Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-17
THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
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FRIDAY MORNING, JULY ~, Is5;
bf RITCHIE & DUNNAvANT.

BY RITCHIE & DUNNAvANT.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY ~, 1857
The NATIONAL DEMOCRACY.
lhe recent unprovoked and most unjust assault
upon 'he Administration, are well calculated to dis
'urb 1t mol to destroy The harmony and usefulness
the national Democratic party at the very time whel
The condition of the Union aud our future welfare
nation depend upon the SUCCESS of that party il
carrying out ITS leading measures. TO united De
hocr"ttc party the patriotic and conservative Of
land have looked as their only protection from th,
wild feroclous license OF the Black Republicans ali,
| the ianaticism "f the expiring Know Nothing purity
Between The constitutional rights Of the South M,
The hoIdes Of free soers and aboOaiss of the ire,
Staes tle only secure barrier ia that great naona
Democratic party whose strength and whose powc
alone saved the country from the horrors Of disunor
by elscting The pure and patriotic statesman, Buc
hanan over tho unprincipled adventurer, Fremont
Before the country has been allowed to enjoy the
full me- asure of prosperity which that great triumph
pros:s, before the policy Of the Administration has
been fully developed, actious opposition to the Ad
minis, alton threatens TO put us at the mercy of the
most Infamous and pratical party that ever menaced
! the rights Of the South.
We do not propose at this time to fully examine the
motives which prompted this most unfortunate op
position to the Administration. Doubtless there are
excitabc but very worthy men who, without taking
tho trouble to think for themselves, have been led
astray, by the representations Of the writers and
| speakers of that school of imprlctcabe politicians
views have never been acceptable with the Virginia
Democracy. Nor do We deny that few honest aud
we'll meaning editors and politicians have also, with
out due reflection, INDUCED in abuse Of the admins.
tralion and the national Democracy, without exam
lining tn. merits OF the Kansas difficulty.
We ask the patriotic and honest extremists of the
Southern States look at the Irresistible result OF
their faclious course. Not only are they seeking 10
divide tie South, where large majority of the
people are heart aud sOn with the Administration
but their conduct is applauded by those with whom
they have no sympathy or natural atliliation what
ever.
Whilst their gratutous abuse Of au administration
in whose integrity. wisdom and fathfunesa TO the Con
stituticn nine tenbs of the people of the South place
implicit confidence must ALLEVIATE them from the Ma
tional Democracy, il necessarily associates them with
lhe remnants Of those bands of natural and implaca
BILE enemies Of the Democratic party scattered over
The North aud the South. Whilst their course is wit
nessed by the National Democracy more in sorrow
than in anger the enemies of the Dom ocratlc party
and the en-. mrs of slavery take no pains to conceal
ibeir delight.
The broken and dispirted Know. Nohngs crawl
iorh from their shattered cuverts and imagine, that
10 this threatened rupture. they behold arare oppor-
,uuty for re.organzing their midnight conspracies
against the constitutional rights of our foreign born
citizens.
A few venomous old federal Wings, consigned to
reluctant political interment mouldy and thread.
bare, are warmly frateruzing with those by whose
aid they now Seek TO either regain the ileshpos OF
Office or to reconstruct that system of federal med
.ures which jackson, Calhoun, Polk and Walker de-
stroyed twelve years ago
In the free States, the Black Republicans behold,
10 this attempt 20 produce dscord in the ranks ol The
national Democracy the approaching contamination
of their un, unhaow ed desires Between this hdeous
.,,, ara ,b. .;.,r.- oT c",... 81" '~''"d h".-o
md we'll guarded TO be broken by the pressure o' 'c
sholition forces As long the patriotic, moderate
mud conservative men OF the whole Union occupied
tho same ua,orm the Black Republicans were unable
;, ,,r.ba, ,ho unbroken forces Of the North against
, n,,;,,,;,ns If the secessinnists of the extreme
Sou,h succeed in breaking down The national Demo
cracy there will remain no conservative party a' he
y,r,h f., contend against the desperate and infamous
forcss of Seward, Greeley and Garrison That great
,or,v which elevated James Buchanan to The Presi'
deucy is The only remaining support oil tle oh'"h'
1h. more rabid of the Free Soil party desre dis
,olu,;ou or the Union, not less anxousy than tha'
G,,I. hand of Southern ultras Of which Mr. hel1
,, .;v;I and Gsu. Oua.tlebum the military mandarin
,;,,., tho advent Of the chivarous Keitt, ws have
hoora rot much of Gen'ls Commander and Quat
,lebum. The Free Soil party rejoice III thi' ou'ou'S
aysiust Mr. Buchanan, upon the part oi the Sou'ei'
,,I,rss bscnuse they feel that the extremists ~oulo
,,,;. tho Sop,h TO false and utterly indeienclbie
.o.;.;or JUe deuuuciaiion II Mr.. Buchanan an"
no,. Walker, for carrying ont a pitdSe q 'Ae "n
bouai Democracy, il approred Of by me o""'m' "'
,soJ =, d,turb The harmonious rcidto"s u He H"'fN
cry aud Southern Democracy.
This is what the Black Republicans des'fe 'o'''
oil tbiups and this misfortune is what every pa's'o
| .nd rrard of his country should, on bended Knee
;,,,,oro Cod 10 avert. Heaven only knows wher
.s would drift, amid the gloom and tempest ol sec
tonal srii. aud political rage, II The good OH Deo
cratic nar,y was to break to pieces. But oi ca'as
.ro,bs 40 terrible we will allow ourselves to entertain
| - c,or. AIon, the broad road which the nationa
Democracy has moved in TRIUMPH 10 p'e''''"b wv
| homes of long forgotten factions.