Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-21

the secession party OF the extreme South. The first
would enlis in defence of our institutions, powerful
party in every State of the uuion-the latter would
array, by their indiscreon and violence, the whole
North against us in lees than i've years.
The Democracy of Virginia do not believe that the
condition of slave States would be better ont of the
Union, in the event Of dissolution, than within it, as
long as there exists powerful national organization
toprotect Constitutional rights The secessouista
conemn and detest the national Democracy, and be-
love that there is safety in any measure less hard
than dsunon.
THE ENEMIES OF THE ADMINISTRATION
DENOUNCING VIRGINIA.
Eloquent and able articles have recently been writ.
ten to prove to the Democracy Of Virginia that their
interests and those of the secession party at the
South are identical. The attempt 10 "alienate Vir-
glna from the South" has been most 6ercely asssil
ed. We have been told that we are of one bone and
one hesh and that the secsssonists stand with open
arms ready and anxious to embrace us. The pictures
30 powerfully drawn of tha dssolaton of kei.t,
the sorrows Of Yancey, at Virginia not bestowing
her benediction upon their 6llbustering enterprise
against the Administration and the Union, have, no
doubt, produced their Impression in certain quarters
The idea Of the secessioniss mildly and mploringly
soliciting place in the hearts Of the Virginia Demo.
cracy and their dostrous affection being thus coldly
received, was thought which saddeued many Of the
sternest of 1t is true that the constant fidelity Of
the national Democracy for fifty years, was to be
sacrificed, and there was to be a formal divorce of
that noble party; bu. the impassoned and ardent
advauces oil the secessonists almost irresistible.
The ardent and noble seceasonists loved Virginia
tenderly. they believed implicitly in her greatness
and trusted implicitly in her devotion to the South
that it really seemed cruel for to resist the offers
in their behalf, where there were 80 many anlicpa.
lions Of most happy union.
Some Of us had become almost satisfied of the ardent
attachment of these iibusters when hssadng organs
OF the secessoniss which reachsd this office Saturday,
revealed the gross Inconsistency Of disunou lovers.
Whether jealous OF the national Democracy,
ragged at the cautious way in which the discreet old
State met their advances, We cannot say, bat the
Charleston Netcs and the Mercury have opened their
batteries iercely on Virginia as if she was Gov.
Walker James Buchanan. The passion Of this
desperate and disappointed party for denuncision
and abuse is becoming frightfu Dsspsiring ofsepa.
rating Virginia from the national Democracy, having
failed in their effort to debauch the healthy and
servstive public opinion Of this State, they have
thrown aside their mask Of pretended affection, and
are now denouucing US as "unsound on the slavery
question" Insane with fury at Yrgnas stern refusal
to enlist in crusade against NOBLE patriotic states,
man. and he the President OF her seectionth hon
ored name Of Virginia, State whose sacrifices and
services to the South have bseu greater, thousand
times greater than those of all the dead and forgot
ten secession factions which have sprouted up and
rotted down during the last thirty years, her hon
ored name s now denounced az that of a State dis.
loyal to the South, and faleu from her high
{ position in the confederacy.
The following ia an extract from the Charleston
Erening N,ps, ono OF the leading journals Of the
secession and anti administration party.
Virginia neper ,cas sound on the Southern 9ueS.
ton, and has rarila,ed from tie dny she MonsM Of
The rmaac,p patton Of sare'y dorm to her detection on
Tie Compromise of 1880. She has only been firm an
her chase Of federal offices and honors. Nor has Mr..
Buchanans record been Clean He committed him.
aelf to Sgu0tter Sovereignty in lS47 and Cass Nj.
cholson letter, which embodied it, was the basis Of
the Catornia traudin ls5o on Southern rights 1t is
we'll known that Walker, Cass Buchanan, Foote.
Douglas, and other National Democrats" were in
volved in that political outrage and it has been un-
der their political influence, that since The admission
nf TrIas every foot Of the Territories has been lost
to the South
"yiRGISA NEVER WAS SOUND oS THE SoUTHEkN
aUEsTION"-always, We suppose, "traitress to the
South" She has, according to this organ Of the So
cesson opponents Of the Administration, long since
sold her integrity for Of pottage, and, in her
chase OF the federal offices and honors hss been guilty
Of "deecfiop" and has betrayed the South This,
then the party at the South, with interests in com,
mon with Virginia For the cake OF this dlsuDion fac
tion now heaping abuse and dishOnor upon us, we
must cut loose from the National Democracy and wage
war upon the Administration Every day furnishes
us with proof more and more conclusive. that We
have nothing in common with the rabid dsunon party
Of South Carolina. The orgaus Of that party heap
abuse upon Virginia fully undeserved that Of the
Libcroior Of Garrison, and tho Tribmns Of Horace
Greeley. When Virginia is thus denounced
at tho North, the National Democracy de.
fsnd us from the Black Republicans; they burl back
in the faces Of our adversaes indignant vindcations
Of the noble Old Dominion. But among the seces.
sonisis no kind hand seems to be raised in our de-
fence No friendly voice il uplilted TO vndicate the
fair fame of Virginia from her Southern assaisnts.
Conscious of having done her duty 10 the South,
feeling assured Of the sympsthos Of good and true
men in all parts of the Union, every convention Of
the national Democracy ao ding gratifying evidence
| of her weight and influence in the Union. she re-
cards the efforts Of the secessionists 10 blacken her
fame more 10 pity than in anger She does not desire
to win their valuoess esteem by preaching disunion
and her influence will always be employed in check
ing and defeating the suicidal policy of the party OF
| which tho Nr,cs and the Mercury are the leading
organs She intends to stand by the Administration
Of James Buchanan as long as there is a shot n the
locker for she has the most perfect confidence in h
wisdom discretion aud devotion to the South.
The Secsssionsts have proclaimed war against Vir-
yinia They have declared that she is "uusound on
the Southern question aud that she il the mercenary
slave of the federal government. She does not shrink
from the contest and she intends to protect the lne'
rests of the South from the disunlonists as well a.
from the Black Republicans.
She rejects with indignation the idea Of an alliance
with the neu whu charge her with detection and un
soundness to the South, and she will baffis all heir
attempts to hunt down the Administration. Mark that
Thsre ia too much pride and sturdy manlinsss in her
people for them TO tauely submit to such insults
those which the Nevs and Mercury have heaped upon
her. This denuncIation Iof Virginia is not the
wild raving Of All obscure paper. Far from it,
The Mms ID leading journal OF tho secessioniats and
is conducted by gentlemen character and ability.
But to render assurance doubly sure we invite the
attention of our readers to the following extract from
the Charleston Mercury which no one denies is the
controlling organ OF that party at tho South which is
denouncing the Administration and seeking to break
the ties which unite the National Democracy Of the
North and South. In an eaborately prepared article
of several columns ws fud the following passage.
Speaking Of virginis-t says,
"Ry the Compromise Of 1852 providing for the
admission Of California into the Union, shs got a
Fugitive Slave Law passed, prepared by her states
men at Washington, by which she expected more
easily to recspure her fugitive slaves in the North.
ern States. VIRGISIA FELL, and DRAGGED DOWN
IsT0 THE DUST THE WHOLE SoUTH WITH HER.
Never confidence more freely given or more
sadly reQuited. The high character Of her statesmen