Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-10-10
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Gentlemen-I have the honor to acknowledge The
receipt Of your esteemed favar, inviting me 10 dinner
to be given at King William Court House, to your
late Representative r. NJ #. Hunter, Esq on the
29lh instant.
It's gentlemen, with unaffected regret, that find
it will be out Of my power to unite with you, IN the
com pliment proposed for your late able and promising
Representative In every point of view, it would TO
me be OF sincere satisfaction, could be pre-
sent But my business duties deny me this CRAFTY
ing indulgence and all that is left me, is, to ten
der TO you, gentlemen, my grateful thanks Tor The
kind and fatterng terms IN which you have convey
ed my invitation; and 10 the company asse moled on
the proposed occasion, the subjoned sentiment:
The County of King william: She may safely trus,
as her Representative the man who denies the exist
ence of any power not clearly granted; whilst she
should eschew as inmical TO limited Government, one
who delights in the exercise of doubtful powers
| have the honor TO be, gentlemen,
Your friend and fellow citizen,
WASHINGTON, Sept oath, 1s43
To Messrs B. F, Dabney,T VS.. Gregory and Others
Committee.
Gentlemen: Yours of the 10Th instant, addressed TO
me in Phade phiu reached me in this city yesterday.
NOTHING would give me more pleasure than to accept
your very kind invitation to partake with you and with
nv friend Mr. Hunter ofthe public dinner you propose
to give him in King William, on the 29th inst. But,
regret to say, have been detained necessarily SO
long from home and business, by family aiction, that
II will not be in my power TO ENJOY The pleasure whco
| know should feel in short interchange OF sent'-
mens with the "Democratlc citizens OF your county
shall assuredy continue to oppose every measure III
Congress deemed By detrimental to the whole coun
try and particularly those obviously injurious to 'hal
section in which live From the movements oil Great
Britain abroad particularly on the relations of me@eo
and Texas, and Of the latter 10 the United States, anu
| from combinations Of political abolitioniss-tor the!
are divided now into political and religlous-at hoH'e'
foresee the most imminent dangers TO our S"uhei"
institutions lending fsarully and certainly to the suo
version Of rights founded and established by the frde
| raj Constitution, and OF course, to violent ofeach,"
the destruction know not which, of that Constitution
| itself The foreign news is ominous. The debates III
| Parliament, the questions and answers OF Bfongham
and Aberdeen, openly develoPe the fact known 10
me for time past, that Great Britain Is nefPos"s
her colossal power between Mexico and lexas 10 e.
tablish the pendence of The latter The condon
Of emancipation Of her snves oh The rier, as her mum
object of a6oIishing siarery IN the United States ins
presents and most momentons question LOT '"e
Democratic and American spirit OF tins nation 10 seVe
II whether slavery shall he abolished IN hs worm
Amercaa slave States and Territories but "he.he.
the slavery and all the other institutions OF The y mt q
Staes shall be touched, disturbed n'eriered with, N
any manner, directly or indirectly, by Great b'a'n,
treating with third powers, against or without al eas.
our consent or being party to the diplomacy
or negotiation which dIsposes of our purely domestic
concerns Whilst we are conending in Virginia, that
our own Federal Government itself has not The power
10 NEEDLE with slavery in the States Territories or DIS
ric this Unon land officially Boosting, that she
is attempting abolish it throughout the N American
Continent, by her intervention in the affairs OF Mexico
and Texas Thus the question of slavery has become
| at last National one, and no longer remains sec
tionn question. II is no longer shall the Northern
fanatics but shall foreign diplomacy or foreign arms,
be allowed 10 defraud force cut OF our rights
The Northern as well as the Southern Democracy
| AVE. the Northern well as the Southern .7mer'edn
ism OF people will answer this question but IN one
way-wlth voice. North America belongs 10 ke-
pu5lcs TO Freedom and the brave who will defend II
Let phllanthtopc kings and princes have and possess
the worn old world Of m0Rarchies that 7ould yoke
in chains Of bondage, white as well as black slaves
this new world belongs TO q Liberty never known to
Europe and which Europe would destroy under the very
pretext Of emancipuling slaves England PhifanhTo
Ply is The lore Of and the lust Of urtrersa do
minion If she be allowed to interfere with African
slavery in any of its relations touching our interests or
institutions this Continent, how long would it BE-
before she would control other establishment be
sides slavery in country How long before she would
have Mexico and Texasin the condition she has placed
old Spain And after We have stood supnely by
and seen her avail herself of the weakness Of our
sister Republics, exhausted by wars with each other,
10 nterpose in their settlement Of differences how
can expect her not to take the lions share OF
the spoil Of this hemisphere she has OF all The
tnents and Of all The isles of all the Of the world,
dread England apaclty She hates the United States;
alone upon earth, stand in the way of her DONNA
party Of fanatics among ourselves composed of partly
political and partly religious crusaders, against
Constitution and forms Of Government, TO aid her
power, unparalleled in the history OF nations There
is but stand TO be taken, and am for taking that
stand mmeda,ely.-It is the stand of Mr.. Monroe,
when, during his administration, the holy Alliance
audnciousy threatened to dispose OF some other Anne
rican destInies IL then that IN calm and sublime
dignity, he warned the crowned heads OF Europe, that
the United States would not submit TO their unautho.
rized interference in American affairs, either North
South Of the Equator He, in effect, told Europe that
legitimacy should not be allowed foolhold the vr.
gin soil of the Continent OF Republics That the Re
publics Of the New, united by common instinct,
against either the open nsIdous expressions Of the
Kings OF the Old World That they should not, under
any pretext-and the pretext IS now to abolish slavery
extend their slaUery over any portion of American
lands, laid out for heritage Of The free: That Ameri-
cans of every border should be left the regulations
and disposition Of their own AFFAIRS That if the Holy
Alliance nlerposed on the one hand, the United States
would on the other. So would say now TO England
s.You shall not in'erpose at oil, to the injury Of or
reference with our institutions in any way whatever
If you do, it shall be at your peril and cost. will de
fend my institutions, al least, against your inter
yen,ion" How. Texas is ''bone of our BONE flesh Of
our flesh " Yer. Sat Sap.
With thanks, gentlemen, and the wish tina, you will
accept the suboined toast, am most truly,
= Yours, HENRY A. WISE
England and alexico-Texas and the United States
ourselves, European power shall inrude upon its
domestic relations.
/ TREE Hill, Sept. 9th, 1913
To Messrs. B. F. Dabney, w. S. Fontane and Others
/ COMMITTEE.
i Dear gentlemen | have but emily received your
kind favor of the 18th instant, inviting me in behalf OF
the "Repubcans of KING William county, public
" dinner at King William court house, the 29lh
" instant, which they have rendered their late Re-
evidence of the high regard which they entertain
" for his private worth and his public services.
much regret that my precarous health, The season of
the year, and prior engagements (shonld be able to
comply with ihem) will not allow me- on this occasion,
the happiness to NEE, The wishes of my valued friends
of King William In recen. letter, in which re-
uctantIy declined invitation to public dinner given
10 Mr. Hunter, at "Croxton, Springs" by the Repub
cans Of his district, fully stated the high estimation
10 " hch hold that gentleman. He worthy Of the
confidence heretofore reposed him by the Democracy
of your DISTRICT and equally, ii 50, of lis una
vang support during the late unfortunate Spring
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