Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-25
ouyEnemIe. and the Negro question.

The Louisville Journal whose remark bile article up
on the late developments OF the usupng administration
we gave In late issue follows up lis work in other num-
bers with increased energy and pathos, and with
the added emphasis Of strengthened conviction" 1t de-
csres thatit will hereafter dismiss Cameron and "des
With the principal in the case" It's opposition to the
ne. programme of the conspatos appears to be deter
mined and settled. Canerons report confirms its worst
apprehensons is expansion Of what the President
said on the slavery question "what is said by the
e,ncernng slavery but the Illumination of what Is said
by the other The Secretary in this report is
than the Presidents and the President is better than
the Secretary" "The country has little to expect from
either and the radicals Of Congress appear - have their
own way" Prentice says the winds Of sectional passion
are unchained-the tempest ia abroad and the pillows Of
anti slaverysm are running mountain high in Washing
ton; and the President, instead OF rebuking them,
throws over them the witching moonlight Of his
c,untenance The Journal has perfect terror Of the
uproarous sea OF ansaveryism and calls for the great
genius of conservatism" to shake off Lnc6ns slumbes
AID "at once lay his spell truly and deeply the officer
charged above all others with the conservation Of this
glorious ark of human liberty and human hope" Prem.
lice avows he will neither be "a little blind" or livery
which the life of the country is bound up If II were
matter of granting denying sugar plum to an mpor
tunate child He looks upon Abes treatment Of the
slavery question in his message az one Of the most srk
lug and unpardonable instances Of short coming the
world has ever produced.
Even the Lincoln Kentucky Legislature have become
disguised with their MASTER observe that on the
h. resolutions were introduced at Frankfort demand
ing the return to Kentucky of Ex-Governor Morehsad
aud other victim, bistled and avcrring that the
Presidents message foreshadows the impossibiy Of
preserving reoonsructing the Union Kentucky sol.
ders fighting for the Union lled to sleep by the des
pot have awakened, and seeing the i1stness of our
cause eiving Lincolns minons and ralyng to the
Confederate standard. Nor Is this feeling confined 10
Kentucky alone The fame is spreading all over the
North Mcclellan it is said threatens to resign If the
views in the message are carried out In
the Fede', Congress the deepest feeling and utmost
excitement prevail among the Union members lao call
ed) from Western Virginia ntucky and Missouri, in
regard 10 the future policy Of the administration The
most prominent among them, and those who have labor.
ed mos. earnestly from the beginning against the C,n
federaes declare that the Inauguration OF the aboi
ton policy Of the aud a movement looking to the
arming of save Evil instantly throw the three Safes
named into the Southern Confederacy, and annih,ts
the great national armies 10 Kentucky and Missour-in
fact all national organizations west of the Allegheny
mountains"
As these so.caed Union have been the pillars Of
the Lincoln despoiism in the three States named we
may well suppose that when they give way the despoism
viii naturally and necessarily follow. This move.
msnt has opened the eyes Of the people OF the North
to the real object Of the war, and We shall watch the
course they will pursue in the premises With much nte
rest.
Bot our part entirely Wiling that the Yankees,