Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-05-31
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Narery -" On subject are the Southern rco
PIE more sensitive than this, or have forborn more
till their lorbearance has been mistaken for acoui
| essence. But II is time now 10 speak out; else !,
may he TOO late, tchRh resistance becomes nece,-
| SdrY
Such Is the J0TJearipg language OF the Icadinr
article, 10y correspondent, in the last Richmond
Enquirer in discussing Mr.. Tucker of Virginia
proposition IN Congress TO coonize the free blacks
! pey ond the Rocky mountains. " When resistance
becomes necessary" Why what infatuation. what
! folly, what wickedness! Resist whom and what }
resist the discussion In, and perhaps the enactment
oy congress, OF law which shall free our country
IRON an acknowledged curse. from growing
source OF weakness, misery and crime Is this an
occasion on which Virginia would seize, to disturb
the fabric OF . government which has been. and
VIII, we trust in God, long continue to be- the in
stsument OF dtusing more widely, and securing
more eifectually, the blessings of equality and
freedom, than any that has over existeS Wise men
may differ, 10 the best mud of cffecling he rp
moval from the midst ofus,oi class fbeings who,
wlhie they remain, must ever be prescribed race
but no wise, no feeling, patriotic man, we an
prehend, can doubt oil the exPediency OF such reno,
val, If il can be effe cted
g OF the perfect right, nay of the imperative mo-
raj obligation, OF the general government to contr
butte all IN their power 10 so desirable an object we
, entertain no doubt; have we as vet seen any
certainly, or more properly, be accomplished han
that OF Mr.. King, in the Senate OF the IT, STATES
his resolution contempiates the appropriation of
tle public lands, after the public debt for the re-
dempiion OF which they are plegded, sl,aIl hive
been discharged, TO constitute fund from which IN
dsiray the expenses OF Transporting with their con-
sent, all free coloured people, and all such. az
/ by tie Jaws OF the states in which tley reside
shall hereafter becone free, beyond the limits OF
the u nited States.
Yet Tor such proposition, the mover n, been
denounced In a southern paper as q 90 hoary-beod
| cd mischief maker"-and because the Pre.i,en,
thinking possibly that to differ from Virginia was
not always 10 be wrong, has appointed that indi-
yidual TO foreign station, wholly unconpected.
certainly, with that any other question of mere
domestic policy, the slave press, feeble but malir-
nant, has opened its batteries, and censured with
out measure, an appointment, of which in other
, respects, none condeuh the fines, except indeed
perhaps the individual on whom unsoush,, unex
pected and undesired, it has been conferred
"ItIs, indeed, by the courtesy ofmankind, permit
ted to- the powerless to complain the sceptre has
departed from Judah, and those who have long
ruled must now be content to obey. The northern
policy has gained The ascendant, and it will be the
fault OF the north If that ascendant which ii seeks
| TO mania ain, as now the principles on while the
revolution was founded be not preserved
We lay the whole ofthe above article before our
readers, that they may form some idea of the
northern policy, which it conjures up, and of the
spirit in which it will be urged 1t should be
remembered, that the N. Y. American and Mr..
Walsh's Gazette both supported Mr.. Adams. at
one period Of the presidential contest, on the
ground, that he was from non-slave holding state
and favourable to the northern policY-The pub
lie then knew but little of the designs in coutem-
platoon Probably these mad cap editors were pre-
matureiy deveo ping Interior views; but they were
suddenly checked either BY the intefe ence Of the
master spirits behind the curtain or oy their own
observations Of the effect they had produced on the
public min His friends hastily abandoned thu.
ground of preference for their favorite, and dew
themselves within their shell Until he Had clutehed
his ONCE. That event being rendered certain Mr.
HuJUs hUtg the prime, mover Of the Missouri
question, introduced bis famous resolution advert
ed to above II this be a sample of what we arc
TO expect hereafter-if the North means 10 dictate
TO the South in this respect; il Mr.. u. King (ouy
Minister TO Loudon) with these bbseosious cJi-
tors, he the organs ofthose who have " gained the
ascendant; then, " indeed may 81 the power
less inhabitants Of the South, "by the courtesy
OF the government, "be permitted TO complain -
Bu, their complaints and their wrongs will unite
them, 10 man, against those who would break in
to their domestic arrangements, under the specious
preexts oil universal philanlIophy or of the public
veal.
We repeat that every intelligent and patriotic
citizen in the Slave-holdng States, freely admits
the evils Of slavery and sincerely desires to ret rid
Of them. Wehaye snxiously discussed this subject
among ourselves, and have been engaged in the
projection of schemes to accomplish The object
While we say this much, we must DENY 10 Congrsss
the power, under the Constitution, Of interferisp
on the subject. II is one Of Internal police de-
pendent as much on the muncipa regulations OF
the states the tenures by which lands are held.
or the forms by whchth they are conveyed from one
man to another. We call upon the infatuated day-
drestners Of the American 10 point out the clause
IN the constitution which gives TO Congress any
power to appropriate the public money or lands TO
such object, to interfere in relation 10 il in
any manner whatever But the Constitutional