Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-10-12
VIEW OF THE CASE.

STRONG VIEW OF IL CASE.
The striking picture drawn by the "Philadelphis
Monitor of the fatal consequences of a supremacy Of
the Black Republican party upon both the %inter~s's
Of the South and the existence of the Union, is well
calculated to arouse the serious attention of every pa
triot, whether be lives in the North or the Soath. The
rticle, which we give below, Is not tinged by colors
darker than will be realiz sd, upon the happening OF
the dread contingency. The Union cannot survive
tho carrying into effect of the unjust, unequal and
oppressive exclusion Of the South from her
natural snd constitutional rights. Should not
every preoaution be taken to ward on 30 threat :
euing an evil1 Looking back along the current OF
past experience, and placing BY its SIDE "ha'
We witness every day, are We not fully Justineo 10
still conHding in the national Democratic party as the
only breakwater to the angry food Of sectional fanati'
cism that would break down the constitutional BARR
era of State Rights and Slate equality aud sweep the
Union itself into the fsthomless ocean Of oblivion =
With such landmarks distinctly in view. 10 it not most
grossly suicidal in the crew Of the gallant ship to be-
engaged in disssnsion upon questions outside Of
the chsrter.party and, by their absurd contests, bring
doubt and confusion az to its course, and thus induce
the wreck of the noble vessel on the rock of sectional
and deadly fsnetioism.
1.-THE Democracy be defeated in 1850, the glory of
the Union will have departed, and it will be register
Cd among the wrecks of the past. At the very mo
nent when the great powers of the earth are looking
to the United States with the respect due to our pro-
gress az a nstion-grest in it's political standing aud
In its wonderful physical developments-at this PEE
riod of our greatest prosperity and strength, tracea
BILE to the harmonious working of a long continued
ocrst can, Oh account of the different medium through
which he views q question not laid down in the Dem.
ocratic platform, hesitate to sustain bis party and
the agents selected on the various Congressional and
State tickets, fairly selected by a majority of the party,
to give vitality and effect to the great and saving
principles of the party. LIST US. then, sac a cessation
Of this warfare upon Democrats, because Of their
leaning for or against the Lscompton Constitution, or
any such outside Issue. Let every Democrat abstain
from such an internecine warfare and unitedly rally
in vigorous battle upon the Black Republicans, whose
success will inevitably sound the knsll of the Union,
and, we fear, of sound Republican government tor
many long years to come:
SLAVE PROPERTY EXCLUDED.
Let Us suppose the "Colored Republicans to have
succeeded in prescribing limits TO the extension of
slavery" and that this description of property is to
O6 IUE6N0E OOuuucu itutu tuo UOuuudIlee ~ LIE pre-
sent existence. Whst would be the commentary of
the impartial historian q century hence, when the
population should amount to 100000 600, and when
nearly the whole continent would own the sway ct
,he Federal Government Why, ii would be simply
the old story of conquest and subjugation-the strong
or encroaching upon the weaker. Such is the histo
ry Of man, and particularly Of our own g~raspiug race.
The historian would record that, about the middi- os
tho nineteenth century certain ambitious demagogu-s
in the North, peroeiviag that the inhabitants of the
free States possessed an overwhelming numerical
preponderance, conceived the idea of converting iis
republican system of popular representation into an
instrument Of oppression. The real object wsa TO
obtain exclusive possession OF the vast territories of
iDcslculsble value but the pretence was that slave.
ry was q moral evil. as we'll as politically deiri.
mental to the development Of the national resources.
they proclaimed that all new territories, whether
acquired by conquest or otherwise, since the purchase
Of Louisians, were dedicated TO freedom; that slavery
wa an abnormal institution, violative of "nsturhi
rights," and could only exist in pursuance Of positive
statutes, and that such laws were inconsistent With
popular liberty, &c. In this manner the designing
leaders succeeded in srrayiug a majority of the vo
tiers against the extension Of an institution which they
had been made to believe sinful in itself. derogatory
to the white laborer, and an obstacle to the prospect.
ty OF the nation. Thus the great body of the people,
induced 10 believe that the proscriptive decree would
be beneficial to the entire population, cast their balu:s
for President and for representatives in Congress,
who established the barriers which restricted the Law
iulness Of slave property forever within the Limits
@QoT6 IL In6O 6IlBk0us CEOm lu6l mOu6Qt HDlRfu-
lion from the South ceased to pour into the territories.
Meu, high minded men, who had been in the habit,
for generations, OF standing erect as the peers of
any beings in mortal form, could not bear to Ia
iaterrogated why they LETT behind the property
ehey had inherited from their fathers. and which
had yielded them a subsistence from time immem,
rial, until their lands became impoverished. They
preferred to perish by gradual decay, sullenly and
upon q sterile soil, than to be tainted for their impp.
teoce and their political uequsli,y- and that, too, in
a Republic which had been founded by their ances-
tors. Az time rolled on their numbers diminished.
like the original lords of the forest; until they became
insignificant In military prowess, with energies bluut-
I'd, and the chivalrous epirit which had animated
them IN former generations, became finally eXflr.-
guished. Then the slaves, more numerous than their
masters, rose and slew them. And the enter prisiig
and thrifty descendants OF the grasping Yankees, al.
ready in possession of more than q hundred States of
the eonfederscy, invaded the old Southern lands,
seized them as an inheritance, aud made The black
population, amounting TO twenty millions, their up.
preaGced serro1&s In perpetuity, and put them to work
again on the rice, Cotton aud sugar plantations. Thus
ths rapacious Yankees obtained universal away -
They became the exclusive proprietors Of all the
common Territories Of tie nation, and afterwards The
owners OF all the slave States and the slaves.
Such n1,gAt be the record, q hundred years hence,
1t the mon extension" stratag.m Ut the .Colcred
Republicans" of the present day could be coUsum-
mated. But it will be shipped in the bud 10 1861.
ar ese there will DO an equitable division of the
public assets before it is too late. AZ certain IA there
!s q heaven above, and a God in heaven, the day
upon which 1t is announced that the stakeholder and
his property are 10 be excluded from the common
territories, will be the las. of tue Union. 1t could
not be otherwise when we consider the character OF
The Southern people and their history. They con
'ributed to the Union, directly and indirectly, all the
territories We possess, or ever possessed, South Of the
Delaware and West of the Alleghanies-and they
could not survive the isuominy Of being elbowed out
OF their own houees, on the hypocritieal and
demagogical preteuce that q NEGRO is equal TO a
white man" and that the master has no %"natura!