Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-08-11
FOREIGN coRREspoNDENCE-Iyo. ".
Lima


Dear Sir The "Morning Chronicle Of The 22nd,
contains the proceedings of the british and Foreign
Anti Slavery Society,"" held a, Exeter II, in London,
which, doubtlessly, reached you by the last Boston
steamer. | have never believed otherw So, than that
the sole object of British and Amrrican AbolliIonsts
s to destroy The glorious model Republic These I'M
presslons have not concealed, reference 10 some
Of my former letters will show.
Tine speech OF Lord Morpeth, upon taking the Char
at the recent Convention, is one fsndish in its
character as ever proceeded from the io' OF an Ind
Tdua! PROCESSING TO be influenced by Christian pfin-
cples. II will be recollecled, that his Lord-hp
so)ourner for many months in the United States, and
that from his elevated position at home one enter
tanned an opinion the South that he would himself
down 10 level with Dickens in sandering nst,-
buttons. lie passed abouta month in the Western part
of Virginia, os'ensiby for the purpose of enjoying
mountain air and mountain scenery From what
pred, however, IN this Convention, ! an persuaded
he was Influenced by entirely different motives. a
new plan OF warfare, 1t seems is TO be waged against
slavery, and IT is very apparent, that Morpehs tour
through Virginia. and South Carolina anc Kentucky
was to ascertain whether it practicable Instead
OF The hlg souled chvalrous gentleman supposed
him to be, he was the contemplate spy, OF power
which is mecnly plotting our national disunion II
was boldly asserted in the Con ntiop that the surest
and most speedy mtMod Of eonSummanno the ends
tohtch had Uctc, icOuid be 10 seek HE cooperaon
II parsons mol holding Siares in the siaUs STATES! This
will be attempted.
In the course of his remarks. Lord Morpetl assaed
that clause of the Ashburton Treaty which relates TO
the surrender OF fugitves from justice. Hs feared
that would enable owners to recover their elyes " bo
might escape into Canada. He commended, that under
no circumstances would the British nation be ius,i-
able IN lis own conscience, in delivering them up-not
eren TOR the commission Of the acorSt of crimes He
said, that the nobest leap the world yer behold was
that OF the slave the Falls Of Niagara 10 British
freedom He condemned the silence Of many Of his
countrymen travelling through the United Safes who
had been seduced by the hospitality of the planters
from speaking of their tyranny. liz panegyrized Mr.
dams as one capable of making every sacr iice-aye
his devoted head if necessury-for the CAUSES sake
He had been an admring witness of his firmness du
ring the time The resolution under consideration in
the House of Representatives for his expulsion from
Congress- He said, that the bt,erest enemy the slave
had IN The United States, was the Irish population II
was invariably opposed TO Abolition, &c, &c loud
cries at this remark of "Shame upon them !'1
Numerous members of this "Sooety' were in at.
tendance from the United States. The principal speak
ers were MIR. Leavtt and Mr.. Phelps of Boston ne.
gro from Hartford, and Lewis Tappan from New York
Mr. Leavitt, after stating, that "tere was noble band
in America, determined to give the country no rest un
Ill an end put TO slavery" read The following
letter, which he received just he was sailing from
John Quincy Adams, Ex-Presdent of the United
States
"May I6, 1913.
any Dear Sir: My health, hope, is improving. /
have only to say, God bless you and your noble en-.
terprize, for which have other prayer to maxi,
than that its success may herald the hour Of my nunc
deminas. j. O ADAMS"
Now, mark we'll what Mr. Phelps saws: 81 form,riv
pi,ied the siare, but, after isdays proeceainG, pity
the sfaoshod for, take this meeting as an in dca
ton, that Great Britain prepared use ereru ,eea7on
she can loieid 10 put an end 10 stacery"
Lewis IapPan, among many other remarks, snid :
'ln conversation had with Mr.. Adams he obsery
ed, deem it the duty of Great Britain as Christian
nations to tell the Texans that slavery must be abolish
ed.''
Mr.. j. S. Buckingham, another of the tourists. md
who received large for his lectures on Palestine
in the United States, SAID, "as one mean. ne e-cuno
our object, would suggest, that aH pocerfu England
should refuse to hold any communicated with those
countries where slavery was continued"
1t is imPerously necessary for the South TO look
closely to It's Unconstitutional rghts-An arch enemy is
secretly IN addition to what SEEM maturing schemes
to invade them. No quarters should be shown to Abo
litionSts, who may be discovered within us limits
Let them be treated as British emisssres more in
tenuy bent upon mischief than were the notorious
Arbuthnot and Ambrster. Beware also, of English
travellers With the apparent harmessness of dawes,
they have the subtlety of serpen,s British Lord in
the capital OF his nation, who has enjoyed your hos
pality, has the temerty 10 assert that fugitive slave
from justice, who escapes into British possessons.
should not be sure ndered 10 our authorities hoaght
charged 10th the ,oors Of crimes In the darkest ages
sentiments like these would have been degrading the
human species-but, as startling as they were, they
we're aPpanded by large auditory, composed, in part
of the nobility of England. Englands philan,hrophy
consists of crimes-her honesty in robberies. She
would murder the MASTER in order 10 steal The slave
This is the long and The short of the doctrine for
which Lord Morpeth eheered
John Boil mus. be aware of The destitute condition
Of the runaway negroes in Canada If Lord Morpeth
did not witness the painful spectacle, it because he
closed his eyes 1t he had gone twelve miles into thr
interior from Niagara accustomed as he is 10 the wall
ngs of the multitude from want, he would have seen
objects OF pity, that would have haunted his con
science through life the ghost did that of the guilty
Macbeth. lie would have beheld some of the horrors
attendant on abolition Let any who wishes 10
boasted Of in Engand,) with American slavery, wish
ST. Catharne's, near the Falls. If be be not an ar