Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-05-22

| boldly made in the adoption Of the platform rs
well as in the nomination Of candidates; an
;nsilious and covert assault upon the relic 0.
barbarism" in the States, is badly disguised
in the platform, while the caudldate i'aS ''o"
ed the ncgro's right to all privileges AM, HI,
munitics guaranteed 10 citizens ny inc Nv
Constitution.
rho 1ntcr. State Slave Trade is 10 DC broken
-, h. Federal legislation and slavery, 'llkc a
surrounded 10y fire, to be made to
.,;,n itself to death" Such is the prospect
n-.srptcd by the acts and doinss at Chicago.
Mr.. Greeley, from Chicago, telegraphs the
u1r;bunc" as follows: I'll, so P. M.--Chi-
caso is in a blaze Of glory tonight. BonlireS'
professions, torch lights, fireworks, llium'ns-
| tons and sslutes have filled the air with noise
and the eye with beauty. Honest Old ABE
is the cry in every mouth, and The ~'4r'tpres''-
bic conflict against slarery and corruption"
opens with great promise and immense cnth'l.
siasm." Mr.. Greeley, knowing the designs Of
The party cannot be long concealed, openly
avows them, and his paper ranntlngly pro-
claims the issue that must test the future per
manency Of the Union.
The success Of this party, flushed With VIC
! tory, starving for the spoilS, not only OF ONCE
but Of the fair lands and virgin soil OF the sun
ny South. would be destructive of negro slave
~ everywhere in States and Territories. Lee
! party 10 resist this grarian and revolutiohar!
sectional organization, is itself divided, nS-
troctcd and discordant upon both principles
and mer-a gloomy prospect for the ln'"n'-
Embittered hostility TO the Southern people
has compacscd and organized Northern faa'-
calism. while division and diScord exist wlthln
thc ranks of conservatism. The eNoTt 10 make
III rhe States, in Mr.. Lincoln's words, "alike,
o,d and new, North and South TO make all
anti-sla-ery, has Eow hrcome tn" aVowed
policy Of the Northern ..!crnieS Of the TO-
yern,nent In view of such nj issue, what is
the duty of the conservatives Of the country:
To prevent, if possible, n dissolution Of the
Union, and to preserve the government from
the hands Of an agrarian organization, is the
duty Of every patriot. To do this, discussions
must DO healed, and the party united upon cen
| s.itut;oaal principtes-for it IS folly to OPP
nose ncons.itutiona Wilmot Provisoism,
with unconstitutional non-intcrventionls!n.--
The Constitution, pure and indebted, the
rights Of the States, whether North or
South, and the privileges Of the people,
whether native or foreign, must nc all
embodied in that platform. Personal prtie.
FENCES must Weld to State objections, and
though Mr.. Douglas has received enc vote more
than 4 majority, he is no more the candidate OF
the marty either by right or precedence than
is Mr.. Davis who received only one vote. 1T0-
thirds, and no less, nominate 4 Democratic
candidate; this Mr.. Douglas nor any other man
North or South, upon q ~squatter sovereignty
platform. can receive. That platform in
wolves the rights Of the South only, and to 1t
the Southern States object--.hey are the only
parties affected by its principles, and they only
arc interested in its rejection. A spirit Of com
promise and Justice demands that the wishes
Of the Southern States should be gratitied in
| this matter. We have no hostility &c Mr.
Douglas. We arc more opposed to Mr.. Ste
phens on the squatter sovereignty platform than
we are to Mr.. Douglas. We advocate a princi-
pic, which we understood was Incorporated
in the Cincinnati platform, but 1t Is now
denied to have any existence in that platform,
and this issue must be decided ii Baltimore
We make no opposition personal 10 Mr.: Doug
las. lie has gi"en to sqaatteT sovereignty all
the popularity that it possesses in the South;
the dogma has no friends but those who prefer
Mr.. Douglas. Take him away, and upon his
platform place any Southern man, and he
would become & by-word and rcproach
throughout the South; it is a regard for Soma.
tor Douglas that ~,olcrates squatter so"rreign-
ty.
The friends Of Ar. Douglas, by persisting in
their demands, must bring defeat upon the
party. II they should DC successful at Balti.
more, the party will be defeated at the polls.
1t is insulting to the SoutlEp people to sup
pose that fears Of Black Eepublicanism will
induce them to support Il platform which they
! opposed on principle. Let the consequences be
ever so disastrous to the Federal Union, the
South will not yield its objections to squatter
sovereignty.
I: matters but little whether the degradation
Of the South proceeds from Black Republican
Congressional destruction or a Squattcr Sove-
rcignty territorial denial OF its rights.
We sincerely hope that the friends of Mr..
Douglas will yield TO the objections urged by
sovereign States, and unite the party to with,
stand the assaults Of Il sectional organization
that avows the "irrclrc<siblc conflict" He
that trnubicth has orn house sh0tl inhsrit the
cind."