Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-06-18

without becoming in our opinion "a sensible man.
so, General jackson may partake Of the hospitality oil
the Yankees without mbibing their political Notions
" Think Of that, Master Brooks"
ENGLISH EMANCIPATION.
We recommend 10 our readers, to read the proei
of Emancipation, which the British Ministers have
proposed for the West Indies. We shall lay be-
Tore them the various scenes of this evcnttul drama
as they are presented to us 1t is subject in which
the whole United States, and particularly the South
may be deeply concerned. Far better would il be
for the English Ministers to carry through those Re
forms, which they understand, al their own
doors, than gigantic scheme like the present,
which they cannot touch without mischief Ii is
meddlng with evil to which il is almost impos-
sble for the wsest aud most experienced to APP
ply the remedy. Ii is exercising a power i'm the
dearest points, the lives and fortunes of thou
sands, when those who affected by their
measures unable TO regulate or control them.--
Almost every American Editor, who has yet noticed
and criticised this premature and bungling plan of
Emancipation, has expressed the same sentiment
on this the other side of the Potomac--but the
following structures of The II. lnelligencer express
so distinctly views of the matter, that for
once we are happy borrow from the columns of
that paper:
"l the object ever TO he attained at least, we nppre
hend will no, be by legislation the part persons
representing, i'll any material degree, the interest
ed upon, and moi sufficiently informed OF s nature DO
able 10 legisae upon it inelligenty and provdcny.
ny 'n,s CLASS OF persons however the scheme OF the
reign News in tho paper OF today, has been obviously
devised. An ignorance OF the actual condition oil the
Toured slave population through the whole OF il, The
possession the part Of the negroes OF incllig and
habits OF reflection is implied TO extent not
ted by FACTS The change proposed in their condition
lie, bes'es, too sudden. The requisiton the master
to make weekly payments. SC. is not suited to the
dion oil an agricultural community, in which slave labor
l. extensively employed Planters cannot in the nature
oil things, make weekly payments il is well if they
pay, year, the debts which they necessarily con-
tract Tor the maintenance OF themselves and plantations.
"lhere are other objections this scheme. There ia,
in ac an Inherent and insolnbe difficulty in the iegisa-
ton concerning slave holders and their property by those
who are not only slave holders themselves. cannot
be made to comprehend the nature OF that relation For
That very reason IL that, in framing the Constitution
oil The United States. that subject was lett exclusively
TO the legislation of the several States, that the Congress
OF all the States touch without paipahle usur
patton oil the reserved rights OF the States and the Peo-
pie The several States alone, within which this class
population exists. could act upon it, anrorae il.
condition. with the least probability OF doing good,
deed OF avoiding to do mischief The silence OF the Com
uton Of the United States that subject therefore
a wise one"