Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-10-06
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HEArHsyILlE NORTHUMBERLAND County,
Snnienhrr Ia ISIS

HrATHsyILLE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY,
September Ii, 1915.
Messrs E,litors: Among the proceedings OF
th- Free Soil National Convention held at Bull
falo | find The following, as reported IN the rev
York Tribune of August l9tt:
"Mr. Berkshire of Virginia said The Oid
Dominion at this moment was alive win
Barnburners, He had come here 10 have
his saw in what might DO said here to-day.
He came up with his hands united, Tree
n 90 for any man who should be nomina
led by this Convention He thought this was
,hc GREATEST crowd he had ever seen. When ne
came TO look upon the lake at Conneau'' ana
s,v lis uphcaying waves-aod when ne saw
unon tho lake. shore, yondcr, such vast crowd
ma was astoni.hed lie came here with his Gre
dentias. He published an anti slavery paper IN
Virginia called the Cris,S-snd ne would say
.berc we're Barnburners in OLD Virginia VINO
were in favor of coming up 10 burn up her o!d
barns. rats and all
Now i not this SANDER cast upon the
name Of our Old COMMONWEALTH SANDER
oC foul character, and ono which, MOI
oontradicled and exposed, NAY blast her IN Inc
o.es NJ all good citizens, who kno" not 10 the
contrary. and who are opposed to The ianatlca
nroceejings Of The Buffalo Convention. II car
los fa,.ehood upon its very face. What Oid
vir,;n;a alive with Barnburners! No, no. 'li'
r,Iss ,ha, The land Of honored patriots AM
,,or,hy soses Of the pure sort should be awe
i'm men who are willing TO tramPle upoi
Vested rights. do away with good order, an'
nromo,e The worst discomfort in society.
win Mr. Berkshire tho "wish was father U
n. ,hourh,;" or. perhaps, he knew better; ou
,s,-,,b r. him is stranger than hction; OF III
,,.y a, INC time have been carried away oy ~
holy zeal, which caused him to forget TN
CO., os il exists. 'Tis indeed, saddculn:
thought Ina, an intelligent citizon OF Ola fir
r;n;a renowned as she is for her deeds Of pas
Glory her fidelity TO the Union, and her ha're
% anarchy. should, before large assembly Il
,bc North, publicly avow. in defiance oil ~
nromn,inS, of truth, that in his state lncr
,v.re many who were willing to support The re
sn,l movement, and follow the disorsanizers
heir mad aud unpatrioilc course nero !"
have no regularly organized oooies Oh ooc'a
80. p,n;sis. fourierites. Communists, Barr
h,',ners Free soil men, and other kindred an
d;soroanizing associations, winch seemed
100 Iouod representatives at the Buffalo CoI
man,;on. and / pray Heaven 10 avert the MI
ob;ac they are CAPABLE OF producing upon ID
soc,al moral and political world.
AIR BERKSHIRE says he carried MS creaeniia
in him From whence did he obtain them
Did he carry them as the representative OF an
Conyenlion Of people in virginia-lf so, 1t mu
have been a most Insignificant affair. Me'nint
no cot his credentials from motives and primo
Mos which find q resting place 10 HIS ow
aoso,, wherein seems to be received plentiil
snnnly of Northern fanaticism. He "puollshe
nm an,i-slavery paper in Virginia, called 70
Crisis " :e -,
NIessrs Editors, can this be tlue-if SO, dof
not tho CRISIS demand that he he visilcd VIII
Inc lust indignation Of peace-'ovlog ana pi
,r;otic Virginians; IL his he an Ahotion pape
should our people show themselves LESS deiei
mined than the people Of Lexington wnen 'hf
nroyed, by the STRONGEST and most PonciBL
evidence, that they would not soter CassIus y
CLAY TO stay in their midst, and endesTor, .
means of an iucendiary paper, 10 sur up u
minds and feelings of the negroes 70 rebellion
with all il. horrors, interrupt prevailing ma
mnny. and scatter far and wide the seeds Of o.
s,ruc,ion among society II has never been q
lortuae to see copy Of the Crisis
Mr.. B. did not roll Truth under ms tonst
"a sweet mcraeP when he spoke at that CO
yention. Virginia is mol as far gone as rerf
sen,ed by that worthy parsonage her sons ha'
no, ye, ENTIRELY forgotten The lessons taus
hem by Washington, her Jefferson and n
Henry. and the bright examples they shove
In saving what he did, Nr. Berkshire was guli
Of Islander upon vrg MIA, and her charac'
MUST be vindieatsd BY her presses, and mo