Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-11
ro rAG EDIYoAs oF YmE E.NornER.

LusESHURe. County Aug %, 1885.
Gentlemen: Permit me 10 occupy small portion of
your paper with few remarks subject personal IN
MYSELF yet OF importance sufficient as think 10 isti.
y me In asking that favor have been surprised and
pancd, since lett my home, about ten DAYS ago to
learn That II had been rumored in some nelhborhoods
through winch have passed, that an ylJoiitionil
Lto Is tins SANDER calculated 10 gain credit with
any persons who know me, havc yet thought il duty
to myself, well TO the cause, in ylsch
IN The most positive and public to contradict H.
~ on the SouU Side, where am best known and shere
have always lived, could be found bs snorph to
orgnas ealuinny foil, silly srougii 10 believe
tale so improbable what reason could Lavo In sun,osc
thlt would be- disbelieycd in portions of our Stnfe
where avn comparatively Stranger And we all know
nov rapidly such rumors fly through the land in mo-
nents oil excitement like the present will not satsfv
myself with bare dislvowal of the fact fl might well
be said, that the FirginaD who was base enough Ia ain,
Parr'c1ai dow at the Bosom Of his native State would
pe 'PsIalnrd ny no nice sense OF honor duty from
denial Of his guilt 1 will therefore 90 further /
%l aiSProy@ TIE base ca'unny by reference facts
known To al who know in the region i'm which 4
i've, and to familiar prncipesof human nature
Who Among my sandefcIs supposcs that a person of
Ordinary understanding acquainted with things as they
exist among us, and DESTROYS ISomOle the Interest Of
virginia, or the happiness either OF master or slave
could be an aboonsi; Now, which or these anfidoics
70 ihceHdary Pncpcss wanting IN my case TO say
'it nn 10 i0ol, as IT IS ltying claim 10 cxraordi.
nary powcfs Of intellect Justly DO ccnsured az
VAN boasiing Nor do suppose that can be consi.
dercd arrogant Tor 10 Affirm HAT my present station
no less than the decent standing long maintained III
I've Bar, in honorable and friendly competition yyiiI,
many gentlemen Of profound esrnino and lrJjsnt
q respectable portion Of understanding On the banks
Of The James River FIRST tle light Of day Here
IN the midst o dense slave population, my lr now Of
nearly forty years length has with the exception of
two years, been spent II then have had the uppor.
tuniiy and posscss The capacity learn the true inter.
c5is oi my native state c indifferent 10 those in
tefess % am governed in ihe least degree either by
the naser Or ibe nobcT principles Of our common ma
tufef could not apply the match and escape before
the explosion was felt am not On the language Of
an old writer light 10 run away" My interests are
identified with thoae Of ny native State. Ny oil of
property, which, II II be hut little, is still my oil, is
vested in real estate and slaves IN virginia Here
have wife and children dcpr to me- those Of olher
husbands and parents a. them Here I have ten
brothers and sisters most of them heads Of families and
many other cherished and honored relatives and friends
without, an exception, for | rcc0llcct these
are all slave holders III then am at al Influenced by
seifiniercst II roy heart IS w the least degree alive
70 The charities Of kindred friendship or country IL is
impossible for 10 be aboiitonisi u is supposed
that under ths Influence Of that spurious plian-
tbropy which rusbss 10 the a,tssonen Of spccious
ends regardless Of the havoc with which 10 whole pro