Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-09-20
RICHMOND VIRGINIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 90 1895.

you have misunderstood both the tenor and the o..
ject OF my observations
ihe African case, in which am of Counss
with The Stale, having been tie subject Of CONVEX
saiion between us, was naturally led to advert I,
the disposition to interfere with our domestic con
Germs oil that sort, which thought had been mani
Tested during the last winter at Washington
considered the resolution of Mr.. King as s.iougl,
evincng such disposition, and though, that th,
sentiments which l heard expressed, aud thos,
which understood were expressed in the case o
me hainrel, and The conversations out OF DOORS tc
which the argument OF that case gave rise, yer,
calculated 10 excite resilessness among Our color
ell population, which might be productive of the
most awful consequences. l. therefore, suggested
TO you, as had done TO Others, my opinion, tina,
these consequences ought to be met and W oulds be
most eifeciualiy avertcd, by resolssions
OF the Legislatures OF The Southern States declaring
this subject to be exclusively within their own
particular cosnizance, and asking from Congress to
abstain from iniermeddling with it, spoke TO you
OF Inc purport OF the arguments of Counsel, so far
as heard them, and of those which had been as
cribed TO the Counsel, whom did not hear. told
you that | considered the doctrines advanced as
alarming, and that, with the feeling which, as a
Southern man, they excited in me, should have
been glad OF an opportunity of replying, which the
order of the discussion did not allow 10 me; but
told you, also, that not present when the ar
gument oil the Attorney General was delivered;
ihat the Supreme Court did not sustain hese doc
uines; and expressed TO you opinion that the
Government OF the United States had any CONCERN
IN urging this discussion. could entertain no such
opinion, as had been informed that the Attorney
GENERAL had, at previous term, given up the case
ON the pat OF the Government, and that 1t was re-
tained at the Instance oil member OF the Colonial
'ion Society. had the mos, distant concep-
ton that observation oil mi could have lei
you 10 think OF intnating he Legislature that
an appeal TO arms might become necessary l had
In view, simply, decisive, but temperate, express
sion by The Legislatures of the Southern States o.
tier feelings ts subject; and so little did an
ticipaIe such course, that when suggested the
inquiry, whether you ought not 10 communicate
the subject to the Legislature at their extra session.
told you thought it unnecessary, as the re-
guar session would eccur before the meeting OF
Congress, and the Legislatures OF other States
would then be conycsed.
With this view oil ia conversation which had
WIN you, and withoot insisting, as think might
do, that you should not have drawn me before The
public, unless with my consent, nov simply
repeat, that 1 cannot agree 10 stand before that
public In the attitude IN which am placed. ifyou
can suggest any mode which can with proprie;y
adop By W hrli can retire from il, without iniu-
~ TO you, shall be grained Acquiring you, as
sent me, regret very much that this mIsconrep-
ton should have occurred at momeni when the cir
cumstanccs may, by peIrersion, be used 10 your
injury; but the views which you have rec eved
lfom this conversation, and have communicated 10
the Legislature, are so variant from those which
entertained, snd which have thought, and still
think, best calculated to rally TIE Southern States
around cause which is common 10 them all, that
cannot coasant 10 diminish The little prospect
inf hair of,I
them. - a-------l
PRAY let me hear from, you soon. and believe me
JNo. MACPHERSON BERRIEN.
Governor ThouP.
Letter from Cor. Troup to John Macpherson
BARREN.
AiILLEDGEvILLE, I'd July, 1929.
My DEAR SIR j received your letter OF the
2Sth ni, ihis morning, and sorry that any mis-
conception ofthe conversation in relation Ia TIE slave
question: should have occurred or given You the ieas
nquietude. The purport oil the conversation on
y our prt, was nothing, as understood. but re-
capiiulation of circumstances which occurred AT
Washington, public notoriety there, as ihey soon
would be every where, and the impression when
those circumstances made Oh your mind dId no!
suppose YOU further acquainted with the views oil
the General Government than these circumstance
disclosed or the opportunities which your presence
there mi ht afford you of acquiring them, inuchlcs'
with any definite or specific projects which that go
perr.ment might have in cont emplatIon; and DIS
ncty remember you 10 have said thai the decision
of the Supreme Court rad ne sanctioned the doc
rines of the Attorney General, factvery well ul-
dersl0od when the message was penned. Indeed
in all these things you are at liberty TO consult you
own memory equally good with mine; but suite
me to saw YOU have adopted very erroneous con
Z; l,aI;n fl,ats INN
been designed 10 be made, that tie particular par
of the message to which you have referred, an'
which has given ri-e to many and such liberal re
marks, was the offspring OF your suggestion, OF II
consequence OF any thing enIanaling rom yor. %
Ear from it. the disclosures made by you In TIA
conversation formed but small part oil the matte
upon which that part Of the message wac, alter ma
ture celebration, framed. assure you that
would not, on any account, that yoa should pai,i
cipate in the least degrcc the responsibility oil W
adoption and PRONUNCIATION of that sentiment no
shall any body else | claim both the idea and tn
language embodied there, as my exclusive proper
"; and, in the enjoyment Of il, do not see tia
there is much likelihood OF my suffering interTup
| tion Nevertheless, il is sentiment approved b
every Reconsideration OF it, and one which will
sedulousy impressed upon my children
That the resolution of Mr.. King, and the senti
ments you heard expressed connected win u, an
/ those which you understood were expressed III u
case of the Ralnii Ell, and the conversations out
DOORS to which the argument OF hat case gave ris
were calculated TO excite restlessness among o,
colored population, which might be productive
The most awful consequences, and your cons
dering the doctrines advanced by The Attorney CT
neral and Others, as you understood them, alarm
ing, were all the facts of any importance, aceor'
ing to nay estimate of them. 1t was well know
that shcy wee the views OF the General Govern
ment only, from which we had any thing to Tea
and wheti.e- you expressed any particular know
). edge of hose views, or not, we were al liberty
infer them from the facts disclosed. Neither in d
taiing that part Of the messsge therefore, or in d