Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-05-26
TIE BUGLE's BLAST BEFORE THE BAT
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A. sunset on the day after tomorrow, another BAT
tie between the Opposition and the Democracy OF
Virginia will have been wagsd and won. The lone
Issue. which 10 now urged against &c Democratic
party of this State has been again discussed
freely and fully both by its advocates and its oppo
nents The popular mind is enlightened on the ques'
ton which 10 about to be submitted for its approval
or rejection. Day after day and week after
week. candidates for Congress, for the Slate Senate,
and House of Delegates have added their own to the
eIertons Of the press in all the cties and towns aud
counties Of the!Sate, one side the other. And
with all the confidence and patriotic enthusiasm with
which the gallant Scott was inspired in his Mexican
campaign and conquest the unadulterated and in.
domltabs Democracy of the Old Dominion will
Welcome the bugle's blast that calls them to
tue conflict on Thursday morning. This canvass,
4. 10 true has not been animated others have
witnessed and in which have participated, for the
advancement Of the interests the maintenance of the
honor and the support Of the pride and prestige of
Virginia by UNFOLDING the principles and striving to
preserve the purity and powers of the Democratic
party.
In other days, when the old Wing party was at the
height Of its strength, aud in the zesth Of its glory,
hilarious with hope, and impatient with expectation
wheG Henry Clay, that great and gallant, but mis-
guided man, who could lead HE political followers
into the deales of death, Napoleon cheered on bis
faltering forces at the bridge of Lodi, was at the
head Of the column; and Daniel Webster its Cato
in council and its Marius in battle, was in
the centre, even in Virginia, the Democracy
a;xays awaited it's onset with some apprehen-
sion, and anticipated election day as an epoch,
interesting, anxious end important. And when Know
nottingham under cover Of the night, and with muf
led oars, disemborked from the old Wing ship,
which had struck her coors, and was now converted
into piraticd craft by mutineers among her own
crew. aided and abe:ted by Democratic deserers, its
silence its secrecy, ito mysterious mission, and still
more mysterious rituasm together with it's wither.
Ing effect upon the bodyp polite wherever it touched,
all combined to engender dlstrust of its impotence.
which, with few victories and its uncomfortable
vapor.ng actually excited alarm in the minds Of some
OF the irmest of the faithful. The old Wing party,
after many a Knightly tilt in the tourney. has
played out ito part and passed off the stage forever
And the ludicrous burlesque of its Know Nothing
substitute and success or soon ceased to excite ami
nation enough disturb the apathy of ts opponents
The canvass in which we are now engaged, and
which Will come 10 cOso on lnursQay evening" Is 10
b. measured ts importance, not by the INTEREST," has
elected but by the precedents involved in the princ.
pie at stake, and the peculiar condition OF politics
and parties in the South.
The people are not excited on the subject. But it
u to be hoped that the consciousness of superior
strength will not induce the Democracy 10 be 30 in.
active In any town or county as to lose all election
where they need nothing but energy and enthusiasm
to enable them to triumph. The distrbutionists will
Of course, succeed in some Of those stronghods,
which have not yet yielded to the Democratic party.
Bat they are "fsw and far between" and we trust
that the Spartan spirit which cheers on our al.
lies Ia other States, where they have hope of sue
Cess. will animate every Democrat in Virginia on
Thursday throughout the day, whether he is sur.
rounded with political friends or foes in Isle of Wight
or Rockingham as in Warwick or Loudoun.
II 10 late to appeal again to the citizens of other
counties than those which today's issue Of the En-
7uirr will reach before Thursday evening. And
believing that there lie little or no necessity for fur
Their discussion eIhortaon at this late stage of the
canvass, We will simply say to them now, that as on
the of the battle of Trafalgar Lord Nelson ad-
monished men that England expects every man to
do bis duty" so, Thursday next, the Old Domin-
iou will expect not single Democrat to falter in his
fat