Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-09-18

ment ot representation the system of revenue Tho a.,
mission OF new States into the Union; and one VIII,
WIN use ms power fearessly and fully to control all at
tcmpts At legislation on that subec, which * e,cns;vo
! southern vi ths there BE- parcy; for il admits
/ OF no compromise, Those who agitate it, do evil
whatever be their pretcnces or their motives Those
VINO associate, combine and act with those ag
tators, must look to have the finger Of suspicion
pointed at them. No Southern man who wl
read dspassonateiy the address the people of the
slaveholding States, and fhe accompanying evidence
rom the Democratic members Of Congress from those
states, can nave any excuse for MISLEADING hs duty
WHEN nc actS on ths question. To the emhodiei cyl.
dence presented Of the movements within the IT, S Of
| me uisturbers OF Southern repose, may be usciuv
a9ue" reference to what is going on abroad The
Government OF Great Britain, which has always per-
ihteo me Canadas to be the asylum of runaway slaves
has, within lew years, converted all its West India
INTO places of refuge for them and has for
maly declared that no claim Tor them will be availnr
although they reach their possessions by fraud or vo-
renee. ne same Government has been lately employ.
my itself as The volunteer selected agent Of the POPE
IN presenting au apostolic letter slavery to some of
the Spanish American Stacs-a letter which it not at
an improbable was prepared under influences proceed
| ing from the British Isles.
Under ITS convention with Spain respecting the slave
trade, It has commissioners in Havana scrutinizing
INTO the commercial pursuits of all nations and mark.
ing all vessels not British bound TO the coast Of Africa
suspected of the slave trade when loaded with car
goes which lawful commerce in English vessels
whence the Stare factories SnpPlied acih them. 1t
has black regiments in its service the Canadas and
in the West Indies 1t is filling up the ranks Of It's
army by the enlistment of recaptured Africans Some
OF the statesmen and pampheteers of England en-
gagged, since emancipation in the West Indies has d.
mniShed the productive value of their West India Is
lands in devisng schemes to give present preference
in their markets the productions Of free labor dixie
that in British India aud gradually 10 exclude from
them the products of the labor of slaves OF the tenn
into IF hp nF
slavery, and the means to be employed, abundant
dences afforded in the proceedings of the "W od
Convention, which met in London on the 18th, and
continued until the 2d of last June. Two resolutions
unanimously adopted, too significant require
much comment.
Those resolutions denounce the removal Of slaves
from the old to the States unrghteous traffic,
of which eighty thousand annually Victims ex-
citing detestaton. Surprise and adherence
knowedged, that il should be protected and cherished
by this Government That it involves hardness of heart
in the traders and cruelty TO the negroes is asserted
and that efectual means should be Immediately taken
taken to this STAN from the character of this
nation Was there snch a compound Of ignorance
folly and insoence: The brutal Council quite at
home i'll such conventions; and his insults to the rep
resentatIve of a foreign Government near his own,
his vituperation of two OF eminent public men,
were quite in harmony with the occasion. The trans
portation of property from Virginia to Louisiana,
the internal slave trade, mark you, gheous,
and eiiectual means ought to be taken in the United
States, forthwith to the stain from this nation
What are these means We can guess. First, prnl-
btion BIZ Congress OF the transportation of slaves by
land By sea, from State TO another; next pro-
hibition fthe sale ofslaves by to another in
the State; and then shall be ripe for either the
late MIR Rufus Kings General Harrison plan of
gradual emancipation the Government purchase of
the blacks by the proceeds of the public lands, by
the of the surplus revenue-taxes and duties being
properly increased TO make that surplus large enough
to etfectuatc the object.
The shadows of the troubles in store for us, at home
and abroad, are darkenng and stealing upon What
note of preparation is heard What measures of pre-.
caution are required; The gravest thought and most
dcliberation demanded to meet the danger
which will sooner or later come. What others may
persuade themselves should be DONE cannot tell; but
step would TO be better adapted TO bring them
upon us early day and when we shall be utterly
destitute of PREPARATION than placing the power oil the
General Government IN the hands OF the hcterogene-
Gus coalition that now seek obtain in the person of
one without the requisite qualifications for the Chief
Magistrate of 4 great Republic, and who is accused,
with much appearance of truth, of having, in pub
lie address, engaged if elected not TO thwart Congress
by the of the Ieto EO'ccr
The veto power! portion OF the authority gwen to
the Executive by the trainers Of our Government,
which the incumbent of the Presidential chair mel
Their sure nder trsmmel himself the of
without personal dIsonor and rcachery 10 the ConstI
tuition. The veto power. the safeguard of the people
against mprovdcnt legislation, Congressional en-
croachment the rights OF the States and of the
ordinate branches of the Government The veto pow
er. the ark Of safety for the Southern States used tor
them IL is impossible while the equality of Senatorial
representation remains and the present relative proper
ton of the slave States preserved for the phrenzy of
naticsm and the rcckessness Of associated party
iGacy to disturb reposc, assall our hreside, nm
der the sanction of Congressional cnactmcnts.
Mr. Van Buren, is pledged to use it for that purpose
General Harrison IS not. JOHN. FORSf III.