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

THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MORNING, JULY 81, 1887
Is THERE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE
DEMONSTRATION
by RITCHIE q: DUNNAyA:


Is THERE CONSPIRACY AGAINST TIE
ADMINISTRATION!
When tho hrs intelligence of some terrible afro
city stares peaceful community where crime has
been Tor years stranger amazement, horror and in
dignalion prevent tor a time clear, and intelligent
investigation OF the facts Of lhe offence.
Such was The sSith the friends OF the admins
tratlon when, like thunder from coudless sky, the
first denuncia,ons Of tho national Democracy were
heard from The secession party. 1t was unexpected,
because there had occurred really nothing provoke
il.
The pretext OF the conapiraiors as transparent
ne that which tho wolf employed when he devoured
the lamb, whose sTsnce muddying the
stream at point beow where the felon beast
was quenching his thirst. II imposed upon
the credulity Of no one who remembered that
the Slate Rights and national Democracy at
the Cincinnati Convention soemnly pledged the
party to the very course which Mr. Buchanan has since
pursued Stripped Of all collateral questions, of all
captlous objections and special pleading, the whole
question ia compressed in the following extract from
Walkers Topeka speech
THE GREAT sUBsTASfIAL POINT IS THIS: WILL
THE WHOLE PEOPLE OF KANSAS NEXT FALL. BY
FAIR ELEcTIos, IaPARTiaLLY AND FAIRLY CON
Quoted BY IMPARTIAL JUDGES, HAVE AN oPPoRTU'
SITY TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT SHALL BE
THEIR FORM Of GOVERNMENT, AND WHAT SHALL
BE THEIR SOCIAL INSTITUTIONAL
The objections pe-sonal TO Walker, have one after
another BEEN met, tni their absurdity exposed.
They frat ayerred with much super fuous abuse,that
Walker the enemy OF the pro'slaVery party in
Kansas The "bei'"yed proslavery party held
meeting at Lecompon and endorsed the whole course
of tie Administration and Of Gov Walker by ma
iority of forty to one.
| TLsy thsu charged that Gov. Wnlkerhad debauched
the pro slavery psrty Of Kansas, aud by some won
delu spell OF magic transformed nll o the terrible
Srngleluys aud other border ruflsns into nncon
pops and traitors That objection was crushed by
the Examiners proving that the pro's!aVery party OF
Ku,sa, had brfoyr Gor. ITalkrrS drrir0' I" The Ter
rte a. passed sLo4s resolutions IN jaror cjS"Lm"tt"g
N. Constitution ~ lie people 9G Kansas 10 BE- "p-
pro-sd or rejected at tie po'is
Tey next assaled Gov. Walker for going to To-
pek, and then and there giving aid and comfort to
| thefriendo Of jim Lanes Constitution. II turned
| ouwhen that accusation was ventilated that Walker
exhibited IN much pluck in denouncing the Topeka
abdi,ionsts as Judge Douglas did in facing the nu.
riasd mob in Chicago. The very speech which
th,y said was fall OF ,edtou and treason to The South
cotsiued the folio wing charge OF grape shot which
Wlker fired plumpinto the faces of jim Lanes mob
OF rse.soers:
.THis miserable minority, constituting one frHh 0t
thp prescHt Deople O h0n&aS, propose, IN absolute de
facs oT ne act> Oi Congress, and IN 0pe" Te0rH'on
| marx you gsmtl,mm not only against NE hrrhort1f
| ky,, lint G.aInst .hf lars and government ~ me
| In
| II propis, ,mpos tbs Constitution by force "i0"
tnr,eopic Of kdam by the enactme"i@ y fH"S.
md this was specimen Of the aid and comfort
which Walker gavelh The abol,ionists in Kansas.
With one accord they vocferously insisted and re-
tented that Walker course was receiving the un
onsified approval Of he abolitonis.s The ieror'ons
wa which niue.tentll Of the abolition Journals are
waipg 1.-THE Tribune It their headl on Walker and
th,Presiden,, and the act that ne Nation" D'm"c'
rae, are drjemitny .M. Buchanan aud Goc. ""1"
fro. Tie Black R'p"6'icam party m a" me J'''
Sts., has sent TO its !oGg home, that unJus ncrnsa
ton
a,ptber serious charge sgairst Walker was,
that Va bad prevented Kansas from being slave
Stat, Senator Hunter, and the lamented Butler
drcrei, H,ce y,ars ago. h"t " Sf"r"r4 r'"'a "''"f
,u,ype fhr ddop,ioa oi Il state COH'f7n''"a IN
Easas;" Int not onc mord even Of The mildest re-
moslrauce or reprooi ever dropped from the lips oi
tbeeceasinnis,s against those genilemen.
The trivial character of these prete1is for de-
casliun Of war upon AIR. buchanan, excited
st,ao susprion from the fret, that there existed,
sore where at the South q settled determinations
amug certain disappointed and dIsaiiected poitI'
ca., to war upon that national Democratic party To
wb.h we Of the South, owe debt cl iasting gralt
ind for having in November last, saved us from the
horrors of Black Republican triumph. Since NIL OF
the,harges OF n serious nature. agalnat Gov Walker
h,,a hoen met and refued. il the hostility OF the
acc ssonists was not to the Administration tsei why
do hey sill keep up fierce and relentless war upon
,heKausas policy Of Mr. Buchanan Now that Inc
lat dispi,itsd and shattered forces OF the Southern
kruw moving party have opened their batteries OF
ab,so upon IL. Administration why do not the seces
snis,s come to the aid Of the national Democracy
Walker and not Buchanan, the real object o tle'r
assaults
If there il not conspiracy among the secessIon'sts
I, DESTROY the popularity of the Administration. to
c,ndemu James Buchanan without IL fair hearing, and
b drive the Northern Democracy from lie support
# their Southern brethren, why gre tho hnow'No
tings and tho soccssionsts, shoulder 10 shouioer'
,ourng, day after day, their fire into The camp OF Inc
national Democracy
Looking 10 tho quarter from which this secession
gar ON james Buchanan first proceeded, the suspl
cions of his friends arc fast deepening into positive
convictions Of the real incentives Of the dsunion
party.
AT the National Convention. Virginia and the ma
tiopal Democracy, in nominating James Buchanan,
disapponted many Of the Southern ultras who pre-
tended to question his soundness on the save
nv question. Ii was mere pretence; tor tho record
of James Buchanan the slavery question is as
souud "a that of John C. Calhoun Of Henry A. Wise or
Of any other representative Southern man, who has
played prominent and great part on the theatre of ma
tional politics during the last twenty-five year, IN"
storm burst upon the ADMINISTRATION tr'm that rrry
s,ction IN mhict he nomination NJ lanes buchanan
ras most utterly opposed, upon P"rs'y sectional
grounds.
The phreuzed zeal for the South, which is assigned
AZ the reason for the recent assaults on the Admins
lration aud Gov Walker may hereafter be traced to
other than the pretended cause.
The seceasonists ASSERT that large majority Of the
peopls OF the South agree with them IN their denun.
Citations of the Administration. If it is u great and
powerful party, who are its leaders What repre-
ssntsty man, upon whom the South leans with the
afectionate confidence of long attachment has utter
ed one word in vndicsion Of the fnctous course of
this party What man of note in all the South, has
openly cspoused the cause Of those who are in arms
sgainst the national Democracy Give us some
crsater evidences of strength than the clippings OF
nsvsnspers Call the roll of your Generals and Col.
or.I. How would it read keitt, Keitt, Keitt.-
Yes. thus far, K.itt seems to be the lead.
ar Of this restless party. What Southern So.
u,tor has broken ground against the Admin.
is,ration.l What Southern statesman has been
swspt down by the resisless tide Of popular ssnt.
man, which seems TO benr keitt and his splendid
fortunes upon its surface7 Strange, that from party