Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-07-19
THE MooTED QUESTION

INF MOOIED QUESTION.
The "Vermont Chronicle" has replied 10 o,,r
questions, asking what the intentions of the North
rs 10 the subject OF slavery We shall re-pubish its
remarks, as soon as we can, with notes and COM
ments. In the mean time, we have the repeated as
surances of the MY. American the NJ " journal
of Commerce, the Worcester IEgs, the Hartford
Times that the great body of their citizens are for
leaving the Southern States to their own consttu-
tona control Of this most delicate subject The
Journal OF Commerce asserts, the "exceptions ara
TOO few TO affect or impair the correctness of the
general observation; and that they constitute but a
mere fraction of the community" The great BODY
OF the Northern Journalists reprobate the course Of
such Fanatics AS Garrison, Denson and Co. The
N. inelligencer, Baltimore Gazette, &c. deprecato
and dsclaim the plan, which has been set ON foot TO
get up panic in the Southern States. The INTEL
igencer emphatically Declares that " The interest
ana peace of,he South were never in less danger than
at this moment"
But the last North American Review sauints At n
state OF things IN that quarter which we call for
information. After stating, that the operation Of
almost all me changes going on, are in favor of the
s!aoihty OF the Union, aud specifying among these
the multiplication of the number of the States and
the Improvement of communicate by which the
distant parts are drawn nearer together and iix
citizens NIX more frequently with each otber-it
proceeds to point out the great rock on which the
Union may be iated to splt-and closes with the fol-
lowing emphatic declaration: 1la.-
"Heie the question involves interests OF paramount
magnitude; affects INN edatey the condition of half
We Omcn 1t cannot be agiatcd without shaking the
whole political fabric to its foundation. We have been
struck with aiarm,-we had almost said dsmay-at the
disposition shown by pei sons OF intelligence
ana high respectfully in this quarter encourage pro.
lects having in view the immediate abolition of slavery
not unnatural that reckless and adv
nres VINO can only acquire consequence times Of
BILE and coDiusion should such projects on foot bu, n
~ melancholy enough, that who have large share
IN the preservation OF the public rauqmilty and who act
ilabaly upon full deliberations and with the best
should be so far deluded by few specous phrases 10
end them their and influence We entreat snch
| theya dol
their before is They NAV resi- assured
ina, Tue formation aud activity OF party in this quarter
avowedly bent upon the immediate abolition of slavery
would produce in the Southern Staes feeling entirely
Incompatible with the existence Of the Union sepa.
ration o, these States we hardly need to say would be
attended with results, infinitely disastrous to the
cause OF freedom and humanity than the continuance Of
slavery as 1t now exists in this country, for Thousand
years bn Tins Is not the alternative presented The in.
snon OF slavery contains toifhin itself the principIes
as oton destruction, and tcH die natural death at
one time another Whether can he
expedited by the use OF any artificial expedients is
ceed'ngy doubtful That will be expedited by the
agitation OF projects OF immediate abolition the FREQ
states, u point that admits OF doubt and one which
we earnestly recommend TO the attention of the real
'riehds oil humanity and the country"
we agree most thoroughly with the Reviewer
upon the danger of meddling with this question.
We most solemny believe, that us soon as anv ar
tempt shall be made to touch our Constitutional
rights, the Union will inevitably fall in pieces We
deprecate, therefore, in the most earnest manner.
any such stirring of the question as the Reviewer
'P"|'iiSS' WIZ" 'Hese impressions most deeply
craven upon our minds, we once frankly call I'M
on our Editorial Brethren i'm Boston to saw ho,c far
tins statement of the N. A. Review is correct-and
what proportion these "some persons of intelligence
ana nigh responsibility in that quarter" may be es,i-
mated 10 he. Let us understand each other fairly
We sincerely trust, that these ''some" may turn out
TO he rery jep indeed-a mere miserable handful
And again we ask of the Editor of tile North Anne
can to inform us if he peases, what he means bv
the "principles of its own destruction" which we
have thrown into Italics. We ask him, lin The
frankest and most respectful terms) indeed for ipfor
nation on both the points, which we have embraced
III the present artice-and shall take the ber-
~ of accompanying this days pnper with a Note.
calling his attention to the subject,