Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-02-22
THE "scRAP.BooK" CANDIDATE.

fortunate individuals whose public life has beer
spent amid scenes Of trial, and hence there |,
but little Of Importance in his record His
public life is nearly blank-hc has left III.
impress Of his name upon no measure or
principle, and hence he occupies 3 position as
sailablc in very little. Entering Congress in
1899, he vcgctated through two sessions with
little harm to his enemies, and less good to his
friends In lsiS, he was beaten by Gilner.
In 1914, elected over Gen. Gordon. his thir'!
session in Congress was passed in unfortunate
association with the free soil vagaries aad
hcrcsies' Of John Minor Bolts, john Quincy
Adams and Joshua R. Giddings. Ilc followed
Bolts then, and what guarantee have the Wings
that he will not follow Bolts again, whom they
denounced as an Abolitionis,, while Bolts says
he was wrapped in "panophy of truth, > thick
as the hide Of rhinoccros" Not bad
figure Of speech for Bolts.
From not an uninteresting sketch OF Mr..
Goggin's life, in the Richmond Index" We
should consider. in the want Of party nan'c,
Tue ScRAr-BooK CANDIDATE as the best nance
for Mr. Goggin. With no faculties Of inven-
tion or originality, he plays the jacka! in poll
tics, resurrecting the issues Of the past, and
revelins over the remains Of by gone questions
; For such u candidate the Ruifner pamphlet
will make volume of no mean size or insig-
nifcant capital And right sorelv will he an
noy Mr.. Letchcr. But We understand that Mr.
Letcher not only "lends off, with skill, but
sends .homc blow" occasionally with great
force. Mr.. Letcher will have little trouble with
his Scrap. book" adversary. if he will only
hold him TO the sentiments OF the master
spirit Of the Richmond ConvcntionJohn NJ
Bolts. There is treason enough in Bolts Atri-
can Church speech for the martyrdoin Of a
score of Gogsins.
Treachery to Virginia blooms and blossoms
in every flower Of its rhetoric. Her people
are likencd in intelligence to the seris OF Rus
sia, and the ignorance Of the people Of Russia
is made to cxempify the ignorance Of his fcl-
low citizens of Virginia. True to his instincts
and tastes. he avows willingness to league
with "a State composed Of free negroes t"
defeat his fellow citizens Of these United States.
What an admirable Governor he would make
for state composed Of free negroes May
even Liberia be delivered from Bolts
There is fatality attending the opponents
Of Democracy, that is indeed remarkable. Ii is
said that fortune favors the brave" and truly
Providence never abandons the Democracy.
There never has been . dark hour in our fate,
that some fortuitous circumstance did not arise
to dispel the clouds and bring back the sun
shine Of hope and success.
And now, when defeat seemed possible,
from discord and division in our own ranks, the
fates that hold the destiny Of the Democracy
send relief in the person Of the iracund Bolts
In speech before the Convention, as prolific
in error as it was putrcsccnt in abuse, he avows
a readiness 10 coalcsce with any and every par
ty and person-even free negroeS--ior success.
And the Convention endorsed his malignity,
adopted his errors, as>rnted TO his resorts, ap-
proved his plan Of organization. and accepted
his chart for the campaign--in fact made Bolts
the life Of the new organization. and We now
must make him its death.
Let the 'scrap-book' Candidate be met Dy
counter scraps" from this late speech OF Bolts.
Meet the "Ruffner pamphlet, of lo+', with
the Richmond Wings" editorials OF 1862,
denouncing Bolts as an Aboiitlonisl, while
Bolts, in 1859, avows ne is OF the same
opDion still Let the 'scrap-book candidate,
when repudating SAM IS the Convention dld'
be brought to Bolts "bull-rng, on the Sam
ism of Bolts speech. That this organization
is Samism. ,cithout Sun, we have only 10 refer
to the fact, that Bolts goes from the Richmond
Convention to the culvert Of the Caitcd Aineri-
cans in New York, to there publish revised,
enlarged and corrected edition OF the sent''
,nents endorsed and approved in Richmond
That Samism still exists in the heart and soul
of this organization, that this Convention was
the Sanhedrim for the followers OF the vclle
prophet in the calvert, we have only to rea
from Mr.. Bolts speech, that "in my humble
Judgment the sins proceed, in the first place.
from the discrganization Of society, resulting
from the too rapid introduction Of foreign fSe'
,nents inLo our population, before th"y ean COM
prehcnd the character Of our institutions and
before they acquire an interest IN them - :,
Where has 1.-THE disorg ,nization OF society
been most effectuals In Baltimore, the para
disc of Thugs and the heaven Of Blood Tub
Know Nothings Where has tags and row.
dvism" been most carressed: In Baltimore
tho city Of Rnow- Nothing violence and mob
We shall in a few days, publish Mr.. Bolts
speech as the Great Campaign Document
for Democratic "scrapbooks" We Shall ar-
company it With scraps from the Richmond
Whiq-Thc Danvilc Register-The In'on
(iarrieonburg) Ameriean--The Alexandria
Gazette. These "scraps" will prove, from wit
nesses that cannot be discredited that in 1902
Bolts was the leading spirit of abolition IN 'ir-
yina- Hi late speech avows that he was
right the., and that these very accuscra no"
admit that he was right then. and with this de-
clsration in his peroration, Mr.. Bolts was ap-
plaudsd, flattered and carcssed With this de-
claration, Scott Of Fauquicr, Rivcs Of Abe
marie, and every other old Wing of Virginia
was made 10 take a lower seat, and Bolts, the
latter aay abolition apostle of Virginia. vas
nro.ooted, honored and fetei as the moving
and controlling spirit Of the Convention
The campaign will present bnt little d'iiieul'
ty if Mr.. I.etcher will only demand the disband'
ing of the .'coset orgasization;" II he VIII only
demand harmony and Conventions in the Con
pressional Districts; and if he will only p''
to Mr. Goggin's coat-tail an illustrated ed'to'