Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-01-12
Far Ms Enquirer.
ACCOM- No LII


To tie Honrabh The Numbers RI tie Hon% 81
Dciegatss and of hs SENATE If K1si'.ia:
have said that The rapd Increase % The Tree
colurcd population Of Virginia will SION bring
VI to The conviction that hey mus either he ar
minated as an interior cas,e by dHals0matuJn
With me wines or RAISED By law and eomnon
consent toa ciril and soc,H equality or I. rsmo-
rsd from The State.
the first canno, be. Even aholioniss revolt
al il whrn practically urged, and plainly show
lha, their sympa.hies are Fictitious and unnatu-
raj, and therefore moi only impracticabe 10 The
experiment., but null and void as moral obi.
CATION This inferior caste can never BE- iosl by
amalgamalion.
Ii is equally certain that they can never be Iais.
cd 10 an equality in civil and soc al rignis and
privileges This may te attempted bur II VIII
Ne a failure. Il has been ATTEMPTED; but when
has the experiment ever succccded2 Lei 81 %.
mineo give the answer, iu.l o. solcnin INSTRUCTION
and iull or warning. Soon alter The early nroduc.
ticn Of slavery into that Island, the spir OF eaG-
Clip alton began 10 create there as u has done mere,
a Tree coored population, an interior degraded
caste. When 10 1870 their number began to ap
prox mate IL that Of the whites they peIllioned TO
be admitted 10 The rights q suffrage and other phi
vieges oiiree citizens The National Assembly
ct France decreed-what the Coloniai authorizes
rejecied-tie eir, and social equality IF the free
negroes. I'm the progress II events ihese 500
made common cause with he slaves, ci9il wars
ensued aad the Island was aelu53d III bood Ill
the whites were cy.crmiDalcd.
star as the expsrimen, has proceeded The re-
suits here have been sirikpsly similar. Th"i!
number increasing al fatJ much greater IMAM
the whites will bring their tread upon cur ieels
| before the generation now Graded AMI ~ thelf
| nurses arms shall Eavc acted their par, IN the
i Tb.u n
| cIamor,us for privileges. They will b. urgent
| in pe'ilion, then in areumehl then n demand =
| They will be FIST per uasive, then accusatofy,
and finally insoeLt. TheT are men, and even II
we had no record Of history, in which 10 read m
| future by thu past, We may know what they Will
| dol And will they find M sympathy, 20 cc-oPe-
ration. no aid IRON The whites lie mus ce q
Ann scholar indeed, who, even wiihoulhe 'eac!:-
invs al history, cannot infer The iu,ure from ne
present. You have mede law that ihe slave
enancipated shall leave The STATE bn; yoa
| need moi be told how often this law IS Vieia'eu
| AMI how many NAV be found IN every county,
r,,.; mod contrary 10 law By common sympathy
| in ihnir brhal,. I, j generous lnfnise Whlch
violates inc law; i bat jIdcIous 'aw which Dr.
mands s,ppre>sion o: those sympdthles. Thu.
ors ,hc free blacks Increasing rapidly by the
Jaublr nrocess Of birth AMI emanc patton.
EYtension II privilege is The order oil every
com runily. and wider room is yicl led a, every
,,msnd come not 10 'rcprsss 'h'' genial cur
| ren! al The soul" am moi p,eparei 70 say me
Tree people oil color yet have The plini 81 eleVa.
| lion assigned to hem waich they d'scrve-and
some Of them are very meTilororS. But We
loo. beyon! thr present. Where 20 these pa'h'
lead ,ol Wna is the point 10 which these tinseF-
boards We now read direct us2 What are The
l.ntcncies consequences Of what We are now
| doipp7 As certain as there is NJ assignah.c
Iimi, 10 human p, gtess, zee shall, in process: Of
time. find this class OF orr population reqnhiha
more room and demanding more privileges, iiI
inv wil, gone 10 ne doors of yonr Legislative
| h,iis AMI ask: "AFe we M men men q proper
- Il ,u,eiheeuce. AMI Of numbers solllcieni
b, known, ,ccocn.za!, heard amons ,onf
vii not assume - wfi;s his n;s'uf' ~ feia,
Waat i r.as' b. in cii'ct. All, moi po'ica t.
blind can see Hhca !. GENES q idis, or any
Il; : .ikci' Il" abswc. mus I" l'Er ma - Y.
Colonial Assembly !. 5. D,minso. The re-!
/, kncaa. Thy can negs: =. Admitted - a.
eonalita IL cipn and s3eiai giUil-ss. !!oaiy re
man, then, ;aa they beTsm9rca hon 'ac oaIr
II VIII b. nv mex, e5,c, . snow 'na' ihis ma'
no ,lnne that i: oush 10 be doac, am done tO'o