Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-18

case than twas then When all was alarm and excite
ment around youw hen 6rebands were scattered among
you from abroad through various means-whcn Rich.
mona the Metropolis and the County i'm which il stands
were Gazing ineetngs-wben the vigilant and watchful
mayor was taking steps of prccauton and prevention
against the spread of such Immediately nm
der your eye il not your duty and
simultaneously To come and arouse all the other more
INSTANT parts oil the State to the watcncss and
Precauton and not 10 lay in the rear To- have
your public and official duties pointed out TO yvn by in
ierors though more valuable subaerns in public trust
yuiiols IN .r"s,woriness' Was it not your imme
o S.a,e ouy, TO demonstrate most strongly with those
states where those Intermediates with our rights and
interests are, as Gov Giles most properly did and par
ucuariy To let your warning voice To ali foreyn
s0ns on that head be heard prevent TN. uusyoidoL.
necessity of another "Alicn Law (Which Won once So
much reprobaedl being Introduced? What was then
Jour course or rather your that alarming
SUBJECT You did not renew and fight over your
predecessor, Governor Barbours famous battie of Me
ocus You fingered in the rear and did not lead the
raa!!! ~
Are not these, sir, serious and anlcntablr facts,-
Nhcn SO large proportion Of your fellow citizens were
arousing to their safety and defence MAS il moi
passing strange that you should have stood with your
arms folded and apparently indifferent amidst the awful
courage, as TO treat all danger with contempt and con-
every body else as oroons and dastards who
were guarding against the worst OF such superior he
roisi, however you have yet given mann decisre
Pro9fs, that have ever yet heard !
Our laws on these subjects, true pretty stron
put what avaiet strong laws the execution of which is
IN weak and feeble hands /; Gov. Runnels of Missis.
sPp, IKE Gov Giles, of Virginia. paid proper
and respect TO such laws and both did their duty under
them Are your duties less mpc rave than either ma
even than both OF them? Besides all these powcrin
calls on you that have described, my know
edge some OF these nccndary publications have been
enclosed to you by persons receiving them from the
North through the Post Offices while none that we hear
OF, were SO enclosed to Gov Giles and it is impossible
you can nave tailed to have seen the and daring
their boosted increasing anxarcs and secret AGENTS
the South-nay, many publications. lately among
selves, and still going on
What did we learn from the warning voice-the Fare
well Address of the Father of his country on the sub
jcc OF selfcrcated Societies within our oyernmenta
What from the patriotic and ilustrous Jefferson on the
same SUBJECT lie even refused TO join the Society for
the Civilization of the Indians though no one ever was
more in favor of the object.
But the AboItonists themselves object to one Society
the Colonization Society-though not for the same
reasons the foregoing lustrious patriots objected to all
selfcreated Societies for, that would condcmnin
themselves For what then, object Kidding US of as
many free people of color possible if not to
the dinution of their hosts for particular Interior ext
gencies? Pray sir your eyes the Wing of the
9th inst-See an article there signed II. K.-Enquire
who said III. X. is, and then ask yourself if there
Is not cause to look seriously into the boards of
young Northern Priests that are overrunnnp the
South and are to be joined here by such arnies of
native priests and their deluded white and black follow
ers, that publication clearly threatens IL is trulv Ia
compelled to take strong and sautary our
own saety--when, as i'll the of rejecting all manu-
features from all the Northern manufacturing Abolition
towns like TO be driven also the necessity of
expcng all priests manufactured in the same decterous
nthospheres beyond certain lIne-when IL shall be
thought odous and highly derogatory for any South
erner to subscribe for and take the Journals of certain
description printed in the kind of atmospleres and
more especially those printed among ourseves-when
such threateners H. X. shall be taught more agree
able language, or remain Il little more mute !!
But will not occupy too much of your Excecncy's
precious Time In the set-out | will pause a while to
catch your certain disposition understand your real
course, if that be practicable. If you cannot redeem
yourself from the doubts which hang in impcnetra-
Bile clouds over your whole public, and political life
advise you to the patriotic retirement of the dis.
tnguished Jefferson from station which you have not
more political strength in your intellectual pnons to
rise up TO- than he had of military qualities (by his ow
honest coniession) to meet the cxgenccs of the times
then sadly Porcntous, they now, particularly
beiOced South.
Afier atordng you such reasonable nay, most ample
me 10 make known your and ulterior purposes
may then resume the subject nd give your origin (an
honorable oneO the qualities of your talents natural
scholastic and professional with your political princ
PIES you e1er had any, separate and apart from
tam considerations and things which shall
make plain and conspicuous-your Communication to
The last Virginia Assembly, with all its strength of bit
ieIness and vapIdy of effect in its assaults the Fedc-
raj Administration founded contradctcd
by the Auditor OF Virginia. in your ranks of oppo-
siuon to that Administrations. But again advise YOU
avail yourself of your right Of resignation the only
efficient ingredient within your whole composition
save yourself from the most heavy and ovcrwhe lining
popular denunciaon that ever fell on a Vrginian
shall probably pause aoi you till your he xt
lion TO the Assembly of Virginia.
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