Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-06-17
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE II, 1859.
and their introduction into our current politics.
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ana thelr introduction into our current politics.
Let us keep them out
The Sentinel "belicvcs the protection con.
templated is dae" i. c. "hat chi:h loc or JUS.
ticf re2uires 10 be done''-and this all that the
advocates of ''inierrsntion for protection" have
ever asked We only ask "Mot mAirh lar and
jnstice require to be don,.'
What was "thc faith pledged in the Kansas
Nebraska legislation Was it required that
VIC should surrender orr right to the protec-
ton Of our property?
'The FAITH pledged in the Kansas Nebraska
legislation" is found in the 1lth section-that
stump speech in the belly of the bill" We
must commend to the Sentinel the perllsal
of Governor Wise's discussion of the kansas
Nebraska act !" in the S,mt"rd letter.
The Kansas Nebraska Act had so little
faith in it; was piece Of political mosaic,
so curiously joined and whimscally dove-tail.
cd with many pieces OF whitc stone md rery
.Je'r ofbi0ri, that it has been found utterly III.
safe and insecure for the Southern people to
stand upon.
If the Sentinel" will read that portion oI
the Sanford letter to which we have referred
and successfully answer its objections to the
"Kansas Nebraska Legislation" it may then
uphold the faith pledged in the measure.
What "lshonorable breach of faith" is i'm.
piled in demanding our just rights; and that
Congress Shall discharge its mho1c duty in pro.
tccting us in orr "lifc, liberty and property"
The Alexandria Sentinel is the last paper
i'll which we should have expected to have
found such sentiments and reasoning as that
contained in the above extract. If VIC had
been called upon TO have pointed out man
jealous of Southern rishts-onc who would
yield no title Of constitutional duty--wc might
have designated him, who, when beginning his
life as journalist, on the Flag of9S,' said our
first allegiance is TO Virginia. II is As citizens
of Virginia that We are citizens Of the tntted
States. lf the n"ri,n legislation Of Congress
force upon Us the alternative, we should not
hesitate to scccdr from this tniOn sooner than
see our venerable State 'li>houorcd or oppress-
ed"
Ii is claimed that this Kansas Nebraska
Legislation yroa ont 81 the principle of non-
Intervention by Conrc>, with slavery in the
States and Territories, as recognized by the Lee
gisla;ion Of 1850, commonly called the Com
PROMISE measures Let us see what was the
opinion entertained by the editor Of the ''Scn-
tncl" Of the "Compromisc measures" tliat pro-
liic. soil from which graz this Upas plant
Of ''non.intcryention.'
I'VE are not Of those who see in the passage
Of that system Of measures any ground Of cxnl-
tation on the part Of the South;' we believe
the South was badly treated in that natter
We differ from those who
think that this compromise is TO be Il dose OF
peace to the country on the slavery issue"
We do not refer 20 these old opinions to i'm
ply any change Of view on The part Of the SEN
tiasI, bu. merely te show that in the opinion
Of its e,!itor the source of legislation from
which the kansas. Nebraska Act sprung was
not of that pure and immaculate kind that the
Sentinel should now be contcnding for the
"faiiA" and against ''thc dishonorablc breach
of faith" implied in measure that springs
from legislation which, in the opinion of the ed
itor as well aS ourselves, was Unconstitutional
and insulting" We hope the Sentinel ifnot
agreeing with Gov. Wise aud the great body OF
Southern statesmen on the question Of Inter
vcntion for protection, will at least answer
the arguments and not prcjmlicC the minds oi
it, readers hy using the Black Republican
subtcrfugc Of an unpopular soubrl1uet-"a
Slave Code for the Territories If we cannot
agree, at least lc, us discuss the question with
out the nomenclature of our common enemy
and in argument, not in epithetS, find OH
weaponS of debate