Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-02
Eaeels Of qEolaioniste- Dislrirt of 6,ol.,ulin

The Cincinnati Gazette sketches the evils which have
already grown out of the crusade of the Abolitionss
upon the slaves themselves and upon the relations be-
tween the North and South IL has broken i'm upon that
intercourse, "and has engendcred sectional auDathies
and personal anmosities. ' 1t is not to be endured
(eScaIms MIR. fammond) that the nisdirected ph;an.
throPy OF few should produce much evil Public
sentiment is awake 10 the consequences and IL
Notwithstanding all the manifest mischief of continuing
the agitation, individuals will persevere in it, Legislation
should be lnterposed 10 stop them They are fit subjects
for "a strait caiSeodt, dayk room acater Cruel and DC
pietiOn'
The New Haven Register touches the Abol,ion /, ,be
District OF Columbia which is to be the Achilles heel
OF the Party-an contends, that Congress ought never
TO NEEDLE with it, until the People of the District te,
selves call for it, 1t states that This is not the FIST
time that this question has been up The carly abolition
sts after they had tried the first Congress that met un
der the Constitution, and were told by that venerable
BODY mat the slave question left with the State Lee
gisatures, not with Congress- next began 10 make an
experiment upon the District of Columbia where n was
admitted That Congress had the Poee Ii not brought
u direct question until 1906 when the following reso
luton was brough forward into the House OF Repres
"Roioea That and after the 9TH ofJuy all black,
pie OF color tna' s9 DO born within tho District Of Columbus
al D,s shall be reshc males tho age Of aud the To-
Ths resolution rejected ayes 81 noes H. all the
members from Connecticut who were present, voted
Catcin GOddard and Rogcr Grisroid 1t will be seen
that this not for Immediate abolition 0e doctrine of
the loppan'les) II was IN as mild form it could have
Ocen presented only TO operate such should be born
thereafter 1T not that this large majority were in
favor OF slavery, did not consider Il an eyibut they
were legslating for the District, who were mploriny
them not TO intercrcand they did not and could not
force state Of things upon that community aoains the
known wishes of those fer whom they were legis-
lating They knew further, that Washington would
never have selected that district as the seat of the
General Government, and that Virginia and MARYLAND
would never have parted with their Jurisdiction over the
territory, if they coud have supposed that Congress act
ing as It's local Legislature, would compel il 10 become
resort for the runaways from the adjoining States and
break up its domestic institutions against the wishes Of
the free people OF the District. They also knew that
such an interference on their part would Immediately
be followed by applications from those parts of lie D;s
rct which formerly belonged to Virginia and Marvand
to be coded back IN those States removal of The seal
Of Government to chickering's intcrninube between the
North and the South, very probably to dissolution Of
the Union, and its train of civil wars They tbereG,rc
wisely determined to adhere to the Confederacv ag II
came from the patriotic who framed itapd aitbonb
Il was at time when political divisions were deem and
yiyidyet on that question, all party feelings were laid
upon the altar Of the Union"