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

have their night meetings often as they like Pre-
vent them from printing, and their plans aud schemes
eau do injury-canuot be brought to iisht
MIR. GiLMre Yes, sir like good many things that
'ie gcn'eman knows OF, they will come TO darkness,
anu not To light These associations and their neiarous
plots, never come to the light of the white man. sir |
They love darkncss because their deeds are evil The
gentleman supposes these fanatics meet at mid |
night aud that their proceedings may never come 10
nght wh' suppose, SIR, quite snpposable case that
they meet IN Tammany Hall, that Temple of grarians
ana Democrats, and Aboitionists, at dayhow can
TINS substitute lead To their suppression They will say
we have done Virginia no wrongOur good freud Il
'roochand we have not contravcned your penal enact
ments--we have printed nothing, published nothing
we have not painted or engraved any pictures for your
children or old women-we have done quite harmless
thing we have only sent emissares To Coocl
land and we have told them go 10 the precincts
of the Z" Little Store"-the gentleman knows where
that is--and there preach or whisper our doctrines
and STIR up the spirit OF freedom and all that in your
slaves, IN tue meeting or by the way side True
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 10 order
Gag these societies do nothing but print and sketch MIC
lures iorsooh Sir, The Abolitoniss will laugh your
resolutions to scorn-thcy will laugh this Legislature
unless we evlnce determination and pronDtnpss ON
TINS SUBJECT For six weeks have been here like Tho
arhy OF celebrated Monarch Colonel it you please
and What have done but up the hill and tben
march downagan! limo .change has come CIR the spi
rit OF our Virginia what she once yvns vv
Is that take weeks and months TO csnsder -,
latter to hesitate to talk about doing nothing on subject
mat, zen years ago. Virginia Legislature would have
despatched In ten minutes Yes sir Won re,uember tho
time when such subject would not have occupied one
hour and yet here we have been, for many weeks post
poning amending, committing. re-committiny subs,
tuung laying on the table, and taking oil the table again
lodging this way, and wincng that and our minds are
no. ye. made up The gentlenans MIR. Garland of NJ
own COMMITTEE have reported aud yet he cannot take
their report but here with long minority rcnor,
a, book oi books; an Encyclopedias Au,cricana-s'O Oh
that mine enemy would write book - But trus, thai
my Jrteqd yonder will write another: or If ,e
uoes, That he viii print and publish at his own CHARGE
anu not to The detment of the wealth Sir we
commonwealth bl;sha AMI
such books But To from this dgresson intend
ed to have said something about the f5ure of Inc an
iean from Goochland 10 call the Southern states
Tor cooperation lore TO ask my friend from, Cooch
au great many questions, because lac in such
good humour-though he does always hit the subject
when he answers. l am not haunted sir by this bug
bear OF Southern Coniederacy and IL the mind of t5
gentleman is So full of concderacies how is IL that no
never dreams about N5rihorn Confederacv Cam,
the North confederate well the Soutb5 The ,r.nz
s osniah may be willing 10 confederate with New York
mere was once contemplated union between New
England and the Canadas the scheme NAV come mn
again lie willing that Virginia shall belong 10 The
North but IS Jealous of all Southern claims upon her
Let me tell that gentleman and seriously loo that
when Southern man comes here and tells me he is
afraid 10 ask of indemnity from The North ~,
question vital the South than any other
help thinking-(one may think without treason Won
SHOW r2-ihat there is far less danger of seeing
southern than Northern Confederate Sir beware Ina,
virginia Is not uansposed, by hook or by crook from
her natural poson--thut she is legisated and eau
cuSed 10 the North side of the Potomac Sir there M
uanger oil Southern conederacies, while many South
ern men found who love the rivhts and rSnec, h
NOR tlnnf he
a"o iSennSS oil virginia The Snuth has been divided
II is divided and will be censured so lon,r n Son,
men are found who fear their town. their native
iahu 100 strong or too prosperous
AS to the question of Slavery in the District oe a.
lunibia, agree with both the report and subs,;n on
the constitutional point. They are to the same ec,.
ana why substitute for the other? The gentleman
from Isle OF Wight, in his grave homily the OTHER dv nm
loueraon and harmony, said, that differences were
ABOUT mere tres, and that these trles would do no
har Allow me to say that these are the very difcr
cnces TO do harm If there real and good gronnds
Tor differing here might deliberate and decide and
no harn could ensue but when these Northern Adolf.
1onsts, having their eyes nently fixed upon our pro
see Legislature of Va agree upon
Sucn simple proposition as that two and two make
/ tour that we differ about equivalent neos,ras md
dispute about "tweedlc dura and tweede dee''-wbnt
can we expect but that they will be ENCOURAGED b snch
state OF things TO prosecute their schemes with endd
vigor These, sir are the very differences that INNS,
and VIII do harm--hat proclaim emphaticnIv 10 tha
world, that Virginia is what she once uns Csar
SIR, the mischief is done--tlat we have mnrcbed and
countermarchcd here long that we have becn,o h
lects of deraion the NORTH and to our own oconI
YES SIR the people of Virginia have their eyes on us
ana hey wii desire to know what has kept us here six
weeks, IN solemn council, upon matter which they sci
Tied ia as many minutes, and which we brongb, onr
this subject tN'u u"
There are many things, sir, should like TO s,v bp
1t is very late and am unwell. When had the Lonor
early IN the session. to submit the resolution to obtain
from the North That information which is so much want
ca now was told it came from suspicious quarter
"ei sir, these resolutions from committee n
! majority OF whom the gentleman from C,oocbond 20,
surely trust Sir does he distrust his own cornsS Ia
there no confidence among what shall say-his
own political friends? If the gentleman is sincere in
desiring unanmity let him ground his arms nd strike
for the Old Commonwealth once more-let him amend
the resolutions of the Committee where they are deGc
Ye SO as to render them every thing that they OUGHT
10 be. ~ O's"'
Before take my seat said MIR. c. let me call The NJ
tentlon OF the House a remark Of Mr. Buchanan in
the senate OF the u s., in presenting the petition of
some Quakers-not Shaking -Quakers sir but n Quiet
sort OF Quakers, whose works come to light; but
are efectua nevertheless-Mr. b says that The oues
ton at the North is not whether slavery must be abolish
ed but whether ii shall be done now or hereafe and "a
there IS disposition here cite the opnons Of rea
men, Mr. G would read an extract from a letter of a
distinguished ndvidual who is candidate for Tire bigb
est Once IN the peoples gift In letter which has fbe
name OF Martin Van Buren, at the bottom dated W,sb
inston, July III, 1884, and addressed TO Samuel Cyin
the writer says: "'"'
:" do not see what authority Che General Govern,
ment could interfere with the general abolition IF I
veryJ without change of the Constitution ven nt tbc
instance Of either or all of the States"
In another letter to nameless correspondenf iotod
Ownsco, September 10ih 1895 he saws The Iie"a
tons which attribute to views and opinions ia,
are justly so obnoxious TO the holding Sa,c
are made In the face of the most explici, dacar,
ions on my part, denying all authority ON The nor,
OF tue Federal Government to interfere i'm the mat
ter, against The Propriey of agitatine tie oaes IN n.
District ct CotUDfbia, &c, &c, &c
Let it be remembered, that these letters are o,bbd
oy the trends OF MIR b. TO acq him Of the DESIGNS Of
whch he has been suspected. And what docs no ri. 49,
nat he IS opposed to the agitation of abolition in te ID
OF Coumba--that he is opposed it as ouestion of
ezpedteacW He does come up 10 the mari os 49,,
that interference uncoDsttutonal But il Is NOT e,s
dicni-Ho nO0! butt may be hereafter Such ,v;I1 bo
the resultit IS question Of time not of pruc;ue sd
| j warn gentlemen, that such is the fact