Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-08

Do you wish to know who the greatest orator that
the United states has produced. We shall answer that
Patrick Henry, the Mack siase,heider is the man Do
you ask who it that selected to make the De-
ciara,on OF Independence Ne shall answer that il
was the haes sare-hoider Richard Henry lee DO YOU
ASK who penn~d that celebrated Declaration We shall
point 10 the haeh Stare holder jefferson Do you wish
10 Know who was selected 10 head the armies of Aner
Gu 10 make good tins Declaration We shall tell Won
mat At was Me back sare-hoider Hasaispton DO YOU
ask who is rnpa,ically called the Father of has con
Try! IL IL ths slave -ioldcr-Do YOU AJAX who
drew the first rrittcn Constitution which hss o,ro. H.
served as model for all the State Constitutions, w.
.aii tell you that i, the ttoe Aoier George
.aas"". wish you to know vino is properly the
father OF the Constitution of the United States IL is
i- hack STARE holder Jaass .iadson--When the B,ut
S' Tue Unit states was irst chartered it declared
ny hS virluous Madison. that the govcrnmen of the
o"trd States was no longer OF enumerated and
specific powers, but it had become at best, a mixed
monarchy Upon the erection oi this charter had grown
up the doctrine of safe recedents the most diaboca
doetrine that can disgrace free People Do you ask
VINO fas given check 10 This doctrine aud has put down
the most odions monopoly t;e guaed at pleasure
the value OF property IN any country? We shall tell
you that II is the black stare holder 4ndre,c nd
uo you believe that you can shew us such among
inc white siavers OF the North You will not pretend
mat you can Whenever the cabinet or in the field on
tue greatest and most important crises in the history OF
the u 81 the national exisencr al stake in the mo-
henis oil peril and danger the eye has turned
10 the block sidre-ho'der.
VIII you compare the females of the slave States
with those OF the white slave States? They will assurcd
not suffer by the comparison. For purity of sentiment
Tor snbnity OF character for devotion TO family conn
Wy ana 10 Dou, they VIII not yield the f-
males OF the North, or Of any other country-And will
the Southern STAKEHOLDER permit the quiet and happ
ness 81 his hesde ID be thus continually harrassrd
NO, he VIII notWithin very short time we shall see
regular associations, resembling those of the Old Man of
the Mounain: shall the term assassin when used
IN new sense lcse much of its odium-We shall see
regular rewards offered for the bodies or heads of these
incendarics; and shall these rewards regularly
offered by the Governors of the Southern States by i
sislause enactment These are not visionary dreams:
they are the suggestions of many of the vrtuos and the
humane OF the Southern country. The people OF the
south VIII not consent to live state of perpetual
hry VIII not consent that This of things shall
continue as is. Let then the WISE the good the vir-
,uoas oil The North apply the proper remedy Let them
oy legislative enactment, punish the Northern Abolition
is just as they would the incendiary the murderer the
traitor They surely do it; they least make e
effort Let us wait until the meeting of the next Leis.
laurcs of the Northern States; meanwhile let them he
called by the dieren, Executives the South 10 take
this matter into consideration. But above all let the
people OF the Southern States their own rights
us soon as they discover that the Northern States Shall
want The ability, The ciinati0n apply aud honcsifv
ereenfe such laws will prevent this constant harrass
Inent of our feelings
have iorborne for the present. advert TO some of
the a more important and probable consequences which
must cnsue if this state of things shall contnue-ifth the
North shall make itself party the conduct of the
Abolonsts, by the failure pass laws which shall he
honestly erecuied and which shall erctualy suppress
the Abolitionists. CHANriIi,Y
august 2S, 1885.