Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-08-29
BUCHANAN AND THE OPPOSITION.

BUCHANAN AND The UPPOSlllON.
Those who have access to the opposition papers,
North and Soulb must have observed, that while the
Fillmore journals at the South wage unceasing war.
fare upon Mr.. Buchanan and give themselves no con-
cern about Fremont, the Black. Republican editors
have little or nothing to sny OF Fillmore but lend al
their energies to accomplish the defeat of James
Buchanan. The fart is ndispu,ablc and full OF sig
nilicauce. What does il import'
1t shows that Buchanan is the opponent chiefly
dreaded and feared by the other parties in this con-
test. Otherwise, why should they devote themselves
so exclusively to his overthrow If, as we are con-
santly told here at the South, "Ar buchanan is not
in the race at ALL there s need 10 shed gallons o
| ink and to consume reams of paper to render MN
unpopular with the people of the country. Wise
| Grnera will not waste his ammunition ana harrass
and weary his troops by attacking skirmlshers when
the body Of the enemy in battle array Is advancing
full upon his 'front.' So neither would political generals
weary themselves in attacks upon Buchanan il they
did not feel and know that hc alone is likely to over
throw and defeat them. Depend upon it, however
editors may affect to despisc Buchanan as m oppo
nen;, they quake and lrembe at his prospects, ana
hence their aborious perseverance, i'll attacking hi;
| opinions.
1t shows, too, that Fillmore either has no strength
whatever at the North, or else that his opinions Sc
NEARLY coincide with those Of the Black Republicans
.bat they are Indifferent whether be shall succeed OF
be defeated. This is the only explanation which can
be given Of the scrupulous silence concerning Fi!
murc's clsms which is observed by the Fremoa'
| Journals. Ii he was likely 10 carry any Northern
| State or if his opinions were as favorable 10 the
South az those entertained by the Democratic noml'
| uees, we should Gnd him equally subjected to criti'
cism But Bennet, Greeley aud other supporters OF
Fremont. know that Fillmore can do them no harm,
and hence they pass by his claims aud devote them.
ssIyes exclusively to the effort Of over,hrowug the
Democratic party.
! 1t shows too, that Fimore's strength II any ne
has ia at the South LII singular that it should be
so. but nevertheless it is true. Apart from this strI-
kim, fact the testimony of Choate OF Massachuses,
pearce and Pratt Of Maryland, Clayton OF Delaware,
and other national Wings, is sufficient to prove to
every fair mind, that the Know Nothing candidates
are almost without supporters at the North and II
they get support at all, it must be at the South
| Now what hope is there for Fillmore in this section
! LET ,he recent elections give the answer. North
| Carolina and Kentucky, which were claimed for
Fillmore, have both gone, by large msjorites. for the
Democrats and besides these only two other States
,,,vs aver been claimed by the most bigoed Know
Nothing If, then, Fillmore be stronger at the South
than a, the North, in the name of reseon, how can
he be said to have strength anywhere?
II shows, in fine, that the Democratic party is the
on,y party with candidates before the country, which
can. with a,y degree of propriety be called national
po. Ina others, the Black Republicans and Know
I No,b;nps are sectional. Know -Nothingism might
have been national, had il not become merged with
Black Repubcansm at the North, but since the
harpening of that event, it has dwindled into local
faction. powerless except in local elections, and even
uuon that arena is rapidly sinking into nsigncance
The BLACK Republicans, it is manifest can make no
preteuce TO nationality, being organized upon the
specific idea of opposition to slavery and the slave
holding States of the Union. There is then no other
party besides the Democratic party, to which national
men can ally themselves; and hence such men, all over
the country, however opposed to the theory upon
which that party administers the government, are
publicly giving their countenance md support 10 the
Democratic nominees.
How stuuid and senscless is the conduct Of those
at the South who blindy following such dcfunct
politicians as Bolts, Stuart, Rives and Flournoy, in
their support of Millard Fillmore. Do they hope to
carry The election of the whose claims they ad-
yocate Not a man among them all is so blind and
uninformcd No; hatred Of the Democratic party,
a. unreasonable as intense, hurries them into posi-
ton rreconcable with fealty 10 the South. to the
Union, aud to the dictates of patriotism. Inconsis
tent in all else, they will be consistent in battling
avains. The Democratic party though to be thus con-
sistent require tho degradation of the South and the
surrender OF The dastinies OF the country into the
hands of fanatics and madInen They shall not lose
their reward.
WELL saba private letter from gentleman
soiourning in Portsmouth, n. H., says: "a gentle.
man engaged iu ship building informs me that almost
The eutlre ship building interest hers is going for Mr.
Buchanan The prOprictors of two extensive yards,
heretofore opposed to the Democratic party have re-
Gently indicated their purpose TO sustain the Demo-
CRATIC nominees Anything that looks like disunion,
is, of course, fatal to the interests of ship pbuders"
OF course it is aud fatal to every other mechanical
interest of the NORTH !says the New York Day. Book
1t won't do for the Fremonters TO say they don't
mean 10 disturb the Union. Who arc Fremont's
friends! Who but Hale, Fogg, Banks, Sumner, Wade
Giddings and others Of that class, who have thou
sand times indicated willingness to divide the
Uniou il their fanatical views are not incorporated
into the policy of the federal government. Let pru.
dent men pause and consider.