Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-02-26


ely can possibly have any right to inter
fere. Thus they may give TO one portion
the prerogaiives OF royalty, and invest II
with hereditary successioD-to another
they Eiay I'M part the rights of nobility
Another may he left with the ordinary
rights at subjects, and another may be
doomed 10 perpetual slavery. IL the pow
ers Ot Europe were new about 10 enter
INTO federal compact ami form gov.
eminent in which each party was TO be
represented according 10 the number of
their inhabitants respectively, can il be,
Tor moment, Imagined that the Emperor
Alexander would consent, that the com
mon lAbourcrs of his Empire, who are
bought and sold with The soil, should be
excluded from The calculation Or, in
deed, tl'aiso Insulting a proposition would
ever be made by the other European
powers No, the eastern states are GER
ia!nly the only people IN the world that ever
did, or ever will, again require so unrea
sonable d sacrifice of their neighbours !;
and The southern states are certainly the
ouly sovereign ami Independent people in
the world that ever did, ur ever will again,
submit TO such degrading conditions.
IL Was ,he eastern states who erdcted and
the southern states who yietded 10 the pro-
vision 90, Guiding from the calculation NJ
their ratio OF representation, two fiiths OF
certain portion Oi their Inhabiiants-
from which II NAV be easiy seen who was
actuated by thnst OF domination, and
who by a spirit OF cancellation.
What concessions have The eastern
states ever made towards establishing and
perpeiuating the Union? In the iurnIa-
tioi 81 the constitution they required OF
tn .I.,H.. a
of our inhabitants from representation !;
we did so. They claimed equal rauk
with us i'll the federal senate; We granted
il 10 them. In the treaty OF peace with
England after the revolution, they claimed
the right of the fisheries ve agreed TO
pay the British debts in order 10 secure
them tor them. To encourage their
shipping, we submitted 10 AN injurious
discriminating tonnage duty. To foster
their manufactures we agreed To pay,
have paid, and are now paying most
enormous and vexatious Imposts on TO
reign goods and, il am moi much mis-
taken, il was for the defence of their
commerce, IN great measure, that We
embroiled ourselves with Europe and en-
gagged in the late war with England
hat aid they condescended 10 coniri-
butte, and how they discharged their duty
To the Union, IN that war, lis very we'll
known, unless, as Mr.. Smith OF s. G OBJ
serves, they have been most egregiously
slandered.
In the same paragraph she goes on TO
state, as an additional objection thai,
slaves have no voice IN the elections"
The very assignment of such an objec-
ton, as this, is, of itself, sufficient TO
show the unreasOuableness OF the demand.
| For neither women, minors, idiots, nor
| those non compOs meDtis, are allowed TO
have any voice in the elections, aud yet
who ever dreamt of excluding them from
| the calculation? She concludes the para
| graph by observing that planter pos
| sessing fifty slaves may be considered as
having thirty votes, while Farmer OF
Massachusetts having equal or greater
| property, is confined 10 single Vote
| Why did she not go one step fnriher?--
| She would then have discovered that fifty
one persons i'll Massachusetts not own
ing. all put together, more property than
would be equal in value 10 one likely
NAL slave, would have fitty-one votes,
while planter, in The south, who owned
fifty slaves, could only be considered as
having ihirty-one votes.
| On the Sd paragraph shall fOrbcar ia
| HidbS any toHubSutJ DcCdUSt UOuS can
be made that will do her any credit, al
| give me any satisfaction. | lament that
| any state IN the Union should harbour a
| Jealousy at the prosperity of her neigh
| bours, and | think IL ought TO be cOnsi
dered rather as subject of congraiula
| ton than reproach, that, under The mild
and beneficent treatment of their mas
tors, the slaves of the southern states
have increased and multiplied; and THEN
numbers been augmented. Their south
ern friends will learn with pleasure thai
| the commercial spirit oil the Eastern
| States has been crowned with success anC
has resulted in an increase of their per
sonsl property should not forget
however, that their prosperity is in some
measure due TO the conciliating DISPOSE
tons OF their sisters in the south, who
readily submitted TO an injurious discri
miuatIng tonnage duty, in order 70 encOu
rage their shipping: and 10 enormous
and very Vrxailous commercial impOsis
called projecting duties, in order to pro
mole and foster their manufactures.
In the fourth paragraph, she admits th,
right Of holding slaves over the whole ex
tent Of Louisiana, and brings il forward
as an important objection 10 the presep
provision OF the constitution fixing tn
ratio of representation. She calls lt"an rx
tensive country, which will require grea
numbers Of slaves for lis cultivation: ant
when admitted into IKE Union, agresd6w I
the cesSion. will contribute by the numbe
of its slaves, to destroy the real infiuenc
of the Eastern States in the national 60
verDment, and also in the original mod
of eIcciing the president"
in the 9th ragraph she gives into
most singular complaint. because, in pre-
ference 10 system OF internal and direC
taxation, the government had wisely an
justly resolved 10 rely, for revenue, o