Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-01-18
. Monlsoae:y ,A.s Aiycrii-eF and
GOV. WISE'S HEREsiEs."
81. III.

r. Gs9yqs r. .>h"rt.r. E,y. EGi"r II lie
Uo6tg"Hi,rg .idcfrti,s! a"d star Ga:stt> :
Nv Dear sir:-T promised in the Mird place
to notice Your refusal 10 endorse" Gov. WISE
War upon the Lceompton policy ci Nh liu-
chanan' Certainty il I, not irrolcvant :" en-
1uire what is that 'Lecompton policy oi !'re,i-
dent buchanan" for opposition 10 which In'.
"i.c is 10 be prescribed:
And mere note that 1t is one thirs 10 have
been favorable 10 the admission "i Kansas. %:
inGiitrcI; 20 hcr admission under the I.ecoInp-
Ton Constitution, with all IL faults and frauds
and another and very different thing 10 have
supported or been indifferent 10 the l.ccomp-
ton policy OF President Buchanan. shall
appeal 10 Mr. Buchanan TO define his own poll.
cv. and he does so very lucidly in hi; late an
nual message The Washington Union has
done 80 hundred times before. All the lacts
Of history stamp it. n, il is now confessed
bv titr President 10 haze been iron the
beginning FREE STATE "roLICi.-
Whatever may bc said of this as nero i"yiy
policy. or however spcciously it may bc ciam-
I'd rs good ''0ati0ndE and ''r0h'.r5"f'rc poll
cy. | pro;c>; ;tat ii is no; .>o"ther1 Rights
not even stat: Rights policy, and no man is to
be ostracisci for opposition TO it. Indifferent
myself to the whole Kansas imbroglio from the
moment saw that the South had no interest
there. and consequently willing 10 admit Kan
"a. or not, with one constitution or another
Vet confess that the open avowal "i pohcy
% make Kansas free state. although accom-
panied bv the declaration that il MAS necessity.
and not scheme 10 Intervene against Sla-
rv. stunned my sensibities and tore loose my
srmpathies from this Administration When
was laborinS night and day in ls'6, to bring
this administration into power, | persuaded
myself and possibly others. ;hat il, would 40
ali in It's power 20 give us Kansas. 10 plant u
in Central America. and strengthen uS by the
Jus, and speedy acquisition o. tu'". !" nc
coolly told a0i-. a. Nr. Buchanan tells It's
in his i1te Message. that in that event
i''thc admission OF Kansas as q State under
the I.ecompton Constitution. accord!ii. 10 his
'stfyny .',r5a,0tcGiatioa' "tiie sia't'W q'tc''""
would ere this hare been .fnaliy stt;l:", 'r-
cor,inq 10 the legally expressed will Of q mn
;ority of The eoters AGAINST THE SOLIH.
To hear ,hi, said hy Mr.. Buchanan, as a re-
p,vara 10 the ant.siaycry party. which he
saws was I'm the ascendant. ana the political
power Of the State was in their own hands, be-
cause they refused to vote, and preferred that
.iaverY should continue rather than surrender
their revolutionary Topeka organization. To
hear this in plain words, that Mr.. Buchanan
was anxious that the "antslaycry party should
abandon their Topeka organization and adopt ms
6etttr oai mer. .pse.lY free .>iate l''ltry. when
he knows that the South was first betrayed by
Executive Governors. and then bamboozle'l
and diSarmed while frecsoil marauders rode in
triumph over her friends--to be told this, and so
coEipi.;syttly. turned the honey in my heart
to vinegar
How kind il is il good Southern Rights
President 10 explain 50 graciously TO the Black
Republicans HAT Had Congress admitted
Kansas into the Union under the l.econpton
Constitutions the l.qisL,tnrt might at ia T,ry
frst .t-.,9t'' Notwithstanding her constitution
provided differently an .faT@r cf III, %"tp
have submitted the question to q vote OF me
people talk about "SIuattcr Sovereignty.
whether they would or would not have q con-
yention to amtlei their constitution eithcF "r
h, .lac.ru or anv other question: ana nave
adopted all necessary means for giving "Ptf"y
,tfrt 10 the will of the lfrcc-oll' majority
Thus" he explains. by his = Lecompton poll
~" ..,bc Eonsus nueS;ion would have been
;:n,n,.l;a,.iy and fFGiy settled againsi
tht .sov.6. Well. have this 10 say ::
Rv Gs.sr."r Ut..a policy. the question
rspu nat have been Immediately and
finally settled against the South so far
otherwise that if Mr.. Buchanan had acted on
Gov. wiseS doctrine Of our right to pretretio"
~ Tie 7:rrttories. and had recommended Con
yress to pass laws to give that election effect
and the Democratic party had stood up to the
South. Kansas might have been, and roH''I
hare jee;. this day. sLass T.rr,tory. ana
might ultimately have taken her place IN tae
Union as a slave State. And get Gov. WISE Is
to be prossribed and Mr. Buchanan ea"o. ''[a a
by the Southern Democracy. protf's. IL
that is Democracy. am no Democrat now. nor
ever was. But Gov. Wise was in favor OF re-
ferring the Kansas Constitution to the people