Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-10-02
Effects of lJofiEOu;SS-D iSirirt of Columbia.

The Cincinnati Gazette sketches the evils which have
already grown out of the crusade Of The Aboonisls-
upon the slaves themselves: and upon the relations be-
the North and South. it has broken in upon That
intercourse and has cnerndrrcd sectional antpalhirs
and personal anmosties -" 1t is not to be endured,
(cscaims Mr.. ianmond) that tie misd;rccted philan
thropy Of few should produce so much evil Public
sentiment is now awake to the Consequences, and it,
notwithstanding all the manifest mischief of continuing
the agitation, individuals will pcrsevcrc in it, legislation
should be posed stop them They ii subjects
for "a strait oaiscoat adrk ro0m 'e";cT gT"cI and de
plctiou.'''
The New Haven Rrgse. touches the Abolition in the
District of Columbia is 10 be the Achilles heel
Of the Party-and contends, that Congress ought
to mrddc with it, until the People Of the District them
selves call for it. II states, that "rhis is not the fist
time that this question has been up The carly abolition
lists, after they had tried the first Congress that
der the Constitution and were told by that venerable
body, that the slave question elt with the State Le
gisa!urrs, not with Congress, next began to make
experiment upon the District Of Columbia, wlcreit
admitted that Congress had the ro'ccr II was not brought
direct question until 1885, when the following
luton brought forward into the House of Rcprcscn
tatlvcs:-
RsOod That from AM after the 18th Of July al bcks and poo
pic OF c"or that all be horn within tho D'trlc, OF Columbia
whose mothers shall the property vi residing within
said District, shall he cche males at tic oI -. aad the c
males ut the ag Of -"
This resolution was rejected, ayes 81, - all The
members from Connecticut who were present, voted
against it, to wt:-S;mcon Bnid,rin, John Dnrcnror
Carim Goddard, and Roger Grs1coH. 1t will be seen
that this was not Tor immediate aDolon hc doctrine OF
the Tappanitcs) il in mild form it could have
been presented only operate such should be born
thereafter. 1t not that this large majority in
favor of slavery, did not consider 1t evbut they
were lcgslaling for the District, who nplorng
them not to intercrc-and they did not and could not
force state Of things upon that community against the
known wishes of those for whom they were lcgis-
ating They knew further: that Washington would
never have selected that district as the seat Of the
General Government, and that Virginia and Maryland
would have parted with their jurisdiction over The
territory if they could have supposed that Congress- act
ing its local Legislature, would compel it to brcorne
for the runaways from the adjoining States, and
break its domestic institutions against the wishes Of
the free people of the District. They also knew that
such interference their part, would Immediately
be followed by applications from those parts of the Dis
trict which formerly belonged to Virginia and Maryland
be coded back to those States removal Of the scat
of Government to chickering's intemnnble between the
North and the South very probably to dissolution Of
the Union, and its train of civil wars They therefore
wisely determined to adhere to the Confedcracy, it
came from the patriotic who framed t-and although
it was at time when political divisions were deep and
vvidyet on that question, all party feelings laid
upon the altar Of the Union