Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-26

The -Ns,o Coaliiion.--The two Poles have met ia.
geiher at the Equaor-The champions of Modification
ana oil TIE dmeriedn System, have coaesced together
against the administration There is remarkable
proof certainly that the Nul6ers and the Nationals arc
IN concert on certain points. In the House. the friends
Oh MT calhoun voted with those of Mr. Clay In favor of
Gales * Ses,on-ln the Senate, the friends Of Mr. CLAW
returned the compliment. and voted in Dull Green.
, an Anecdote.-when Governor Floyd sent into the
House the late Correspondence from the Hon. b. w
Leigh, our Commissioner the Government of Sonfh
Caroiina-most Of the auditors smiled at the srsng.nes
and the righteousness Of the expression one of lilo
by-standers observed with great simplicity Whv-L
thought Mr. Leigh had gone Charleston In South "a
roma! What can the Governor mcaui'
PASSENGERS NEWS.
passenger states, that the Tariff Bill passed the so
nate on Saturday by majority OF or votes.
We have letter from Washington down to Saturday
night, o'clock which states that the Senate were en
IN session ON the Tariff, and probable cu would
pass some bill. Warm work is expected in the r. nj
during The present week IL expected that the Ju-
dietary Bll would pass, Tariff or no-and correspon-
ucn', VINO has the best OF most
den believes, that the President will nothing bill or
no b, to give any just cause of alarm. Every assurance
had been given that he would not.
Since writing the above we under stand letters fiom
asiing'on State that Cays amended Tain bill passed,
to its third reading-(anoter versitp is II passed lis tbs
reaing) by majority Of THAT its speaking opponents
were Wilkins, Dallas Benton Buckner and peILsos Cly
ton Its fate is doubtful in the House though il MAS g.
nerally expe' ted to be defeated passenger states lis
IN the H. OF II. on Saturday Yeplanck's 6ll was Iorcea
out OF place by the Revenue Collection Bill by vote oa
liz to 6o-perlaps waiting for Gays bill.
| AZ We would publish with great pleasure tho Can,
munication fom An Officer the cd Regimen, y 10
there were the shtes expectation that the jflifia RIFE
could De acted on during the present session-But has
been laid upon the table.
We feel some hesitation in publishing the follow.
ing article at this time, though the fine abilities of
the writer will do no discredit the Newspapers,
but tle times wear SO portentous aspect that il
would seem every way best to settle the great af-
fairs of the country, before we agitate apy other To-
pcs.-We shall publish in few days similar sy
nopss of MIR. Dews celebrated coun,erpart) pam
phet-and then shall close our columns for the
present to the subject
FOR ENQUIRER
Ii perhaps not generally known as il ought 10 h.
that an article on the Slave Question appeared the las,
number oil the American Quarterly Review (or December
1922 going TO shew that slavery is the essential hin
drance TO The prosperity Of the slave holding States w
particular reference TO Virginia. We sincerely rejoice
mat 1t is about TO be circulated by lis publication in panph-
lie, form, which has just been done in Richmond by MIR
Thomas w. White, PIP. 49,
! Ii is preiced by extract from the Richmond Wl;
oil Jan 81 mentioning the Review in of eulogy and
designating as the author Jesse Burton Harr,on Esq
late oil Virginia. Of New Orleans; whom il speats
as gentleman destined reflect honor upon his native
soil, and to elevate the American reputation"
In tins opinion we presume all will concur, who will
take the trouble 10 read the Review and that il NAV be
read, is the object of the present notice.
we presume then TO call the attention Of the public TO
1t, on The ground that to the advocates OF the eradication
Of slavery the author presents, in humble opnon pre-
csey The correct view oil the evil and its remedy while
TO It's opponents he holds nothing calculated To arouse
their feelings CRATE against their preiudices single
remark which he makes in the WILL we think es
taoiish both these assertions We fix our expecta-
tons so much on legislative enacnents as far as the.s
are compulsory and proceed only from division in the
minds OF men, deprecate them. But we direct Our
antcpaons the general will OF the people Of the State
Let reason and persuasion be the instruments of promono
voluntary actcn Until not merely majority I'm ;
majority, OF the ireemen OF Virginia convinced per
suaded, moved 10 demand liberation from the ruin that ia
consuming the land there will be unworthy rudeness and
indecorun III bringing i'll the violence OF new statute
to begin the work OF purification."-p. 6.
The object o the Reviewer is, by awakening the peo-
pie OF Virginia Of their real situation TO effect
gauuai out eventually an entire revolution in the seni-
ment OF the State this tremendous subject Whatever
IDEAS might have been entertained before the late debate
III the Virginia Legislature, presume that now no
doubt exists that the only for attaining the great
end in view. is TO put. and keep operation moral
causes which will result in unanmiy of sentiment and
consequent unity of action.
Any other course will not only fail TO advance but must
inevitably delay the result by raising up in hostile
the prejudices and mistaken Interests of the peope K
one step IN this work. the Reviewer ventures TO re
what, in the language of Milton he calls the .I;oon
! 'ehaIceu rum mat SfdUeTy rs epH. How deepIv
notifying is the consideration that in land like ours
such position should be for
ed "a land set apart by Providence for the hes grow N,
OF manhoodwhcre magma charta the petition of right,
the H"beas Corpus the Bill OF Rights last but great
est the profession in their fitness sincerity Of The
grand Uahscedan rights oil reason aud nature of iber-
~ and equality, TO have their deepest roots land
| the worlds refuge and the worlds hope!'-pp rs
Yet not only is it " discountenanced" but tho nubIio
mind is carefully turned in the opposite direction with
out however positive assertion common
mat slavery blessing W. mysfied by spccula-
uons about certain climates wherein slave labor is mora
productive than free laborwe battered by the era-
iuous assumption OF the high standard comfort i'm Vir
snlhnay II has been limited that her system of agricuI
lure Improving And all convince the people of yir
gina against the evidence of their senses and their
own experience that the State is prospeng and TO in
duce them thence 10 adopt for themselves the conclu,ion
that slave laboris the best they employ.
" we state, Says the Reviewer, D. 10 "as the result
OF extensive enquiry embracing the last fifteen wear,
That very great proportion OF the larger plantations with
from Do 10 100 slaves actually bring their propetor in
debt at the end OF short of years. notyhs andin
what would once in Virginia have deemed very sheer
economy that much the larger part of the considerable
lana holders are content IL they barely their ant
uon expenses without loss Of capita and that oil those
who make any proh IL will in but rare instance.
average more than TO and half per cent on the
capital invested The is materially varied with
The smaller proprietors. MIR. Randolph of Roanoke
whose sayings have generally the raciness and the
ruin OF proverbs has repeatedly said in Congress- that
The time was coming when the masters would run away
from the slaves, and be advertised by them in the public
papers" r
With such facts Universally acknow lodged or (hati
worse) JeH, IS 1t not nOckery TO aik OF high standard
OF comfort, or OF improved agrcuure2 Iri
not ale TO attempt to draw of the from fact palma
by existing by phosophzing about the comparative pro.
MS ot slave AID free labor determined by distance.
from iho Equa'or? Whether Virginia be- according TO tho
theory, within without the fatal boundary We ali see
We a dep'oro the Prosraton OF her ptoperilyte des.
PAIR ana consequent emigration Of her sos-the decay Of
her vital resOurcestle exhaustion of her Iauls-h- DO