Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-06-01

The work of reconstruction" goes bravely on al
the North. Already the odds and ends of The parties
constructing their platforms. These "esssed pave.
ments' Of party will be stuck full of the white stones
and "blsck stones Of Know Nothingism and Black
Repubcansln. The animosities of the past are to
be forgotten the abuses heaped upon each other are
to be forgiven and general congloneration of anti.
slavery and sntforeignism to be made, in order to
wrest the power and patronage Of the government
from the hands Of the Democratic party A well de-
fined and squsrey drawn sectional party is fast form
ing at tue North; the lines Of geographical division
are henceforth to divide parties unless the perma
nency Of the Union shall bs secured by the future
harmony Of the National Democracy.
The despatch from Washington TO the New York
Herald Of May y, contains the following
movement is OH foot-and the hrst meeting was
held tot day by leading politicians from various sac.
tions of the country TO arrange preiminaries tor
more general meeting view to the settlement
OF programme for general union throughout the
country IN opposition To the administration An ad
dress will shortly be issued signed by the leaders.
We have yet to see who the LEADERS" are-but,
in the absence Of such information, We may infer
their ch arscer from the tone of he Northern Press
The Albany Evening Journal no longer styles the
foreign citizers Of our country imported paupers"
but the once despised and outrageousy abused tx
lie is now called the adopted citzen"-they are no
longer "slaves in their own country and unfit to ex
erose the rights Of freemen in this" but, having
opened its 'party DOORS and modified its policy the
Journal now regards them as 'emigrante'
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this particular time. We have already shown how
willingly the Tribune accepted the overture of the
Buffalo Commercial, and how readily the Tribune
acceded TO the terrs Of union proposed by its Buffalo
contemporary. We have now 10 call attention to
popular meeting that assembled in Buffalo the
Tth; and it is with extreme regret that We OBJ
serve that !sw Democrats to whom the Lecomp.
ton question had given offence, should have deem
cd it their duty to leave their party organization to
join any other. They should have remained with
their party, and ,ought the corrections of its
and mistakes, by counsel and action within the ranks
of the Democracy. They have left their party-the
only national party now in existence-to build up
sectional party, which, more than anything else, will
tend 70 the certain and inevitable disruption of our
Union. II the errors and mistakes Of the Democratic
party cannot be corrected by its own members within
it's organization, such correction ia hopeless from any
such organization that lately assembled at Buffalo
1t is but mere party suberfugs to transfer the pow.
er and patronage of the Government from Democra.
tic to Black Republican hands.
We can but rejoice that only few Democrats
could be found to engage in this meeting. A Mr..
Joseph Stringhan, who is styled democratic Re.
publican" time honored designation in the nomen
cature Of politics which ought not to be thus abused
was called to the Chair. But this was an adrot move
Of the "Iate Wig district Attorney" Mr.. Albert
Swain, to give the appearance to the meeting of q
union of ali parties. This s an old trick and will de
ceive nobody. A Mr.. Philip Dorsheimer "ths late
Democratic Postmaster" turned out, We suppose, by
the President and hence he joined the meeting
These are the only Democrats We find in the meet
ing, as reported. Fillmore Wings and Black Re.
publicans were the principal men in this neeting-
Their union will be seen to have been complete and
cordial. Mr.. Haven, the personal friend aud &C.
knowledged mouth piecs Of Mr.. Fillmore openly pro.
claimed bis abandrnnent ot tho -
'Hio ,ior.," recent events might modify" He
entered heartily into the fusion and in future should
be regarded as ultra Black Republican ss any in
New York. The resolutions reported by Mr.. Hech,
favor the "burying of past differences and uniting
to wrest the government from the power of the pre-
sent representatives OF the Democratic party" But
Mr.. Clapp Of the Express" more particularly set
forth the object OF the meeting. when hs pledged
'himself to work with his whole heart in harmony
with those whom he had formerly opposed, but who
now met him on common platform as the champions
Of freedom, against the sggressons of the slave pow
er" Herein is to be found the gist of the whole pro.
seedlings The RECONSTRUCTED party is to be nomi.
nally founded upon "he popular sovereignty" prn'
cple, but really upon principle but upon the great
predominsting anti slavery ideas Of free sosm. and
Northern political supremacy, which provincalisef
the South and renders dsunon far more preferable 10
! such disgrace.
The acrimonious abuse lately INDUCED in, and to
some extent continued, by one portion of the Demo
oracy against the other, tends only to increase the
enemies Of the party and the Union while it weakens
tie Democracy. Then in view OF the efforts being
made at The North to unite all opposing factions into
ons grand anti slavery party in the Northern States
let Democrats forget their late division; let hearth
ly unite our efforts in support OF the present Admin
istraon; let present party to the country as
one of acknowledged nationality, knowing no sec
tional divisions, but acknowledging alike the rights
and the claims, and the interest of all sections.
The principles Of construction Of the Constitution
are the only legitimate elements OF party platforms
a coincidence Of views upon these principles, and
general acknowledgment Of the same by the indi
vidusls composing the party, should alone be insisted
upon in its organization. The individuality of the
American mind will submit to no harsh rule of party
organization which seeks to destroy The right of n
dividusi opinion upon the policy of the various mea
cures of an Administration. To seek to incorporate
the measures of an Administration into the platform
of principle, of the party, and to demand of individu
als unqualified obedience to, and acquiescence II
those measures, however 60 general they may be, is
to destroy the individual right of opinion, and tc
make men mere party machines instead of rations
beings
THE CAUSE AND THE EFFECT.
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