Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-03-18
THE WIG AND ITS PETS.

The Wig gravely and seriously asserts, that our
article OH .Southern Know Nothings succumbing to
Abolition, contains no other prouf Of the charge than
the caption itself The editor surely did not read the
18th section of the platform of its peis and aies
quoted in that article. lie boasts that this Convention
"votcd down, overwhelmingly, proposition TO re-
store the Missouri Comp Omise.' This was wei
done, and was intended to catch So"ihernrrs Their
18th section condemns the repeal Of this Compromise
and is intended to enlist .dbOldOmsfs. But our arti
Gle contained other proof Of our charge, which The
Whig has, We think, over and over again, admitted
to be full and ample; for its first two sentences III FL
feet charge that the new platform om'ts the i2th Sec
ton which condemned abolition, and substitutes the
18Th, which endorses and approves doctrine. HOW
often has the Wing charged Mr.. Bolts and his party
with abolition or abolition proclvtiea because they
wished TO repeal the 18th sectionl Our article con-
,rued double proof of the charge in its CAPTION
First the omission OF the 18th section secondly, the
substitution Of the 18th. But on this douoledyed
abolition platform, Mr. Fillmore, who started IN
III. as an abolitiOnst OF the rankest kind
for he maintained the right Of the General Gover'
m.nt TO regulate the slave trade between the Staes
ia 10 be mounted instead of Mr.. Bolts! That, the
Whg thinks, security enough for the South we sup
pose May not Mr. Fillmore have returned 10 h'S
first love, since he submitted TO the ''tom"o!ery anu
Auinmery" of private initiation from Generai duS'a'
vus Adolphus Scroggs! Has the Wing, has any one
any confidence in any man who will sioop 20 low 70
ps, office! Was that Washngton.like' Or is 1t
recommendation of him. that one can tell for GER
tain, whether he is for or against the 18th secon'
~. 10TH orD
denounced as Black Republicans its neighbors, who
proposed to repeal the l2fh section and gives 'he
hand of fellowship to Northerners who have super
added t" the offence Of that repeal the still greater
'nehee OF enacng the 18th. 1t denounced MIR. Botis
a'rgn'an by descent and connection, who has never
a'o"en downright abolition doctrines, and who would
oe sure 10 aVow then if be entertained them and 10
ready 10 sustain man. who, iu mature life was an
open AD"ton'st. We suppose, because he is an in
nocent, negative, Il harmless imposing, fine looking
fellow, who will "be quite sure TO io NOTHING very
| bad
Is the Whig still an "independent iourrs, :, mr. doss
il 90 in for Fillmore, the New Platform md .n;vs,
initiation Z" We know it will never submt IN ito
own person. to the "tomfuolery or tunmery" of pri
vale or public initiation but does it hold it TO be
necessary or appropriate ordeal for candidates iur The
Presidency to pass through Does the Wing know
Mr.. Fimore's opinion on any one question that has
arisen since he was President, or is it tired of indie
pendent journalism, and resolved to go it blind' Are
Mr. Botts party or the select coere that used to de-
nounce that party, the true Know.No'hnes OF Rich
moud now7 DO Bolts aud his men now swear by
the Wing and the 18th section or has the Wing sur
rendered the lth section and adopted the 18th Can
the Amerean tell Us who now gets the peculiar honor
Of publishing know. Nothing proceedingsf'
DTo be entirely serious, the relation borne by so re-
spectacle ajuurnal the Wing to The so'caled Ame-
rcan party, will greatly affect its success. With all
the pr.iudices Of the Wing against the Democratic
party, if it cannot, in its conscience become an out
righ, and downright Know Nothing, it must be be.
cause that party is uuht for patriot 10 join. We
are sure we cannot pique the Wing to join it. Itmsy