Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-09-09
IE7TER FRON cDM. hAJRE.

Ar nrst. YOU recollect, he only intended 80
sranoessss end occupy" the public places In
| the South and, to eDable hin TO do inis' an
army of 75,UUU uleI was called out ior tnree
znonths The battle Of Manassas satisfied
! him that it wouldn't do. Then he called for
mora men, ana proceeded to raise 90 army
Of 66T GOO for three JeSrs, Of tna war In
the meantime, we stood stock still III Our en-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES unWisely -untll no mar
shalled his host trained 1t tu mis- liking ana
! moved 7itn il upon US. But where ar" tho
men now, that composed that army Let
b:s new :all for.300,000 more troaPe, aid the
continual CRY from his s:ds that, III every
ilpbt w,s outnulnt,ered hir,, answer. ;:Ts have
| never cigilned to hava oveT 400 ,1Vl men un-
der urns, st ons tiiue. Liz object no'S il I,1
longer TO ..reposssi,sn the Custom Houses and
OCCUPY tie public plsae5 of the South, but
TO subiugste and exterrnlnate whole people
The war he, is now waging ID, be would ts'u
have the world TO believe, waged IN the cause
Of human freedom. The crimes that the
| fankeea are committing undor tbia cry call
TO mind Madame Rolsnd'5 spostrophe to The
atatue Of Liberty, when ahe was Oil heI way
70 the scaiold-the time FRINGE gol ;iruuE
with blood" The Yankees are Esuting Tor
battle Tor tho freedom OF r1au, iur free
press, free speech, free worship and the right
| Of, self.goYsrnment-such are their words
now for their acts: They have suspended
the writ Of habeas corpus, and hare been: Tor
more than wear, issuing lettres &c catchet.-
They drag preachers from their pulplts and
hale them to prison because they Will not
pray for Yankee rule. They have muzzled
| ~ +ha NJ h.
turned Legislatures out Of doors, imprisoned
members stepped Detween man and his sker,
forbidden Chilstiansjto pray frcH, thair hearts
a1d forced them into lip service.
Since saw you, some eighteen months ago,
you, on your side of the water, have made COZ
siderable progress il your studies CT Us Rs s
people, of our cause, the Yankee character.
As your knowledge Ct as aud Of them has
increased, you have rhoGgs's better oi the
South, and worse OF tie .'cTth. EEcel6ior, go
on you have much 70 learn yet.
/ Irecollect when, IN the Fall OF 1866, WAS
axpirinine to circle Of friends i'll England
.hs caus.. Of our then impending troubles,
told one ii your statesmen tnat "n!i Tie Ttgat
loaS on our side.'' lie laughed. Ii MI not
miBtaksn, he now begins to perc"i:e that we
Of che South are in the category of'tEe cnIl-
rem of Israel, seeking to escape from oondag"
with this, our Pharoah, the "rail splitter. -
[ he has got TO let US go; that's as csrtaih az
though another Moses and Aaron lad told
| him SC.
| HE people pretend, and mknT EaghahnIan
seem to think, thai African slavery III al the
| bottom OF, ali OF our present ;roahies. ~
such thing! The causes Of them are dep
| seated and rsnihed. The Union as formed
with slavery in it-Slsvery served rs
landmark in dividing the countI- into seo-
tions; but it had ABOUT rs much to do Tith tho
origin of our troubles as "Tenterdon Steeple
had with the Goodwin Sands" Slavery hap
pensd 70 mark geographicslliae, which ssps-
rated the Northern from the Southern States.
But kentucky, slave State, mas never Lten
! with us, neirher .kavo Delaware. Maryland
and Missouri CONS Oh! for us. These arc
slave States, snd whatever be the feeling q
the great body OF their people, their so-catled
Governors have all furnished Lincoln ekoh,
with his cautingsnt ioI tr,a war upon US.
The old Government oil the United States
had beculus utterly corrupt, aud II h:d cor
rupted the people, and With or TFitE out slavery,
the dissolution ofthat Government was bound
TO occur. Look at its history and the facts
For more than thirty gears, the country
las bean ruled b! a incrion-trst OF ode
party, than Of another--End the IlaGtsI rI,lIltn
OF the faction ruled, and there WAS lack
Of statssmanship III the nstiooal coun-
ella. Presidents sud theiT Csbtneta, law.
giyers and thu officers Of the Govern
mon tcsassd tlonE ago to re selected TOT
thsir fitness, but BoIely fcT their party avail
abinIy- Thus the treat men Of the
eountry-Oalhour, Webster, Clay, &c.-wsrs
prescribed, and the populace came down be-
Low mediocrity In search Of rulers. Thus, in
the lsst presidential CANVASS, the successful
candidate was the man that could split tbs
nest rails il a days msu unknown TO the
people, and without any, the lesst experience
ia The affairs OF State. 1t, has not been
many years einoeh mar was chosen Presi-
dent because, it e7ss said, he t7af6cked il coon
skins, lived IN ios-caDir, aud drunk hard
cider; any ons Yersed in American ocl:!cs
will tell you that every President, from Van
Bu7cn down, has besH' elected, not because Of
his fitness, bur because no vas the l,ost avail
able man that the successful party could pu:
forw ard.
what was the e6%ot d putting ausd men
into this hiFfi Office NATURALLY euuutt j; ~ea
TO CONVEX; the government into pity ma
chine, anG 10 place its houors AID its patron
age at the disposal Of the ling Makers"
Finally, it becsue 80 rnat party fealty- vas
almost the only teSt Of fitness for any Office
from that OF tide-wstsr, up And when IN
Administration was turned out at the end o:
four years, as it Tae sEre TO be, tho cue
cssaiul PARTY raised me cry that "to chs NC
eo1a -balong the epoils," sud went into the
government Ike rictorioua si:lay into tins
sncalnplnoIt OF s van7uished foe. TIC whole
energies of the government thea Wero direct
al to secure the succession to tho psrtC in
power sr the end Of the four err.
Besides the patronage connected Wit places
OF more honor aud pCtfsr, eaeh Adninistra-
ton hsd slt the patronage connected with the
disbursement, during the Presidential term,
nj three III four hundred millions ct DOL
lars End for this tnefr we scramble
e!aons tia politicians. They inaained the
public Iaiad upon the subject Of the Presiden-
tial election, aud cnco in every tou- years
the government -as o-eTrurned. All "ho
were charged With tie ADMINISTRATION OF the
Offices hast to ra:ire sad give place To q new
and inexperienced 6ot Of hdnsry ard greedy
politicians.
In this way, tho government CEASED 10 pc
managed for the good ofthe people. 1t became
tie instrument. Of party Tor tbs cownrd Of
partizsqs; consequently checks and bal
snces became first iersnged; high sectional
interests VETS involved.
Prominent among these were those IF tree
trade ono hand, protection on the other.
AS rule, the agricultural! States, Thich hap
pened also to be slave States, were ioc Tree
trade; tie misunderstanding snd mining States,
which happened, 70 be free States, were clam
orous for protectIon, as tie Morrill, Tariff
abundantly shows.
Nor for statistics IL ASSIST me Il. making
tEese points clear.
Tue South contained, roui:diy stated about
ope-third Of the population OF the United