Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-05-18
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IL SLAVE OUESTlON.-A French paper published
IN New York. enaed lie Courier DIES Etdts Unis publishes
correspondence which dscluscs movement of some in.
icres 10 the people of this country. The French govern
ment have under consideration project for emanopaung
the slaves in the West India Colonies. This warmly op
posed by the slave holders OF these Islands, who for the
purpose OF defeating il, propose league between the French
and Spanish West Indies and the Southern States of
Union for the common defence of their slave property
The inst letter given by La Courier Paris under
date of Feb Goth, signed L. Joire delegate in the cham
Der OF deputies from Martinique and that lin short
time delegates, chosen from among the influential IN.
habiinnts of Martinique and Guadaoupe will visit the south.
OF the union and the Spanish islands, to arrange
the basis OF defence. To prepare the southern
states for the proposed movement, NJ JOiref has issued
an address TO them, from which the following is
tract:
1.-The colonial authorities have Just rejected unanimous
y the projects OF emancipation which the French govern
mcnt had submitted their deberauon Their resistance
would be more etcacous their OF resistance more
powerful the southern States OF the American unon the
Spanish Islands, and Brazil, were to make
with them.
Whenever emancipation shall be effected in all the
Archipelago OF the Antilles, 1t will be very difficult
for the southern OF the escape the conagon
and the peril OF the example 1t YOU therefore, that
have addressed the invitation with the delegates
OF the French colonies, to effect which object you
game IN your state and IN the neighboung states commit
tees OF correspondence, with whom engage put myself
Immediately IN communications"
There another letter the SERIES dated Paris March
LIST, signed Aiph. Rides des Conienot which SAYS:
thas Just been decided that depuaton the French
colonies shall in the OF September or October
next 10 make an appeal o the Southern States of the Anne
can 10 spanish Islands This deputaon will be
composed OF NJ PORTER vice president OF the colonial
ell OF Guadalupe, VI. Hue, member OF the colonial coun
cl Of Martinique, and other persons These gentlemen
will call meeting at New Orleans, and represent the impo
10 the Southern OF sustaining the French An
tiles, which really the posts of the island OF Cuba
that's the advanced post Florida Alabama Virginia
&c Ait'r having oyeTthrown the one, abotoniss will
bring all their forces bear upon the others Their
then Is common, their defence ought be the same"
The editor Of lie Courier adds this eter-'The ter
ble disasters eathquake) which have Just ruined
OF the principal French colonies, will expose the colonial
be found without defenders the tribunal Of the
European world, If continental America does not promptly
relieve and reinforce this courageous vanguard Those
countries which slavery condition of prosperity and
OF existence, should remember that II Madrid nor
at Washington that their be pleaded but Pa
ms. Whenever France shall be conquered by aboitouism
the slave system will have lost the OF It's ramparts"
Go this any proposition from abroad relating the
slavery OF the African rice, the people of the L. States
will hold but one language. We aiLoe Foreign inter
ference on thus QHesfion.)-Niss' Register.
FoRr MoNRor-Ths admirable fertilization though not
yet completed shows pretty conclusvey the present
ment what It was intended for and what competent
do In word II Is the pretcst piece workmanship
the science of military engineering that this country
yet produced, and we say that will vie with
any thing OF the kind which the Old World exhibit
We shall reserve Tor onother time particular descrp-
tJn oi work CTedIbe 10 the sCenthc
enlightened # the American people and at pre- sent
merely awaken the attention OF those whom II has here
tofore been object OF interest sufficiently IN.
duce visit 10 from the country during the The
iuued stones 90 the ba.cmCnts clad the richest
the arid and eye plnng surface Of Old Point Comfort
where diversified with dwellings granite walls
aud the wide mout filled with mpd water which surrounds
them, aud the eye can dwell with pleasure and without
wearing the objects and beautiful prospects which
present themselves every side.
Norfolk Herald, May2.