Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-01-21

Mr. b exhibited IT, and handed il 10 Senators near hnl
representing large and spreading of liberty be-
meath whose ample shade slave-owner
time luNurously reposing with slaves tanning him; at
ano'he, carried forth IN palan9un, view the half
hkeu iaoorers IN The cotton field, whom drivers, with
WHIPS were scourging to the task The print was cv
IDENTITY from the abolition mint, and him by some
other than that of the mail for the no
post mark, mark of any kind, identify its origin
ana TO indicate its line OF march. For what purpose
could such picture be intended unless to infame the
passions OF slaves? and why cngrave it, except TO null
tpy copies for extensive distributions But it was not
pictures alone tbs, operated upon the passions OF the
slaves but speeches. publications. petitions presented in
congress, and the whole machinery of abolition
ues None of these things to the understandings
oil the slaves but TO their PASSIONS all mpeIccy under
$1,000 ana inspiring vague hopes, and stimulating abor-
1--WE and fatal insurTectons. Societies especially were
inc foundation OF The greatest mischcfs Whatever
might be their Objects the slaves never did and never
cam understand them but in way; as allies organized
Tor action, and ready to march their the first sig
MAJ OF insurrection III thus that tue
san Domingo was made. The Society in Paris, Les
linus DIES Ncirs Friends of the Blacks with its affiliated
societies throughout France aud in London made that
massacre. And who composed that Society +. In The
beginning, 1t comprised the of virtue and of
wee; IL contained the best and the basest of human
kind -Laayette, and the able Gregoire those purest
OF Ph'lanhroPists and Marat and Anacarsis Chloo,z
those imps OF hell in human shape. In the end, for
al such societies the career of oegencra-
uon, the good men, Disguised with their associates
feucd from the scene, and the wicked ruled plea
sure determinations against slavery, publications in
were the mode OF proceeding; and the fish women of
raris-he said it with humiliation, because American
females had signed the petitions before us-the
hshwomen of Paris the very possards from the quays
or the Seine became the obstreperous champions of
west India emancipation. The effect pom the French
Islands known TO the world but what is not known TO
the world, not sufficiently known it, is that the same
socie ties which wrapt in flames, and drenched in blood
Tie beautiful island which then garden and now a
wilderness, the of exciting an insurrecton
upon our owncontnent,-in Louisiana where French
slave population existed, and where the language
dHttS des oirs could be understood where their ennis
saIes could glide. The knowledge of this event Mr. b
SAID ought to be better known both TO show the danger
OF these societies. however distant and though oceans
may roll between them and their victims and the fate az
the slaves who may be excited to by them
any part OF the American continent He would read the
notice OF the event from the work of Mr. Charles Gayarre
lately elected by his native State to this floor
ana whose resignation of that honor he sincerely regret
ted, and particularly for the which accustomed il
and which distracted talent from station it would
have adorned. Mr. Benton read from the work Is
sai HiStorique la Lousiane:' " The white popula-
ton oil louisiana not the only part of the popula
ton which agitated by the French re volutop he
blacks encouraged without doubt by the success which
heir race had obtained in San Domingo dreamed of H.
berry and sought TO shake off the yoke The insurrec
ton was planned at Poine Coupee, which was then an
isolated parsh and of which the number of slaves was
considerable The conspiracy took birth ON the plan
tauoh oil Mr. julien Poydras, rich planter who was
then travelling in the United States and spread itself
rapidly throughout the parish. The death of all tbe
whites was resolved-Happily the conspfrators could
not upon the day for the massacre from this
disagreement resulted QUARREL which led to the disco
very OF the plot The militia of the parish Immediately
took arms, and the Baron de Carondeet caused them
TO be supported by the troops of the line 1t was re-
solved to arrest and to punish the principal
The slaves opposed il; but they were quickly dpersd
WIN the loss OF twenty Of their number killed on The
spot FIFTY of the insurgents condemned 10 death
sixteen were executed IN different parts of the parsh
me rest were put board galley and hung at inter
walls, all along the river far New Orleans "a dis
lance of one hundred and fifty mies) The severity of
to perfect order
Resuming mis- remarks, s,T g. said he had read this
passage TO SHOW that our white population had right
70 dread nay were bound to dread the mischevous In
huence OF these societies. whenan ocean nteryen
cd ana much more when they stood upon the same he
nispiere and within the bosom of the country
lie also read show the miserable fate of their vic
ms, and 10 warn all that good and virtuous-all
that was honest, but misaken-in the three hndred ami
my affiliated societies. yauned by the in who
style themselves their executive committee md who
date from the commercial emporium ofths Union her
hgh manifesto against the Presdent-to warn them al
once TO secede from associations which whatey NAV
be their designs, have other effect than to revive
but OF the parish of Pointe Coupee.
Mr. Is went to say that these societies had already
pcrpetruted more mischief than the Joint remainder Of
az "elt H'eS spent IN prayers OF coBtrition, and in
works OF retTbution, could ever atone for. They had
thrown ne state OF the emancipation question fifty
years back They had subjected every traveller and
every emgrant, from the -slaveholdng States 10
be received with codness and viewed with suspicion
ana jealousy, In the savcholding States. They had
accustomed many slaves TO lose their lives They had
caused the deportation of many ten thousands from the
grain growing, the planting States They had cans
ed tie privileges of all to be curailed and their
bonds 10 be more tightly drawn Nor was the mis-
chiei OF their conduct confined slaves reached the
ry TO That population In all the slave States this DO
puailon has paid the forfeit of their intermediate pisi
ton and suffered prescription the instruments real
or suspected, of the abolition societies. In all those
States their exodus had either been enforced or was inn
pending. In Missouri, there clause in the Con-
sulon which prohibited their emigration TO the State:
bu mat clause had remained dead letter in the book
until the agitation produced among the slaves by the dis
tant rumbng of the abolition thunder, led TO the know
ledge IN some instances, and the belief others that
lhese people were the anennD of the aboonists and
theIr inc dun for communicating with the slaves and
Tor exciting them TO deserton FIRST 10 nsurrcction
eventually. Then ensued painful scene. The peo.
PIE met resolved, and prescribed thirty days for the
exodus Oh the obnoxious caste. Under that decree
general emigration had TO take place the commence
menL OF winter. Many worthy and industrious oeone
iorih under circumstances which rendered them objects
OF suspicion wherever they went and sealed the door
against the acquisition of friends while deprivny
them oil the protection of old ones lie Mr. d had
Witnessed many instances Of this kind, and had giyen
certificates 10 several to show that they were banshed
not Tor their offences, but for their msiortunes; for The
misfortune OF being allied 10 the which the abol
u"n societies had made the object Of their cratutous
philanthropy.
Having said thus much of the Abolition Societies in
tac non.savc holding States MIR b. turned with pride
ana cXulatIon 10 different theme-t1c couduct ~ tic
great body OF the people in all these States Before he
saw that conduct, and while the black question like
portentous cloud gathering and darkenipg on
the norm eastern horizon, lac trembled not for the
Souii, but Tor the Union He feared that he say The
i1 ""fk OF dissolution about 10 begin and the bonds
o. 'his glorious coDiederacy about snap but the cor
duct OF the great body OF the people in all the
states, quickly dspelled tina. fear, and in it's Mace
planted deep the strongest assurance Of tic hasn,onv
ana indvisbiliiy Of the Union which he had r.lt Cr