Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-06-24
In the Lynchburg Republican" OF Friday
last. We find the following editorial

NGS.lNTERrEST!nr AGAINST INTERVENTION -
The Democratic press of Virginia is beginning
10 speak Uut upon the new question Of Con.
grcS>ional Intervention with slavery in the
territories. Wcsay nec question, not because
il Is really ..t,r iuI 1t h' 'Cc,l H. far bacl,
as lSiS by Senator TComb> q. Georgia am,
Mr. Stephen; ot tic same state: but wc call
il new tlr the reason tnat now. for the first
time il is graycly proposed 10 intcrpoatc it
-, into the Democratic creed oi The country. 10
this We have entered our solemn protest, and
we are gra.iicd to fnl that orr Democratic
contemporaries arc sustaining our view of the
QUESTION with but one dissenting voice. The
Richmond Enquirer is the only Democratic
paper in the State which fivors Intervention,
and we predict the only one which will sustain
! it,
The following sensible views are submitted
by the Richmond Examiner, one of the
ablcst and most efficient Democratic journals
in TIE State. rs it is a question which involve,
the harmony AMI success "l the Democratic
party of the country in 1850, and consequently,
/ the preservation of the Union itself, we hope
our Democratic contemporaries of the State
will lose no tirac in planting themselves firmly
and immoyabIy upon the Cincinnati platform
! Of lS56. and the Kansas. Nebraska bills al
! 1851 -" N0n- Interference ~iM slarery IN Stdtt
Or Tslr;'"ry, ar IL TIE bisiricl cf CalsD'Lio.
I We call it new for the reason that now, 70!
/ he .nrst tine, it is graycly proposed to inter
polatc it into the Democratic creed Of our
country ], this 50 : On the Ill Of June, SjG,
at the city Of Cincinnati, Mr. James \. Sed.lon.
! Il 4, -, ,i,,
;cntCn, offered rcsolution--ihe last ol the
series OF resolutions that heads or editorial
Column n-and the unanimous voice Of the Nir.
gina delegation sustained il: and "gravcly pro-
posed to intcrpo'atc it into the Democratic
creed OF the country TO this, proposition
cmanating from Mr.. Jane, \. Seldom, and en-
dorscd and sustained by the entire Virginia dc.
legation 10 the Cincinnati Convention our con.
temporary, the 'Republican," has entered it,
Solemn protest We regret this severance
between the Republican and its own friends.
The state Of the case, on intervention, now
stands in Virginia as follows: The "Rcpubl-
can for non-interyention, and Messrs Shands,
Edwards, Clarke, Thompson, Banks, Seldom,
| Hopkins, Booker, Isbcll, Tucker Williams,
Graham, Chapman, Layne, Floyd, Jackson,
Russell. Nceson, IIaryic, Meade, Hubbard Bo.
cock. Powell, Fisher. Garnett, Conway, Hun
ton Barbour and McMucn, (thc delegation
irom virginia 10 the Cincinnati Convcntion)
the Richmond Enquirer" Senator's Mason and
! Hunter, Gor. Wise. ASD THE PEOPLE OF Viz
| GIyIA, for Intervention. The Republican" is
for ''non-intcrvcntion agaips. Intervention
In the Senate, on the 10Th offcbruary, lS5?,
Senator Mason, as emphaticaly as words could,
rcpudiatcd ''ncn,intcrvcntion;' and Senator
Hunter was no, less emphatic The speeches
Of these two able Senator's have been publish
cd in the ENQUIRER and can be reproduced.
if the assertion is controvcrted.
To us i; is matter OF very great pleasure
that the leading statesmen of Virginia arc uni
ted upon this great question Of intervention
There is no conflict Of opinion between Sena
tor Hunter and Gov. Wise Mr.. Mason. Mr
Floyd. Mr.. Bococh. Mr. Tucker. have all ex
pressed the opinion so ably sustained by Gov
Wise in the Sanford letter. There never wa:
any question upon "hich the Virginia Demo
cracy were more cordially united than this o.
Intervention. Proposed by the friends Of Mr.
Hunter in the Cincinnati Convention. it was i'm
mciiatcly accepted by The friends of Cox. Wise
and thus passed the Virginia delegation unani'
mouSiy.
! The "Republic:n'' is perfectly ut liberty to
mount the squattcr sovereignty platform, ol
! ''ron-intcrvcntion a.linst intervention, but II
! determined to abandon the doctrine for which
( the Virginia Democracy hes always contended,
our co,clnporary must be contentcd to stand in
Virginia solitary and alone. Not even the "EX-
! amincr' denies the suundncs, Of the doctrine
ofin;crvcnton; with or Richmond co,cmpora-
ry it is only question Of cypcdicncy; but as
! il admits the correctness Of the doctrine and
the soundncSs Of the principle; we feel conf
dent that time will demonstrate to tho "ENami'
ner" the cypedicncy Of the proposition.
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