Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-12

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the nation itself the fires Of the stake, winch IS rushn!
on, stride after stride, strife and woe that MAJ
bury all under harder and wickedrr slavery thai
any it would cxtingush. Nothing but btterness-no
thing but agIravatlon of heart and oil lot has beer
brought upon that unfortunate man whom rash ant
perncious attampts-the promPtIngs OF TINS oiindet
and balcful sprit-have been put forth to benefit
They have broken down the footing he had reached
crushed the sympathics he had won embarrassed ane
accursrd the fortunes they nteposed TO control
The generous and elevatng influence OF our Tree nsti
tutions relaxing his bondage lettering has condi
tion lifting up his character, turning upon nm the
public anxeties and the public councils as great
object of providcnt and public provison-was chang
ing all points the aspects of his fate when spirit
sent Of heaven as it lnsanely imagined, came from
abroad scoursc him with demon visitation; to wrench
him from the arms of his only true and only capable
bcnelactors-to throw him back again upon the earth
thousand fold more suspected apd more separated than
before; rvettng upon him every leter IT would loose
poisoning every blessing 1t would brstow, and filling
his whole case with elements Of hopelessness, ex
plosion and evil, which the heart whilst II
shuddcrs to think upon Why, then, persist Why
abet the growth the daring the power OF spirit
which wisdom and mercy plead 10 you with all their
tongues, to silence and to stop? Will any daughter IN
this Assembly, the cherished and defended OF pa
rents love- blessed to the uttermost with the holy
peace of perfect securty-sheltered TO the utt"rmos
from the apprehension and the approach OF every
wrong, with no enemy TO drcad-no hand 10 in
jure-no terror to afrght-safe her repose safe in
her innocence at every hour and in every place-wl
she do tha which, ll-vaueless for its objects, will
vet be a.powrrfu TO send wakefulness and watching
and danger and anguish perchance, TO the days and
the nights-to the summer shade well as to the
barred and boed chamber of her Southern sister,
VIII any .iher here, she sooihes her infant to IT.
rest and n"s upon its baImy SLEEPS and pressing it &c
her heart bows in gratitude God for his mcrc;es to
her chiId-tIanking HIM that its life is safe-sac from
harm from the hand of violence and revenge and that
all lis slumbers guarded by nations pnwer-wl
she-oh, She the consequence of hr acts, bear
to behold the Southern mother startling and shudd"r
ing at every font-la and at every noise which breaks
upon The silence Of the night, and lying from her pillow
Of wnkeiulnrss and wrechednrss to kne"l and crouch
upon the cradle, weeping and sob;ng IN the agony o
her soul over the murder aud the horror that surround
il, Will the father and the citizen hail W. and greet
us and press to their BOSOM better brethren and
! better men, when shall come up with our hands all
rcd and reeking with the blood they have made us
shed: But If not, then abiure the which IN
wolves the crime, and the disciples who support it
Friends Of the slave they are stripping him Of the
wrechrd remnant Of liberty he has lett. Friends Of
humanity! they are crnrlly and recklrs.ly stalking
Il upnn means of massacre and CONFUSION. Friends
of the country they rapidly becoming lis iron
! Misunderstanding down lis Institutions with muir
dcrous hand, and tearing il limb from limb. If you
would the practical working OF the spirit that Is
spoken oc-thc Voc and the ruin it OCCASION &c
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insurcctionary sentiments into his ear, parade the
worst Of his condition artful and in pictured horror
before his eye, then trace the progress OF the poison
trace it through his murmnrs his resentment, his re-
sstancc; his passions growing deeper and darker al
every ST D. under the discipline he provokes until an.
ger and liberation and agony OF spirit have done then
work, and revenge and murder have become the com
panons Of his bosom then see him leagued and hand
ed with others az fell and furious hinself the
culture at his heart. the dagger and the torch in hi
hand stealing into the silent and midnight chamber
and standing, with horrId and upfrd weapon over
the parent and the child they sumber for the blow
see him-let the shrek, the gaspng struggle, the
CORY blade the blazing dwelling, tell out the deed that
is done. For one monochrome palsled moments
shvering and convulsve horror SEXES upon the hear
of millions Of our people-in the next, dreadful wrath
drives On to dreadful retrbution But if the blood
of our people is thus TO stream in our dwellings,
and ooze from the very bosom Of the soil that feed
it will cry from the ground like that of Abel for ven
geance-vengeance against the brother hand that shed
it, and vengeance would be HAD, though every drop
that was left should be poured out in anguished
and dying effort to obtain it, Nolhing-no, nothing
but Heaven could prevent people, so lashed up To
frenzy by rage and suffering and wrong, from pouring
back upon the fields and iresdes Of the guilty, that
visitation of calamity md death which had been sen:
TO desolate their Spare us-oh! spare us the
curse Of ruptured brotherhood, Of ruined, ruined
country. Give up your happy and united country
give up to the madness Of ctous hour, IN the
frenzy of some fanatic spirit let it sink overwhelmed
in some horrible struggle of brother with brother, and
you will recover its liberties and IFS blessings again,
when the sun shall 'sumber in the cloud forgetu OF
the voice of the morning,
"Yhen car,h's cities have no sound nor tread
And ships are drifting with the dead
To shores where NIL Is dumb"
"IIere upon your Northern fields it was, at some
dark and dlsmaying periods of our Revolution, when
army after army had been lost, when wretched and
dsprited and beaten, the bodest qualed, the faith.
fullest drspaircd and ALL for instant, seemed to be
conquered except the unconquerable viii of our glorious
chicf-hcre it was that rising above all the augures
and the tcrrors around him, he exclaimed to the drs-
pairing of his followers inspired of heaven for his
work ''sTp of the wretched and the suffering rem.
nant nf my solders-takc from all have let-leave
me but standafd-gire me but the means OF plant
| ing it upon the mountains OF West Augusta and l
will vet draw around me the men who will hi up
their bleeding country from the dust and set her free
| That " West Augusta" stands here to-day pleading
through me, who son, for the individual ann IN
broken heritage Of Washington and his comrades.-
Loyal to the result to the struggle OF the Revolution
devoted, as when her devotion was counted upon as
equivalent to fate-true, rs when you were grasPcd
and bound to the bosom OF each other in the hour OF
Distress il is her hope and her wish to finish with
YOU the destnies of the nat0n-arm IN arm to share
with you in common glory, and perish, when pc
IRISH she must, only upon acnminon held:-thus test'
fying through all time, to fidelity which there was no.
could destroy. Turning her eye and her heart upon
no other banner than the proud one which floats from
the capitol # the republic, she prayS as she looks upon
il with its ''stars and stripes, that the glad shout
which centuries hence may hail it in the land of the
Pilgrims, may be echoed back from the waves OF the
Pac ic Seas Heaven grant that generations and ages
hence, some future of the South, honoured and
welcomed and greeted | have been to-day, may
stand upon this consecrated spot, PrasIns and thank
ing G"d as do that he also can say, these are my
brethren, md this, this too is mig country
MIR. C. continued He would beg of the gentleman
also 10 recolcct that this speech of MIR. Mcdowell $
was made in one of the Northern States IN the midst OF
the Abol:tionsts and to the Abotonists themselves
Where there another Southern man, who could have
said more or said it 50 well' Thus Mr. Speaker, SAID
Mr. c., have proven by the most ncontroveri,be evl
dence, that all the charges preferred against m. NC,
Dowe ON this occasion, are unfounded in trnh; and
what is the most extraordinary o. all u.s. that those
charges nre put forth against Mr. Mcdowell for the
purpose of showing, that If he did hold such opinions
he was unworthy of filing the Gubernatorlal Chair o
this Stale when those very gentlemen who make those
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