The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-11-25


correspondent, says Ne National Era, fur
nishes the following article from the Richmond
Enquirer, when il was conducted by the gentle.
man who now edits the Washington Union, and
who now grows nervous at the most distant idea
| Of Abolitionism:
From The Richmond Enquirer, January nm. is3e.
"Ycs something must be done-and il is the
part of no honest man to deny it--of no free
press TO affect to conceal it.
sHWhen this dark population is growing upon
Ius-when every new census Is but gathering its
appalling numbers upon us-when, within pc
nod equal to that in which this Federal Constr
tuition has been in existence, those numbers will
increase to more than two millions within Viz
ginia-when our sister States are closing their
doors upon our blacks for sale-and when our
whites are moving westwardly in greater num-
bers than we like to hear of-when this, the fair
est land on all this continent, for soil, and eli
mate, and situation combined, might become a
sort OF garden spot, if it were worked by the
hands Of white men alone, can re, ought re, to
SIT quietly down, fold our arms, and say to each
other. well, well: this thing will not come To
the worst in our day. We win leave it to our
children, and TO our grandchildren, and great
grandchildren, to take care of themselves, and
to brave the storm Is this to act like menu
Heaven knows we are no fanatics--we detest the
madness which actuated the Amis des Noirs.-
But something ought TO be done. Means, sure
but gradual-systematic, but discreet, ought to
be adopted for reducing the mass of evil which
is pressing upon the South, and win still more
press upon her the longer it lis put of. Weought
not TO shut our eyes nor avert our faces. And
though we speak almost without hope that the
Committee or the Legislature will do anything
at the present session to meet tins question, YET
xga in fha t.fu r
hearts, that our wisest men cannot give too much
OF their attention TO this subiect--Hor can hsg
gfpe IL too soon.''
II we mistake not, the Rockingham Register
embossed these sentiments. Certain it IS, the
delegates from Rockingham supported the move
ment IN the Legislature for abolition as did Gov
ernor Mcdowell, the present Representative in
Congress from the Tenth Legion.
"The times are changed, and we are changed
with them" or, as the editor of the Union
would probably say, in Latin, " Temporal, mu-
tastnT, Ct nos mHtamHr cum His" Or, as the
veteran editor 10 fond OF quoting poetry, perhaps
he would say,
.'Ihe souls dark cottage, battered AMI decsyed,
cts In new light through ehinks that time has made "
But poet tells US, that there is such a thing
as "raying out Darkness" we are afraid some Of
1t has rayed in through the aforesaid chinks. We
suppose he considers those troublesome visions
as the dreams Of youth. Like Macbeth, he has
come to the conclusion that the dagger which he
seemed to see, is but
ga dagger Of the mind, a false creation.
proceeding from the heat-oppressed BRAIN"
After having alarmed himself terribly, he has
thought over the matter, and resolved that
'there's no such thing" He said once, eve
ought not to shat our eyes, nor avert our faces,
There Is no need Of any such movement now
He has looked so long at these imaginary evils,
that they have disappeared before his eyes. He
Is like the boy who has seen ghost, and finds il
nothing but stump. Nay, more than this; he
has discovered "beauty on the brow of Egypt
He Is like the knight in Cover, who married
''The loathies. wight
That ever man cast ON his eye,"
and found her suddenly changed to the most
beautiful virgin. But we are wasting compar-
sons:
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