Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-04-26

Conyention and in vindicsting the purposes aho
,h YOU charged with aching IN aoVahc
- ~ IA IA snericnced members Of your party ana
amongst SUCH my maine was introduced IN 'a M - ~
lated make the impression hat "s oa absent from
no state for tho next month"; and therefore hke no pun
in any pubc discussions which may take pace m
zinc and the neriod first Monday in May dcssna-
pa e , onnontment OF county delegates 10 attend said
S.onuo,,;nr Unwilling leave this rebuke OF your course
unnoccd unwilling 10 be absent CURING 's onwcn,ion
.hn, leaving The unmisakeable evidence OF my
oninons hehnd me- for the consideration Oh all persons mo
feel any interest IN h'o"iis ''e"' ~
Know nothing more of the objects and purposes OF CAL
inc sad Convention than have learned through inc puoc
US tho the proceedings of State Conventions, the
,ions o State Legislatures and OF primary assemblies
of ,hc neope who have acted on this suhJec al ms
with remembered cacep'n' onsn,,v nariotic and
entirev consistent with the preservation ana pepeuy
tho Inion Not of them avows OF ihh'les nv e'iS
W., nso nj dssoIyng IT, In the face OF avowcd good ob-
r m M, presume bad against tho men already
Amounted and who coming up 10 Nashvie rom the NJ
aan Sets of the South equal number from hoth potl-
cal nar,ics and who given evidence OF the highest de-
cnnn ~ The Constitution and the Union Take Tor Illus
,,;n s,te Chief Justice Sharkey of Mississippi He pre-
id 80 he first Convention that was held, and IS, I'M
ie,,nd canning up with Judge Guon and other Wings, 10
The Convention Now, would II be at all night or proper IN
me to set aside their distinct and clear annunclauon OF e
n,orcs in coming presume against them Inc uarkesl
and hackrs crime which American can possibly commit
So rnioht enuneratc the names OF eminent wings rom
o,hor S,te who have led the vanguard OF their party al
bon,n an many hard fought battle and who are coming up
TO Nashville covered with the scars OF party warfare WOUNDS
and scars received when some of those VINO now assam e
novos and their honor were but pulling infants In her
ladies Can do these men, although differing from mem
as do in politics, the crying injustice which some Oh e
own party editors doing in this Sntc-ot denounclhe
them in advance against their own express declara'ios On
moro suspcon traitors and disunionlsts cannon, anu
il mn nepctrato such against either e W"
or democrats who have been may be appointed 10 ad
Convention will presume their motives and purposes 10 o
such as they declare them 10 be- until they sa
and by unpatrioc act prore TO inc contrary NE
as tk,a y,I,c
.ccnsed f.on the hiphwavman and the murderer. The
press denounces them as such IN ADVANCE on pc
Stunning their innocence peSpeahs oi 'heih u '' w p
tal trial. ,;..,;.o - 80.
every day being done by the Wing press to inc eminent
Whr deerates that are coming up from the other fourteen
Southern States that they do not mpute such unpatrloc
purposes Judge Sharkcy and the great oody OF ohe
Wings and Democrats who have been appointed 70 VIZ M
y.nion-but only n portion of them, the ospurs
uadcaps" of the Souththe answer TO such plea y mos
evident that the number of such must be very small an
hot wise and prudent Of both parties ought to be sen
there and be in full attendance 10 rofe d0en instantly
any and every extreme and unparotlc proposhon WHICH
such might offer - ... -
If il be true as we often hear that herc are fanatics on
both sides of Masons and Dixons line, II Is only PROOF oil
the greater necessity for the wise and conservative men OF
both parties Wings Democrats in the face OF such for
midable difficulties minge freely together, ana ny
Joint consultation both the Union and the rights OF the
South against the united attacks OF these alleged ianacs
How will the Wings of Tennessee feel, when that
Convention shall havo met and proceeded 10 business
and when they may their political brethren rom
the other fourteen States, as well rs the Democrats
in close hard struggle against both these sets oi
fanatics and nothing wanted TO secure an easy and triumph
ant victory boh but full delegation from their party
in the State 10 by their counsel and their votes in lis
achievement | state the Wing argument this point in
its full force in order to furnish It's reutaon not because
believe thar there is material portion OF the people oil
any State that single delegate from any State Wing or
Democrat will be in favor of dissovng the Union That
any such result is likely grow out Of the convention s
ted by every thing that the Wing editors of the State have
ever heare or known read of the American people.
,iouh fa of
out of the millions they have who were hostile TO the
Union Ii refuted every time they cast their eyes over the
delegates already appointed from the different
States refed by their daily intercourse with their
ncshbors with whom they transact business and
personal and social civtic which necessarily imply conf
dence and This they could do Ii they really be-
eved those who favorable to this convention were
traitors and dsunionists
If they believed it, they would shun and avoid every man
they met with
"As one who sees serpent in his way
Glistening and basking in the summer ray,
Disorder'd, stops 10 shun the danger near,
Then walks with faintness on and looks with fear
And vet do mean charge these gentlemen with
disposition wfuy msrepresen the designs and purposes
of this conventions far from il; but fear that they have
vet sufficiently walked up 10 the magnitude OF the pors
which encompass the South made sufficient effort
to throw themselves of the habit of taking party view
OF almost every subject which may up under their
view
have thus far given you my opinions what this
venton not called for now propose 10 trouble you
with few observations as TO what was expected to be ac
complishcd by it.
For tho North has been attempting 10 Interfere with
the rights OF the South In relation to our slave property
The attempts weak first, but stronger
session Congress- until from the presentation o petitions
introduction OF bills embracing the Will
mot povso the abolition OF slavery in the District of Co
lumha and in all the public establishments OF the United
and the prohibition OF the transfer OF slaves BY their
rightlu slave State another. These
actually pending before Congress in shape
other and under fierce and daily discussion in that body
The Wilmot Prvso had actually passed House. and the
of all OF them every day becoming more and more
problematica In this condition OF things the South be-
seriously impressed with the danger Of her condition
The unconsltuonaly of most of these measures the in
equality and injustice all of them occupied much of her
attention. and The probable consequences of their passage
through Congress her peace and safety produced the
thrilling and anxious solcitudc In this condition of things
one public Journal would express one sentiment as 10 wha
proper be DONE whilst another would suggest nj
suspended blow So OF the public of rhe South In Con-
gress State legislatures before assemblies of the peoples
loo not under these assaults rights Others
tame and sufnissve amid TINS confusion OF sentiments
wise and good OF the South both Wings and Dem
equally involved the injurious consequences OF thu
proposed legislation against rights for the double rnr
pose of making firm united appeal 10 northern breh
fobear these nvasions and also Of giving moderation
and harmony Of action amongst the people ot the South IN
their opposition these measures, resolve on calling the
Convention The North had called many conventions,
less large in order 10 give force and energy and harmony
amongst her people IN faror Of such legislation The
South could good reason why she should not also
in Convention devise the best Of prerentie
or defeating such legislation. But there striking differ
ence between the parties
The North has only united rote of her
favor of these and they become the laws
of land whilst the South has not only 10 get united vote
her members against them but make united, firm
and rational appeal the justice and magnanmty Of the
North may prevent this unanmity in her vote Ii
mainly make this appeal in degrading spr; of truck
ling submission, yet in the tone OF clustering hrvado
that the approaching convention called If held beorc
the passage of these obnoxious laws the convention
take up each bill by itself aud set forth faithfully how il
would operate the peace, prosperity of tie
South. \ powerful document like this prepared with ab
moderation and rnncss would he where read and
could fail to work happy Influence. When the
Wings of the North should hear from Wings of the
South through such document how ruinouslv these
would operate them, their families and property
when the Democrats Of the North should hear the
thing from their brethren of the South, il sincerely
hoped that they would forbear all further neidlng with
rights and leave the Constitution and the Union precisely
bequeathed TO by the fathers of the Republic
know we'll how readily the opinion may be entertained
and advanced that there likelihood that such appeal
would bring the North abandonment OF their pur
pose Still 1t do the South possible harm 10 make
the expermentto exhaust the whole stock of and
argument in the prui.eworthy cndeavo We may be
sangunc OF the result but surely there be for
branding traitors and disunonsts for making rucss
effort prevent by and argument what these oppo
OF the convention declare they will resent, by flying
10 after the proposed laws shall have been passed.
Look all they said and through the last aud
winter and how uniformly they declare that Ii these laws
would then resist every hazard and to the last extremity
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