Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-19
TO TIE EDITOR or TnE ENQUIRE.

TO TIE EDITOR OF TIE ENQUIRER.
The Petitioners-Wha are they
have read with surprise, letter from the Honorable
John NJ Bolts, in reply to one from nlnetyhree Abo-
lonists purporting 10 be from the county of Lewis,
in this State, enclosing petition, setting forth that
"savery and the slave trade, as il exists N the Dis.
upon our national character, and contHy to the spirit
of our Republican institutions and task ing that
portion Of the public lands be set apary sufficient for
colony of such persons to settle on, ~ shall be freed
by the Government, or otherwise am surprised,
because had supposed there could not be found nine
yhree Abolitonsts in the whole Sa,e, much less that
number in any county in Virginia 1t should be,
and dare say IT, Of deePrceret and concern
to all who feel interest in the Pefpctuy OF our IN
stitutons and the integrity of the Union, that this in
uence should exist 10 the extentlt docs within hor
ders; and Of still deeper, that any member of Con-
gress from this State should be thought to hold sympa-
ihes with them sufficiently strong 10 become the
lected organ of communicating TO Congress- the unhal
lowed purposes of this misguided aid ianatical peo-
pie. II is not the Sacrfdae.s IF TIE right Of petition
for which they are contending Not word is said
on this subject They look throughout with eye
steadfas,ly fixed upon tie abolition IF s!arery IN the
District Of Columbia.
why is it, MIR. Editor, tina, Mr. Bolts should be Sc.
ected, 10 the exclusion of their and every other
Representative from Virginia Why Unless they
perceive something encouraging to their views in the
course which Mr. Bolts has thought sense of duty
and justice required him to take both at the Ertra Ses
Si0H IN advocating the resembling oil Inc list Rue,
and his subsequent at the present session in
tanning against the wishes of large majority of the
people of Virginia, and, da'e say, mauy of his own
Wing constituents, that common national nuisance,
John Q. adams, in the almost daily practice of throw
ing frebrands into Congress, ,ns, ing our Southern
viii not ins dn that IN the Slightest
degree tainted with Aboliiio sp. do not believe it,
His letter, the one just all.dA 10, decidedly condem.
natory But could we exps.g any ing slse' Let us
look, however, to the cGset Of his ur1fin regard TO
this the most exciting and vital Of Pill Msjects All
the Democrats throughout Virginia and very large
majority of the Wings, cond:mn it, In aohat light is it
viewed by the .4boiitionsis ihcmseees? They must
see, or think they see enough 10 encourage them
in their wishes, or he would never have been select
ed. II agreeable 10 them, he cannot be acceptable to
rs. We that the first fruit Of his has been
to make him object, TO which the eyes of this
deluded people have been directed 1t matters not
whether these petitioners bs transient visitors to the
county Of Lewis, or permaient citizens lf the for
mer so much the worse-thc latter might have some
claim. It is not tina, he has tlfown out advo
Gated Abolition sentiments, Int the ct that he has been
selected By them tier organ, thaa should arrest at
tenton, and open the eyes Of his ccsttuents Ito say
the east the miscellaneous aud mboIitic tendency Of
his IA Looker.on IN Vienna."