Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-07-31
isichmond, Va, Friday, .5s.iy 81.


isicsmond, Va, Friday, .sssiy 81.
IN Ounce Of Prevention is ,corth Pound of Clre,
We are reminded Of this homey but true adagc bv
the events now passing before eyes.
We are informed that the LIST No of sIIuman Rights
miserable dirty fanatical and actious sheet recently
published in New York from the former office of tn.
EmancIpator, was picked up Thursday last in the
cabin OF The Steamer Kentucky, on her way from Nor
folk to Richmond Reports after circulated
that the man who dropped it had to Richmond
that he the reckless foreigner who had been
nearly four years ago ynchcd in Petersburg directly
after the Southampton Insurrection-a reports were.
soon buzzed about that he had circulated several other
papers of the same description in Richmondailcr which
he had left the city in the Stanton Stage &c. SC Wish
ing to know the true state Of the facts applied to
the Mayor for information who tells us that in conse-
qnence OF statement formally made him by Justice
OF the county he sent officer down the ret
st OF the Iassengersthat he obtained the list from
Capt Chopman-that the name of R the list hut
what R, he has not been able To ascprain--and ina,
hc said TO have eit Richmond early ne xt morning
Friday The 2ih)that he (thc Mayor has seen no one
nor heard OF any one who knows any thing of the mat.
~r we nave also made tia point to enquire of Citizen
oil Richmond, who personally acquainted with r.
OF Petersburg notorietybut he has neither seen him
nor does he believe that he has been i'm the City--We
ay these circumstances before the Public, because the
reports IN question have made stir among u.s.
The last Norfolk Herald also states the following par
tculars:
"a bundle of inccnda missiles from Aboiionss' Pande
oee SS ooe Tsis a lew ys 40 e-yed AZ The Pos,
g ~ sheet i,iIed %Snhy sg r. q tnas
tendency TO excite selon population OF the
country the Object Xboii,ons as MANI e
copies the Post ce were directed L. free o. sn ~ or 80
G1oasa and all gratis person.
a I of G o. . 70 penny peroea They know
at any moment they prefer remain the laws enact
OF o Sy a isas viii ,sa them hG
q, PURPOSE to which they they Justly
.Snablo character ntcaled earthly purpose
lions Of the bco and vile scc, viii i neon mrS
gi ,HI nS abroad ,S
'ey s are ,amael VIII is view they do
inc as they are about depart the
a ~%s as oSq, o PRETTY So them T., read gentleman
S DAYS a,o with n" Ieno,s @ b she was ersng New York
e paper into her basket and thought
The hiefkc practices by agents of the Adolf
o r;, n, too plainly Sc.pcak the baseaes designs
resort and ia pursuing it, Blu, The
que remain. be States to be
the Vaccinations of these vile inccns fanatics 10
dark designs! Surely the civil authorities should be-
Publications S P sSIa 20 sss ANY
There a. we. as IN The hands OF those whom paper,
strong measures for it: preservation
we have submitted the above article to legal gen.
teman who has paid the attention to the Police
OF ihe Stateand he has given the following opinion
uon or SEIZURE OF suspicious papers, in the Post Office
lfa clerk in the Post Office knowingly delivered any
PdPcIsto negro, To whom addressed
vised negroes to rebel &c the question might raise
whether his duties clerk, protected him against the
operation OF our Laws, against the circulation of such
paPPGors
&c, advising persons of colour make insurrecton
&c or to circulate such books &c. If oath were made
before Magistrate, that X Y had written such hooks
Me and % had them in his possession might be
se'1e lhe books c On this point the act explicit
and IN this 1T is defective The law docs not make
penal, to have in possession such hooks &c"
we think 1t clear that if there be any defect in the
law OF police, this in any other point connected
WIN the same subject ought to be corrected MS soon as
possible. We hope the will look into il
and act accordingly. But in the mean time we feel
our duty TO state that no Post Master ought to give out
snch ncendlary papers, that addressed any man
of coor-and if he knowingly does So he ought 10 he
prosecuted and punished.-ln a word we repeat what
was said in the last paper:
s'As for the South ii is bound 10 kccp nm ovo ,,o,
their movements-to watch all suspicious strangers1to
detect and punish all their emissaries and all those who
would circulate their abonnable papers We call upon
to support them"
AS 70 the prints which the Fanatics have established
IN N York they are almost too contemplate for notice
lhey are the ebulons of insane or /iischicyous in
ccndaries They calculated To produce The dcenest
Indignation among all liberal and rejecting men in the
North-Ihe Mohawk (N. " Courier of the Odd inst
thus speaks Of i'll
90 We have received the first No of n publication on
titled Human Rights that has been rot up by those mad
caps the abolihonss in York. for the purpose of sti
further lnhamng public opinion a subject which the
more u IS agitated the will be the situation of
those for whose interests they pretended to labor viz
inc slaves we cannot doubt but that the public mind
is so near right this matter that the incendore bo
have been the gcersup of that paper will he fiIed in
their attempts TO breed disturbance Their bold and nm
suPportabe assertions, and their nammatory appeals tn
INC pr}uuces OF the people ought to condemn them in
the estimation of every ordinarily prudent and sensible
man Some writer has well observed that whocyer
knowingly Propagaes a prejudice wilfully saps the
iouhdaton oil hs country strength"