Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-04-19

RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
, ,nDSIsn,x moRNING, APRIL ~, 1850.
NORTHERN AooREss1oS-rnE NASHVILLE coNvEN

| ,, ,,oa :, s., that in a proposed for tie
maintenance of undispued and Si'a' 'ish'S oi s''' wv
should be division of sentiment amongst oui o'A' " "
the proprety OF unfolding and sustanne EXCEPT 'ce
can be found in our midst some man VINO has ehisia
,h country and brought, along with him the principles OF
real abolition think there Is MOI u i''a'' u" "s 80
does NOT fully understand manifold and ceaseies ouages
ll o,;sed unon us by the free States in the gene
A d by rho of their citizens individually whenever
the subject Of slave property be gotten at practca
To reconro runaway negro in the Tree States Is no"
inpractcable if not impossible and yet 'he
the United States positively commands tha' ey sa W W
lyered up 10 those claiming hem ipis s'''e u '"s' "
T.; hronoht about well by legislative action
of some Of the free States BY the violence OIL INC uhe
strained mob Here then, wo have Pachcai question pre-
senedo nos,ve evil TO remedy-n gross injustice to be
righed Have the people oil virginia '"e ia'"es' '"'
courage defend the right
But connected with the subject OF slavery there Is an
other daily committed upon the rights the dignity
honor of the South The free States undertake TO die
se IN yirpinn what offences against law shat not DC pun
;abed a tho sto,utes Of Commonwealth say they snail
be and therefore who comes into our kitchens OF
fields and steals negro s perfectly SAFE ne can
Ohio or New York The authorities of these States and per-
hans others will no, allow this be crime and will not
deliver over 10 Justice any charged with the offence
If slave steals the property of his master and ies TO free
State he will not delivered up upon demand TOR MN as
eon and fugitive from justice by the authorities of the
Slate These facts notorious they have been spread
before the country time time and very repeatedly
brought to the notice of the Legislature Well an express
clause of the Constitution OF the United States commands
that fugitives justice flying from one State into an
other shall be delivered up when demanded by the auhor
ties of the State from whence the offender He'd
Hero then s another gross and insulting wrong done TO
Virginia. and effect which, the sacred provisions OF the
Constitution are con,emptuously rampled under foot
Arc wrong In pposng that these acts are practical
evils brought esides in tangible and undenaoe
shape? Arc we wrong in supposng them to be deeply nu
rous TO our czens-whst they are humblng and insult
ing TO the last degree tho Commonwealth If an over
seer on plantation institutes rule OF punishment and up
on determination enforce in given instance the mas
ter without consultation nsultinely refuses TO let him car
nv out discipline the must al once quit his EN-
poyer Will the planters and Shareholders themselves sub
deeper insults and wrongs than this committed upon
the dignity of the State chiefly their account without an
effort 10 redress the ono and vindcate the other?
But ii these insults and wrongs confined to tho I'M
authorized action Of mobs the little less awle.s
action of individual State Legislatures there would not be
much TO apprehend for the safety OF slaves whilst the
insult might probably be- with dignity, forgiven. But we
have not consolation of affecting indifference to
insult and wrong because of the unau,henc unauthor
zed shape in which they We declared from the
poor privilege refusal take notice OF il on the ground
OF affecting superiority the from which springs
The spirit OF aggression comes in no questionable shape
The Congress the United States the agent and nstru
men selected offer the insult and perpeate the wrong
That body has been characterized by determined course
of hostility the slave interest which man in the South
will fail reprobaie and in the United States will
pretend to deny.
Congress proposes excluds slavery from all the terrific
hnld
Ing States are az much interested these territories the
free States
Congress proposes abolish slavery tho District OF CO.
umba without one word authorize it in the Constitution
Congress proposes abolish the slave trade between the
Stacs-that Is prohibit in Virginia from selling
negro 10 n man in North Carolina.
Congress proposes take the of the negroes in the
District of Columbia say whether slavery shall be abolish
cd there not.
What farther power remains be exercised the sub
ect of slavery None surely except that OF aboshing sa
very the Satesand who will dare TO say that if Con-
gess the powers claimed slavery il does
also possess the power abolish it in the States All
will agree that if the authority the slave interest,"
claimed by Congress- had been up when the Constilu
ton made the Union could have been formed
II equally clear that the present claims power by
Congress had boon set and enforced when Missouri was
admitted into the Union then the danger Of dissolution
would have been imminent The doctrines grave
y urged Congress- then only held by those ultra OPP
ponents slavery OF that body banded together by ia
nacism under the appeaton of Abotioniss Let il not
be forgotten that this very utilization, immensely
creased both numbers and responsibility is this day
tending fercely that Congress has the power abol
sh slavery throughout all the States This association de-
nounces the clause of the Constitution commanding
the surrender Of fugitive slaves and recognizing slavery
"a league with He'll" and Senator Of the United States
reteates the sentiment defends tho opinion in his place
upon the Senate floor.
This spirit is anatcism 1t has already broken down the
most essential provisions the Constitution have
shown and is actively and exutingy advancing upon
slavery ITSELF with fixed resolve break down and abolish
that We scarcely think necessary elaborate this
declaration will certainly be denied by any other than
a bgot hypocrite fool We however, publish below
an article from the New York Journal of Commerce, TO
which we ask the serious attention Of readers. 1t is
be sure of tho proceedings of negro meeting
in Harrisburg but also shows that similar meetings have
been held in New York and Boston, in of which white
| men of notoriey have participated.
The Boston meeting declared that he crisis has arrived
when the liberties of every coloed stake" and
that their motto is "liberty death"
Mr. Pauding tell. that faction Of fanatics in Ohio and
Now York. holding the balance of power between the
great parties could control the Presidential elccton-and
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whereby they have grown in power and influence They
before tho country with the declaration that They will give
the Union for the abolition of slavery and denouncc the
Constitution of the United States "a gross violation
the Of God and the rights of nations Docs this
establish the fact that large party, actually organized in
the North, do sympathzc and cooperate with the free
there and that the sentiments of the negro meetings
above referred to- are their sentiments?
But II is aboIitonsts nonne the free negro
associations that the fixed purpose Of aboshng slavery
confined, despite tho barcrs of the Constitution We find
in the Senate chamber Of the United States champion
unquesonabe ability who has thought long and deep
y upon the subject and has ended by giving himself up
wholly the tempest of anaticsm, and is bending all
his energies direct the the peaceful rcsdes Of
the South Lot US be that this point one will
doubt the correctness of our conclusions.
In debate in the Senate of the United States the
GLOWING provision Of the Constitution read and
mcntcd BY Mr. Seward, of New York, who of is
the gentleman whom refer:
mo person held to service labor State under the
laws thereof escaping another shall in consequence
of any laws regulations therein be discharged such
rice labor, but shall be delivered claim OF the