Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-10-03

tNb, at 4 o clock, al lle oIcc oil the Merchants
SAVINGS Bank, over the store of Capt. NJ. w.
Davenport. 1t is important that there be full
attendance, and the Commissioners are earnestly
desired 10 be present at the hour designated.
"VIEWS UPON TIE RUBICON"-No. 4.
The Enquirer still fingers on the verge of the
MISUNDERSTANDING its 1h No. to IA consideration
OF Gen. liarrison's opinions the subject of r.
manci pdti0n, which ii has the e1ronery to repre-
sent as vastly more obnoxious to Southern rights
than those of the advocate Of the Missouri Restric-
toni measure which, Mr.. Jefferson, when it was
first maiured, (sec his letter to John Holmes, 4th
vol. p 323 of his Correspondence described as
:" lirc-beIl in the night which awakened and fill
led him with terror" Hear what tina, great Apos-
tie Of Democracy said
= considered it at once the knel of the T.
MON. 1t is Iu>hcd, indeed, for the moment. But
this Is IA reprieve only, moi final sentence 4 gr-
ographical, line. conc;ding with marked princi-
pie, moral and POLITICAL once conceived and held
up 10 the angry passions of men, will never be
obheracd and every new irritation will mark it
deeper and deeper"
Again: in a letter 10 John Adams, (p 33s, 4th
vol) Mr. Jefferson SAYS:
&c Our anxictics in this quarter are all conccn-
trated IN the question, what does the Holy ALI
anee III and out OF Congress mean 10 do With us
on the Missouri question And this, by the bye.
Is but the name of the case it is only the John
Doe or Richard Roe of the ccc,men,. The real
| question:, in lhc States afflicted with this
unfortunate population, is, are our slaves to be
! presented with freedom and dagger For if
Congress has the power to REGULATE the condition
OF the inhabitants of the States within the States.
! IT will be but another exercise of that power. to
declare that all shall be free. Are we then to see
! again Ahenian and Iacedcmonian coniederacics ?
/ To "agr another PeloponnrSian war 10 settle the
aseendancy between them Or is this the tocsin
OF merely a scrye war! That remains 10 be
seen bat not, ! hope, by You me. Surely
they will Parcv awhile and give us time to get ont
OF the way. Wh1ta Bcllamite is man U
1t will be seen, by these extracts, that Nj JEFF
icrson regarded the assertion Of the power to I'M
pose the restriction upon Missouri, which was de-
clared by Rufus hng and Martin Van Buren, to
be an p" indispensable condition" her admission
lHto the Union, equivalent to the claim of "A
riah 10 leIjlale upon the subject of slavery
WITHIN TIE STATES" And vet, the
Enquirer IS NOW the leading advocate orhe Mis-
sour festrctionist for the Chief Magistracv OF
the Union
But the Enquirer tells us ,lA Gen. Harrsons
opinions on this subject more objectionable
Than MIR. an Bufens. Even if this were SO. the
Enquirer should support Judge White, who is
wholly Tree from objection on this score-but vet,
strange 10 say, Mr. Ritche tells us that he prefers
Gen Harrison to Judge White But it is not true
that Gen. iiIrrlson's opinions are mere objection
able than Mr. Van Buren's. In the frs, place as we
have heretofore shown, when the Aboltonists, in
i62O-2l, cnhcavorcd to trample upon Southern
lights by refusing To admit Missouri into the Union
unless she would consent to acQuicsce in Mr.. Van
Bnren'S " indispensable conditions" of rcnouncine
the right to tolerate Slavery within her limits
gress from Notwithstanding State, stood up in
firm defence of Southern rights and constitu-
tional guarantees; and what no mere office seek
er would have incurred the hazard of doing, he sac
uhced hnaSct IN the cause of the Siarcholdmo
South, his constituents turning him out at the
next election in consequence of his vote on this
subject Does this look like AJoldionisn Does
'i> "N''lN 'hc hdlee t'idt nc III laNor Oh investing
Congress with the power of legisatng on the sub.
icct of Slavery " ,rihin tie States ~ Or doe,
il rather prove, that, although in the abstract
opposcdto Slavery, as Jefferson, Madison and
= thousands of Southern men now are, yet that he
will never consent TO any scheme of emancipation
inconsistent with the recognized rights of proper
" and the express provisions of the constitution
/ Indeed, the only scmblancc of evidence which the
friends OF the Uissouri Rcshicfionia can BRING
| forward to sustain their unfounded charge. is The
/ following extract from one of Gen IIarrson's
speeches-a speech, by the way, which Nr. Rn-
chic odoits, was, in its general tenor hostile to
the Aboliuonists, = denouncing their designs, and
their aodacous interposilion with the institutions
Of the South" We have heretofore quoted and
commented upon this extract-but' we Give il a.
cain
"Shoud | be asked if there Is no way by which
the General Government can aid the canse of e
Emancipation, | answer that it has long been an OBJ
ject near my heart 10 the whole OF its surplus
revenue appropriated to that object. Win tie
sanction NJ Mr States hoiding the slases, there
appears 10 me to be constitutional objection to
It's being tha' applied embracing not only the co.
Ionizauon OF those that may be otherwise freed
bat the purchase of the freedom of Others By "A
Jealous prosecution OF plan formed UPON that b,-
SIS, we might look forward to a dav, not very dis
tant, when a North American sun would not look
down npoH a slave"