Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-01
FOR THE EArOJyJPEp

-, FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Mr.. PRINTER-Wil you be so good as TO answer me
one or two plain questions?I know you are civil man.
and as am an old acquaintance of yours though NAV be
You don't remember me, III be so bold as TO make free
VIII you tell what the Assembly is doing? From vba,
can learn I'm afraid all is going wel-there is so
nucn reading IN your newspaper which see only
ana men, that can't get hold of tho right end of the
unread am sometimes puzzled TO know whether the
speeches are made in Congress or in our Assembly |
aoh give myself much trouble about Congress, because
US ne mineral government supports itself, every body
Knows and costs the people nothing, which, think is
very good plan, and never myself with that
uncle oa as they call him, has tax-gatherer q al
ways hated the sight of one and that is think sui
cIent reason why every body should be friend 10 the
ohlon: lhey say the Assembly is going our ne
BroeS ree winch don't believes and though know thew
are trying 1t in Congress- Pm we shall be too hard
Tor them. don't think Old Hickory, God bless him! will
let Them do that seeing how he owns some negroes
HIMSELF and il he didn't, vould be all oneso Pm easv
on mat score But got into great rage, like blockhead
am last week. reading some speeches that abused Old
virginia all sorts OF ways-sayng the people were law
nnd worthless; and country poor and worn OUT and
that our negroes ought to be set free make the white
people work harder; and thew had as rood RIGHT IN
he free as we had, and all ta-and really thought be-
cause Mecklcnburg mentioned so often the speeches
were made IN our Assembly, but soon found out my
mistake and might have known first there were more
Meckienburgs than one in the world; and found these
speeches were made by the Yankee members of Congress-
as was natural enough, Tor which, have doubt they
were well peppered, especially by the Georgans and Ca
rohhans-those are hot-tempered fellows guess as the
man with the wooden clocks says, if somebody won't
name, from the South sde had been there they would
have been little shy in speaking such words But
oughtn mt you, when you print a speech always TO saw at
the top where it made? Now should mt trouble YOU
but my nciglibor, Lawyer -, is gone TO the Assem-
sembiy-hc would always tell me the meaning of these
things 10 be sure he is but Indifferent sort of far
mer; and have noticed who fond of fishing is
APT TO be So he's certainly wordy man, and of course
good hand at making laws therefore always vote
Tor nun, but he's shocking manager a plantation.
know me Assembly won't set the negroes free this winter
nut VIII they do ii at all do you think? own man and
ms wife, and their five children, earned by hard work and
his biggest daughter just going TO get married. b If the
ypar N
TIN latn, though donO TO be free shall sion IT,
Tor can't afford to raise free negroes; and the hussy
must go to New Orleans, though it will go hard with us
TO part with her. for she's my wes pet and her
mother would be DISTRESS and she's been brought up az
may say almost as one OF the family Another neighbour
c Ooi jones' VINO has right good plantation, and fifty
or sixty negroes talks sometimes about things in
general and he's for emancipation and colonization and
them kind Of things. But don't much mind the Colonel
inough nc Is snooth-ta&ing manand don't you think
I'm right! He had mill that little out of repair
from neglcct,-indeed, ruin, as one may say-so
he bad to rebuild it, And where do YOU think he nut his
mill Two miles at least the site of the old one
steep bank, where there was not one teaspoon full
of water | couldn't help asking him what was his rea-
son. Oh (said he) we have taken the level and YOU
see there will he little work in turning the stream
said nothing but though don't understand taking levels
my eye don't often deceive about plantation work of any
kind, and knew he'd find tougher job than he coun-
tea onand sure enough the water hant got to the mill
ye and won't before il rOs down, which will be long
nst wo or three years ago. just after he back
from we" fork-or he's great traveller to the North,
ana nkes every thing here mighty-he told me of an
improved breed Of sheep of Mr.. Paterson of Boston,
that had the finest and most glossy COATS i'm the world
nbeep WIN hair said Colonel, instead Of wool Exact.
~ says ne m TO have ram; and you please Hughes,
you may turn half dozen of your owes in NV field NO
August what says !, with ram tfat has hair and not
wool-ii do, Colonel. may be - An oath will some
times slip out tho know it's wrong See him first says
he. don't want to him, says FIN for sticLing II
the WOOL Colonel" have been thinking If our nosros
were seng away orr lands would be nightly like tbe
sheep without wool But the Coloners getting good
deal behind hand in the world-yct he's going to SET his
negroes free the Sheriff don't stop it, He saws nc sba
have white laborers, tho ] can't tell where HEN GO
them-noti in these parts, reckon; and they'll be cheso
er, he says and he can make more money on his plan
taton Than he does now. Colonel, says I, the whit,
jaborers must be better fed, and clothed, and lodged