Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-12-07

| ration, must be known 10 the slave. whose
unborn aud distant posterity are alone 10
be released, and will, II il have any effect,
| render him discontinued, and his owner
severe! This surely can contribute 10
The happiness OF neither, and may ter
inmate III the exIirparioT of The very
people who are the object of all this in
diSnani eioqhence, and fierce and unap-
peasabe humanity. Do you not krow
and feel, "a, this moment, how difficult.
how dangerous Ills, To touch any system,
no matter how wrong, which. having been
established for centuries, has iHcorpora.
ted itself with The manners, habits, and
! sentiments OF society, and had no. neon
siderable effect in making that society,
what il is. Look at your own poor
laws. See the mischiefs which they pro-
| duce to tile Poor--ihe very persons intend
Ell 10 be relieved. Can YOU repeal these
laws! Impossible. Can you submit 10
| their progressive operation ? give no
opiaion bu, will say, thar our case rs
attended by difficulties and dangers in
caiculabiy greater, unless We are leii en-
tirely 10 ourselves.
! T!iere is another consideration. in rcla
ton TO This estimate, ia which must a
gain call your altenuon. The condition.
OF the blacks Is every day improving. II *
better now than II was twenty years ago
and twenty years hence, if we can !ieep
| clear OF spec uiatiou IN humanity. il viii
he better still. The reverse il The case
with The poor white laborer. Every wear
his situation grows worse until al length
re IS reduced to The II. inimum by which
wTetched existence can be sustained
| Gan II then lie wise or humape TO vea-
| tGre on any lnterposItIon, any scheme 10
| Improve that which of itself is daiIv
| growing better? In such IA state, and
| 7'ich prospect of things, can il be right
l" hazard an experiment by which tie
| very foundation 0t society Will be chang
ed, without q ar foresight and convic
| non ihai The pers, us for whose sake the
Change is 10 be effected will be ess entail.
~ beme fitted
Let MS examine This point more in de-
tail. VIII you compare The condition of
The poor IN England, (33) fed on pniatoes
and little salt, will. that of our slaves
ON a well regulated plantation, enjoying
| Their weekly allowances of meat or sal
| TED fish, lbeir gardens filed with cabbages
ana sweet potatoes, the only potaioe
they would deign 10 eat, their fowls,
their dogs and their iiaps for game, Their
| tishlng- rods whenin the vicinity of mill
| ponds or rivrs, and above all their corn
meal bread, the best bread The poor ever
HAD, in any part or liz any period OF Tie
world Now without gong farther into
'his comparison, saying nothing fmany
! Other advantages which slaves possess.
or OF Their entire exemption from those
heart rending evils inseparable from
The poverty of The whites, ask you TO
take distinct view of The condition to
'Dh'ch they uiH be reduced when the 90 lo-
| rious" plan OF their emancipation snail
have been effected. OF the mischiets
done to the whites, during the 80. 40, so,
or 100 years w Iich may be required iof
the contamination of this great work OF
the evils which Hey must suffer of The
pr!vaiions, expenses, and trials, and dan
gers, TO which they will be exposed saw
nothing. | should mol be heard. All
| sympathy, all humanity, is now black or
copper coloured.
Let US suppose ourselves at the expira
hon OF The peIiod required, and that Won
are invited 10 come TO America and vii.
ness The facts which your eIoquence and
philanthropy have contributed to produce
fon spring up with alacrity. Yes, YOU
viii take This delightful view, exclaimInp.
with enthusiasm, and is il true, that The
poor black man is al length restored 10
his nights that HERE is not slave south
OF The Potomac, You are answered, come
ana see. wen yom arrive you look
about with eXgltatiou YOU cast your ey es
iii every direction : bui soon your conn.
tenance is changed. You ireaibie and
Turn pale. At length, in a voice enleo-
bied by apprehension, you ask, where are
iiie black people Surely these are no:
all. THEY are all. Az there is not one
ihlrd OF me number that existed 30 years
ago. What has become ofihem? Have
you, will LacedOminian policy and era.
city, treated them ike IIclois I! Indeed we
'hace not. Short add simple are the annals
ol these wretcbed victims Of ever restless.
mistaken philanthropy. Brought upwiib
Tie expectation of haviHg the uncontroll.
ed command of their own time and
movements, they never abored when
iheY could be idle. They often aniici
paied by flight and rOnceamentihe look,
tor period, and were frequently dis
missed by their indignant owners long
before The period 81 Their service had
Expired. Petty combinations for plumber
we're soon formed, aud soon suppressed.
Bui the aversion TO labor could not be
overcome. Idleness produced wani and
them followed, ~ rapid and inevitable
Succession, misery, discomfort, crimes,
punIsiimenls, insurreCilon, The latter
reduced ile number Tar below what vou
nov see Vt; but, as the survivors have
beru distributed among the people, at
heir own prayer, as slaves, they will pro-
} (33J Mr.. Palmer. in TIE debate above refer
red 10, states, ~ tie face OF the British nation,
, that slaves IN the West Indies had. until With
~ The last two years, (alluoing probably TO the
, time about which the Registry Bill had heeu
introduced 10y Mr.. WiberioIce) enjoyed d
I sum OF comfort and content, not only very
D considerable, but capable ofuo disadyanta.
: "geOus comparison with the condition OF the