Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-08-27
I:1c,. Of Ex-coycrncr wr,sll, of

o specch a few days since before the New York
Chamber Of Commerce, which is thus report
ed:
Gov. Wright said that, after an absence vi
four years from the country, he came h"'ne
with n Saddenca heart. Ii Is mol 4 il!he now
to find fault with these ~ho are or nave ott"
in newer, but We must ask ourselves, Wha' Is
our present condition | owe. Salu Ne, no al
l~eciancc to anv particular State. but all my
obligations and yours are to the National 'Tov
eminent. That is paramount and the State ~
inferior. :,
The sneaker said that We were ,nisrspreScnted
abroad, The London "TimeS' and other for.
eipn papers sedulously misrcprcsented MS.
The press abroad has been subsidized. Our
institutions are attacked from mcrccnary mo.
tives, and BY those who arc interested in the
the downfall Of this country.
The German heart moves slowly, but 1t beats
warmly FOR the welfare of the country. While
Mr.. Wright was in Berlin he received mere
than fice hundred letters respecting the situn'
ton in this country, and from those who were
anxious to come and fight the battle of the
Uoion. He was obliged to publish n notice
that he had not opened 4 recruiting oilicc.
III us ioSl ljlCIflcS ~ tuS AH1 -
sa the King took him by the hand and said:
GOD grant that your people may be abb 10
uphold the supremacy of the laws. DE-
whole German people respect the Government
OF America.
If We expect the lid AID sympathy "i the
Governments of Europe, We must help our
selves. What is our duty? We must require
that the flag Of our country shall bc restored
to its position in every State, and the avs re-
stored. We must sacrifice millions neiolc we
submit 10 the standard Of the 50 called con-
federacy. We can never be two people. We
must be one or nothing. We can never have
peace on any other condition.
The speaker had never believed thai there
was any serious difference in any Fart OF the
country with regard 10 The principles OF our
Government. Men may say that they have
lost cvcrything-propcrty and family-but SO
long AS the Government is sustained they
have lost nothing. All We have 70 do is to go
on till we have established the supremacy Of
our laws and the Constitution Of our country.
Gov. Wright was known, previous 10 ms de-
narture from the United States upon lis mis-
sion to Prussia, as one Of the most conservative
and trustworthy oC the Northwestern psmoc.
racr. He was a States Rights Democrat BY
profession, and his course rs member Of the
Congress of the United States, and as Gov
crnor of Indiana, made q favorable impression
upon our minds as to his sincerity. He never
made a speech OF wrote 8 message on the
political questions Ct the times without intro,
ducing into it the mos! emphatic expressions
OF approval of the s:ric; construction constr
t~u,ioasl views OF the Statesmen Of the South,
and tie equally emphatic expressions Of con-
denaation Of the teachings If the aoolitionists
of the North. He availcd himscl! OF every
fit occasion 10 make known 10 his countrymen
his deliberate and well sustained opinion that
the only danger to their model system OF
government was in and through the Stewards,
the Wades, the GilddingseS, the BiairS anu the
Lincolas who aSpired 10 rule ami consro! it.
He arowed himself a Union inan upon the
principles Of the Constitution, and upon those
principles only. lie toll his Northern friends
that they could got nope to preserve the ttce-
raj Union except by respecting and regarding
the equal rights o! al the States, and 81 dis
t?ibutlas equally the benefits and burtnens oi
government. By The advocacy and malnte-
nance Of those doctrines, ne became Il ~iavorlte,
q pet" with tie Southern Democracy, some
Of whom gave public expression to their
preference fer him as y candidate for tho
Presidency o. the United States. NJ doubt
he felt ~sratiiiod aAi highly encouraged At the
Success OF his effort 20 secure 10 himself 4
national 1rpntatio". ilc, no doubt, laughed
IN his sleeve nj tbs creGli!tv "f the Southern
people. He had succeeded ia making ml;i; Of
them believe that he was ready To die IL the
maintenance Of their rights, and he Looked
forward, with un1ouh!!a: confidence, t. h
day not distant, in his owa ";c>T, wh2', they
good. eass, guli61s soulsy would oail him by
reclamation to the chair Of Washington, ~.T"ffer-
son and jackson. Such, we nave no dolbt,
wcrr the visions Of Joseph a. Wright, Of
Indiana, Taen lie set cut i,tiu the United
States on his foreign mission some Jour years
since. He expected to return 10 Honsicr land
Il more available candidate than Douglas, Dick
inson, Gushing, or any other Northern U'an
with Southern principles"
lie felt well assured Of the entire Southern
vote, which, with what NorthcTn States he
expected to secure by !iis residence, would
max. tim President Wright. Eat, alas for
human ambition Ere bis return IL the United
States, the san Of The South had ceased TO cast
its rays or the sunshine patriots Of the North.
The Southern States had been compelled to
look outside Of the Federal Laion, :ar tE:cse
rights for which Mr.. Wrishi had s~igniiied mis-
readiness to f5ht, bleed and die. They had
dissolved the political bands which connected
them with the abolitionizcd government at
Washington, a1d had assumed among the pow
ers Of the earth the separate and equei station
to which the laws Of nature and natures god
entitled them" Mr. Wright found his inn
mense political resources thus suddenly cut
oil, and hence his preset lamentations and
inprecations. lie iaments the present forlorn
condition OF conservative Northern politicians,
and pours forth his i'nprccations on the heads of
the Southern people who relus- to be any
longer cheated cut Of their rights BY hiH, and
his miserable class Of aspirants. TINS, We
have no doubt, is the true solution Of the past
and present position Of Joseph y. Wright and
all other Northern office seekers, with South.
ern principles" To secure Southern support,
they swore allegiance to Southern Rights, and
acted the part of boot,licks to Southern Politi-
claus; but all hope of political p%refermeRt
through the South having been cut off by the
act Of Secession, they now throw of the mask,
like the hypoerite described by Pollok, and
'stand in naticc ugliress." "The South must
be ~subjugated," is their motto, at any cost Of
hlool end treasure. Mr.. Wright. in utter