The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-08-09

thfse p."I'.,,r,, =, Africa i clearly ma. %
es'epsh ,,s.ervatiun of the Jaws asd'H>'
<il+s this' 'n' ,.,,,reS Congress 10 Keep an
III sla't ,,,.,s aud rec ptufed Africans a
arfned ~ al by gpy srnmaIit with 4 ieshs"e'
ngh'Y nf .uppoff mine aoiohY. t''s -.
anu u !, may clearly render. Il = ,h7
tb,t The fist motion IA e'"s -,
20 ea,,.,re and patronage oil 'iis A., p,,,
r'l s,e;.tx was made and III geo oy u ~,
w, ,lsi6 vii only aad 10 ''''s' 80.
aop| ,,',snt haYe appropriated mohsy ,'..,.;aa
h,t.r the clause 81 Tue -. -.
,or which such grant as inc 7'1i' -,
I'D take rcfng ; AID thai, "i,e" - =, - a.
Wou'u -, II I should he 10TH indeed, 10 oe-
nay PEI 1alic.tion of some funf to tins truly
n"a = "a desirable purpose. But, II We are
pa,''o", al from TINS fuller treasn y, aud tnihN
% W -, will not be ultimately dehieh os 'oh-
u'' have Grill great reliance on the eScne-
RiesS' ,ho STATES. aud on those nu'noefless
qiVi ~ ,,r,y ,te beneyolenca which, thohSh
have long ll,ved OF, have MOI yen eN.a"s.
Wv h cl,e.s of good mems hearts. Again II
'tee, said haiti IS impfachcaeie because 'h'
n' niacLs will not 90; but I e society mas n""
..odant proof OF the contrary oi ihs. hany
hsen always p rssingto so.and, turing 'he
,,;,te, the free people of color N Baltimore,
"' .. ,sv .xoeptnns, joined IN petition 10 their
,aoislaure, prtying m ans OF dfPaf ere.
If these objections, with various others
-, heen. within the last year. urged on the
.a,nlc of Yirgiaia, nv one, VINO, II men DC sup
IA from recent occurrences, must nav oeen
- with unusual deierence Par "oh'a II DC
s, me to treat with dsrespect the vaganes
ybich beg,nled, r hope successfully i've 'e nous
us Of sickness and old age % to SPEAK WIN
W. Ina, rood lnimor of the busting yaai'y,
:. .,.lfa Ia III n
y ,nnoin,n,eni and long elect. has al las p nr-
,,y'lf ant IN ,one incessant petty stred u, rip
s.,r aver every little pebble, and babnlmg as IT
r,ns with vastly more pompthan an arm oil the
80, v,re this vanity q lite harmless faf would
t.l.,ass he from nv mind towards sucll Pc
~, n,rtieniarIy one who has some clains TOR
- t,lent. and past services. ! should b. con-
q, =, choose my own reading, aud 10 letNo nm
y, the no doubt gratifying p3insa' 81 his CIV :
~ort, without akng this brief notice D ~,
,or. mere not an iliiberallty, a btterhess II
heortyi,be in his attack this Society Too gross
=, mort forbearance Yet should not think the
sociefy in danger from the writings oil an author
MISC truths are truiSms. never doubted bni
yls,n ma /. to es on irr lie a II reas 1nlng iikr
bis and never IN danger OF disbelief except iron,
the contagious faacies which he associates WIN
them whose novelties are pneriliies, AMI whose
ma ,swerableness may truly say lies IN tie M
r-minabe length of his washy ESSAYS, where
neither flavor, nor strensih, nor inviting mud
nes, is-had il not pleased wisernen than as TO
.xat him to "A station wherein such hostile Spl-
rit his fear bodies US no good. do not hest
nteto say. that since the DAYS Of the Revolution,
there have been no sentiments uttered IN VWgi-
MIA 50 plainly contradictory 10 every principle IT
GENERAL liberty and every fundamental postulate
al political philosophy as those avowed by this
ner,o1 ON this subject, and by that othe Virgil
man who declared die seif-eyidnnt Truth lha' all
mn are BY nature free aud equal. IN the sease
which il bears IN the Decialdt on of lndepend.
snre of course To be most psrnicions
fdienood in as Official pare AL "nHre
dd the farae lear4 his new degrees
ur learned them in deep retirement from pnlal-
cal life IN that retirement, which forces on innst
mrn finer aud itmtr confI fence IN the gener-
oIs maxin,s At the bottom of free governmeni
and expands The mind with hope Of the ultimate
freedom u every people. bet hia1 WHO to'afs
thu essential connr xi0n between dep political
w,siyn ia retired did age anl the piacId ddtu-
s,.eness of hrncvoence. go into the closet OF
Montpelier aud behold the author of the Rspot
Of ol IA volume tru. in every line. aud nnsaE
pissed tor lis logic, by Barrow, OF the severity
afIa Pace, } aud ne Will hnd life vet in lis Ella
wlch once was love of country enlarged lon
Sace into that emotion which boasts MT nun M
@ieuuH ii as once absorbed Nv events OF asIna |
sllce and hriefer time now d.lated To be WITH
scarce any exaggeraton thoughts that wander
Trough All L 1ilaT TIM. Active life Is too APP 10
xnGncu If pfiuci3lcs To parilcnl'rS, bur the specu
Et'ye moments 10 which retirement invites,
rise them up to umiversas in well balanced
minds | ply, ind Aed, that man who retires from
action, having been avefse tarough life to read
iug, and condemned To the company OF his owa
though Shcatno,e thoughts lie Ia Is shrinking
III mo a Ieaner ana more starved system o.
exclusive nncharitabrness. This sage objects
uaurplan that inasmucn rs il will directly or N
directly remotely or nearly, make somr opening
tur rs to emalcpate our slaves, we arr little bet
ter tnan ncen1iares, certainly Missionaries, IA
uatcs and, he declares, mat we need not distress
our couscicnces now, nor IN ans generation 10
auRe as far 5 see, about theirslayery, for tina,
they are better Oft than the lnborerS Of Europe.
Now, the deductions from this proposition.
when used agans the innocent plan OF the So
Getty, think are these. Wherever the OPP
presson Suffered by a class of men in your
government is not greater than the misery
10 whcl the poor IN pther countries are
liable, the oppressor may rest always salts
lied merit that It 4 not contrary 10 the theory
ei free government IN force men TO certain de
s'adton, provided you Think jhey would proba-
by not escape q misery as great If left 10 their
tee viii n ~, that well ted save is less de-
graded being than freeman who in a thiekly
settled country i, forced rely on his own hands
tor his bread. which he may not always be able to
cam, though the latter may choose ms occupa-
ton add choose his employer, and has the beue-
INT Of bein" able to rise 10 the seat nearest The
throne ncr'. that foreign governments could not
b. niamedii the were TO make slaves ofsuch as
are called the common laborers, giving them 10
ni@tcr, vino would feed them and thereby pro-
mote their happiness MIR. President, tins is of
d. very essence of eSpotism and could he
brought To use this rgnment to satisfy Virginia
niat she may well keep her slaves always,
should he gracelcss to pretend that believed in
any single principle offree government |, 100,
an glad ii THEN condition is soitened by hnma-
hl, and while We are obliged 10 keep them tins
ia glad reflection But, then, when the necas.
sly Shall cease. he who THINKS it will then be
agool argument, would nave justified the Afri'