Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-13

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Mr. GuMER Yes, sir, like good many Things tna'
tn. gentleman knows of they will come 10
and not to light. These associations ana tnelf
pots never come to the gh Of the white man. ST..
hcv Glove darkness because their deeds are eViI Inc
gentleman supposes these fanatics TO meet at INV
night and that their proceedings MY never co"' '",
| light will suppose, sir, quite suppoSaoe .as. s
tI1rv meet in Tarnmany Hail. that Temple OF hgrarians,
and Democrats, and Abo!itoniss, at noon day-hoW can
this substitute lead 10 their suppression? 1hey VIII say
we have done Virginia no wrong-Our good it'e"u Il
Cocchland, have not conlrayened your penal enact
| ments--we have printed nothing, published nothing
we have not painted engraved any pictures for Your
children old womcn-we have done quite ha:'h'eSS
! thing: we have only sent our emISsarles TO HoocN
land and have told them TO go 10 the precincts
OF the " Little Storc'-the gentleman knows where
that s-and there preach whisper our doctrines,
and sir up the spirit of freedom and all that IN your
slaves in the meeting or by the way side True,
INV friend from G6ochand may tell me, if they catch
these fellows they will bring them before certain Judge,
whose jurisdiction has been lately much extended al The
SOUTH mean Judge Lynch. But what Is that, sir:
Il is remedy in the absence of law paramount ~ order
Can these societies do nothing but PRINT and sketch PIC
trcs torsooth; Sir, the Abulonsts will laugh your
resolutions scorn-L.y wall laugh at this Legislature,
unless we eylnce determination ana pr"mptn"ss on
this subject For six weeks have we been rrc Ike the
army OF celebrated Monarc or CUUnci, Il you please,
and what have we done hut march up the hill and then
march down again lInp "chdngr has come cr the Sp-
rit of our If Virginia is what she once was, why
is it that we must take weeks and months to CONSIDER to
that ten years ago, Il Virginia Legislature would have
despatched in ten minutes: Yes SIR you remember the
time when such 4 subject would not have occupied ane
hour and yet here have bcen for many weeks post
ponng amending, committing re-conmltting, subst-
tuDg laying the table, and taking Oft the table again,
d,dgiag This way and wlnclng that aud our minds are
no, vet made up The gcnlemans (Mr. Garland OF VI
own Committee have reported, and yet he clnnot lake
their report but here with long minority report
4 bIok of books; Encyclopedia Amirr:cana-" Oh,
that ninc enemy would write book!' But trust that
my tricpd yondcr vii! never write another; or II NJ
Dies, that he will print and publish at his own cllarg"
and 10 the Grlrim"nt of the CONFERENCE.-The sir, we
shall make this commonwealth 4 book publisher. And
such books But return from this digrSsion intend
ed to have said something about the failure OF the gen.
llcmau from Goochlad to call on the Southern States
for cuupcraliou. I6cc to ask my friend from Couch
land great many questions because he answers IN such
,od humuur-though he does not always hit The subject
when nc answers. not haunted, sir, by this bug
bear Of Southern Cnnederacy, and il the mind Vi the
gentleman full OF conirdracra. how Is II, that he
never dreams about .NOrttcrn Concdcracy Cannat
the NUrl!! confederate well rs the South: The gcns
tlcinan may be willing to confederate with New York
There was once contemplated union b-tvcrn New
En- gland and the Canldas and The scheme may up
agau. He is wiling that Virginia shall belong to the
North but is Jealous Of all Southern claims upon her
Let tell that gentleman. and seriously too. that
when Southern man comes here and tells me he Is
afraid TO ask act of indemnify trom the North. on
question vital To the South I!an any other, cannot
help th!nkng-(onc m?y think without treason, you
know sir y That there is far less danger OF our seeing
Southern than Northern Concdcracy. Sir beware that
Virginia is not transposrd by hook or by crook, from
her natural ,,Stontlut she Is not lcyIS!aed and eau
cusc to The North side Of the Pnnmac Sir there is no
danger OF Southern conicdrra"irs, while many South
rrn men are found who lorc the rights and respect the
feelings of the North better ant than the rights
! and feelings of Virginia. The South has been divided,
it is divided and 1t will be censurcd so long Southern
found wiI1 fear TO See their Gown, their native
Land too strong too prosperous.
As 10 the question OF Slavery IN the District of CO.
umb!a, agree with both the report and substitute on
the constitutional point They to the effect
a:ld why Substitute fer the otlcT: The gentleman
from Isle Of Wight III his grave homily The other day on
moderation ana harmony, sad that our differences were
about mere tribes, aud that these TITLES would do
arm Allow say, that these the very differ
cnceS do harm. II there real and goUd grounds
for differing here might deliberate and trcdr and
no harm could cnsue; but when these Northern Adolf
unsts having lcir eyes lntcntiy fixed upon pro-
crcdnrs see that the Legislature of Va cannot agree upon
such Snp!c proposition as that two and l"o make
iuur"-ihat dIlirr about equivalent measures, and
dispute about ''twccdc dur, and twccdle dcc'-wIat
expect but that they will be encouraged y such
state things to prosecute their schemes with rrnIlud
vigor; These, sir, The very differences that
and vii! do harm-Eat proclaim cmphaticalIy to the
world that Virginia not What she fear,
sir, the mischief is donc-tlat We have marched and
cnuntrrnarcrd here long, that We have become Oh
ccs Of dcrISIon at tic North, aud 10 people
lrs sir the people Of Virginia have their eyes on us.
and they will desire 10 know what has kept here six
weeks, IN solemn council, upon matter winch they sell
tied IN many minutes, and on which VIZ brought
orders with The people have never been divided
this subject
There are many things sir, SHOULD like 10 say hut
il is very late a;d am unwc When had the honor
early the session. to submit the resolution To obtain
from the North that information which is much want
ed now, told it came from suspicious quarter.
We'll, sir, these resolutions come from committee,
majority Of whom the gentleman from Goochand
surely trust Sir docs he dstrust lis own corps: Is
there confidence among what Shall say-lNs
own political friends If the gentleman is sincere in
desiring unannity. let him ground his and strike
for the Old Commonwealth once morc-let him amend
the resolutions Of the Committee where they dctrc
tive to render them every thing that they ought
to be-
Before take my scat said Mr.. G. let ME call the az
tcnion of the House a remark Of Mr.. Buchanan in
the Senate OF the u. S: in presenting the petition of
some Quakcrs-not Shaking tluakers sir, but quiet
sort of Quakcrs whose works TO light; but
are ceclua nrvcrthccss.-Mr. g. says, that the qucs
ton at the North is not whether slavery must b. abolish
ed but whether shall be done hereafter; and IS
there disposition here to cite the opinions of great
men, Mr.. G.. would read an extract from 4 letter ot
distinguished individual who is candidate for The high
est Office in the peoples gift In letter which has the
name Of Martin Van Buren, at the bottom, dated Was!
ington July H. 1851, aud addressed 10 Sanue! irwin,
the writer says:
81 do not see on what authority the General Govern
ment could Interfere with the general abolition Of sla
vcfvl without 4 change OF the Constitution, even at tie
instance Of either all of the States.
In another letter to namclesS correspondent dated
Owasco September 10Th, l535, he says: The aIlrga
lions which attribute 10 Inc views and opinions that
are justly obnoxious 10 the sIaTc-hod'ng States,
are made in the face of the most explicit dcclara
tons Oil my part, denying all authority on the part
of the Federal Government, to interfere in the mat
ter against tie proprcy Of ogatng the question IN Tie
District If CUiunbia, &C. Sc, &c
Let it he remembered. that these letters published
by the friends of Mr. " b. 10 acqIm of the designs Of
which he has been suspected And what does he tell U.s.
Tha he is opposed to the agitation of abolition in the d.
I',l tlut IN II .tlIIn N
ctvcdicncE He does not up to the mark the
gentleman from Goochland cid yestcrday,-and declare