Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-14
THE ASSAULTS UPON GOV WALKER.

Jul grateful ldsk 10 southern men.
THE ASSAULTS UPON GOV. WALKER.
Those who have experience and discretion even in
picking quarrels, generally skillfu u making out
something like decent provocation when they com.
mence hosties. Ii is true that .E,op has furnished
Us with the precedent OF the fox and the lamb TO tho
contrary but the case has not been considered saie
one III the quarrels Of life.
The hunters OF Africa exercise great patience in
hunting those we'll protected and nonstrous animals
the rhinoceros and the elephant. As they have but
few vulnerable points and possess forty times the ply
slcai strength Of their adverssres the more skful
hunters patiently watch their game hour after hour
III some unprotected portion Of their formidable vic.
TINS are exposed. rifle ball, planted at the right
time aud i'll the proper place. will frequently toppe
over al elephant Us tall rs two.storied house. or IL
rhinoceros of three horne" But woe unto the
'Inpetuous and thousht'ess advonturer who fires al
The wrong moinen or whose ball strikes q We'll pro.
tected point. The penalty of such an indscreon is
always fearful.
IL there are politicians in the extreme Southern
States flor Virginia is sound to the core1 who have
never forgiven the success Of JAMES BUCHANAN and
the triumph Of the conservative national Democracy
in November last, and who vanly hope to put down
the Administration, they have destroyed all chances
OF success by their rash precptancy. They have
opened their batteries upon the national Democracy
too late, and they have attempted to open breech
in the very strongest fort of the forlicson Of the
Administration. little more PATIENCE and the great,
national Democratic party, which for nearly sixty years
has been the lark and covenant natiOnBlsaety,
might have been, for sugbt we know swfully pepper
ell by squads of South Carolina and Mississippi part.
sans. Had the Hon. Mr.. kEIrr kept his powder
dry while longer, rs all of are liable 10 err, he
might have found "sOi place in the Admuistra.
| tion. But caution and fiery valor not asSo.
ciaied, and the Administration is SAFE The national
Democracy and JAMES BUCHANAN have forfeited not
| one particle Of the confidence of the people.
| The selection of ROBERT j. WALKER as the vic.
tim of their wrath, was in udicous the whole.
sale denunciaton of JAMES BUCHASAS for attempt
ing as patriot should to restore peace and order to
distracted Kansas. Gov. WALKER is known to us on.
y by his public acts. The charge against bis private
character seems but recently to have aroused the in
dgnation o.! his reviles, for it is not denied that he
was only few months since the choice of the ultra
Southern party for seat in the cabinet Of Mr.. Bvc
HASAs. We have heard no denial of this statement.
Memo rcents Jun tnrPtssinims. There is certainly no
evidence Of his having become suddenly base since
the ith Of March last. What Roar.J. WALKER was
for twenty years before that day We all know.
Taking his record alone would soou
suspect DANIEL s. Dickinson or STEPHEN A.
DOUGLAS of treason to the South. lie ID now
described as enemy OF the Soat.!, and
as bitter foe of the State Rights party
Does his record sustain the charge' Can single de-
Gently authenticated instance OF detection be shown!
Let his enemies condescend to deal in something
more substantial than deuunciston, for the purpose
Of satisfying that matterof.iact class Of gentlemen
who do not believe necessarily infamous be-
cause the newspapers solennly assert that he il
Is he opposed to the extension Of slave territoryl
Let those who have come upon the political arena
since 1914, read that celebrated letter of his, which
did more to acquire Texas than the efforts Of all our
other statesmen together We need not remind those
who participated in the canvass of 1914, how the
State Rights Democratic party of the whole South
hailed WALKER as one of oil others worthy Of their
af-ctionate esteem. We do not wish to detrsot n
particle from the services of Wise, Calhoun, Tyler
anG Polk but it was walters famous letter mhicE
PIT arguments IN Tie months Of eDs,y Southern man
ia jarOr 0t 0rqmHinS ikH rast dominion for lie
ertcms'oa 81 s(arery.
And when the national Democracy, North and
South East and West, encouraged by that powerful
document, vindicated amid the bills Of New IIamp-
shire, as we'll among the savannahs of the South
the policy of annexation, and elected JAS. X. Polk
The S0uM, with one voice, demanded that WALKER
should be placed in the Cabinet. The wishes OF
the South were gratiled by Mr.. Polk, and WALKER
became the Secretary of the Treasury Great as
had been the services of Gov WALKER to the cause
Of States rights, whilst Senator from Mississippi; his
tOrical his fame, the most able friend OF
nexaton; a. Secretary Of State, lie carried out the
views Of the State rights party, far the financial
policy of this country is concerned, in manner
which received the warmest approval Of JoHX T..
CALHOUN.
Point us to man in the ranks of the revilers Of
WALKER TO whom the South owes one tenih the debt
Of gratitude which il due to WALKER. Are we 30 for
getul of the distinguished services Of our friends
as not 10 remember how successfully WALKER carried
out rs Secretary of the Treasury, the favorits
sures Of the State Rights Paryi Let those who are
scsptca about The services Of this read his cele
brated Reports whilst Secretary OF the Treasury aud
see how powerfully the arguments of LHoUS against
Protective Tariff were elaborated and enforced by
WALKER. When there was State Rights Party ia
this country under the leadership Of CALHOUN, labor
ing to extend the territory Of the South land to break
down tic csnrazing measures of the Federal Party
RoBr. j. WALKER worked with tho best men of that
party. Clear headed, calm and dispsssionate, ener
gec aud able, he has left in the Treasury Depart
mens and the Senate, monuments to his fidelity to the
South which the voco Of deraction cannot deface.
In every Presidential CANVASS, for the last quartz
of century, this unjustly denounced man has
failed to give cordial support TO The Democratic
party.
During the last Presidential canvass, his position
was e1acty that Of the national portion of the States
Rights party. Although living in New York. he Ell.
dorsed the declaration Of such recognized Southern
leaders ~ Wis., HUNTER, and Others in declaring
that the election of Fremont would inevitably result
in dissolution of the Union. Surrounded by Free
Soiers and Abolitioniss, who denounced him almost
as fierce and loudly then the uras of the South
are doing, he gave weight to the declarations of
the leaders Of the States Rights psrty. His solemn
assurances and the influence which he welded with
the conservative people Of the Northern States
tsrialy aided the national Democracy. That man,
consistently faithful for many years to the Demo
cratic party, should have had the confidence Of the
Administration IL not strange-that such should
be singled out WALKER for slaughter by the utras
of the South, exci,es our spprehensons that some.
thing more than the nmoation of Walker is desired.
What is the reu object of this assault by the Misss
sissippi utras, time will soon reveal.
NEW LAW BOOKS.
JUDGE LoMAX has, We understand, nearly com
peted the new edition Of his work on Executors and
Administrators. At the time of it's former issue, ii
was favorably received by the profession. And in
the edition the venerable jurst has greatly en-
larged and improved it. A. NORRIS Of this city is
the publisher.
| Mr.. MATTHEWS is also just completing the second