Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-20
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BY R1ToH1E. DUNNAvANT, TYLER WISE.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 81, 1859.
THE SLAVE TRADE AND NoN-INTERvENT1oN
The advocates of the copyright Democracy
Systematically mistake and misrcprcsent the
position Of States Right Democrats. The Mo-
bile Register" under a double.headed policy
of copyright Democracy and slave trade
advocacy represents the Southern wing of the
party as insisting upon change in the Cincin'
natl platform II is this trade and system OF
interpretation that has nearly ruptured the
National Democracy. No fairness, no justice
controls the course Of the advocates Of Mr..
Douglas. III the Senate Of the United States
the Illinois Senator set the example, which has
been assiduolisly followed and greatly ampl-
fled, Of msstating the position Of his oppo-
nc,..S il was Mr.. Douglas who first dcSgna-
ted the doctrine Of equal protection to all kinds
Of property as slave code With consum-
mate art he as>ailed the right OF the South to
equal Justice with the North, under common
government, with what he considered an oien-
syc name This example has been followed,
and we iinl his principal organs representing
the position Of the South as insisting upon
congressional code.
The Mobile Register" is one Of the copy
right Democracy organs Its editor Mr.. John
Forsyth, returning from foreign mission, dis
satisfied with Mr.. buchanan, forthwith for spite
threw himself into the arms Of Mr.. Douglas
imbibing alta single gulp squatter sovereignty
and all its attendant treason to Southern rights.
But. fearing the aifiliation might be inimical to
his Alabama readers. he adopts the slave trade
as an antiloic to the poison Of squattcr sove-
rcignty And hcncclorth we find the Regis
ter osciatin, between the Southern extreme
Of the African slave trade and the Northern eX-
trcmc of squat,cr Sovereignty.
The Register arrays itself among the true
friends of slavery extension, and concludes an
editorial upon this subject as follows
I'VE c,,hno, bu; question the sincerity Of any pro
t.sed advocate of slavery extension and his zeal to
s,rrn,hcn .hc political power Of the South in the
luion, VIII j. crying aoud Tor Congressional protcc
ton - slavery III the Territories and III The same
breath ,ivnoiinciiI. tic save trade. when il j, pl.in
ha; the idrncr vii! have no c:Ic., whatever towar,
establishing slavery On q single foot Of the public
.OnIan aII the latter offers . practical. eicctlal
and sure means Vf making new slave States, and oi
:iu- a:s--irElns the ro!it!cn power "i lie South.
= -'n' .It~--r
,Lan a, ayitap> 10 no g"oe rurpu,c, attuated
t., uo ra,ri,tc object "i practical good 20 their
ton bu, beat only upon ,ho accomplishment, Of s"ic
.cla>h ,ciicn,c o personal ambition. The only ;fc
!'icL,ia g! slavery eAtci-i are those who aT'e'tc
The rc-ore!ins oi the African slave trade"
While in the same paper Mr.. Forsyth con-
tend, for Latter day Aboilionism, as follows:
The South cannot abandon the n"n intervention
ri:cipic, Il IL the principle "i safety aud of right
t. S..!th !, i hound 10y its lighted faith, and H.,
every ,:roa. link and Tie Of interest ana honor
Again The Register accompanies the poison
with tho antiiote. In the issue Of sth Sep
tembcr, the editor who has been dodsing round
the country, writes from New York, advo-
eating Mr. Douglas, while the editorial breaches
the .lavc trade, as follows:
III ltsi. l's ~ 3'''@A' 'i'
muc! chat,cls horses mule, and ca'ic. If tho II
Iacy statutes no: intended 20 brand "Gr !aIor-yh-
fem with gIiilt and i'nnoraty, >Ave, imported IN
violation aw wOu!i nc forfeited L. the authorities,
the guilty. rar;c, NIGH; hc ,t., further punished,
5u, The .liycs would rcnian slaves and as such
would Lc disposed o" Instead -" this, our statutes.
ithoa, requiring even p:ctcnce of proof that svcii
imported negroes originally Tree persons and
umiawiuy deprived oi their freedom, trva: them II,
free PERSONS in every AMI any ease.
But il is the issue Of the 10Th that we wish
more particularly to examine
The editorial of the 10th, patterns after its
great prototype in misstating the position ofthc
Southern Democracy. Us Mr.. Douglas misrep-
rc>cnts the protection of Southern men in the
enjoyment Of their property, us slaTe code,
so the Register mis.states the position of the
Southern Democracy as desiring to change the
Cincinnati Platform. The Register says:
I'VE i.ei perfectly assured that 'thc sober second
thought OF the Southern Democracy will c"n-traln
them IL ;rc the advice ii those politicians who,
whether ircE. selfish ambition or imp.l;dcnt cp-eIs,
ere Ur,iut them 10 i!.>-t NJ Charleston upon making
the -,',c ~ Congressional intervention in behalf %"
slavery IN .hc Territories. Their calm reflection and
I.rIc!: 10. ,.puln!I must convince them oi Inc
ma!..ou ,n,l Suicidal folly Q. such II demand
There is no statesman or press ut the
South insisting upon making the issue Of
Congressional intervention at Charleston -
Mr. Douglas is the innovator; he it is VINO
proposed the changc-hc it is, who insists
upon so interpreting the Cincinnati Platform
as to exclude every other Democrat and thus
make his nomination easy. To prevent Mr.
Douglas from distortng the creed of the party,
and forcin. the South TO abandon platform
which dshonorcd its institutions, Southern
Statesmen were compelled TO raise their voice
against the wrongs designed by Mr. Douglas
upon the platform Of the party. In the Sc
mate of the United States, Mr.. Douglas inter
pre,ed the platform, and insisted upon con-
struction to which no honest Southern man,
with sense enough to comprehend, can sub
scribe without dishonor to himself and to
his State. Mr.. Douglas is the agitator, the
innovator; hc it is. who proposed to dishonor
Whole section Of the Union-to degrade, be-
low the right of governmental protection, the
pconlc of thirteen sovereign States. Mr.. Doug
las innoyated upon the Southern Democracy,
and ATTEMPTED to dsiort the National Platform
from its true meaning of equal protection to
all the rights Of persons and property" in
every quarter where the jurisdiction Of the
country extended.
The Register asks:
Doc. the honor Of the S"nth require the mere tlle'