Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-07-29
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OPPOSITION CONSISTENCY.

OPPOSITION TACTICS ~ THE PETERsBuRG DISTRICT
OPPOSITION srrroIr TO THE SQrATTEE >OvL-
IElGNTY CANDIDATE-OrPosI1IoS AID To VIZ.
ROGER a. F!.YoE.
We have seen a straw in the "Whig' Of
Monday last, which may probably bc relied on
as an Indication Of how the wind is blown
from the Know Nothing quarter OF the polti-
cal horizon. \ letter from Petersburg cnclos-
inc ai ardent hulrah for Pryor Congress.
The state Of facts: The Richmond Wig"
has lately pledged its party to a firm and un-
waverins support Of the doctrine Of equal pro-
lection in the territories.
Mr.. Roger \. Pryor returns from Washing
ton, fresh from editorial labors, devoted to the
advocacy OF the Eli lhayer doctrines Of non
protection and squattcr sovereignty. Straight
way the 0ppositionis's begin demonstration in
his favor.
Not Il bad game, that. The Opposition party
throughout the South are deSirouS to drive the
Democracy to an anti.slavery platform. This
once accomplished, we will see n thoroughly
organised opposition spring up at the South, to
endorse the doctrine Of equal protection, as
sumo the sole championship OF Southern rights,
and thus defeat the Democracy in their W
Gibraltar. To divide Virginia from the South,
j the first and most necessary item OF the pro
cra,ninc, and surely the nomination, o. even
election Of an anti Slavery Democrat from the
Snuih.Side, would aid much towards the Oh
ject.
And the local object is well worth a struggle.
The nniinching loyalty % the South-Sidc De-
inorracv to tine cause of Southern rights is a
mighty lever. See how it may be turned
against Us.
Mr.. Roger 4. Pryor was one of the foremost
men in the State in urging the nomination OF
the Hon. John Le.cher. True, by every pledge
Of present profession, Mr.. Lctcher was then q
thorou:h-going pro->lavery man. But the De-
mocracv OF the South. Side demand that on this
issue their candidate shall he like Caesar would
have had his wiic-abovc suspicion. So the
| majority of the South. Sidc Democracy was Iii.
unfinished by nearly onc.third. SO, ii the ma.
;ority was reduced onc-ihiid because the candi-
,late for Governor had be.H an mti-slavcry
man how much more will il he reduced if the
leading candidate for Congress ~ at NiS present
time nm anti-slavery man: h" can work ont
thr arithmetic of this problem. which the OPP
nos,,,on are so anxious to force on our solution:
That Mr. PRYOR is openly and %avowcdly OPP
posed 10 the South on the only slavery question
which now agitates Federal politics, rs ind's-
| %pu;allc. Before leaving the States, he took
| crouad upon the position that Southern men
did, in ls5i-'56, formally and totally renouncc
all claim To tine protection Of their equal rights
in Territories by the Executive and by Con-
gross. Mr.. Eli Thaycr and his wing OF the
Black Republican party ask nothing more than
| the admission of such remuneration.
Mr.. Pryor is not content with the mere
speculative endorsatioa OF ThayeriSm. H eputs
it into actual practice. and urges it through an
advocacy of Mr.. Douglas Presidential candi.
dacv. Mr.. Pryor's personal preference, We are
told. is for Mr.. Hunter; bu, he regards any at
tempt OF Hunters to compete with Governor
Wise ut present, in Virginia, as simply ludi-
crous. Moreover, he regards both Hunter and