Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-10-15
friendship instead of phrensy animated the discussion.
Il would be their noble privilege 10
"Rins out slowly dylug cause,
And ancient forms Of party strife;
with Gw eter manners, pure. laws
Ring Ia the nobler modes Of LIE"

| Ring 10 the nobler modes OF LIE"
It does not require any deep penetration to discover
the true source OF difficulties and dangers The Pc
rennal wisdom of Burke furnishes an appropriate text
which, though written nearly hundred years ago, has
all the freshness of contempoaneous application TO our
country ut is seriour affair." this studied dsunion in
| government Iu cases where union is most consulted,
and where persons best disposed promote it, differ
ences from the various ideas Of will arise and from
their passions will often ferment into violent heats
greatly to disorder all public business What must be
the consequence them when the very dstemper is made
the basis of the constitution and the original weakness
of human nature sill farther eneebed by art aud con-
trivance Il must subvert government from the very
| foundation 1t turns public councils into the most
mischieyois caba where the consideration is not how
the nations business shall be carried on but how those
who ought to carry il shall crcumvent each other.
In such state of things order uniformity, dignity or
effect can appear in proceedings either at home or
| abroad"
In application of this would remark how difficult it
ia TO conduct the affairs Of vast and diversified coun-
try as ours even where the cearcst neecs and best in
tentons are called into pay-but We may well be filed
with sorrow and alarm when given to mere
party machinery and TO mon who apply other tests 10
public actions but success in their schemes of individual
aggrandizemeu aud the best interests of the
try counters in the desperate and perous game
Of politics.
We are suffering now, and have suffered for wears,
from the violence Of extreme opinions. Ambitious
in both sections Of the country have found their profit in
inhaming the passions OF the North and South. The
North has been made believe thai slavery will be extend
cd into regions where il could survive ycar-and
the South has been persuaded that lhey viii be denied
access for their servants into territories (yet TO be ac
quired where white hbOrrrs would inevitably perish.
Imaginary territories made the OF fierce con
tenuous-WilmOt provs0s slave codes ntcrventOns and
nOnncrycntons discussed IN all their wearSOme aud
Sildoring mazcs-dem0gogaes aud agatOrs whose only
hopes OF harvest ia civil comm)on, avail themselves
OF the general confusion to seize upon every place ofprot
an every station that honorable until they held tina
ona and conservative men are everywhere brow beaten
aud buled aud when they would lt their warning voices
are nersecuted dogged bounded to political graves
When the people themselves would LOOK into their own
affairs their attention is diverted by the juggler
their judgments warped by passionate appeals,
the matadOrc his rcd lg he face of his victim
Corruption creeps unObserved into every departmenaG
the true interests of the nation ucg ced sacrificed
whilst the people engaged in idle aud danger
troversies This state OF affairs cannot last, and eau
have but conclusion. For!uuat y, there is rene
dy and VIC are still III time to make the application.
10 not propose to initiate the pracio,. | have dep
cl by amy long discussion of the topics OF the day
hut when We country conyulsed by the question
whether slavery shall shall not 20 into the territories
one naturally asks wha these territories which
ate all this cxcitcmeut? do not believe there is out
foot Of soil belonging 10 the United ates likely
90 come in their POSSESSION whose destiny not ALREADY
sealed by the great laws of aturo, which slave
codes cannot strengthen nor Proviaos repeal
have been answered here, that according 10 Mr. Web
ser we went To war with Great Britain preamble.
but that preamble contained active principle Surely
il would he prcpos,e,ons in Sl aud treason against
humanity to break up this mighty country alb.
stract question that is dead ia the past aud may
risc again. Your distinguished Representative, (HOn
John 5 Mill-on has shown with admirable ccrfncss
now hollow aud inSHCcrc is the demand for of
fidelity to Southern interests aud guarantees for
southern righls-tlat the mcn who are climOr-
Gus were silent opposing during the discussion OF the
Kansas and Nebraska b;llneSeccd the living question
but now seek to fright with it, ghost. They recall
us the witch OF Lucan, who avoided the conflict but
when the strife was closed wandered over the field of
battle and selected foe the subject OF rcsusration the
body which had recently quvered with existence aud
whose throat had just uttered the last note ofagouy.
Instead of wasting time upon abstract questions it is
the duty Of every patriot 10 work against the election OF
a sectional President. Tnc Democratic party, as | firm
y believe, had in their power to prevent the election
- LIncon In view OF the laid a. larpets Fey, was
obvious TO every resctng tha the North was to be
the great battle ground OF this contest-that the uucs
ton should be fairly tested to how mrch conserya
tism still existed there and that it the part OF high
aud patriotic policy to give the National men Of the North
a candidate and principle by which they could firmly
and conscentously stand II the leaders had perceived
this and awakened in time to the vital truth that the
Democratic party is not absolutely necessary the pre-
servation of the Union but that devotion the Union
is necessary to the preservation Of the Democratic
party, they might have had a new lease upon
that power which they have so delighted to
WELD, and the people might still have been delud-
ed by spectacle such Croy tells exhibited du
ring the regency of George the Fourth "where the per-
petua dealcation Of revenue proudly overpaid by
the perpetual surpusage of orators ready defend the
right at all hazards and at all salaries and to rally around
the government TO its las. shilling"
When the TaTff was under discussion the Democratic
party announced and The nation has acquiesced in the
principle that the time was past Tor bosterng systems
of industry by artificial adthat in accordance with the
~. -fufaV f.ttl
merit and its own srengh-hat il was mschevous I'M
Just and dangerous to attempt foster by national means
any class of operatives not sanctioned by every portion
of the country. And yet they have struck down. in the
person of Stephen A. Douglas, statesman who wished
10 apply their cardinal principle TO question which
dangers the existence of the Union South Carolina once
threatened leave the Union bec!ue Northern labor
was pro.ected-she threatens the thing becaue
slave labor ia not protected 10y Congressional slave code
for the Territories Certainly here great aud garing
inconsistency. The best for the South to de-
prive Congress of this imperial poser which the Black
Republicans claim for it-and while il does become
me perhaps, TO interfere in family qnlrres i
ture to say that the portion Of the Democratic party
which, by its representatives,, seeded at Charles
ton retreated at Baltimore, and is in
full flight under Mr.. Breckenridge, untrue
to its cardinal principles that the States Rights advc-
Gates were never iatheSs TO their favorite dogma
the true interests OF the South when they deserted
the great statesman Of Illinois Of his doctrine
sred them the guarantee OF national and lasting
triumph-he rendered them watchWord which would
have gathered under their banner the conservative
men of the North aud the South plan which would
have banished the question of slavery from the halls of
Congress- aud if arose in the Territories would
have made its agitation local instead of tona affect
ing the popular pulse no than the Indian skirmsh
es on our western borders-he offered them
which contained the Of States Rights the semi
nal principle OF progress people, the distinguish
ing characteristic Of Anglo Saxon liberty aud the
safeguard of all regulated irsedom-hs fundamental oni
inaiisnaJie right Of svay community to manage its
DON ssfc affairs.
Under This principle the system of slavery would be
left to work itself out by iis great laws Belev
ing as do that il Is a system of divine origin, can
not doubt that il will its course and that in the end
the South will secure every foot Of land which could be
profaby devoted TO the cultivation Of the great staples
of rice sugar aud cotton Ia this cOnnecor beg leave
to point to the early history OF Texas which, although
Isolated State and exposed to the anti'avery schemes
of the North and Of the world became slave State, for
the simple that her climate and large portion OF
her soil favorable to the production of the great sta
pies enumerated above.
Mr. Seward the real though the ituar chief Of the
Republcan party in his speech at Detroit made remark
which strengthens the views have enleayorcd to pre-
sent I've gives il as his opinion that the last forty
of our national life have constituted reriod OF signal
and anenabe failure in the efforts Of statesmen to ad
lust federal policy for the regulation of the subject OF
slavery in its relations the Union lie that
great statesmen Calhoun, Webster and Clay,
tsked in these cOrts And, yet where they have fail
ed he steps forward modesy to advise and his counsel