Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-10-02


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Is THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE SAFEST
GUARDIAN OF SOUTHERN RIGHTS
This ia question. which when affirmatively an.
swered to the satisfaction of the Southern people, re.
duces the opponents Of the Administration and Of the
National Democracy a, once 10 the alternative, Of
TO the interests Of the slave State or denying that
which the people whose rights they profess to vim.
dicate implicitly believe. If they accept the one
construction OF their conduct, they place themselves
In the position of selfish agitators; and If the
other, they openly acknowledge that they are not
the true exponenls OF Southern sentnen. The ques.
ton has been answered, eloqueny and emphstioally
by oil the slave States, and with the single dissent
Ing voice oil Maryland to impair the effect OF
their generous response. Never before did any or
sanzed opposition to the Democratic party meet
with 30 disastrous failure, as the rayng remnant
Of the Fillmore forces in the Southern States last
Fall. The old Wing party, per So, it is true, WAS
badly beaten in its faal effort under the leadership
of the most renowned military man 10 the nation.
But the "hero Of hundred battles" who has
failed in the field of politics signay as he has
succeeded in that of Mars; even he, who hardly
amounted to opposition in the election OF 1852 is
glorious from that defeat, when compared with Mr.
Fillmore in 1856, is Lundys Lane in contrast with
the Black Jack fight in Kansas. Why is it, that the
Democratic party in the South has thus rapidly ex
tended it's influence and multiplied its numbers while
the old Wing party has passed away, and the opposi
ton tha, 'rose upon s ruins has been crushed out
almost in its inceptionl Why is it, that the princ
Piles and policy Of the Democratic party are now adj
vocated earnestly by thousands, who, until the
last tew years, were incorporating enemies
Of everything connected with Democracy =
Why is il, that even upon issues apparently
altogether unassociated with the slavery ques
tion, it is impossible to encounter the De.
nocratic psrty in the South, with any prospect OF
success II Is because the saveholding States have
all deserted the danger with which their institutions
are threatened and consulting their own immediate
interests above the disputed questions pertaining to
conflicting policies which have heretofore divided
them, they have determined to seek safety under
that banner which bears the impress Of constitutional
principles, and floats the citadel, which bravey
bears the brunt Of all the assaults Of the enemies OF
The South. The Democratic party protects the slave
States, not because II is especially devoted 10 he'r
interests but because its policy is founded in the true
and unimpared principles Of our Government
And hence it s that the Northern Democracy are TN
titled to the highest encomiums upon their patriotism
They have no immediate interest, in the institution
Of slavery but is supported and protected in lis
constitutional rights by the principles OF the party
to which they belong And they uphold ,h1se pr'n'
ciples because they believe them to be the heat ior
the interests Of the whole country.
That the South is saier under the guardianship Of
the Democracy than Of any other party that has
ever existed in the country. is evidenced, not only by
s almost unanimous adoption in the slave States,
but it is also plainly proved by an analysis OF the
principles it proclsma and the policy it pursues II
this be not true, why l. it that all other political or
gan1stiors In the North have been merged in the
Black Republican party while the Democratic party
.t stauds as distinct from it, as light from darkness
The slavery Issue in both sections absor6s every
other in orr national elections, and il s the great
question which now spportions parties. Why is it
then tha, we lind no Wing party. no Kuow.Nothing
party TO make battle i'll ths cause OF the South
against the npponenta Of slavery, in the North! Why
Ia il, that the National Democracy are alone In the
field against ihe enemies Of the Sonthi Where is
the old Wing party OF The Southern Statesl 10 ia
honor be said II s Incorporated in the ranks aganet
which it once waged war ol-eXterninaton, as
its own disappearance proves. Where s the vaunt
ed Know. Nothing party which was to repolntionize
the nation, and redeem the republic Irom all the ILL
entaed upon it by the TWO old degenerate and mori
bund organiz atoms upon ihe ruins Of which il had
rsen1 Like those mysterioue ma!adies that some
times scourge countries by their poisonous presence,
it has disappeared, none knowing whence il came, or
caring where or how il has gone. And now LEI us
ssk where is the National Democratic party the par
ty oi Jefferson and Madison and Mason: the party
xhich originated with the beginning OF the govern
ment and which has always maintained its fidelity ("
the Constitution and TO the Union
we have anticipated the inquiry BY pointing 1t ou
as the party which still retains l,s nationality, and
protects the rights Of the South under the sgs OF lis
unmpsired and unimpairable principles. II IS the
party which, 10 the South, has swallowed up all op
position, and in the North. is still brsvey battling
with the enemies Of our institutions and Of the Union.
II is the party which defeated Fremont and his anat'
cal followers in the exciting contest OF last Faithe
party upon which the republic rests, and TO which
the American peope snyiously look Tor the mamie
nance of the government in its primitive purity and
power II is then strange, indeed that there should be
even feeble faction Of Southern who are not yet
satisfied with the security guaranteed to them oy The
principles and policy of Democracy And It is stranger
still that An Administration representing and embo
diving that national. Just and impartial patriotism
which prompted the founders of the ronfederacy in
the formation of tho compact between the States,
should fail to command tho unequvocal commenda-
ton OF every Democrat in the slave States. Those
who differ from it, however, amount to only hand,
full Of ac.ioniss, who oppose Mr.. Buchanan for the
very reasou which induced the American people to
elevate him to the Presidency Because he s in favor
Of saving the Union he ncurs the rensure and abuse
nf the disunionS.s.
SILLY ISLANDER.
\ day or two ago. We received andpnblished with
great pleasure, a letter from Virginia gentleman,
now soiourningin in Paris in which our attention WAS
directed to the publication 10 the enquirer of
silly sander upon Judge Mason the American Minis.
ter TO France. Itwas embraced in the following pa.
ragraph, which was said TO have been taken from the
"l.ondon Court Journal:
His Escellency Pleuipotentiary Mason having
been reprimandsd for throwing his arm around the