The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-07-21
THE ENEMIES OF THE, ADMINISTRATIONS DE
NnIINcING uIRGIlIA


the masses of the national democracy everywhere
North and South, East and Wcst-arc sustaining the
administration with a heartiness confidence, and
good will that the denunciaiiohs Of the extremists,
either North or South, cannot shake. If ever there
was one man more than another that was the pecu-
liar candidate of the people that man was Mr. Blu
chanan. His nomination peculiarly the work of
the people, independently of the politicians He
commended to their choice by life Of unialter-
ing devotion to democratic principles and popular
rights They took him up they nominated him, they
elected him, and they mean to sustain him against all
assaults Yet, professional politicians would not
have had il The extremists, the plotters, and
the intriguers would have willed it otherwise We
saw at Cincinnati the officials of all grades, the
efforts of political managers, and the influence of
official position, brought into direct conflict with the
wishes and purposes of the people, and we saw
those influences and combinations ground to dust
and ashes and scattered to the four winds. A uni
ted, determined, and conservative people--thc ma
tional democracy completed the work which they
then initiated, and they sustaining and will con-
tnue to sustain, the administration which they
have brought into power until it has done some
thing to shake their confidence and forfeit their sp-
port. No such act has yet been done. The policy
of the administration so far, with all it's acts and
measures, meets with the entire appreciation of that
great national party that brought it into power,
and it will take something more than the insane
rawlings of fanaticism the ungracous denuncatons
Of southern extremists to impair their confidence and
good opinion.
But most singular phase in these attacks upon
the administration now presents itself The authors
of these unwise and unreasonable denunciatons
against Mr.. Buchanan, failing to carry any considera
Bile number of the people with them, and especially
failing to make any impression the steadast de-
mocracy of the Old Dominion have turned their bat
teres against their true friends and the true friends
of the South, and stigmatizing the glorious old
mother State as having .falen and dragged down
to the dust the whole South with her" Thus is her
patriotism her devotion to the Union, and her love
of peace and harmony rewarded by few who live
in state of perpetual excitement, aud are seeking
on all occasions to carry out their extreme opinions
How the Richmond Enquirer meets the presses
devoted to this service will be seen in the following
able article
Eloquent able articles recently written
to prove to the democracy of Virginia that their interests
and those of the secession party Mt the South dent
cal The attempt to 'alicnae Virginia from the South
has been most ecey assailed We have been told that
of bone and fesh and that the secession
lists stand with open ready and anxious embrace
The pictures powerfully drawn of the desoation
of Ket the of Yanccy and Virginia at not be-
slowing her bencdicton upon their fbustering enter
prise against the administration and the Union have no
doubt, produced their impression in certain quarters The
idea of the eccssionlsts mildly and imoringy soliciting
place in the hearts OF the Virginia democracy and their
idolatros affection being eoldS received, thought
which saddened many of the stcncst Of IL is true that
the constant fidelity of the national democracy for fifty
years to be sacrificed there to be formal di
of that noble party but the hnpassioned and
dent advances the seccsonsts almost irresistible
The ardent and noble sccesonsts loved Virginia SO ten
DERBY they believed implicitly i'm her greatness and
trusted implicitly in her devotion to the South that
really seemed cruel for to resist the offers in their behalf
where there many anticipations of most happy
union.
Some of us had become almost satisfied of the ardent
attachment of the fbusters when the leading organs
of the seccssonsts which reached this Office Saturday re-
vcalcd the gross Inconsistency of disunion lovers
Whether Jealous of the national deocracy or enrare
at the cautious way in which the discreet old State met
their advances cannot say but the Charleston News
and the Mercury have opened their batteries eccy on
Virginia as If she was Gov Walker James Buchanan
The passion of this desperate and disappointed PARTY for
dcnunciaon and abuse is becoming rightful Despair
ing of separating Virginia from the national democracy
having afed IN their eloTt TO debauch the healthy and
conservative public opinion of this State they have
thrown aside their mask of pretended affection and are
dcnouncing ''unsound on the slavery aues-
ton Insane with fury at virgina's stern refusa, to
enlist in crusade against noble, patriotic statesman
the President of her selection the honorcd name of
Virginia. State whose sacrifices and services to the
South have been greater, thousand times greater than
those of all the dead and forgotten factions which
have sprouted up and rotted down during the last thirty
years-her honorcd name is denounced as that of
State dsloya to the South and fallen from her once high
position in the confederacy.
The following is an extract from the Charleston Eve
ming News of the leading journals of the secession
and anti-admnistration party:
Virginia sound The southern question: aid las
raciatod fran he dry she thought Of he emancipation Of sary
dorm 10 her doion he compromise Of 1850. She has
only been firm IN her chase Of fal offices and honoys Nor
has Mr., Ruchanans record been clean. He committed
himself TO squacr sovereignty in lSiT and Cass Nicho
letter. which imbodied it, was the basis of the Cali
forna fraud in 1850 on southern rights II is well known
that Walker, Css Buchanan, Foote Douglas and other
national democrats, involved in that political
outrage and il has been under their political influence
that since the admission of Texas every foot of the Ter
rories has been lost to the South
''VInGiYIA NEVER wAssoUYD SOUTHERN QUESTION
always, suppose, 2. raitorcss to the SOUTH She
has, according to this organ of the secession opponents of
the administration, long since sold her integrity for a
mess of potage and, in her chase of the federal off
and honors, has been guilty of detection and
betrayed the South. This then Is the prty at the
South, with interests in common with Virginia For the
sake of this dsunion faction, heapng abuse and
dishonor upon must cut loose from the national
democracy and wage upon the administration Every
day furnishes us with proof more and more conclusive
that we have nothing in common with the rbd dsunion
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