Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-10-05
From the Washington Gazette.
THE RECENT NEGRO PI.OT-aga

"to speak, write, and publish pamphlets
"againsi slavery the longest day he liYed-un-
" til the southern states consented to emanci-
"pate, their slaves, fer that slavery was
"great disgrace to the country"
Vide con2pirator TACK Prncers confession.
We advert with real reluctance to the
publication of the Charleston Corpo-
ton, from which the above extract is
taken. Mr.. Rufus Kings motives are
made questionable by the report of Pur-
cells confession: but he never extend
ed his views, as expressed in Congress
or elsewhere, to the emancipation OF
slaves in the southern states. 1t WAS
the limitation Of slavery, that he adyo-
Gated in the Senate, in his remarks on
| the Missouri question--it was to LIMIT
\ MORAL. MALADY, whose eaten
| sion into the immense regions beyond
the Mississippi, stretching to the shores
Of the Pacific, he was anxious to arrest
It was the reputation of our country in
the eyes OF the civilized world, that he
wished to preserve free from reproach;
which those settlers, possessed OF a hew
country, would sacrifice for speedy ac-
tNfilN'u. VI HGai'iiS ny AiIC litiOAuS-
ton of slave labar.-Was il not re-
preach to the republicans of the 10Th
Congress, to be so eager 10 add another
link to negro bondage, in an age that
proudly boasts OF It's efforts in the new
and old world to amelorate the condi-
! ion OF man Even the despotc Auto-
Graf Of Russia, has bettered the condi-
I Of vnrcais A nH chaH not n
American Senate, that Subscrbes to the
! doctrines OF the Declaration Of inas-
| Nendence, remcnstrate against the eX-
tension of an acknowledged cvii, without
bringing down Oh its bead, the dcnun-
Citations Of the interested ?-We mean
no personal reproach to the respectable
and intelligent magistrates of South
! Carolina. With the rights OF the slave
! states have never in any way intertered,
nor never shall: they are settled and
must not be disturbed: the fourth cfn-
sus shows the true interests OF the
| Union the rand growth of Ohio in
political strength, is tie best answer TO
the advocates of slave labor; there, no
citizen diadlins 10 labor, and the pursuK.
! Oh dEi iCNttuIt - siClip! D4N " 'bS A'dSN
pendent husbandn an.-ln the old states,
look at Pennsyl:ania,- with two thnds
only OF the surface ofthc Immense space
that constitutes Virginia, she counts
more national representatives than the
latter, with the addition OF her three
i.ths. The same may be said OF New
| York Slavery is the political incubus
hat sinks its possessors in the scale OF
national importance Mr.. King, one of
he Oldest and most intelligent statesmen
IN the Union, one of the surviving pa
sriots that framed the present constitu-
ton, is sensible of this : we are willing
to render every praise fer his disin-
lercstedness On the Missouri question.
The Indian population, in the hunter
state, has now dwindled into compara-
| tive insigniiicance, and, it is very proba-
| bic, will, not far hence, be supplanted,
| as contra-distinguished from the whites)
, by the Negro race: whether the United
States will be benefited by the exchange,
| remains to be determined the ungo-
vernable spirit of the former is singu~
| iarly contrastcd with the general tame-
| ness of the later; who, nevertheless,
might become dangerous if their physi-
| cal strength and situation were not Heu-
iralized by the superior intellect, and
=, formidable means Of their masters.
The Philadelphia National Gazette,
Of the 9th ult. has produced some es-
cellcni remarks on the agency, which the
Missouri question (according to the re- !,
sorts of the Charleston agistrates) had
in instisating the late negro conspiracy
in South Carolina. We did wish not to
touch the subject again, nor probably
will not; bat we think il but just aud y
fair TO extract few lines, which con-
clusively shew that the 8 Plot" cannot
correctly be attributed to the Missouri
controversy:
Z" In the authentic account, Purcell,
whose confession is converted into SO
pregnant theme, is said to. have bt 81
distinguished by the Hypocrisy which no
blended with his guilt; aud Of Vesey,
Sc in whose bosom The nefarious plot was
first engendered," ii is remarked
+" There is ample reason for believing,
that this proec, was not, with him OF
recent origin, for it was SAID he had
spoken oft, for upwards of four years"
Indeed, one of the Witnesses tesuties 10
this boast of Vesey-" We have been
meeting for four years, and'are no. yet