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Dred Scott
AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-17-1857 Democratic if they would let us alone and leave slavery to the states, and to the same protection and privileges enjoyed by all other property under the Constitution, the agitation of the question would come to an end on the instant. |
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Dred Scott
SUPREME COURT vs. THE ABOLITIONISTS. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-13-1857 Democratic Abolitionism must now unmask, and wage its warfare openly and above board against the government |
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Dred Scott
Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-10-1857 Democratic in contradistinction to and in repudiation of the diabolical doctrines inculcated by factionists and fanatics; and that too by a tribunal of jurists, as learned, impartial and unprejudiced as perhaps the world has ever seen. |
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John Brown
The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 10-25-1859 Democratic The vile clamor of party, the struggle of Republicanism for power, has given an impetus to the abolition zeal of old Brown and his comrades |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-26-1854 Democratic It has not been our opinion that the South would gain any very decisive advantage by the passage of the Nebraska bill in its present shape |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
The Crisis in Congress -- Duty of the Majority Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-15-1854 Democratic The principle of the power of the majority is essential to the authority of government, and should not be sacrificed to those technical rules which are ordained for the protection of the rights of a minority. |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-16-1854 Democratic On our side we have the whole power of the Federal government and the moral support of a sound public sentiment |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-2-1854 Democratic Northern journals betray a gross misrepresentation of the temper of the public mind of the South |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 1-25-1854 Democratic The union of the Democracy on this proposition will dissipate forever the charges of free soil sympathies so recklessly and pertinaciously urged against the administration by our Whig opponents |
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Nebraska Bill (Jan-May 1854)
WHIG OPPOSITION TO THE NEBRASKA BILL. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-7-1854 Democratic we apprehend before the struggle is over, the majority of the active and aspiring Whigs of the South will be found in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction. |
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Sumner Caning
LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 6-3-1856 Democratic A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts. |
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