Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-08-01

10 The Edlt0rS of the IBnChbUg fHgiHidn
writer in the Virginia Adv cate Of HE 2Oth inst who
signs himself Albemars popnnds cert in question to the
Candidates for his District TO the State Conveni,n
which is to meet IN Richmond in October next on the
subject Of prospective emancipation Of our slave p,pula
lion Admitting the right of every Citizen Of the DIS
tnct, whether voter not fully to know the Opinions
and feelings OF all who Candidates before them upon
every subject, that night by ssbIly even, be brought
before the Convention, II gives me pleasure frankly 10
answer.
say that it IS new my opinion that your Legislature
has night ptospecyely otherwise TO emancipalion
your slaves without making the owners Just com
ponsatlon, 10 be ptId before the law would be valid be
cuase the "Bill of Rights declares that private pro
perry snail not be taken for public purposes, without
making 10 the such compensa ION That inasmucb
As we have not the means of providing such compensa
ton that ends all nght to legisate The subject bnt
the question mght he agltaled by the Legislature as
II in 1882, should be willing TO the Kentucky
provision. part of our Cor sttuon DO not deny The
right Of the Convention to act upon the question: but
am decidedly of the opinion that they should not touch
IT, and sloud | be elected member, in the absence Of
authoritative instruction 10 The contrary should oppose
any attempt to provldeor prospective emancipation, with
without Compensation
The above referred to also affords me an opnor
tuny to notice and put down atfoclous SANDER against
me- upon kindred subject originated and circulated cx
tenslVely by some person Or persons, who unkn
to me namely that | an "Abolitionis' When |
tell yon that am STAKEHOLDER ysel that my parents
nifty, that in infancy my cradle was rocked by
slave, you will believe me when pronounce the charge
base fsehood and the authors, orginalos and circu
laors Of base if be possible the character they
ha ye sanderously as;rhe1 TO me.
II is possible that this charge has originated from
tain opinions of mine, Chat have been concealed
these opinions may have been ignoraniy misunderstood
and therefore msrepfesenled or they have been corrupy
prevented into charge of an offence than treason
against my country, have believed and sill believe that
savervis evil aud depore its existence among and
50 did the Fathers of the Republic, and did he authors
Of the Declaration Of American Independence" You will
see in the preamble to Constitution passed in l7iG
amongst the grievances then set down against the King
the following "by prompting negroes rise in
among us those very negroes whom by an Inhuman
It his negative he had refused permission TO exclude
by law And in the ID, claatlon Of American Iudepen-
Deuce, you nl see the same subject al uIed to-
Our glorious Ture'athors it seems eemed it an evil
and still deem it; but forced upon Us originally
by the cupdty of the rulers Of the Mother Country at
least one of whom we told Queen Eizabeth) was
partner in the slave trades and how t. deal with it, has
exercised the patriotic medtatns Of many Of pat
riots. At the lime Of separation from the Mother
Country slavery obtained in most OF the States, but
from natural gradually dIsappea,ed inst,u-
ton from the States North Of rom the operation of
these natural caus is now gradually diminishing with
W. allude the facts that IN EaSternN Virginia aud in
the Valley our Lands cleared and becoming
grazleis farmers and manufacture sand slave labor
much more suitable and valuable ia the cotton growing
and sugar raising secuns that slaves drawn oil
in The same n,alner that the North got rid Of theirs.
That This The case Messs Editors ju5t your eye
upon The ladies' o the Federal Census oT $50 and lolo