Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-11-14

tot he found in all the rest of the Common esh pu'
together hi, table manifested a reduction In nine years
oil the entire population OF 1920, by 1891 souls: fact
which he mos, confidently believed to he untrue He
would undertake. to that the county OF Lououn had
NAV pe,'oh sustained no loss oil white population. aud
fariax very little. many.-Anohsr error OF almost
equal extent had occurred in the same statement in
adding TO the population of Augusta number equal 10
that which had been taken from Loudoun. Abandon
ing the conclusions TO he from table so inaccu-
rate, Mr. Mercer said he would 20 back 10 the CEN
of 1920 in which he ,hnt the w hite nm
ulaton west OF the Blue Ridge bore very nearly tho
same ratio to the white population below that noun
taiu that the number Of persons in the one territory
charged the and-books Of 1926 with xes on ousr-
'ity 81 land not les than 25 a or part Of
lot in town established by law, bore the same des-
cripon OF persons in the othc The first ratio being
nearly that OF 20 TO 49, and the second that OF 80 53
While the third table reported the number VI
West oil the same mountain. who charged with
state tax on movable property the 1928 to bo
ls079: and the number OF persons East Of it, charged ia
the same year. with the same tax. to be SIS 5I4.
ih' ratio may be expressed with sufficient accura-
cy by 40 to %, aud corresponds nearly with of
50 3d. the ratio of the of lands aud lots. in
these tco districts, aud Of 25 So that Of the white
population Of the districts that with little errora
common measure may be assumed for these three pro-
portions That measure would express both the rsa-
1--WE proportion OF the white population above and below
this natural division OF the Commonwealth, and OF ths
legal voters OF the same districts. Inferng from tho
identity OF these three proportions between the free in
habitants and the propieors of real and able
W in these extensive territories of the CONFERENCE.-The
the like identity throue hout the r minute divisions
shall consider myself in tho sequel OF my argument n
sustaining, at the same time, The position of my honor
able friend rom Norfolk, and that of the Legislative
Committee.
In entering upon is, las, which propose TO consider
bu': ny tar the mor ,po' tant enquiry Of the many,
which have arisen in the progress Of this debate into
e t'gh OF mo nalorry 81 any society 10 govern it,
iind myself embarrassed by the very simplicity Of the
truth, have 10 maintain. What il ob,cure may bs
explained what is perplcxed, Olsen anglcd, may
he detected, aU alsrhood exposed. But the mind is
surprised, by the denial of principle universally adj
miitcd and at loss prove what for ages one has
had the sngulirity, or the temrrity to question.
,,II a. II.
be admitted aay longer that in fact exis';
whatever proposition we advance, the basis of
reasoning, must bc proved.
The natural equality of man is written on his heart
and stamped upon his vsage by the author of his being
AFTER ate, whose express image" lac wa. made.
While other animals look 10 the earth;
Os hoaisi sublime de III al sideya tollero rutus-
His rights spring from his affections and his wants and
these he derived from Coll the author of his nature.
He cannot exist out OF society, because society
al TO his existence His first atoms those hus
band and father That period, which in other animals
is short, OF dependence parents care is in man
protrac'ed for purposes the most beneficent. The
infant gathers his first instruction in his mothers lap.
His best virtues lac imbibes from fathers care mo-
theirs tenderness, When age overcomes the parent the
repays with Kindness the Kindness he has received
IL the cruch drops from the feeble grasp Of his SIRE he
picks IL AMI restores it to his trembling hand. Pat
ricsm t. but flial love enlarged. When we think Of
our country, we dwell on the memory of our early
years, the forms Of those who being and
we visit their remains. AMI FROM the uncoascouS urn
imb,bo anew the inspira ton Of their virtues Does
not the savage cherish these are sons? The Tartar
wanders over the ntermnabs plains OF Asia from eli
mate to climate, accompanied by his focks and herds,
the Indian Of America ro,m through forests, yet
wild. But they revisit the tombs OF their
and their children the story of their de eds
Are not these natural afe cons at the foundation Of
all he moral rights and duties Of man?
sympathy, is il not natural to to the ercga-
riohs animals whom he gathers around him, Out of
these feelings spring the elements Of society.
j. there no property known to savage life' Even
the bird defends her rest. the lion does HE don the
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ter decorate, his with the fur Of the animals he
has killed and stores away in time ofpenty the prov
sons which season Of want may require. He has his
bow and arrows for the mountain deer, aud when he ap
proaches the water side, his and for the fn
tribe. In contempt Of danger armed with rude in
srumsn's he raverses the land and the water under
the influence the same feelings which prompt The CT
vilzed man to build permanent Installations, to till the
land, and TO lay The fruits of autumn for the neces
stiles OF winter. How labor and property be sepa-
rated Property il at the fruit and the spring Of
labor. The author ofthe Essay the Human Under
sanling, in his treatise Civil Government tells us
emphHticay tina; he means, by property, to denote
the liie liberty aud all the possessions OF man.
own that / was shocked. said Mr.. NJ when In
opening the grammar Of The law first the phrase
I" Rights of things" OF Rights to things I could rea-
Oily conceive. Though things are external to man,
and may be detached from him, yet the right to them
Is inseparaby connected with his natural well
cAl condition. and is personal his right to loeomo-
on the exercise of which suppo,es control over the
objects around, and consequently without himself.
Fit he conended that this early condition Of nan IL
MT state Of nature, hut Of society, ] am content
since tia which he not bound 10 ACKNOWLEDGE
superior right, in another, TO control his conduct
The existence Of the rights which he enjoys supposes
corresDnnhent obiga on his part TO respect the
similar rights Of others, and hence the equality Of right
common TO all
The insecurity AMI inconvenis attendant on such
state OF existence would render ~ Of ransient dura
ton; and nature who has given faculties man which
susceptible OF improvement, and made their exer-
cise conducive 10 his happiness be supposed TO
have designed his continuance in state unified for
their cultivation.
lis condition, however. in which not Locke only
but all morsl. and nearly all political writers, have sup
posed 10 exist, for the sake Of establishing by the
light of his moral well as his political rights and
obligations Upon the basis the treatises t,at
have been made upon tina law of and of nations
which bu, the Just pr ccai application, sovereign
States of those rul which appern 20 the relations
Of in state Of nature Vattel Pounds his code OF
duces the equality Of independent states from the same
independent man
trust shall he psrdoncd for saying that have been
alarmed, well az shocked, at the ievity with which
The great apostle Of Eaglish liberty and hs doctrines
have been treated by the greater part OF adverse
ries in this debate.
They rep-o,ch Ne with dsrid the wisdom of p,st
ages in the pursuit of novel doctrines, while they claim
for themselves be wiser than their fathers who adi
cd with vcnoraion the political philosophy Of Locke
and cmboliedi its maxims in their constitutions of go.
Vermont
He wrote, " seems Constitution for Carolina and
borrowed Tor his titulAr distinctions Of
and German origin" Caciques and Landgraves"-