Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1848-12-12
VOLUME XLV.-NUMBER Ga.

efn paper, We find the same views 50 strongly and
clearly expressed, that we ado7,then for oar own.
We had hoped % see Ihe whole South Whiss *
well as Democrats, acting shoulder to Shoulder on
hi> questions which scars iar above parry. II
Gen. Taylc' means 10 b. true 10 th5 South. such
an united action on lhr paa u lhe oanih should
be organized 10 SUSAN hin-ii, ~ Inc other
hand, he play false, the whole South should re-
buke him. Moreover, we are not without hone,
that This delicate question may be properly adjust.
ell al the present session OF Congress Let Vir.
ginia and The South now take temperate bot
firm altitude, and it must facilitate such settle
meat:
From the Columbus Times.
But granting, that no Southern master would
ever should the door be en wide open, find il 10
his interest 10 occupy that conalry-to work lis
mites and I'LL lis SOILS il an abstraction 10 be
snecled al, whether ne halt ,aa cGd9Ger0rs shall
be permitted, in a spirit oil doemaic dIctalioD pc
Iemp'ofly 10 exclude from common conquest
the other hali2 Is The principle .. insoent ST.
periority on The one hani and Of degrading int.
rioriiy on the u,hcf, implied b. SUCH preceding,
an abstraction or realiy2 j. c.>honor an alb
straciion? Are the Eichis aud dignity If he States
as equal members Of thr cunirtciacy, absfac-
tons Are fairness, Ias.ice and honest dealing,
absTacieEs2 If 50, hr struggle loI American
independence was based mp n an abstraction, tor
rebellion against the government ol George lie
Ill, was excited more against The theory q IN
jus, Iaxalion without representation, than By he
real brrlhens OF the Stamp and Tea Tax. BY the
san reasoning, national honor and public iibef
~ are distractions, because they may be figured
out by pfacticalists, 10 cost more in dollars and
cents 10 defend them than they are worth
II is no, an abstraction, and those who tell The
country so. are mol safe coun>eors in his mo-
ment .. peril. Its a p,lnctpls hal is involved
a principle Of The hghrs and most mpoGan,
character. The principle lie, deep in The founda-
lion otihe Republic and is recognition vas o;rn.
~ demanded and folly concede, before the Souih-
crn STATES coE-sne ed t. come into The uHi"n-thc
principle - pcit-c' eqaai'y, ard communion u
rights, Interests privileges AMI burdens, between
ali the States parties IL The curfe 'csacY.
But, look ahead AT The consequences Of treating
the Wimu. Provi,0 as Al ab.ras lien. Lei u,
Of he Sou,h submit like servie., I" be rAclud.
ed trc'n an equal enjoyment OF a country bought
BY thc blood .! The gallant Regiments from South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi Ken.
lucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri Texas
Tennessee, and the other Southern Siales, in a,
double proportion with those Of The North; and
what will be the next sept
The abolition OF slavery in The District OF Co.
lumbia, will next be demanded, ami we shall he
called on 10 yield up that; as an abstraction We
will be told The tendency q negro migration
Southwark, and growing Northern p.sintices are,
in he course Of time, 10 make the District, "ree
soi" and i is mere abstraction, whether il shall
be done aep, on the demand Of Northern pnlili.
ca cnpty and ianaIicism, or few years hence,
by the process Of time.
The next step viii be 10 shat up the slavery
OF each Sta'e, within is own particular borders,
5y prohibiting the Grade" between The STA e
and champions for ina, measure will b. found
on the ground lhal its an abstraction. AMI fl
naliy, when all these ou'poss Of the institution
are taken by Storm, Or yielded through tempo
rising weakness the Citadel II II, in the Stafcs
will be hssiegrt and as,ailsd ~ n" combined
forces Of Northern power, flushed with io,mer
triumphs and hopeful Of complete victory over
the doomed ard ruined South. And even here
the arsu ment OF abstraction, will not be wanting
TO show that, slavery is al evil any how, and We
had better let the institution 60, than quarrel
with the North and distract the peac- of the
Union.
Southern men this is not fancy picture.
These are the deductions OF reason, working by
the light Of experience and inteliigenlly alive 10
the nature OF the Horseback OF sectional polti-
cal ambition, that grows hungry nPon The con-
cessions Of the week and unrcsistine, upon which
il feeds and 10 The revolutions u lana icsm
which never roll backwards, an which in This
instance has no. exhibited since binh, I" Cnc
symptom Of Abatement"
The safety of The institution depends upon a
successful resistance oi III, frs eacroachmsnt.
Delay IS tull II peril. We ar ssonssr to-day,
| than Ne viii b 10 morrow. To-day, we mas
| have all the moral advantage OF a borough uni
on AM bold front. Tomorrow, parry spiii NAV
srize mon The question, divide US al home, and
like Drlah, shear our Sampson locks ard deliv-
er rs helpless victim 10 our enemies. The
frontier is ever the true poin, Of defence against
The invading foe He should be met and beaten
as Palo Alto, while his feet prints are yel fresh
upon The soil.