Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-05-28

oppose the occupation of Oregon for have always
been The ardent friend Of that measure. advocated
IN speech published long before became member
OF the SENATE and now since the death OF the patriotic
ana iamented Linn, am the oldest surviving me mber
OF the special committee of the Senate has press
co upon tnas oody, Tor SO many years, the immediate
occupation of the whole territory of Oregon There
upon .he shores ut the distant Pacific IL my can
comPsht be planted the banner OF the Union and,
win my consent, never shall be surrendered a sin gle
Pont OF It's coast an atom of lis sol, drop oil It's
'efs Da' "he ain against the surrender of portion
Oh oregon am also against the reSurrnder of the terri
tory OF Texas for disguise il as we NAV il is case
OIL re-Surrenaer, whence It once all own. and
now again cnrs by the free consent Of those 10 whom
II belongs, already gwen aud waiting only the cere-
mony OF formal acceptance Let not those The n.
who advocate the occupation of Orepon tell us that
Texas is leo distant ito inaccessible or too extern.
sVe Tor American occupancy. Let the friends Of Ore
gon reflect, also, that Texas, al The head of the Atkan-
sas, IS contiguous to Oregon, and within twenty miles
ct the pass witch commands the through all
that territory and the occupation Of ah ch pass by
foreign power would separate the people and territory
OF Oregon from The rest Of the Union and leave them
an easy prey To the army of an invader. In truth.
Texas IS nearly as Indispensable for the safe and perma.
nent occupation OF Oregon, il is for the security OF
New O:ifans and the Gulf
The only remaining ut lection is the question Of sia-
very. Aud have we question which is 10 curta The
limits of the Republic threaten lis ex'stenceio aim
deadly blow at al lis great ard vital nieres.sto Court
alliances with foreign aud with hostile powers 10 rscel
our commerce and xpe our manufactures tom bnrs and
rivers, that all our own-to strike down the
flag Of the U.on, advances towards our ancien,
boun6ary-to surrender mighty territory. and invite
10 lis occupancy the Le idest On roth, The ony toes
this government has ever encountered, Is an.i'!ave
ry TO do all tho And ia it TO endangsr New Or
leans, and the valley and commerce aud outlet OF the
j; West, that we would hold them, rot 10y
strength hu, By the slender &c tina will and Of
the mercy Of Great Britain If ant-savery effect
all This, n,y God, in his infinite mercy, and per-
petuate this Union fer the eGDtis OF man wnud be
. feeble and iniIosnt. The avowed al isct NJ iii )
pary is the immediate abolition If slavery. For III
they traverse and land for this they hold
lions in the Capital Of England; and there they brood
over schemes Of abolition association wth British
societies. there they jon in denauciators o! their
couE.rymen until their hearts filed witl, treason
and they return lons Americans in name, b@t Engih-
men in feelings and principles. lie, ns ALL then, feel
and know, Whether We 1--we North or South, that this
party If not vanquished, must overthrow the Govern
ment, and dissolve the Union This party propose the
lmmed date abolition Of slavery throughout tie Union.
If this pract cable, 1t us look the conscquen
ces BY the returns Of the last census, the pro-
ducts of the slarehn!dng States, $780, amounted in
value to S4G4, 42oG3S These products, then, of The
South, nus. have alone enabled II 10 furnish a
home market Tor all the surplus manufactures Of the
North, also market for the products Of It's forests
and fisheries; end giving mighty impulse 10 al!
lis commerc'a! aad navigating interests Now, nearly
oil these agricultural product. OF thr South, wl,ch
compsh all these great purposes The result Of slave
labor; and strike duwn these products by the m:nedI-
ME abolition OF slavery and the markets Of the South,
for want of the means 10 purchase, will be lost 10 the
people OF the North; and North and South Will be in
voved in common ruin. Yes, in the harbors Of
the North, (at Philadelphia, New ok and Boston, the
vessels would rot at their wharVes for want Of ex-
chanGeable products 10 carry; the building Of ships
would cease, and the grass would grow many u
strect erli.ened by active and progressive in
dustry. In the interior, the railroads ard canals would
anguish for want of busnets; and the factories and
manufacturing towns and cities, decayng and deserted
would stand as blasted monuments of the folly OF
One universal bankruptcy would oversprs ad the
lry together with a! the Decentralization end CRIME
which occupy snch catastrophe; and the notices
every would point only 10 sales on execution
By the constable, the sheriff, the marshal! and The euc-
oneer; whilst Tie bpggars would ask the
not for money, but for bread. Dark the picture
may be, it could not exceed The gloomy reality
Such would be the effects in the North; whilst IN
the South, no human heart can conceive, nor pen
describe, the dreadful Consequences. Let oos a
another result the North. The slaves being
: cipaed, by the South, but By the North, w"uld
ny there for safety and projections; aud three m lions
Of free blacks would be thrown al once, as II by
sion of Nature, uaon the States oi the North They
S oold come there their friends Of til. North, who
: had given them freedom 10 give them also habGa
ton, food and co;hing and, not having it 10 give
n many &C them would perish ron want aud exposure
, whist the wretched remainder would be left TO live
n they could, by theft charity. They would sill be
degraded CASTE free only in namc without the reality
j freedom. few might wretched and precarIou'
subsistence, BY competing with the white laborcrs cf The
North, and reducing their wages to the lowest p:nt in
the sliding scale of starvation and misery; whilst The
poor-house and the JAIL the sslums of the deaf and
dumb the blind the idiot and insane would be filled &c
overowng it, indeed, any asylum could be afforded &c
tire millions of the negro race whom wretchcdncss and
8 crime would drive TO despair aud madness.
i That these sad realities, is proved 10y the
: OF 1910 | annex in appendix table marked No. !
compiled by entirely from the official returns of the
census Of Si0 except 10 prisons and PaGpcrs, bcf
obtained from city and State returns, and tic result:
are as follows:
lst. ! he number Of deaf ard dumb, blind IDIOTS. ard
insane Of The negroes in the nonsav chodag safes is
one Of every &C. in the slayehodins States il
out Of every G72, to in favor Of the slaves
in this respect, compared with the free blacks.
ID The number of whites deaf and dumb, blind, id
OTIS and insane, in tie nonsiayehoiing States is in
every SOL being nearly six 10 against the free bac,
in The same States.
3D. The number Of negroes who are deaf and dumb
blind idiots, and insane, paupcrs, and in prison in The
-slaveoIdng States, out Of every g. and IN the
slaycholIng States one oul Of every ia or iwcn,Y two
to one against the free blacks compared with TIC
slaves.
18th. Taking The two extremes Of North and South
in Maine the number of negroes returned ii deaf and
dumb blind, insane, ard idiots, by the census Of 1910
is one out of every twelve and in savehoding Florida
by the returns, is cut of every eleven hun
dred and ivc two 10 one, in IA S0r ci the sa
OF Flnri0a, az compared WIN he IRE hiacks ut Maine
By the report Of the Secretary of Slate Of Massachn
sets (of the LIST November, 1879 to the legislature
there then in he county ails and houses of
rection in that State G2O whites, and G4 negroes and
I adding the rre=;ons returns of the State prison 2l5
Whites and % blacks; making in all 1915 whites, and
SOC free Blacks being ofevery ore hundred and
seventy of the white, and one out Of every tweny-one
of the free black population; and By the official
turns of the census of ls40 aud their own official
turns 10 their own Legislature, out of every ihir
teen of the free blacks of Massachusetts was either
, deaf and dumb blind, idiot, insane, in prison
thus proving degree of debasement and misery, on
the part of the coloed race in that truly grca, State
which is appalling. In the last official report the
Legislature Of The warden of the Pententary Of East
ern Pennsylvania, he snys 1.-The whole number of pri-
roners received from the opening Of the institution
October 25 1922 to January ls43 is 1922; of these
1904 were white malos, 533 colored maes 81 while e
,nnles and So colored females; one out CT every
e47 cf tie white end out of every CT Of the negro
populations and Of the white female convicis, out
every lG 2S and of the colored female cnnvcts
| out of every $40 in prison, showing degree OF
guilt and drbasement Tie part "f The cooursd
females, revolving and unparalleled When such the
debasement of the coioed females, far exceeding