Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-06-24
HANovER-No. m.
ABOLITION.

ABOLITION.
In my las, number, l concluded, while examining
the question, 'what grievances, we've eonI.m
plated by the trainers OF the Con.,;,n,;or -; ,L.,
clause which secures to the people the -, ~, -, wa,
Tor redress OF gtievaneesi" and maintained ,h,,
20 en'te the party to the benefits OF the right two
s ng must be established or conceded, viz:
ihat there was grievance to redress o Thu, !,
must be grievance affecting the pe,ition.r a, The
trainers OF the Constitution could NOT have r,.rdsJ
W eonlef upon one man the right to petition for the
S OF ,he grievance OF another, and so of
states; and gave some illustrations The illustra
IONS were cases OF grievances 10 fact which M, a.
the most favorable view for the Abolitionsts RI,
u me argument which sustained tins right of pet-
uon IN the Abohtionst be well founded il il
not necessary that there should ba any r,;e
vance IN Tact. IL is only necessary tha, The NO
uuoner should imagine that there is a grievance al
ousn inc party supposed to he aggrieved desires il
anu instead OF the unfortunate man with n had
WIFE, let me suppose the case OF one fortunately HES
sed with u wife, amablr, accomplished, and w,nI.
thy, TO retain whom is the contamination of bliss to
lose her, "a grievance" indeed, the most oy,rwb.l
ming and disastrous; and loafe of the Fanny
wright school OF Aboli'ionisis, looking upon This
neppy par as the devil did upon fist parents IN
Eden, should consider their union and bliss "a
grievance" TO u: Tcdrcssed by Congress womb van
coneede to him Constitutional right To net,on for
the redress OF 1t, 10y separating the man from his
VILE, and conierrng their estate upon tho o,C,7 Is
.he congress OF the United States bound 10 disgrace
itself by receiving considering, and referring such
retioni Is this the sacred and 6oasied ri,h of ne.
uuonf And yet the petitioner in the case supno,eJ
would have as much righ To petition as the ALo,
n.ions's Tor they seek to abolish slavery and de-
prve us of our property, contrary to the Constitu
ZION, because they say the Ut it Ivy us IS gtie-
vance, while We deny tina, it is a grievance.
The acknowledgment OF the right OF the Adolf
uonists as n Constitutional right, involves there
fore, the admission that slavery is grievance and
grievance affecting the petitioners But the evil
does not stop here.-lf the right of petition he /,
matter OF substance and Of any value. it attaches to
A fhA EtNh fn saNl.r
OF the petition, by which prove that the grievance
complained oil does really exist and ought 10 be "a.
dressed; and imposes upon Congress the duty IN
hear and consider. The petition, then, must be re-
ceived when presented, aud referred and reported
upon, and then the right TO debate IL is fully estab
ished. Ii 1t be siid as II will that the Committee,
will not report, | grant that for a TINA that NV
bo the case; but when the right to petition is
once conceded, and IN that concession is in
volvcd the admission that slavery is a "erievapcr ~
does any man believe the Abotonist and f,n,,;c,I
phianlhropist will be content without N renor,3
Now he complains and clniouTs about "a eas - me-
cause you refuse TO receive his petition; then he
will complain, and with much more reason of tho
new gag which denies him the right OF a rtport
upon Constitutional petition; and the new
step viii be standing Committee upon .Iboluion
Will that committee not report 2-and If i, doe, ns
1t will, will not "old Matpol," and his hackers
claim the right TO controvert IT, If be as aims, them
and declaim against the "sas' If they are deni,di
Ana VIII not all this produce Gsiiaiion-eOnsiani,
A.
very shall he Ghohshsd?-And who will be the oo |
tators7 | answer, the men who admitted the RIGHT
o the AboitloniSs TO come into Congress and thus
gave them the right and the power TO asitate And
who arc these menl-l answer, Mr.. Adams cold |
Marpot," as Y. Y. u. calls him, and the youns
'MarpIots," who voted with him, and against the |
great body OF the Southern members in Congress-
ard among them regret deeply that our rsn,e.c,. |
tative should lie found. II MIR. Adams is a "m,r. |
plo. upon this subject, he is believe upon every
subject II the plot be good one how is he sol-
by proposing ut this Extra Session OF Congress TO
repeal that 2lst Rule, which was designed TO nre.
vent, and would have prevented, agitation. And
why did not all who opposed to agitation vote
down his amendment, and thus prevent agitation2-
IL they h1d done so, any four of them, the House
would have been at once organized, and agitation
suppressed, and the business OF the House proceed
cd IN. But wonderful to tell Southern men and
among them Vuginians, vote with cold Nnrp'ot ~
To grant 10 the agItatoTs admission TO the floor of
Congress; and throw around them the mantle of
the CONSTITUTIONS and then coOliy, and mos, patriot.
cay, donounce as asitators, all who will not an.
prove this surrender of the dearest right of the
South, or SIT by tamely and behold it.
10 me this IS marvellous inconsistency and |
cannot but think that the followers OF "Old Mar.
plot" are the last men who should have denounced
those who differ with them as agitators and as men
hypocritIcaily pretending n regard for the South
The people OF the South, If ] mistake not, would
have approved them more, and thought them more
consistent If they had voitd against Old MnrpIotn
and denounced him and his follow ers instead of de-
nouncing Wise, and Goggin, and Summers, and Ia
.Iaterro, Hunter, Goode GIlmer and others; and
must be allowed 10 say that such letter as that of
your correspondent comes with il! grace from one
who shews his approval OF the course OF Mr. Adams
even II he did not actually vote with him, as 1 sus-
peet he did. say that be shews his approval of the
course OF MIR Adams, because, although he does
dig the old gentleman under the fifth rib, as ga mar
plot" lac approves Bots, Stuart, Underwood and
Randall, for voting with him. and lie would not
condemn the man who moved the resolution and
applaud those who voted for it; and he praises them
as men who were for settling this agiIating ques
uon,' when It was apparent that if those gentleme
had voted against MIR Adams the "agita,ing ques
ton" would have been settled, without surrerdering
the rights OF the South; and he casts odium,
doubts, and suspicion upon all who would not unite
with Bolts, Stuart, Underwood and Randall to set
tic the question by yielding all that the Abolition
lists asked. No man more earnestly desires than
do, TO see this ngItatng question settled" finally
settled, as once ! thought It But earnestly
hope that Virginia, at least, will always furnish
sons enough like Wise and his gallant compeers to
prevent 1t being ever settled upon the concession to
the AboIitionsi Of the constitutional right to use
the Halls Of Congress TO nsSail the South, and her
Institutions and deiame us, our wives and children.
But II IS said that report will quiet the aboI-
uonlsts. have occupied too much OF your space
already, so will consider that argument IN my
next. HANOVER.