Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-06

education aud habit But Dr. Charming las other OPT
Mons Of us, which Coming with the gospel III his hand
to adnonsh Tor good,) lie thinks proper to
announce to in these words 81 approach more deli.
cate subject and which shall not enlarge. To own
the persons OF Others: TO hold females IN slavery, IS He-
ccssarily fatal to the purity OF people That unpro'
tcctrd females, stripped by their degraded condition; OF
seltIespect should be used to minister to other
passions than the love of gain next to Imeri-
table. Accordingly, i'll such community, the rrlns are
given to youthful RIGHTEOUSNESS. Youth, every where
pcrils, these circumstances urged to vice with
terrible power And the evil stop at youth.
Early ccntiuusncss fruitful OF crime mature life.
How far the obligation TO con jugal fidelity The sacred
ness of domestic rs will be revercd amidst such habits
such temptations, such facilities to vice, involved
in slavery needs exposition. So terrible is the
ncXiun oil crimes! They, who invade the domestic
rights Of uhcTS, suile. in their own homes. The house
hold of the slave may br broken up arbitrarily hy the
Master; but lie nGs his revenge, if revenge he asks in
the bl gt which the master uniailhluincss sheds
his own domestic joys. a *rc c"nntry reckS rM iicen
tiOuSncss. is tainted Nth dtGdltcr TtStcnec Than
the PtdgHc
am not going 10 enter into refuation Of these i'm.
putatuns the rcasonngs they founded on shall
content myself with declaring my conscientious belief,
that there society existing on the globe in which
the virtue Of conuea fidelity, IN man we'll woman,
and The happiness of domestic life, general than
in the slave holding States | can find apology for
Dr. Cha:inng's errors otopnon in apology he makes
for the OF others "As the intellect IN graspng
one Iu often loses its hold Of Others and by giving
one LEA, So lNe moral
sense, Selling particular exercise Of rllanhro-
py, orgets other duties, and will even violate many n
purtan prrccrts in its elgcrness, TO carry into
Perfection Bu, find apology for his publ
cation OF such opinions of his slave holding i"Iowcili
Surely he think that is calculated
ci!istc favorable hearing from OF his arguments,
and adt,om;ons: The Tarpans and the Garrisons
have never [that know of approached US with ANY
harsh"r L" v.,upc:ation and Dr.. Claiming, loo, must
expect to reap he has sowcd." But to the rea.
sonahiencss OF The opinion that a slave country is
reekng with liccnliousncss, that " it is tainted with
dead!r. rcstcnce than the plague, is it possible tina!
Dr. Claiming believe that there is less temptation
of the kind he speaks of in the Northern towns than in
our Southern slave holding country: Are they, too,
tainted with pestilencc deadcr llan the plaguc:-
Has he read the authentic accounts Of the opera.
tires CT England, touching their mpurity, in the very
particular as to which he mpugns ours: And does he
notwithstanding ascribe this pestence deadlier than
the plague to the existence of domestic slavery among
us hope and believe that the operatives in own
manufacturing States are in far happier aud more elc
waited condition, moral and intellectual.
Dr. Charming adds what is, possibly, yet more often
sve us, and revolving TO others. He says But the
worst is not told consequence of criminal connex
ions, many master has children born into slavery OF