Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-03-22
Consolidation at the North but Division at the South

are again turning to Virginia, and the interest
always manifested in our State elections is
again to be enlisted throughout the country
The efforts now being made to organize party
that will distract and divide the South. while the
success of the movement would cause the con-
solidation Of the North and thus secure an
easy victory to Seward and his Black Republi-
can friends, cannot fail to cause every Demo
crat to forget his opposition TO Mr. Letcher ard
/ to vote for the Petersburg ticket The organi.
zation Of All opposition party at the South
will only divide and distract the section now
weakest even when united and leave the np-
! position at the North consolidated and strength
ened by that vast floating vote which ever at.
tachcs itself 10 the strongest party.
This attempt at an organization Of all the ele
ments of opposition, beginning at Buffalo. and
under the protection and countenance Of the
New York Tribune, appears TO have perfected
its ends at the North. and to have left all the
elements consolidated under Black Republican
ism. Dispatches from the New Jersey Scna-
torial election show how the American element
Of the North is going. We present two des-
patches from the New Jersey election
Trenton, y. j., March l7th. The Legislature oi
this State wen, into III election ior United States Sen
ator to-day. and chose John {. Ten Eyck nrro-;
tion' over the Democratic candidate. This rr,mlt
wa, brought about bv ,hc combination Of Ike Anrri
cans wiki the Republicans.
In the above despatch the combination of
the Americans and Republicans elects Mr..
Ten Yyck 0ppoSitionJ But in the next dis
patch hi, political connection is found to be
with the Black Republicans.
TnES1"S. y. J.. March l-.-TLc State Legislature
To- day clcr;r'! John C. Ten Eyck, Republican.
United >tu;c- -,n,,"r. in place Of Hon. VIM Wright.
TIE vot" stood Ten Evck. Rep, ~ Vroom. Dem.
~: Stockton. Am. =: Wright. :. All the Opposition
nominees ;"- county Jude"- "r!r also eicc.e.!.
So tina, the benefits Of the union Of ''all the
element, Of the Opposition revert to Black
Republicansrn at the North. while at the South
the effort i, to divide the unity and harmony
now existing. and ensure an easy victory over
divided and distracted Southern people. And
this is the result sought to be obtained by the
election Of Mr.. Goggin.
doubly benefited By Mr. Goggns >ucces>.--
Americans and Black Republicans at the North
unite upon Black Republicans thus aiding and
strengthening the only party now able to con-
test the election with the national Democracy;
while at the South Mr.. Goggin would dctach
from the national Democracy those men who
have aided the party TO meet theassanlts of the
enemies Of the South.
| Will the people Of Virginia, with the exam
pie of.thc New Jersey election before their
cycs-with this evidence Of consolidation Tor
the benefit Of epuhcanisu-tolerate Mr..
Bolts candidate who is now pcrambulatng the
State endcavoring to divide her unity and dis.
tract her harmony, under the decetiul. hollow
cantish cry for retrenchment, while the union
gives aid and comfort to the Republican cause:
The anti.savcry clans Of the North are fast
gathering to the buglc notes of the Rochester
Chicfs-from lowlands and highlands; from
town Scrgcants to United States Senators, Black
Republican officers are being elected ''by the
combination of the Americans with the Repuh.
licans' Thus consolidation is accomplished at
the North.
The people Of the North are encouraged to
go on, and assert the supremacy of numbers
by the election Of mcn who would tralnplc
down the barriers Of the Constitution The
are told hot to mind the muttcrinS of dis
union;" that such threats arc the vain expe-
dicnts of party politicians, and come not from
the peoplc-and under this encouragement,
stimulated by the prospects OF victory, held
out in Virginia, by the Opposition press. the
Black Republicans arc beginning to entertain
the hope Of an casy victory over the Southern
people, divided into Democracy anu oppoSt
\ ton.
Unite the North and divide tn. South Is
this the policy that Mr.. Goggins election IS to
advance: