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

prosecuted, OF whatever name, my symp,thies ara
Pledged and especially TO those who prosecuted
cause substantially good | would not for worlds
utter word TO justify the violence recently offered TO
party, composed very much of men blamee,s in
me, aud holding the doctrine of nonresstance in
lurcs; and OF women, exemplary in their various re-
ations, and acting, however, mistakenly from bene-
VIOLENT and pious impulses OF the aboltonists know
very few; but a,u bound TO say Of these that honor
them for their strength of principle, their sympathy
with their ellowceaures, and their active goodness
AS party, they are sngularly free from political and
religious sectarianism, and have been distinguished
by the absence of management, calculation and world
~ wisdom That they tAey haze ecer proposed dc
sired tnSurrectio ciotenee among e staccs there
no TO 6eiierc. .3u er principles repel tic sup
position"
'The prosecutions which the aboli,onis,s have suf
fered and still suffer-" What prosecutions! Docs DR.
Claiming aludc TO the onaium Eonorun that
all peaceful means should be adopted aay the rising
exclementn the South and to the known causes
OF irration Or does he allude the interference of
the people of Boston, and in other Northern towns to
dispense their meetings held it would SEEM by way of
bravado, in defiance of the known public sense of the
mischief they doing? Or does he allude TO the
few white men who hanged in Mississippi last
summer, ON the charge of actually melting
Did those really belong the society of abolition
lists? Or does DIR. Claiming only mean TO give his
counenanee to the cry of persecution that has been
raised by the abolonsts, without knowing what they
well know that the cry Of persecution, if they can raise
II with success will give them strength? There
is believe that they have ever proposed or
desired insurrccuon violence among the slaves If
Dr. Claiming had said there reason to believe
that they have ever avowed such purpose he would
nave uouDt; but nj had
the incendary papers, of all kinds, which they poured
into tho South during the last summer am quite sure
he himself would not have required any other evidence
OF the malgnity and crimlnaity of their purposes.
But cannot help doubling whether DR.. Claiming il
sufficiently informed upon this subject to be capable of
judging what publications are incendiary in their
dency 1t hard TO doubt the sincerity of his profess
sions of charity towards his slave holding fellow citizens
OF tho South 1t is yet harder to disust earnest dis
clalmer OF intention, in what lie publishes in his own
book to act at all the minds of the slaves
and have not the heart to feel such doubt disrust
HIM will not, ! cannot But | ask the attention of
the Senate to the following passage in his work which
is one out of many of the like temper that might be
quoted We have thus that a human being cannot
righu!ly he held and used property No legislation
not that fall countries worlds could make him So Lei
his be lad down as first, fundamental truth Let us
hold II fast, as most sacred, precious truth Let US
old IL last against all CUSTOMS all laws all rank wealth
and power. Let 1T be armed with the whole authority
of the civilized and Christian world" Now, If Df
Charming does not know that such language this is
IN ITS nature and tendency incendary, insist that he
ought not TO write upon any subject he little under
stands; and If he did know it-but that cannot will
not beheve-l am not, and will not permit myself Ia
be wanting in heartfelt charity toward him. however
cold must be his charity towards depraved benp as
ne probably suspects me to be- in common with all
Southern slave holders Does he think that these doe
rnes of his reach the the negro race
If thought so, if did believe that they have al
ready reached them should not have repeated them in
this place.
DIR. Claiming Processes in the beginning of his book
to address HIMSELF not TO the slave but TO the master
race: " IL is not says he by personal direct action
on the mind of the slave that we can do him rood =
Our concern is with the free-Wth the free we are To
plead his cause And, towards the close of the work
~ the advice he gives TO the of removin
slavery, he says yet formally How slav
shall be removed is question for the slave holder and
one which he alone fully answer He alone has an
intimate knowledge OF the character and habits of the
slaves, to which the of emancipation should he
carefully adapted General views and principles may
and should be suggested Mt disance but the mode
oi applying them be understood only by those who
dwell on the spot where the evil exists To the slave
holder belongs the duty of settling and employing the
In M 10Th " L..
right of interference, do we desire it," And in
the chapter which he devotes the correction of the
errors OF the aboltioniss (who doubt not understand
The end they are aiming at and the best adapted
TO the end rather better than their moniior he av
ne adoption oil the common system of agitation by the
aootonlsts mas proved signally unsuccessful From
ne beginning, created alarm IN tie cOnsiderute and
strengthened Me sympatcs of The free States lcith The
Shareholder. 1t made converts of few indiyid,ni.
but alicnated multitudes Its influences M Tho SoL
has been evil without mixture 1t has stirred up bitter
passions and fierce fanaticsm which have shut every
ear ana every heart against its arguments and persua-
sions These effects the to be deplored be-
cause the hope of freedom the slave lies chiefly in
the dispositions OF his master The aJolionist proposed
indeed to eonrert the siarchoiderS and for tbs end he
approached them 10Th ouperatton and erhausted on them
dc Uoea6nary Of abuse Ind he has reaped as he o,osd
HIS vehement pleadngs for the slaves have been an
swered by wilder ones from the slave holder and
what's worse deliberate delences of slavery have bee
sent forth, in the spirit the dark ages and in defiance
OF the moral convictions and feelings of the christian
and civilized world. Thus, with good purposes NOTHING
seems to have been gained. Perhaps (hough am
n
: the cause of freedom and humanity
Now, let US see how DIR. Claiming practices the pro
cePts he delivers TO the aboltonists aud how (nroess
ing to address himself to his slave holding feIow-ct
zens) he avoids the he imputes TO them In the
st place. he says and that too by way of analogy for
u.s. and as motive of charity towards us that "a man
born among slaves, accustomed to this relation from his
BIRTH taught its necessity by venerated parents associat-
ing 1t with all whom he reVeres too familiar with IFS
Evils To see and feel their magnitude hardly be
pected to look slavery appears to more npar-
lal and distant Observers This is only an expresso
OF the common opinion of the abolitioniss in England
ana America that they, who have experience on the
SUBJECT are better able to comprehend the evil and To
devise the corrective than any person born bred md
living IN slavc-holdng country; because though we
nave better opportunities of informaon our minds ire
necessarily conded by interest, and the prejudces of
education and habit But DR.. Channng has other o,i
mons of US, which Coming with the gospel in b hand
10 admonsh US Tor our good he thinks proper To
announce TO us in these words 9" approach more deli
cate SUBJECT and ono on which shall enlarge Too,vn
Tic persons OF others, to hold females i'm slavery is ne
cessarily fatal to the purity of a people That unnro
eceu ienacs stripped by their degraded condition o
woman sseliespect, should be used TO minister 10 other
passions IN men than the love of gain is xxi TO inev
table Accordingly, in such a community lie reins arc
gwen TO youthful RIGHTEOUSNESS Youth everv ,yLe,,
~ peTis is IN these circumstances urged TO vice with
terrible power. And the evil cannot stop at yontb
early RIGHTEOUSNESS is fruitful of crime in mature life
How lar tie obligation TO coniuga fidelity the sacred
such temptations, such facilities to vice. as are Involved
IN slavery needs no exposition SO terrible is the CON
nexion OF crimes! They, who invade the domestic
ghts OF others, suiler IN their homes The hose
lod OF the slave may be broken up arbitrarily y the
master; but lac finds his revenge If revenue he asks in
NE blight which the master unaithfunees sheds over
bis own domestic joys n siGUe c0antru rees rim Le,n
o"SneSs. 10 IS tainted o deadiier yeSftsnce ttan
Nc Ptague"
am not going to enter into refutaon Of these i'm.
lutatons, the reasouinps the are G,pud,d ~, III