Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-04

ner;nS IN those of the English operanses e VIC
and Continental peasantry to say shso, recent,
Of paupers crowded tsrher !" "h,c n.,or houses Be-
Sss VI HI, Of uccssant toll, too much almost io
'.s n,:u,e 10 In lure and TIC suarr"sS o! actus
want driving them almost to desG''t tapse r;e
ns cares tot the future condition OF themselves ane
their childten. So o.. :, th.o,s.
From This excess of labor this actual want ana ,nrse
dstnessinn cares our slaves entirely exempted n
Shn,lIy labor from two 10 four hours day less tnan
me operatives in other countries, anu IL has o. ~
remarked by some writer that a negro canhot oe
to iniure himself by excessive labor IL ma! =. s
eSrmed. that thew usually eat much wholesome and
substantial food in one day English operatives or
irish peasants in And regards concern tor tie
future their condition may we'll be enved even by the''
own masters. There is not upon the face OF the earth
elias. of people, high low perfectly free from,
and anxiety They know that their masters will pro-
vide for them under all circumstances, and that in the
extremity of old age instead Of being driven TO begyay
or 10 seek public charity in poor.house, they will be
comfortably accommodated and kindly treated among
their relatives and associates Cato the elder has been
cn,ded as model of Roman virtue and yet he is said to
have sold his slaves to avoid the
Of maintaining them The citizens of this State may not
aspire to rival the virtue Of the Romans bat may De
safely affirmed that they would doom to exectalion that
master who should initiate the inhuman example OF the
Roman paragon. The government of 81 ayes IS strict
" patrarchal, and produces those mutual feelings o
kindness on the part Of the and fidelity and at
tachment the part Of the slave, which can only re-,
suit from constant interchange OF good "fhces ano
which only exist in system OF domestic or pattarcha
slavery They are entirely unknown either in state of
political slavery that form Of domestic scrvitudc
which exists in all other communities.
In a word our slaves are cheerful, contented and hap
py much beyond the general condition of the human
race except where those foreign ntruders and fatal min
listers of mischief the like their arch
prototype in the garden Of Eden, and actuatrd by no
less envy have tempted them to aspire above the cond
to which they have been assigned in the order OF roV
dence.
Nor can il be admitted Of our Statesmen Ia
affirmed in mschievous and misguided spirit o! SICILY
senmenality that our system OF domestic slavery Is
curse TO the white popuation-a moral and poll evil
much to be deplored but incapable of being graduated
Let the tree be judged by its fruit More thao half a
century ago. of the most enlg htened Statesmen
who illustrated the parliamentary annals OF
Britain looking political causes with an eye pro-
found philosophy a,crhed the yh and ind"maoe spi-
rit Of liberty which distinguished the Southern colonies
to the existence Of domestic slavery; referring 20 the
annie of the free States of antiquity as
nf his theory Since those colonies have become inue
pendent States, they have amply sustained the goI VI
their primitive character. There IS no coorinS OF la"
tom, vanity in the assertion, which npart!at history
will not ratify that The principles Of rational erT,y are
not less thoroughly understood and have brco 're ~
oi,antly resolutey and effectively defended against all
Inc entertainments of power by the slave holding Staes
than by any other members of the conledcracy. In
which of our great political conflicts is it, that they have
not been arrayed against every form of uspstioR, ant
fighting under the flag of liberty Indeed is fact
of liberty, by which government is restrained within
constitutional limits have had their origin, and for
long time had their only abiding place. in the save.hod-
ing States.
clearly tes,fes If look into the elements Of which
all political communities composed, it will be found
that seryitude in for is of the essential con-
stuents.
No community ever has existed without it, and we may
confidently assert, will. In the very nature
of things there must be classes Of persons 10 discharge
all the different Offices Of society from the highest to the
lowest. Some Of these Offices regarded as Degrading
though they must and will be performed Hence these
manifold forms Of dependent servtude which produce
Of superiority in the masters employers, and Of
inferiorty the part of the servants. Where these
Offices are performed by members of the political com.
munity, dangerous element is obviously introduced
into the body polite Hence the alarming tendency to
violate the ghts Of property, by agrarian legislation,
which is beginning to be unifes. in the older States,
where universal suffrage prevails without domestic sa-
very-a tendency that will increase in the progress Of
society, with the increasing inequality of wealth. No
government is worthy the name that does not protect
the rights OF property, and enlightened people will
long submit TO such mockcry. Hence it is that in older
countries, different political orders established
eject this indispensable object and it will be fortunate
for the nouslaveholdng States, if they not in less
than quarter of century, driven TO the adoption Of
similar Ss ss employ
ments Of society performed by domestic slaves
class we'll defined By their color and entirely separated
from the political body the rights of property per
feoy secure, without the establishment Of artificial bar
rers 10 word the institution of domestic slavery sn
persedes the necessity Of order Of nobility and all thu
other appendages hereditary system OF Government
IF our slaves were emancpated, and admitted beachet
unbeached, to equal participation in politica
privileges, what commentary should furnish upur
the doctrines of the emancipationiss, and what .
voting spectacle of republican equality should
hibt 10 the mockery Of the world! No rational mac
would consent to I've in such state of society, if he
could find refuge in any other.
sla If =
evil is the of Republican edice Nc
patriot, who justly estimates our privileges, will tolerate
the idea OF emancipation at any period however remote
any conditions of pecunary advantage, however
favorable. would as soon think Of opening negutia
tion for selling the liberty Of the State once, iv
making any stpulaons for the ultimate emancipation o
slaves. So deep is my conviction this subject
that if doomed to die Immediately, after record
ing these sentiments, could say in all sincerity, ant
under all the sanctions Of christianity and patriotism
God forbid that my descendants, in the Icmoest gene
rations should live in any other than community hav
ing the institution of domestic slavery, it exstct
among the patriarchs of the primitive Church, and al
the free States of antiquity
If the Legislature should concur in these genera
views of this important element Of political and
cal SYSTEM conederatcs should be distinctly inform
ed, in any communications may have occasion tc
make to them, that in claiming to be exempted from al
foreign interference recognise dstinc ton be
tween ultimate and immediate emancipation.
II becomes necessary, in order TO ascertain the extent
danger, and the measures Of necessary
guard against it, that examine into the real motive
ultimate purposes the Abolition Societies and their pro
minent agents ToJus.fy their othcious and gra,uou
interference in our domestic afars-the most Insulting
and insolent outrage which can be offered to
nitythey profess hold themselves responsible Tor thu
pretended sin Of our domestic slavery because forso
they tolerate its existence among If they are at al
responsible for the sin Of slavery whatever that may be
is hot because they tolerate it now. because Their
the agents and authors Of its original in
PRODUCTION.
These ancestors sold the slaves and warranted the
title and it would be much becoming labor of fill
al piety for their descendants, pray for their souls
they are Protestants, and buy g. IL urn