Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-05-10
Richmond, Friday, May 10.
THE SLAVE OuESTION-.4rnin

Richmond, Friday, May 10.
THE SLAVE QUESTION-.4gain.
The Temperance Society of Petersburg" have
taken step, which we had hoped would have been
pursued during the last week by the Temperance So.
ciety of Virginia. They have called for an express
sion OF the General Convention of the Society," which
is about to meet at Philadelphia. They ought to
step torward-lustfy themselves from the asperson,
which has been cast upon them, and nail this aspcr.
sion and its authors TO the counter.
The effort to get up an excitement i'm the South
upon this subject is still going on Is there any So
lid foundation for the fears that have been expressed
by the agitaors? Anxious were to collect the
best information the subject we addressed let
ter to n gentleman in New York, n Virginan of
great intelligence and unblemshed integrity for the
purpose of ascertaining the views of the North upon
this subject. The following is his reply His name
would be sufficient passport to the public conf
dence, If we were az liberty to communicate il:
As to the question of Northern interference tci the
eproperfy Of the SoutA truly say upon an ac.
quantance with the non-save holding States at
haps, any boast that donot believe there are
dozen persons OF any Standing in them, who would moi
regard attempt such Interference as at once uncon
sttutonal, dangerous and criminal handful of obscure
individuals might be found in Philadelphia NJ York and
Boston, who are disposed to agate the question: and who
may occasionally send into the South sheet
or pamphlet but these obscure persons when first heard
OF from the South regarded by their neisbbours as
fanatics and disurbers OF the public peace am happy
10 see That you combat the opposite opinion the En-
quirer 1t only be entertained by imagnatons ne
Wild and disordered those of tho fanatics have
described unless, indeed ii be designed TO pet mn To-
bre rritaon-an armed neutrality in the South with
view to separate coniederacy. Notification is happily
in its last agones and must expire if this quack
medy, tins false ALARM cannot be brought
tion God forbid that il should revive Ii is identical
with Secession dissolution. Our country our whole
country and nothing but our counrynow and forever
what danger il has recently escaped good foreign
warsuch as we had in 1872 one that should al
tack all our frontiers at would be trie compared
with the horrors which would follow the disruption of This
Union. How would the fragments -combine, Depend
upon ii, there would be healing the parts bu Inc
Jrst inenton-hat something more would be required
than the quack plaster OF the nuier, the
age OF the wisest statesman. Fifty border wars with
twice the number OF military Chiefs might after lone and
general decoration do something in the way of But
Great God! what Instead of great and happy
Union-ble with liberty and all of prosperity these
States would either be consolidated under one iron scepre
or reduced (Which Is probable) into several pev
despolisms-each exhausted in resources-witlout secu
y for persons or property at home, without
or respect abroad Such are the evils which the la
bours OF nuers secessionists and of this school
dfdrsfs inevitably and gnorany tend. Can such men
ever find general favour and support in the Souh'
eli the apprehension which have stigmatized he
honestly entertained by few deluded oHo,oers the err
only be attributed total ption of the
wishes and feelings OF the statesmen of the slave.
holding States These in the habit of saving TO slave
holders Slavery, which think great political and
Saa ey o aaasS%g aspy ne Sod se Be-
spect to yourselves You say, however, that among other
difficulties, you have not the pecuniary means of dimn
s1g ~ as las. as you could wish Very well those
inerere but ready unite with YOU In passinp
an act of Congress to place your disposition the whole
any part OF the proceeds of the public lands for coonz
ing or otherwise providing for all free people of colour
and OF such slaves you your Legislatures shall in m
ture voluntarily choose to manumit'
Now, what is there, in this propositon mr. in ,bo0e
overtures and Wishes to give just alarm to the Souber
States Tor the security of their peculiar propertyp Tbe
power 10 pledge The public lands TO the mitigation of the
acknowledged evil, may, may not be admitted accord
ing to different modes of constituting the Constitution
Ihat another thing But why pervert the patriotic H.
beray OF the slay holding States into wicked dc
other States'" '
Surely thisis the error of the Moon!"-The ROM
ney liiampshre county, Inelligencer states, that
"NuliIhcauon, the Proclamation, and now the TEN
DENCY of the labours of certain emancipating fana
tics in the East, the West and the South must also
he guarded against But the ENQUIRER has not dis
covered the proprety Of such a guardianship vet
whenever emancipation takes place forcibly il will
be under the influence Of fanaticsm There are
thousands OF fanatics in these United Satcs-and il
suicidal to shut our eyes and the systema-
teal arrangements now being made. The devotion
OF that paper to Martin Van Buren, may lead to re-
suits I'm the Southern States, too horrible now to be
spoken of"-Disclaning, as we positively do all
devotion to Martin Van Buren,, we calmly ask the
X lnteligencer, what has Nj. v. H. to obtain bv
agta,ing this slave question. Will he acquire one
Southern vote by it? Will he not lose every vote
by? Will he not stand scathed by the lightning OF
public indignation? He dare not make the ATTEMPT
The member of Congress who should dare las Duff
Oreen bInts) to propose the Emancipation" must
be marked for ever by the whole indignant South
d. Green still further insults the common sense OF
the people, by supposng that "some member should
propose it, and the Northern majority should sustain
the proposition" No, no, sir-the widest fanati-
cIsm could never go far. Nothing like MAORI
| ty OF the North could dare to make such an Mt
tempt Devoted as the South is to this Union. i,
would from that moment be snapped asunder No
thing could save it-and the North knows it too
well, to dream of any such proposition. The North
must first become one great bedlam, before it would
think of it,
! We have no room this morning for the comnen-
taries which letter published in the Columbia Te-
Iescope and protesting to be dieter from Eastern
Virginia-irom one whom the South has much
cause to love and to trusts calculated TO call forth
Many parts of it tissues of the grosses absurdty
LIEUT.. r. b. RANDOLPH.
The reckless and brutal assault which was made
by this man upon the President of the United States
on Monday last, has completely astounded the pub.
tic, and filled every liberal mind with the deepest
regret and mortIfcation.-Every American will fee
himself interested, and every patriot must depore
the bad effects Of this attack of ruthless violence
upon the simplicity and painness of our republican
Instltutionsfor it has been the boast of our coun-
trymen that no hired mnons protected the person
oil our President-no body guard awaited his or
ders-Ile was the choice Of the people-the pro-
perry of the people--and the respect which encir-
ri fbof r.o ,,G r. tlor