Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-15

vet all his does not constitute one huudredth pa.l9 VI
he evidence which the article in the Review anolu'
70 prove the identity Of Junius aud Thos. Lytte'on'
we have no room for more to-day. ,
Lyttelton's death, like a large portion OF his iiie,has
partially yelled in obseurity. After making the mus
brilliant speech be ever delivered in which he daIh.i
limited at Ills death-he pretended that It was reveaLtu
10 him in a dream that that event would occur "ltn,m
,hree days. Towards the close of the third days. parry
Of his intimate friends being at his house. he took out
his watch, name1 the hour, and remarked. that II nc
should live two hours longer he should jockey Tue
,host. His friends left, and he, shortly before r. Q
tired TO bis bed room, attended by his Valet, WY
handed him, according to the most credible accouu',
A preparation of rhubarb which be had been III !ne
habit of using. The servant WA cent away to bring
a spoon, and on his return Lord Lyttelton was in the
very act Of dissolution. All the circumstances OF Tue
case leave little room to doubt that he committed
suicide.-[MOJile Mercury.
THE ELECTION OF GOVERNOR IN MlSSOu'
RI.
The fact that Rollins, whom we have heretofore
strictly an emancipation candidate re-
ceived a vote almost large enough to electhim Cover
nor of Missouri, was and ia still regarded as an omen
of evil to the institution Of slavery in that State. II
was, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that We read a
communication 10 a late number OF the 81. Louis Re
publican, containing reflections calculated to remove
or, at least, to modify favorabiy any such impression.
We annex il and invite the attention OF our readers
to il:
BLAIR'S MAP TESTED BY THE LATE ELEC.
TON.
TIE 4" Ncw Party" Illustrated.
Mr.. Editor:-It is known to you, rs well as to
most of your readers, that our Black Republican Re.
preventative in Congress some time since caused a
map to be published in New York, illustrating the
- r -l--x.y a n t,ts- - sLA oa-rpo Ontn.
ties in Missouri, thereby intending, no doubt, to fore.
shadow the probability of the gradual victory of the
Republican, pulgo, Emancipation party in our State.
The map made it's due noise in the world for which
it was intended, and like similar productions emnna.
ting from the same source, it was seized upon with that
ayidiiy Characteristic of Northern nulli6ers and fana.
tics, to keep up tho unhOly agitation of the slavery
q, estion 10 our midst. To us at home-however
reasonable the designs of the enemies Of our public
peace and prosperity-it matters little what may
from time to time, he belched forth by the Black he,
publican organs and their tools. but the fair fame and
credit of our people abroad seem absolutely to re-
uuire more than the mere silence OF contempt in re-
~iutation Of the Islander thus basely imputed. Apart
from the fact that the so-called Emancipation Ques-
ton in Missouri constitutes but q mere trick, pertdi.
ously thrust forward in the garb of a political ques-
ton, 10 sustain a reasonable faction in and about
ST. Louis county-apsrt from 'he contemplate, aye,
ignominious means employed to bolster them
selves up in defence of their attitude upon that
question by the Black Republicans among US
auart from the notorious fact that the question
thus raised has been fois;ed upon Our people in
direct opposition TO their will, aud 10 the detrIment
OF every true interest OF our CITIZENS: our IN
terests aurcad require that 1t should be shown, &C
cordiug to trutifticat the movement IL as c%ontemptI-
bile in strength as il Id cGrrup, in is moral conception.
So far AS the returns Of the late ~eiGct.ci can adduce
facts, lot those speak and Illustrate TO what eaten; our
people era welded to abvlitionism and its insepsrable
concomitant yioes, and when the united Republican
prsss or The North and Wet proclaim our beloved
State aud our Democratic people c. on the eve OF
dr;ye,linc into Black RepublicaaisIn, let moi dc, to
us, apparent absurdity and hsye lmpuGence % the
SANDER prevent us frop. giving 1t the ne emphatical-
ly. MAY those Reverend political protessors-Beech.
err, Cheever. Ksllock, Prof. Silliman, Elihl Burritt
and Gsrritt Smith, Ell I'd omA' gems, believe that the
Missourians are about to enroll themselves to serve
az fuukeys in the emancipation garb, TO do the dirty
work for daintisr Abolition lords III some future Hart.
lora Convention. May Abby Fulsom and her whole
enancipaisJ crew, and every runaway negro In Ia
NADIA, Boston ard Chicago believ5 II; but let the
slandor be refuted, lest COCO end sensible people, lest
our friends Of the East and tho Souu:-to Whom the
political affairs OF Our State are only made known
through the press-are also gradually led to do US in
iustice in believing such a thing even possible.
The assertion, boldly put forward by this BLACK
Republican organs in ST. Louis, that the vote re.
oeived by Ma. collins at the late election Is q lest OF
the Preesoil vote OF Missouri; the assertion that Ma
ior ROLLING candidacy was tie candidacy OF the
Emancipation party among us, empfaCos q he'
eouaI in degree of recklessIeRs. to that OF charging
Mr.. Massis, our Secretary of State, with fraud IN
tau,Dering with the election returns: 1t MAJOR Bol-
Inns, attsr becoming the serviceao!e 1901 10 bIair,
Brown, Boernsts;n & Co., for riding into office at
all hazards, had rot iost .he last spark of eel. respect
and manly pride, be Tould Eimself come forward
publicly and define bis position. II, Is ! stated, Major
Rollins had not sunk 20 low in his seii'es-imsitcr as
to care for his position before the great public any
- --..ti JonIoxa tha t-r.b ~ hps
/. That be ia q stakeholder, closely welded to the
slavery interests, and 40 declared himself in his pub.
lie speeches IN the Stare counties.
9. That he il opposed to the gradual or prompt
emancipation Of slavery in Missouri, and 30 declared
hi,ns.lf ip his puLlic apeeches IN lie Stare c0unth,.
3. That he is in fayor o: EGnsas coming into The
Union "a a slave State, end leG-rily endorses The
Kansas Nebraska bill, and the repea! Of the Missouri
Compromise, and 80 declared himself publicly iE ell
suitable localities.
4. Tha. in the same suitable localities, he even
broadly intimated, if not openly asserted, that Col.
Stewart, his opponent, WAS a non shareholder, ts
happened 70 be the fact,) and Was in league with
certain Msssacnusetts Abolition interests, inimicalto
the interests Of Missouri e. a slave State.
As it il not my intention t. direct This communics.
ton against Mr.. Rollins, whose 1854 Votes whichhs
received at the late election, out of 95,GlG votes pei
ed, ara being loudly claimed by Northern Abolition
ists, as the Freesoil strength of the State, | shall al.
stain from commenting upon that gentleman's Pohhr
caI principles in other localities, such as in ST. Louie,
whe:e he left the destiny OF the negro slave to "the
Nothingism to Htno decision Of Congress-" But this
much would l still saa of him or his friends, in de.
fence of the Democracy OF o.. state
Did Major Rollins, in any one public d%ieconrse, or
by letter or otherwise, during the late campaign, De.
clare himself openly, or even by intimation, in favor
of Emancipation, or opposed to the institution OF
slavery 70! not even he, in Black Republican ST.
Louis, AZ it is calico, dared thus to belle his antece
dents and often.repeated, pE5llcly.eIpressed senti-
ments, as to utter or even breathe sGct1 en- assertion.
Is it not notorious, that for the purpose OF lodging
the Know. Nothing question before the Dutch and
Irish" in st. LoGis, and for not offending his pro.
slavery American" friends in Boone, Marion, La.
fsyette, Cooper and Galloway, he submitted to the Ger.
man msrchsnt-s Republican III entinent-who on
the Saturday previous to the election, in Washington
Square, propound0G the questions 10 MAJOR Rollins III
writing during his speeohr
"What are your views upon the Emancipation
question?
"What are your views upon the Naturalization
question?
And to whom he gave, in substance, the reply above
indicated ! And yet. in the face OF the position thus
of his own accord assumed by Major Rollins, even
here in St. Louis, where, it was thought, he might
have gone great ways, in respect to Free Solllsm
and Emancipation men in leaving the aaturaliza
question "O Cod" contenting himself with
soft.soapiDg the former by showing up his
admiration for Benton, and the latter by nbu.
sing the democratic anti. American rule" under
which he charged the State to suffer. Is it necessary
that | should mention the name of that party in our
midst, who proclaim Rollins the Emancipation candi.
date, and the vote he received, the approximate
Emancipation strength of the State, and on the
strength of their own lie, fabricated by themselves,
they were near letting off their popGuns and sky.
rockets, and about to go into indiscreet revelings and
reioicings in anticipation of Rollins election as a
l. rpp SOil victory In Democratic MlsSOurl!
Now, the whole burden Of the song and of Mr.. Rol.
Inns candidacy amounts to this, and | challenge con-
tradiction in respect to my statement. When those
dissatisfied patriots aud o1:ce.ssekers, who consti.
tute the Know Nothing psrty in Missouri, after their
VICTORIOUS defeat in 1856, found that neither &c a So
cret or quasi public organization they could ~auywise
achieve power in opposition TO the Democracy, they
looked out for a '.fdir" bid to come in secondsrily ;
and knowing full we'll that Blair and his neW-fangled
Emancipation squad were even worse off in regard to
numbers than they, the former proposed or accepted
III would not venture to fix On the one or the otherl-
a COMPROMISE 10 beat the common enemy. The