
ed heped to carry through the kanoas bill; Thus til
Know. Nothings Of The South had treachcrously give
up their conservative platform, aud thus Souiher
Wh,cs and Southern Know Noihings were now ION
ed, heart and hand, in supporting candidate wi
deuounces what they have done, aud they all thro
up their hats together in his march to the Pres
Gency. .
Mr. Ayle.t next demanded to kro" who could say
the Union! Fillmore could not. He had been r
pud.ared by his party in 1852, and his best frien
could only claim that he was CONVERTED ABoL
ZIONIST. He showed that Fillmore's whole Consre
sioual career a upon the South; that he b'
during those eleven years. rated h'rty'str I'm
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