The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-29
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SOUTHERN


ARRIVE at opposite conclusions from an examina
zion of the premises. There has not beer
presented to my mind within the range of larg,
experience, more startling illustration of thi:
es7ath, than in the efforts now making by respecta
Die and intelligent politicians to persuade YOU that
such IS the relation borne by the candidates for
IKE Presidency, TO the Abolitionists, as that the
election of Mr.. Van Buren, will protect your
property, whilst the election of Gen. Harrison
VIII endanger it. And what is most extraordi-
Haxy, is, that while among those who most zeal
ozsly support Mr.. Van Buren,, are the open and
avowed Southern Abolitlonists, Thomas Richie,
Colonel Mcdowell, and Thomas Jefferson Ran
eA'iPh, OF Virginia, 1t is urged as the strongest
objection against Gen. Harrison that he is sup
ported by Northern Abolitionists
If 1t were true, as charged in the address of
she Southern Van Buren, members of Congress,
&hat General Harrison is supported by Northern
Abolitionists, is that not more than counterbal-
znced by the fac, that Mr.. Van Buren, is support
ed by Southern Abolitionists,
That what we say in relation to the Southern
-A~S~~s-NA'ASN9
fion of language, we quote an extract from the
Richmond Enquirer of the 9Th of January, 1882.
1t is as follows:
Extract from, tie Enquirer, of Jan. 7, 1882.
<EBut the two great subjects before the COM
unittee are those that relate to the colored popu-
Iation OF the State, and to its internal improve
meuts. Upon neither of these is the committee
yetprePared ts report.
1t is probable, from what we hear, that the
committee on the colored population, will report
some plan for getting rid of the free people of
color. But is this all that can be done, Are we
forever to suffer the greatest evils that can
scourge our land, not only to remain but to in
crease in its decision? E'We may shut our ewes
and avert our faces if we please" says an elo-
quent South Carolinean, on his return from the
north few weeks ago, SHUT there it IS the dark
and growing evil at our doors, and meet the |
question We must at no distant day. God only |
knows what it is the part of wise men to do on |
that momentous and appalling subject. OF tins |
am very sure, that the difference, nothing short
of fri ghtful between all that exists on one side
of the Potomac and all on the other is owing to
that cause alone. The disease is deep seated
1t is at the hearts core; it is consuming, and all
along has been consuming our vitals, and could
laugh on such subject, at the ignorance and fol-
ly of the politician who ascribes that to an act
the eternal laws of nature. What is to be done,
Oh, my God, don't know, but something must
be DONE
Yes, something must be done, and it is the
part of no honest man to deny it. When this
dark population is growing upon us-when every
NEW census is but gathering its appalling num-
bers upon us-when, within period equal to
that IL which this federal constitution has been
IN existence, those numbers will increase temore
-
States are closing their doors upon our blacks
for sale, and when our whites are moving west
wardly in greater numbers than we like to hear
OF, when this, the fairest land of all this CONT
nent for soil and climate, and situation combin-
cd, might become sort of garden spot if 1T were
worked by the hands OF white men alone, can
I'VE, ought we to sit quietly down, fold our arms,
and say to each other, 'sWell, well, this thing
will not come to the worst in our day; we will
leave it to our children, our grand children, and
our great grand children, to take care of them
selves, and to brave the storm" Is this TO act
like wise mem Heaven knows we are no fana-
tics. We detest the madness which actuated
these antiS des noiS But something ought to be
done. Measures, sure but gradual-systematic,
but discreet, ought to be adopted forreducing the
mass of evil which is pressing upon the south,
and will still press upon her the longer it is
put off.
faces And though we speak almost without
hope that the committee that the legislature
Will do anything at the present session to meet
this question, yet we say now, In the utmost
siRcerity of our hearts, that wisest men can
not give too much of their attention to this sub
ject, nor can they give it too soon"
Such is the language of Mr.. RItchie 1.-THE
speeches of Mr.. Randolph and of Col. Mellow
LII tha + H.,
time, no less explicit. They are no less de-
eided abolitionists than Tappan and they are not
such fanatics, they not less dangerous to the
Fights and interests of the South, because of the
sober seriousness with which they assert the fun
sdamental error ON which fanaticism plants it.
standard.
1t gives us pain to be compelled thus to sPeal
of the errors OF opinion Of men who, in othe
respects, would seem to be entitled to influence
your opinions, but we feel it incumbent us t
note the giaring inconsistency in those who la
bar to persuade you that the election of Genera
Harrison will endanger your property, and tina
you must look to MIR. Van Buren, for protection
because certain Wings who are supporting Gen
Harrison, are abolihonists, overlooking tn,
fact that the abolitionists, like other men, ar
divided on this questionsome of them support
ing neither Harrison or Van Buren,, while other
give am equally Jealous support to MIR. Van Blu
nen.
We recur to these facts to show you tina
youz protection rests on neither of the Presiden
sial candidates 1t rests ON the constitution; il
the reserved rights of the States-and in the com
nnsn interest which all parties have in preserv
ng the Union, and protecting property.
No one has studied this question more intense
" kAan the writer of this article. As a citize
Of Missouri, member of her convention, an
IS the Editor Of the United States Telegraph
ne has ever been the Jealous and consistent az
vpcxte Of the rights Of the South. He has form
"a his opinions Of the effect upon the interests