Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-16

80. and 70 wie, the ciilheus Of ever State may
r,ht,si., migrate w.ih 49,! properly recognised as
sI,h N ANY 81 he S'a'c> - ia" ts:;on, and III the
Constitution az ;he Cu'o,, STATES.
> Resolved. Therefore. ;.a; thc Congress OF the
United States h., 10 power L aooli,! or rrohi"i'
slavery o the Territories "i :hc lni:ci states,
and such power pertains ~, y :" tho people inia''t-
,ny the sane. wton il! ;ne cNc'yisc Of rgi,;ul an
thor;;v thew form their State Consultation with view
TO admssion INFO tine Union.
:, Resolved, That the Missouri restriction was 4
violation OF the foregoing principles. and is repeal
ty the "karsas Nebraska Law Vas wise, just and
Necessary.
- Resolved, riia: Congress has no constitutional
r:.h. 20 abolish slavery i'll tie District Of Columbia.
g. Resolved. Tia; III, duty Of atordirg adequate
protection in the Territories previous to their legal
Organization States. 10 equal rights OF person and
property respected under the constitution OF the
Union. IS ineabcn, on tie proper legislative h"'ho-
Tity thereof.
Nj. Doaglas' Cincinnati Spsech-Its End and OBJ
iect is stu@ip Candidacy.
Had Judge Douglas been contented with per-
hitting his Harpers Magazine Essay to an
nounce his views TO the public. and that the
public should upon that essay fern its opinion,
we would not for moment have entertained
the idea that he designed 10 rHa as an tade-
pendent cendidote if not nominated at Charles
ton. But since lie has taken the stump and be-
gau a tour OF PROSECUTING We are inclined to be-
licve that there is nic!! truth and probability
in the announcement that he will be n stump
candidate And this view Of his present cx-
traord;nary campaigning, is strengthened by
the reflection that in his Essay he has progress
ed rapidly in his march to Northern Unionism.
He has deliberately severed every tic that uni
ted him to the States Rights Democracy; he
has deliberately repudiated his former opin-
ions. In the desperation Of hope deferred
we find him exhuming the remains of Mr.. Clay
and covering them with his tattercd rags of
s.uatter sovereignty Before the ghost of Hen
nv CLAW, Mr.. Douglas doffs the garments of his
Essay, and shamefully attempts the uncharitable
act Of defaming the memory Of the great Wing
leader by covering his fame with squatter SOW
ereignty.
In his Cincinnati speech Mr.. Douglas said:
In that great struggle, the immortal CLAY,
who had performed his mission on earth, and
retired TO the shades of Ashland to prepare for
q better and happier world, soon, in his re-
tirement heard the rImb!ing. harsh, discOrdant
notes Of sectional strife and sectional contro-
versv, and came forth from his home to resume
his seat in the Senatc-that great theatre o.
MS great decds-to see if he, by his experience,
by his wisdom, and by the renown of his Ia
nous name could not do something to calm the
troubled waters, and restore peace and tr"tcr-
ntv to divided and distracted country. -tCrics
of Glorious Hear, hear
From the moment that Henry Clay made
his appearance in the Senate, al! party strife
was hushcd; all partisan controversy ceased;
the voice Of diScord was no longer heard, and
Clay was recognized and proclaimed the leader
OF all the Union men North and South Wings
and Democrats-for the period OF sin months
We assembled in caucus every day with Clay
in the chair. Cass upon his right and Webster
upon his left hand. and the Wings and Demo-
Gratis ranged on either side. promiscuously sup
porting and sustaining Clay in his efforts to
devise a plan to restore peace and harmony to
the country. Cheers
You all know the result Of these delibcra-
tions-the Compromise Measures Of 1850 were
adopted, peace was restored, and the country
was again reunited Now. let me ask you
upon what principle does that Compromise
rest"
\ man, ignorant Of subsequent history, and
listening to the present eulogy Of MIR. Clay,
would not Imagine that Mr.. Douglas would, in
few years after the compromise measures OF
1850 were passed, have again raised the rum
bling, harsh, dscordant notes Of sectional strife
and sectional controversy" by repealingthe -Nts.
.ouri Compromise, the very act that Mr.. Clay
regarded as the browning glory of his life.
1t does seem an insult TO the memory
OF tie dead to near Mr.. Douglas attributing to
Henry Clay the compromise measures of 1850,
when. since 1856, Mr.. Douglas has always con-
tended that the measures Of 1850 repealed, in
effect, the Missouri Compromise. As Mr.
Douglas makes Henry Clay the pcacc-,naker
in 1850, BY what lcdgcrdemain does Mr. Clay'
become the father OF strife in 1850? Strange
will it appear that the author Of the compro-
mise of 1850 laid the foundation therein for
the repeal Of that OF 1920, and that he who
lived and died in the faith Of the Wilmot Pro-
viso was the apostle Of squatter sovereignty
That Mr. Douglas contemplates occupying
middle ground between 1.-THE leaders Of the
Republican party and the Southern fre-ea,ers'
WE qUOtc HIS OWN NpiusJ ~ "PP"'>''S 1870 '''N
driil of his Cincinnati speech, i'll which he says:
Mr.. Sewacd, Cox. Chase, Mr.. Sumner, and the
leaGers u the Republican party. united with the
Southern fire. eatefsin resisting Tie Compromise neii-
snrcs OF lsio because they asserted the doctrine oil
non.intcTventon and popular sovereignty. We pass
ed those measures their heads. The Union men,
Wigs anG Democrats, Clay. Webster and Cass, sup
ported anu sustained Wy The younger men OF the two
parties. passed the Compromise Measures and adopt
ed the principle oi ncn-intcrvention and popular
vercgE:y over Tie head, OF Northern Aboltonis,s
and Southern pI>unioii,ts. Cheers stand here
tonight 10 Nlndc'e aud maintain that same prilc-
pie OF non Intervention and popular sovereignty
against Northern Aoo,ouists ud Southern Inter
'venton:sts.
And he expects to stand in 1864 upon the
shoulders of 'the Union men, between what
he now for the first time styles Northern
Abolitionists and Southern Disunionists." That
he expects and hopes to be the residuary lega-
tee of all that is left of the Union men" OF
1850, is apparent from the following extract
l, was once the join, duty of the Wing and Demo,
cratic parties according to their respective pledges
10 maintain that principle (squatter sovereignty in
dependent OF party creeds. liz 1850 that doctrine
was incorporated into the Territorial policy by thl
joint action Of the two great parties.
At that day il was unfair and unjust TO claim
the doctrine II peculiarly Democratic or peculiarly
Wing to the exclusion OF the other party, for it was
the Jint work and common property OF both par
ties: accordingly III lSj2, when the Wing party US.
sembled in National Convention at Baltimore and
Presidency, they incorporated into the platform O
resolution declaring the pnrnosa md nle1oe ofsh In