Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-09-14
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Campaign Documen;.
We will publish in the Semi Weekly edition
OF the ~"Enquicr," on Friday, the 9lst instant
q full report Of the great Ashland speech, re-
Gently delivered by the Hon. J. {. Breckenridge.
We desire 10 supply 10 voters, generally,
throughout the State, as many copies as posi-
ble Of this very able and conclusive document
All orders for cxtra copies. which shall reach
MS before Thursday morning next, will receive
prompt attention. The price will be five dol
lars per 100 copies.
Ee.ter from Nc.T Iork.
{ Correspondence Of tho Richmond Enquirer.
New York, Sept. Ii, 1860.
Judge Douglas arrived in town Inst night,
preceded BY his "nvant courrlcrs, y or
trumpet blowers, and accompanied by q rctinue
of future promised office holders. His friends
expect to make u strong impression on the
people Of Gotham tomorrow; if not intel!eclu-
ally, at least gaStronolnically. The huge OK
being roasted at Jones Wood to-day, will be
served up tomorrow at 10 o'clock, with 1000
loaveS o Thread and any amount OF crackers, with
q liberal supply of lager beer. All are invited
to attend and Join in the feast. Mr.. Belmont
must bleed freely in this demonstration. How.
ever, that's his business. 1t is something new
for a Presidential candidate to take the stump
through the country and attend OK roasting and
f~eastings, to persuade the people, personally,
to vote for him.
lIerschel V. johnson has also arrived, and
both stop at the 9Th Avenue Hotel. lie, too,
is to sneak tomorrow. All this demonstration,
so far as it may tell against Black Republicanism,
is we'll enough; but it may be said, once for all,
that unless thew consent to the formation Of a
Union Electoral Ticket in his State, they had
rs we'll save their breath and the money spent
for the roasted OK, for neither will stand the
ghost Of a chance.
The attempt at fusion so fur, has amounted
to this. At the meeting Of the Douglas and
Breckenridge State Committees in this city last
week, sub committees were appointed by each to
agree upon terms Of union, 10 be proposed tor
adoption. They, the subs, held a Convention
last Saturday, Benz. Wood, brother Of Mayor
Wood, being ut the head Of the Douglas sub
committee, and Mr.. Green ut that ofthe Brock
inridgc. The former proposed to Mr.. Green to
withdraw the Breckenridge electoral ticket and
that the fusion ticket Of Douglas ard Bell Tor
its members} would be pledged to vote for
Breckenridge, in case ne stood the best chance
OF defeating Lincoln. This, the latter declined
to accept, and offered, as his ultimatum, the
following counter proposition, viz: That ten
Breckenridge men should be placed on the cleo
toral ticket and DC allowed two State Offices
To this, Mr.. Wood proposed to give Breckin-
ridge six electoral candidates; this Mr.. Green
declined, and the conference broke up. After
the meeting cfthe two State committees had been
adjourned, Mr.. Wood came forward and stated
to Mr.. Green that he and his committee had
accepted his proposition, and would lay the
matter before Dean Richmond and Peter Crag-
ger, chairman and secretary Of the Douglas
State Committees, for their concurrence. They
craved time for an answer; in reality, however,
for the purpose Of consulting Judge Douglas
and johnson on the subject, knowing that they
were to arrive here this week. Hence, Dean
Richmond has called a meeting of the Douglas
las Hotel in this ii, ":sS'Sh's at the St; Niche;
inst, when the Breckenridge proposition will
be either confirmed or rejected. If the latter,
Mr.. Douglas himself will be compelled to
bear the responsibility Of the rejection,
and froui that period will date his departure
from the Democratic party, and his determine.
ton to elect Lincoln, and to come in as his sue
ccssor rs a Northern candidate for the Prcsi.
dcncy. Dean Richmond is said 10 be in a
quandary. 1t is stated that Benz. Wood holds
a letter from him, authorizing him to accept
Mr.. Green's proposition. Should he now, by
the advice of Douglas, back ont, he will pub
lish that letter.
There is n large and powerful body Of con.
sentative merchants in this city waiting to see
what will be the upshot Of this political contri-
wing among certain politicians to form 4 union
ticket. If Mr.. Douglas advises against it, and
the measure should be defeated, they intend to
call q Union meeting, and take up the three cleo.
toral tickets already in the field, and make a
selection from them on the basis proposed by
Mr.. Green, or one approSimating to it, and
launch it before the people, as the only Union
and conservative ticket 10 he sustained by all
opposed to the election Of Lincoln, and to sus-
tain it by al! legitimate means at commando
This will be the true course.
The %fanatical warfare of the North against
the South goes on with undated vigor. Its
partizanS sink all questions in the eternal ne
gro.
Their plan Of operations, since the defeat OF
Fremont, has been directed to a single object,
viz: to aboiitionizc the Northern public mind,
and that by all possible methods, by all posi-
bic falschoods, false statistics, false reasoning,
false everything touching the South; stick
ing at no traitorous subterfnsc TO accomplish
their traitorous purpose.
When Seward first announced his "llighcr
| Law" and ''Irreprcssible Conflict Doctrines" he
found an apolcgist among his own organs. lie
now, not only rc-avows them, but goes farther
than ever before. and the same organs either
applaud or are silent.
The people have Of late seen so luany speech
eS in print, that they have no doubt, in many
cases, passed them over without scrutiniZlng
them. Having read one of Stewards jesuitical
efforts, they were probably led to suppose that
subsequent speeches were mere repctltlons,
Spiced with the "Niggcr." Hence, it is likely,
his bold, trnitorous, abolition speech, recently
delivered Al Lansing, the capital Of Michigan,
and published in the New York Herald" on
the Sth instant, escaped the notice of many per-
sons.
Tha. you, readers may Know WHIT he said
on that occasion, VIC give a few choice extracts.
Speaking Of his endless theme Of slavery, he re-
marks as follows:
But YOU will ask me, what have you to do
with this? why interfere in that subject: why
not adopt the opposite policy of non-intervcn-
ton, and let those who like sl,ycry have it and
those who like freedom have freedom | will
answer you very simply. fou maintain now
a standing army Of about fifteen thousand men,
and IL standing navy which is very large,
though not very efficient. Can any man tell
me what we maintain them for: Do we main
tain them 10 keep peace in the State of Michi-
gan, or New York or Massachusetts, DO we
maintain M army and navy TO keep out civil
war Among ourselves in the free States? Not
at all. Do we MAINTAIN this army and navy TO
defend us against foreign States? There is
not 4 nation OH the face OF the earth that dare
attack any one Of these free States if they were
all separate and d~isunitch from the Union
Not one. (Applause.l There is no such
thing, then, as danger, and yet we are keeping
an army and navy, for what? In order that
| slaves may not escape from the slave States in.