Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-10-19
Douglas EIeetor for AbJect Submission.

in his county, gains only "4 votes over Jog
gins vote Of last year. Roll Oh the ball!
Dousla. EIector for AbJect submission.
The Douglas elector for the Eighth District,
&. II. c. Rowe, Esq, addressed his party in
this city on Tuesday night, and in the course
of his remarks avowcd frankly the dangerous
and degrading positions to which, as we have
all along commended, the advocacy of Douglas
election inevitably tends. Dir. Rowe declared,
without qualification, that Sq"aster 'S0rere'g"'
tn uas riqAt-a doctrine which Mr.. Calhoun
pronounced more odious than the Wilmot Pro-
viso. and which nine.tcntls Of Southern men
believe to be, in the language Of Gov. Wise,
"a short cut to all The ends Of AbolitionisIn.
1t is unquestionably one Of the very worst
forms of Abolitionisln, for the simple reason
that il comedies to the eInissaries of elnlgrant
aid societies the right to discriminate against
slares Us compared with other kinds Of proper.
ty!
Mr.. Rowe sustained the higher law, Adolf
ton doctrine of Douglas, that the Territorla!
Legislatures can nulliiy the decisions OF the
Supreme Court-a doctrine which deprlVeS
slavery Of that very protection Of the courts
with which Douglas hypocritically proposed TO
surround it, and which has accustomed the ne
ccssity for the assertion Of the doctrine oil IN
tcrvention as part Of the Democratic platform.
Mr.. r. pronounced a dissolution OF the
Union US in itself the worst possible evil that
can beial the South. This is now the cuckoo
cry alike Of Douglas and Bell Electors. The
dissolution of the Union, then, is worse than
dishonor, degradation, or AFFECT YassaIage TO
the North! And if the chivalrous sons oil the
| South, shall deem honor and equality as worth
preserving, out of the Union if need be, why,
then sovereign States are according to the
Norfolk edict) simply to be coerccd by Adolf
ton arms; and, in the meantime, such cocr'
cion is invited by i truculcnt spirit at the SontI
! Norfolk speech. Is the SOUTHERN GGlE7Si Gll-iGa
for this humiliation 1t is plain that these ser
| vile sentiments give aid and comfort 10 the
Abplitionists, and that upon the heads of their
authors will rest the responsibility oil Lin
coins election.
The Douglas party must be held 10 the SEN
ti,nents of its electors. Mr.. Rowe is evidently
a frank, intelligent man, who sees the extreme
positions to which his advocacy Of Douglas
leads, and has the candour boldly TO assume
them. His speech was marked by Il close, log
ical treatment of the constitutional topics in.
volved, and d clear perception Of the relations
Of parties in the present contest. We have q
right, therefore, to claim that the Douglas
party in the State shall be held responsible for
Mr.. Rowe's sentiments.
Mr.. R. commenced his speech by protesting
that he mas not It ~repentant Enow Nothing.
An observation intended, we presume, for his
brother elector in the twelfth District, Daniel
II. Ilogc, Esq, who has lately been in Mr.. RS
bailiwick, and who, it will be remembered,
sought the sympathy of the culvert in 1866,
after he had taken his chances for Lieutenant
Governor in the Staunton Convention-unlcsS,
indeed, Mr.. r. was referring to Mr.. John llar-
mer Gilmer, whom Mr.. r. happened to be
looking at when he uttered this indignant pro
tact