Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-09-07

news, &c. OS TslRp PAoE-Local and State news, te'e-
graphic dispatches, marine news, &c. oS FOURTH PAGE
Poetry and q variety Of news Items.
The Coalition of Squarter sovereignty anu
Resurrectcd Know-Sothinsish'
There is. perhaps, not in the Union a more
~resolute and energetic opponent OF the true
Democracy than Gen. Leslie Combs Of Lex
ington, Kentucky. For the last forty years,
whatever the name the party arrayed against
it assumed, and whatever the object to be &C
complished, he was found in the front ranks,
battling r~aliantly and rcmorsclessly. He was
always ready for any coalition that gave pro-
mise of the attainment Of the end at which he
aimed. However bad his purpose, politically,
he enjoyed the credit Of having been infexibly
faithful to it If he have any public merit it con-
sists in his not haTing been a changcling in his
hostility to the principles which constituted the
creed of the sage of Monticello. lie COM
menced his career with strong proclivitles for
Federalism; then he became a National Repub.
lican; then a Wing; then a hnow-Nothing, and
then q Constitutional UnioniSt; where he now
stands, and more erect, if possible, than either
Mr.. Bell or Mr.. Everett. He claims the no.
nor Of having been the instrument OF redeem
ing @Kentucky" from the dominant sway OF
Democracy, in the recent election in mat State;
through the agency Of that which he desig.
mates 'sthc National Union nemocracy'-d{ias
Squatter Sovercigntyisln. Ia his .iubilSut let.
A. D.a--;oo ,rr1orinn him fn ttruisp Yn
question or criticism" with respect to the part
Of this faction, he calculates:
"7He Patriotic, National Union Dtmocra-
Gu hare co.operated uiM as MOST MANFuLLy,
AND WE MUST HEREAFTER CONSIDER
THEM AS BRETHREN
Squatter sovcreigntyism may consider itself
honorcd By such an utilization, but is there q
solitary sound Democrat, wherever his resi-
dence, who had been assidiously drawn into its
meshes, who will not regard himself as politi-
cally disgraccd by such an association.
The name Of the party, Of which General
Coombs deserves to be recognised as chief, can
never be so changed as to conceal the malig-
nancy of that party to the Democracy of the
old States Rights School. There is, however,
no expedient, no contriyancc, no unworthy ar
ti6ce to which it will not have recourse to de-
COY unsuspectipg Democrats from the love Of
cherished duty. 1t succeeded for 4 time SO
we'll with rows administered in dark lodges
that it is exceedingly hopeful Of the aliuring
prospects presented by squatter sovereignty
1t may entrap the unthinkins and enlist the
disafTected, but they will both flee from it when
they find out the blundcr which they have COM
mitted, rs good mcn fee from the dcmoralizing
influences Of bad men.
The great party, which has made the Union
what it is. has been infested, from time to time,
from its infancy, with politicians without fixed
principles, with restless spirits in pursuit Of
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, with men who sought
it as q convenience and abandoned it for n mo-
tive. Such characters are full as numerous
now as they ever were at any period, but, hap
PLY, as in days gone by, they will make them
selves so we'll understood as to be incapable Of
doing a large amount Of mischief.
With rare exceptions every citizen who now
farors the election Of John C.. Breckenridge, has
been stcadfast in his devotion to the principles
expressed in the celebrated kentucky resolu.
tons, offered by his illustrious grandsirc-the
statesman who was foremost and strongest in
the acquisition of Louisiana the bosom friend
of jefferson, who enjoyed his unbounded con-
6dence. Upon principle they could favor the
election Of no other candidate in the field
He, alone, Of those who deserve their sutfragcs,
is the only fit exponent of their lifelong politi-
cal sentiments.
1t is urged, rs an excuse for the tcmcritv Of
Squatter S~overcigntyism, that John c. Breck-
inridge was not regularly nominated. When a
National Democratic Convention was substi-
tuted for a Congressional Democratic Caucus,
it was not contemplated that States which were
known to be adverse to Democratic principles
would undertake to force Il candidate upon
States known to be in favor Of Democratic
principles. In the Congressional Caucus, no
member was permitted to enter unless he rep.
resented a Democratic district; or, what in effect
was the amc unless he was a Democrat
Had this principle been observed al Baltimore
or Charleston, taking the latest popular cleo
tons as aresult, Squatter Sovereigntyism would
scarcely have stood as one to three in the an
tagonism against it. John c. breckenridge,
therefore, is rightfully the candidate Of the re.
liable States at tho time he was designated
and if he lose either of theu, it will be solely
through tho cooperation with know-Nothing.
ism Of the National Union Democracy" as
was the case in Kentucky, according to Gene
raj Coombs. Mr.. Douglas has not so much as
the shadow of a chance, in virtue Of his so
called nomination, upon Southern support; and
We believe that he will not receive the vote o.
a State which assisted to place him before the
Democracy for the Presidency.
Even if Judge Douglas, protesting to act
with the true Democracy, had not been distin.
guished by political imperfections Of character,
ordinary comfy to the Democrats of the slave.
holding States should have influenced him to
peremptorily forbid the use of his name. Fro:l
the year 1882 to the pending contest, al the
Democratic candidates, with asiuglc exception,
have been citizens of non.slaveholdinr States,
Out of six Democratic Presidential nominations
the %slayeholding States received but one. This
inequality was palpsbly unjust, but it was sub.
mitted to without a murmer. Such submits
sion, however, ought to have been properly
appreciated when the Convention of this year
was organized; and the more willingly when