Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-02
Va, Friday, Oct. =.
MOVEMENTS M THE NORJy

MOVEMENTS IN THE NORTH
meeting of the citizens of Rochester, who are on
posed TO the conduct of certain individuals TN, North
ern States, relative to the immediate abolition of the
slaves, and who consider it question belonging excu
the 2ith inst. The call is signed by $50 citizens
numerous meeting OF the inhabitants of the town of
R'ehand Oscego county was held in the village of Pu
aski, the ] lh ins the Hon. Hiram uubbcll in IN.
Chair, and p ii. Turner Secretary Strong and pert
nent resolutions reported by James A. Davis Esq
and unanimously adopted after addresses irsm Mcssrs
Davis, M. Dunbar, jr, NJ w Matthews j. j. Petit IN.
Rev f. S Fuller and others. We take few extracts .
Resssef That we wholly di:aPpoye OF the nucd by
which sho1J esis, aaons citizens tho community, 10
lled lives shed their blood in cause to asiye
Reorei, That the slave as il exist, NJ
tho south ami in all The 'vs holding states and Tho
the slave aud the slave 10 The master which exclusively be-
non States have poIealo moral
M ksio Ssa, That foreign enssarcs whose bushes. it
mon, ~ % and onSas ssonten, among our citizens
10 ip sGd ,h", every ;ood sca SHOULD own with
use every lawful means to bring them aud their aors
meeting of the citizens of Chenango county New
YORK, has been called by So citizens, to drnounce Ahnl
Inc Editor OF the Norwich Journal, in that coun-
ty, thus strongly states the
"lNaEDiArE AnoLIToNIsrs.--We rejoice to perceive
that the great of the North taking decided
STAND against the fanatics, who would let loose horde
OF sensual and nfnriated savagcs murder our white
brethren of the South. The different cities VILLAGES
anu counties in this State and New England hold
ing meetings, denouncng the inccndaries who if
united TO proceed will produce a dissolution of the
Union, and probably civil Such result is inc VII
table ScIf-preservaton is the first law of nature And
no man VIII stand by and his family butchcrcd in
cold blood, without resistance. No will look tame.
y on and see publications circulated among his slaves
calculated TO excite them TO insurrcction and blood
shed They should not do it, and of the North OUGHT
not TO expect it, If mails continue TO made The
vehicles oil conveyanccs for such ncendary publications
as have recently been TO the South the South vii
all unite intercept the mails, and proclaim non.inter
course with the North We shall not be permitted TO en-
ter their territory travellers without passports Com
mercal communication will be interrupted and in short
the Y mon will be no moro. md can we blame them )
should we not, under similar circumstances act in pre-
ciseiy the same manner'-U quest ionably Wbatever
may be our opinions upon the abstract question of slave
~ they have nothing to do with the question before us
congress has not the power TO interfere. individual
States have no right To interfere with the internal regu
ations of their neighbors Nor have the esens of one
ther to instruction. This question is one fraupht
with more danger TO the existence of the Republic than
any which has arisen since the adoption of the Federal
constitution; and we should meet it patriots
with hrinncss and decision. We should show TO our
brethren OF the South that in earnest nd that we
will not suffer them TO be sacrificed by the wild fana
clsm OF our own misguided, hcaress and wicked CT
t%ens or foreign emissaiies who have richly merted an
efeoGtion which we hope they may live TO receive
~ VIII be seen by notice in the Journal that a
meeting is called upon the subject in this county We
hope there wlbc general attendance and that the peo
pie of Chenango will speak decsively"
But, the other hand have seem with profound
ndiSnation movement making TO get up State Conren-
h0n IN ~ York An address has just been published i'm
the Utica "Standard $50 The Friends of Ianicdiae qLo
ttion IN the State Of Nco York" signed by 10 ndivi
duals in Utica; Ii in Romc 20 in Westmoreland; in
Clinton; in New Hartford; in Whitesboro'; 20 in
Oneida county, of whom II sign themselves Rererend'
IN Jefferson county; Rec. in Otsego county, 10 in
Fayetteville, Onondago county, of which are Rer 81
in Perry, tennessee county; 20 in Warsaw Gennessee
county; 20 in Palmyra; 3inMaccdon . i'm Farminpton
n Lagrange, Gennessee county; in Covington; 81 in
CASTLE, Gen. county; in tennessee CO !; in PORTAGE
Allegheny CO.; A in Auburn; in Angelica Alleglanv
CO.. Rev. in Fowlcrvlle, Livingston CO.. 10 in LEROY
Gennessee co.. in Iicrkimer co; 80 in Rochester; In
penhcld; gin Pennington; in Pittsford; in Riga in
Henrietta; in Chill; in Wheatland; in Greece in
Sweden; in Churchvile; in Brighton; IA in Lock
port IL in Albany, 5 of them Rcrerends; in Troy;
In Hudson; "a in Poughkcepsic; Is in New York; and
in Millevillc These ninriaed Fanatics have fixed
on the 2lst October the day of meeting at Utica for
the purpose of forming State Anti Slavery Society for
the State of New York--and they invite all Anti Sla
very Societies. and all persons in the State and out of
the State, TO attend the Convention.
This is an outrageous proposition to be made Mt This
time, and in that State We that the rood peone
OF New York will arrest it, Are these madmcu dee.
rately bent mischief? We trust then that we slnn
sec what virtue there is in the laws of the State-ne
N u Evening Star promises to publish the handful
the contents Of which have sketched above-and TO
publish along with it 'he draft of law TO be laid be-
fore the Northern Legislatures eectually terminate
these encroachments on Southern rights"