Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-02-01
VOLUME LV.-NUMBER rs.

InnSt SuuuenlN IN lnc country, ulucT. IL Is nos
we'll understood. the maign influence OF tina
hot-bed Of bigotry and intolerance in London
known to the world as Exeter Hall. Tn
hortics OF fanatics who assemble weekly ther
are quasi missionaries Of English power, prin
cipleS and plots. and do not confinc themselve
exclusively 10 the PRONUNCIATION Of the gospe
in foreign climcs. but exercise species OF OF
ticial power, pari passn with missionary pro
iccts for the benefit Of the 'most enlightenc'
nation or the Earth" This party erected it
platform in harmony with the principles Of it
parent and prototype in principles :.
once at war with the spirit and letter Of tn,
Federal Constitution, and the mate feelings o
Justice and liberty Of the majority Of the Anne
rcan people, on which they at once sacrifice
the rights. religious and political, Of the naiu
turalizcd citizens OF Irish birth, protesting the
Catholic faith. and those Of native birth belong
ins to the same Church. There was scarcely
State in the Union, during the period o
which write, that had no; It's agents OF dis
cord, from Gavazzi down to the vagabond
known Us the Angel Gabriel" emissarics Of
the British Metropolitan peSt-housc above
named prowlins about, and encouraging the
rabbc to create riots and assaults OH the class
Of citizens already referred to. The ostcnsible
object Of those incendiar.es, and their abettors
was toput down what they were pleased to term
the Pope and Popcry II. lis country
in reality. to destroy the harmony pre-exislins
between native and naturalzcd citizens, and
thus weaken. 10 that extent the consolidated
strength Ct the nation against British intrigue
and Interference with our domestic and foreign
policy, Of which England knows the Irish eic.
mcnt in the United States constitutes no incon-
siderable part.
Ii was 1T this critical time that your present
Governor, Henry \. Wise, flung himself into
the breach 10 save the Republic from the wreck
with which its honor and existence we're threat
encd. aud By both physical aud menta! efforts,
having no parallel in the history Of political
warfare in our land, overturned this hydra
headed monster OF iniauity, and saved. at one
and the same time, the integrity and ultimate
paign o! 1856. Thus your Governor became
the precursor TO the coming into power OF James
buchanan and the Democratic party. who were
pledged to every section Of it to carry out lis
general principles of public policy III soci faith
towards all, and refrain from doing any act that
might have tendency to cast doubt on the in.
tcntons of those whom the people had clothed
with Executive power, or that which would bc
calculated to weaken its efforts for the perrctu'
alton Of sound principles. so auspicioIiSiy .nau.
gurated. after the fall OF the Whig party in so,
ty the Pierce Administration. A!as, for the
mutations OF subunary affairs. Tie ccho rl
the inaugural oatn hai scarcely died upon the
ears Of tic popuacc at tho Capitol OF the ia
ton. when the hopes cf the naturalizcd cIi!.
zcns. in the fidelity to principles on the part OF
the President and Cabinet, were disturbci fer
the first appointment made to position, second
onlv in grade to the head of Department, but
far more important, as it relates to the dlstribu'
ton Of patronage, was the beginning OF the end
OF the policy which has since then characterize
the Administration IN nearly all OF lis Depart
ments Philip Clayton, Wing. and one
who openly voted for John I. Towers, II"
frs; and last Know Nothing Mayor Of this
cily, superseded Peter 6. Washington, as as
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury: and IN bis
train there followed, as sequence, long list
Of subordinate appointments of the worst Gle
ment, of the Know. Nothing party-nen who
we're connected with the office OF the "Amcrl'
can Organ" here, and officers Of the Know
Nothing Washington Monument Association,
and Board OF Aldermen, under the Know
Nothing reign Of terror Of that time. This
certainly was not very complimentary 10 our
people who went en- MdSsc for the Democratic
nopiuccs in 81 after passing through the
Know. Nothing ordeal of burning houses. butch
cries and bloodShcd at New Orleans. LOUIS
Y;l,e, st. Louis, Jersey City, and hundreds Of
other places. I. vote the Democratic ticket. 1t
is enough now TO say, although rather late TO
redress the evil, that had 1t been even suspected
that MFR. Buchanan would have retained in.
much less appointed. q solitary member Of ;he
Dark Lantern party 10 Office, nc would never
have had the pleasure OF calling himself Prssi
dent of the United States.
The Interior Department is even IN worse
condition than the Treasury, in this respect;
and vet, although the subject is daily brought
TO the attention of the President. and heads Of
the Treasury and Interior, 1t only goes on IRON
bad to worse. Under such state OF things.
IS it within the compass Of the most YER
dant credulity to suppose that the foreign
vote will unite with any party that, in this
manner. heaps insult upon injury; for, oat OF
all the appointments in the gift o! the Admin
istration, will venture TO affirm, that OF the
hslf million of Irish votes cast at the last Pre-
sidcntial election, half dozen have not been
rendered the poor compliment Of so many re-
spcctablc subordinate clerkships, while the
Know. Nothings can count ten times that num-
bcr. among the boat at Us disposal, within ;hc
past two years.
Mr. Iycrson must, therefore look nearer
home than he has, for at least ono OF the causes
that led to the defeat Of the Democratic party
during the late State elections, and not place it
TO the credit OF the advance Of Abolitlouism.-
And will further inform the Hon. Senator from
Georgia. that unless change Of policy takes
place very soon in this respect, the foreign
vote will be beyond the hearing OF the herald'
Of Democracy, when they call them next &c
the rescue Of the rights Of the South.
"Qucm Deus rul: pHrdtrs, pri"s ae'n''t"t
If the Administration have done acts
which seem to fall within the meaning Of the
foregoing classical quotation, i, surely docs ao
follow that the Southern ptoD!s are ready Z
endorse its bedlam policy towards their Irish
friends at the North; for it cannot hc disguised
that they, among all o,he. foreign born citizens
have been the tru<st. most CONSISTENT ara W"''
Constitutional, friends Of the right. q 'iif
South. from the days oe the Revolution u
our own time. No, no; you find no Aooh
,ionists among either the Catholic priesthood
or their people Their principles' % or rule g, o
Cesar, AMI 20 God what belongs 20 C'od. -
They are content with the Constitution "
their country IS i is; they ask nothin; 'norr
and will bc content with nothing less than n, tn tn
rights and privileges that il guarantees 20 ;hea
in comlpon with all other classes OF American
cl,izeas. Asa member OF al Irish family
forty years residence in ;he " OLD Dominion,
and one too. whose feelings and interests ar
bound up with those Of tho South, warn th
South in time, 10 beware Of the result 70 whc;
the policy of the Administration on ;he Que:
ton under consideration is tending. |: it .
not checked at once the Democrar:c party wi
! he considered as ,'artictps c-im;nsS, and wi
have to bear the full measure Of the rcspo's
bili,y OF defeat in 1850. AaIEL
For ne Ricjimori Enquirer.
! Nr ions OKGNs, JR.
Sir-ful,y approaching the great Importance o' paen
non. hu, rira Of the hsh-,. qualification, n our eg,Y
bodies. and especially In The next General As'roy e.