Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-09-15

Northern cities expressing the almost seti-
men Of those cities the sau,c subject Ninetenths
lay, scarcely transcend the truth II had slid ninr
ty-nne hundfed's cf the ,od scnsr. of this
munity alone but Of the whole population of the New
England States, condemns TINT inlahuiion which sends
incendary publications iato the slave holding States, in
ducng the sltvcs 10 rise upon the families OF their
ters and causing mothers at rushing noise OF mid
night to hug clnscr the tniaut offspring Which, with b,
father and mother may be the Immediate object of
geancc, because imaedigse emancipation is denied when
immediate emancipation, IN the nature OF things, is i'm
possible.
Sir, have my recolecons on this subject which
may afford 10 you and those assembled here, faint
illustration of my meaning. Previous the sitting of
Congress- in December, 1881 visited some friends at
Georgetown within the District OF Columbia where
had resided while serving in office for few months
at the Seat of Government For the first time while
had been there, there in that city an alarm of FIRE
ai,er ,ne hour OF midnight was aninclcmen sessDn
arose from my bed, and repaired TO the of the
conhagraton. The Gre shining upon the dark clouds
made the lurid blackncss conspicuous; and in
lew moments after my arrival, the blowing up of Sc
veral casks of powder, with the falling of bricks and
other materials thrown high in the air. scattered the
lines OF persons which had just formed, and in which
stood passing buckets from the hand of one black
man TO the hand of another black 1 tarricd
nearly three hours before the FIRE got under
All this time was surprised To how few white
and how many black and colorcd persons were about
the fire. This event took place after the South
ampton tragedy in Virginia in which many whites
massacred by the blacks; and the day it
toned that large portion of the white people were
TERED from coming out to the fire in the fear of rising
OF the Blacks believing that perhaps the fire might ha
been set to further such purpose and 10
still and let their property burn encounerng the dan
ger of direct exposure to massacre lrsuch vas the fear
IN community where the whites arc much more nume-
rors than the blacks, what might we expectof other
districts of the counryand districts thinly settled
where The blacks outnumber the whites: II was in
Scorgetown, where very recently man by the of
Crandali was arrested and put in Jail prevent in
him. This man. Cranda was there for the puroose of
circulating incendiay newspapers and other publications
among the negroes declaring the negroes that their
masters and owners better than robbers and
murderes and justifyng and inviting the slaves to rid
themselves OF their tyrans and oPpressor by any
within their grasp
1t has been said and will be repeated that the p,,b
locations OF the aboitonss thousands and hundreds of
thousands of which sent without orders the slave
holding States, are innocent in themselves that they
are not intended TO excite the slaves but
10 convince and their This is not cor
reefs Tor will not be pretended that these publications.
generally dihused in the places 10 which they Mt
VIII De confined TO the white population the
seem to be intended for order ofin,ecct below
wen educated persons for If addressed TO the
rather than the reason, the most pronine ut objects
striking the eye in these newspapers and pamphlets are
disgusting pictures representing ON the one hand the
tyrant applying the lash to naked aud children
and on the other the aboonisl schoolnaster
chow to read well clothed black family These pictures
are the more disgusting because they msrepresent the
case they represent the cruelty of in perhaps
ten thousand and make that the general condition of nh
the slaves Is 1t to be wondered that the circulation
such publications should produce state in
virtuous community, ninety ia hundred whom
are entirely innocent of the charges by such
publications.; and high state of exasperaton when the
direct effect of the foul libel the slave to rid
himself OF his opPrcssor by massacrcng the whole Of
Letus make an analogous case for ourselves Sun.
pose the inhabitants of the savc-loding States should
raise money to libel our white people, that they should
both IN hieoglyphcs aud in letter print represent
our whole community as highway robbers and murder
crs, or thieves, blacklegs and sharpersthat
they should so represent to children and
ants so that they might not onlyscorn and disebey
but be taught to justify themselves in effecng their
emancipation by taking our lives: Would it be any re-
lief to feeling be told that those who ofcio1sy
I'M and
quite sincere in the belief that were actually as bad
and as cutPable as they represented US to be?
very striking illustration of the injustice which
Northern abolIonists doiRg TO the great of the
slave holders at the South about week since
at the great anti-aboton meeting ia Boston The bust
OF that man who '6Tst ia war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of his ynlen,' is placed in
Fanuei Hall, the place of the meeting Mr.. OTIS ad-
dressing the assembled citizens remarked in substance
as follows We will suppose foreigner from the leland
OF Great Britain should to this country ard ad.
dressing this meeting in favor of immediate addition
should point the bust of Washington and charee him
with the crimes of robbery and murder what would
be the sensation which such allegation would pro-
duce The statement of the called forth general
burst OF Indignation IL s we'll known that the
day that he first owned property e day of his DEATH
the greSt and good Washington the of saves
and that I've who cannot be accused either of injustice
or inhunanity, did not in his last will Deem be his
duty TO emancipate all bis slaves and only such as
would be thereby bettered in their condition. To this
day the slaves Of Washington and their are
his estate at Mount Vernon; and they eth slaves
Had they been emanciPated they might have been bet
been worse off
1t is opinion Mr.. President which have formed
alter much reflection, that immediate emancipation
would not improve the condition Of the black population
OF the Southern States. They of people in
ferior TO, and different fror the whites; min Cling with
population, it could be pected as BODY tbey
win rangein the same line They must always he below
the whites. Except they shall be in separate commu-
nifty, they will have equal Involvement for that
high grade OF moral and Intellectual worth which shall
preserve them class from the vices which pertain to
humnnity AS proof of this, look the moral cond
ton of the free blacks in the large towns where many of
the race most do congregae fact which several years
since my knowledge is conclusive proof TO me
that 1ke moral condition OF free blacks in this country
far ieFjoT to zha of the slaves. An official record kent
IN the city Of Batmore where the numhe Of slaves aud
free people of color is about equal furnished evidence
that the proportion Of deaths was, five of the latter
10 Of the former The was that in the one
case restraint prevented the indulgence of those vices
which produce disease and deatlin the other placed
by the degradation of color in the lowest class Of the
community The pride Of life made to operate as
check upon vice. and loose given TO those pro-
PensIties the fruits of wese qualification, premature
disease aad carly death.
depfecate, Mr. President the existence of slavery
IN this country; md scarcely find terms in which
to express the Indignation which feel at the cruel do.
mestc trahc which continues be carried on from the
Middle and Atlantic to the Southern and Western States
and 1errories. attfatEc ougl 10 be checked and
ats ny bellat that the strong moral petvading the
whole community of the South viii long put stop
20 the domestic it has the foreign nc liz slaves
MIR President why IL the public sympathy calleh to-
wards the slaves only? have strong feeling for the
poor but humane masteEand major part of the sieve
holders in Maryland and lower Virginia are in fact poor
men, whom the law ohEes Ia support his slaves man
woman and helpless chld-and who by the strong law
Of custom Is c'sgraced by treating his slaves with any