Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-02-05

co,roe rive entertainments in return This was The
sort Of amagamation so earnestly sought 10 De i,o
duced by n certain class OF zeaiois among us. lhls
was what Mr.. w. called social amagainat'on with
yenoeance. amalramation introduced, not INTO the
country merely but into the Court ANA lie G'a not
doubt if Monsieur Quashpoinpo should en'er mere
with his crooked negro Sims, and his spay ieet SHINING
and ut,erinr in negro spendor, and was 10 make ms
reoro congec there would instantly be thirty
forty gentlemen of the House who would be forward in
showing him every mark Of atlectionale welcome and
personal respect and reverence Was !h's TO De toie
rated Was it TO be endured that an English influence
was TO be aided and abet,ed introducing here these
practical tests Of universal emancipation
Here then, Mr. w. said eight distinct and de-
lca,e questions the foreign intercourse OF this Co.
yernment a having direct bearing on tins fearful sub
ect They were not mere specnations tney were ptac
cal ques,icns-not distant questions, winch might or
might not arise future day; they were upon the
docket for trial in the great court and chancery Oh
nations Here he again recapitIlaed them lie again
insisted that they we're questions OF present
whose effects were developing themselves daily what
was their tendency: what their political operation:
What was the natural effect Of this union OF great
English party with an Anglo American party among
ourselves: The gentleman from Massachusetts had
disclosed what to be of their first movements,
and what was it, At this critical juncture when we
should be acting the old and wise maxim, ''In peace
prepare for war that gentleman had declared we must
have no home squadron Yes: the national defences
were to be opposed under erroneous Che would not
say false) mputaton the present Secretary oil the
Navy that he had recommended that measure as con-
WOW 10 slave traders Could be necessary to defend
that officer from mputaton like this lhat gentie-
man had not il true been long known TO the coun'
try generally, though long known and esteemed IN ms
own State but, for the time he had been IN olhce,
he had won for himself a reputation high enough
10 meet and satisfy any man 3 ambition. ne re-
port on which this had been charged was thank
God, no obscure paper 1T was puohc onc,'i w
cument and pronounced by competent Judges TO be one
OF the ablest which had proceeded from that department
for The last twenty years. one Of the most distinguished
scholars in the country had told MIR W. 'ha' Nc "as
so delighted with it State paper that he mao reaa
ttwice from bernr ng to end, before rising from ms
cont II had been read and approved b. all, nor had
he heard SINGLE objection urged against II I'LL now.
He challenged any sentlaaian to lay his finger on
nararranh or sentence of that report which went to
corroborate the statement SO peiSeiseiy maui ~ e
gentleman from Massachusetts,
Phe sou,dron was intended for any thing but the
CONVOY of slsse traders. lie hoped The American na-
W. in eyesy branch Of it, intended for the defence
OF the raona property IN whatever It might consist,
and o. the national rights and honor; and that, wher-
eye. the American flag iloated There were objects
ne n domestic character connected with tins home
SQUADRON very different from the convoy OF slave trad,
ers was for the training OF our seamen, officers, an
saors ii for the sounding OF our coast anu the sur
yay and drauah,ing OF harbors, and to keep those
So were 10 be drones in the naval hard
at work But thus great and important interest, our ma
tona Defence to he arrested and Frustrated ny thls
English party, this foreign influence Mr. W. hesl'ated
not to say that whoever could strike al this interest de-
sired 10 see our country left deenceless case OF
war We were 10 have no home squadron-no armed
steamers; OH no-tley might prevent the landing Of
these Jamaica troops, and the pouring oil them out upon
oar Southern plantations Emancipation, enlancipa-
tor by the aid OF foreign maritime power was an on-
iect too dearly cherished, III home and Abroad TO he
piyen I'D by putting the country in state OF defence
This was the meaning of the movement against
home squadron And he warned gentlemen (hefe Mr.
VS. voice suddenly suffered syncope, and the sen
,ence was irrecoveraby lost 10 the Reporters earl
He went on to say that at this very moment there
was a proposition before the country not only for
home squadron, bnt proposition b. the merchants
the country 10 initiate tire policy pursued by Eaglnnt
and SET aoa vessels OH the lakes, the Mediterranean
on the Atlantic, on every sea, far rs The leop,
would allow the Government 10 go-ycssels capable
of being armed though not strictly vessels Of war
and which should when war should arrive be ren
DIV 10 meet the marine Of England as met TIM
marine in the last war. When our population ha'
been but three millions had proved ourselve
able To achieve independence. When it WAS So
ven millions we carried 4 successful issue secon
war for free trade and sailors rights and IT, DE-
termined, far his efforts could 60, that w
should not be conquered now w.ea population ha
reached seventeen millions. But those deiences whic
British cannon had failed H. break down, were nov
to be broken down by British party influence
Go on, cried Mr. W., you shall have your reward
Go with this your moral treason, and carry II ia
Burrs case, and you shall ret your hemp! Englan
had one naval depot Halifax and she max nr ano
lher in Bermuda. Such the rumor. She wa
planting herself at both ends OF our coast al the Mort
and at the South. But England must be suffered I
90 and prepare her dock yards and her arsenas,
10 establish depot after another; she max
contracts 10 supply them, not only with her cit
zens bat with the merchants Of Boston, she 10
tablis her lines Of steamers, her mails to touc
from point to point and form unbroken line ofspecd
icni, In h.p mi ntupS
facilitate The approach OF combined force TO act 81
simultaneously against the coasts of the L S; but we
we were do nothing; must have home squadron
naval depos, steamers, nothing in the shape 0
defence, lest iorsooh, should be providing defence
for slave property.
Mr. w. said that, on a subject so vital and so gene
raj this he looked to the North he looked to III
South lie had as much confidence in the as in tn
other When did come, IT come il must, The Ken
lucky sailor would meet the sailor the Chesapeake
and both would act with the sailor from New bedford
and they would fight side by side to defend the com
mon honor OF us all. There dissolutionsts j
his section Of the country They were unknow
species tthey dared TO show their faces the Souti
as IT seemed they did not blush to do in the North The
would meet with a very speedy and n very summar
disposal. Secretly, indeed, the emssarics Of tins Br
tish combination no doubt ramiied through ever
portion of the country, but yet they dared Sho,
their faces and avow their designs.
Mr. w. said there were two modes in which our Fe
aeral Union vas TO be broken. One that he la
Just adverted 10, the striking down OF national Dc
fences and, while The South should be left deencees
10 excite iusurrecon, and then interpose with tn
treaty making power. But there another in whc
ihe South not merely be abandoned her fate
but to be actually driven of, driven away from til
residue Of The Union, and this was by the enactment
HIGH onerous, unequal, oppressive, unjust, unconst
tutona tariff. On this point there had already bee
raised the invidous distinction between free labor
slave labor. Lord Palmerston, in his famous deba,
with the Tories of England when they raised this CT
Of free against slave labor, had taught them the
truth and philosophy OF that cry, and had exposed il
its merited contempt Yet, in the face Of that demon
stration we heard the seisame cry raised by the Tor
party this side the water. If was TO be encou
ragged in England for the sake Of universal emancpa
ton, and the English party here array then
selves against the system OF national deiencrs, wha
must be the consequence How dangerous mus, lii
consequences be, not only 10 the Unon but tins In
gsh American party itself?
During the last war with England, had
Marty In New En- oland nrrav itself aoninsl liz own Cc