Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-10-29
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ga. 1850.

RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ga. 1850.
Our friend the Fredericksburg Recorder il good enough
commend for "kindIng with pure Southern fire. and
is pleased that ave che Recorder and Enquire are now
pretty close oseiherihough he asks our pardon io say
ing that, "by means other" the Enquirer eol u
wrong upon the Southern question: and errs in the CON
vction that he he Enlurer has been occupying virginia
ground We sha not ngain 60 over our defence we nave
differed with Of contemporaries with egret-but
while doing Justice to the motives Of Others have
pans of for what has past We have sought to
stand upon the platform that Virginia laid down, and il she
has somewhat modified her attitude, il is not our fault and
ne shall follow her to the end.
The Recorder says ave would approve secession (Which
in effect disunon and justify it, in consequence OF the
passage of the misnamed compromise then compares
our respective POSITIONS and asks wha now The diff
ference between contemporary and US"
We (he Recorderl are for dsnion, because laws hive
been passed in deogation of rights and ne he
Enqnirc is for it, whenever by nllfcaon or repeal laws
passed to secure those rights shall BE- rendered Intellectual
We regard the violation Of by Congress- in the
light that he does their violation by Northern moh ana
consider positive Legislative enactnent IN roat'on q ie
uson where be repealed just as he consld-
ers the repeal of constitutional law he Fugitive nave
Iaw) essential rights. We would dissolve the
Union rather than submit the and he rather than
submit other Our hearts just in the same place.
and mental convictions coming together
We TOO might be for instant disunon did regard the
late action of Congress- n violation of the Constitution
but bring ourselves regard nor can we
look upon in violation of the latest exposition of Fr
gnias legislative WILL which is governing pilot We
are therefore, in favor of dsnpion for what has been
done. Far different however, s attitude in regard 10
the fugitive slave law That Is clear constitutional right
which the North is bound by the compact carry
should regarded and in,oleabe aggression
ustifyng any Of resistance Our friend of the Re-
corder will that the secesonsts dsunonists in Geor
pa on account of The late of Congress- abandon
ing that extreme ground-and feel satisfied that he too
will the Importance of passing by such extreme remedies
rayng with the whole South upon imprcgnabe united
immoveabe ground.
An article on Ocean Steam Navigation, which we copy
from the London Daily News, will be read with interest
admits that the Collins has beaten the Cunad line and
that the supremacy Of tho is passing from John Bull 10
the Yankees That supremacy never more be decided
nv the dreadful and foolish of battle far II Is
ships of the line useless and armed naves OBJ
solee the struggle ia friendly and peaceful and Victory
bears the fruits Of Benecence Prosperity and Union or
both the competing nalions.-[N Y. Tribune
If the Tribune's wild crotches prevail this
try would no longer witness "Prosperiy and Union" but
should be shivered into fragments and endless and
bloody disputes would be kept up between the agmenta
Ol "
the meeting New York the execution of the laws
and save the Union The movement dicules it
"cot,on meeting" designed get up "cc,on ticket" A
malignant aboonism abounds in its TRADE ngainst the pm
tro;ic movers whom it mputes "sordid motive" II
plays Lady Sneerwe!l as follows
"l Property is essentially conservative, but Cotton
pecay Every cent pound additional on Cotton adds
hundred d!as per head tho value of iis cut:vators.
stout hardy ngger, who is dull at six hundred dollars
when fair Cotton is but coEts quick at eleven hun
ircd when Cotton is si al fifteen cents. Then Cotton
tics fashionable throughout the great Northern cities
we'll in the South. Then the right of slave breeding
planters to held their human property in any OF tho Ma
onal Territories is vehemeuy affirmed the South and
blanay regarded nj the North Then Compromises are
fashionable the Eastern seaboard matter what is conf
promised who Then the blessings of Union and Peace
are rumpeted ond sung while Freedom Justice Postery
Eternity practically treated of small account Then
the Federal Constitution is regarded with and admira
contrivance especially for catching and holding Fu
gitive Slaves. Inesmabe the virtues OF Cotton
cially when stiff al fifteen cents per pound
As the Mirror well expresses it, every thing base in the
eyes of the aboonsts that does advocate nggcr steal
ing" and harmonic with the "hgher law" nonsense OF
Sewardism.
The great union meeting however with general ia
vor we are glad The Journal of Commerce says
gentleman who passed the entire length of Broad street
Yesterday for signatures the call Of said meeing met
with but rcfusns In Exchange place only and in
Pine street. only Total fire, in three Of our business
Three efusals he met with in par, of Broad
w,
of which were BY propricors OF "The independent.
The "JorRxAI," also noting item in the Southern
Trade, says:
merchant OF this city, largely in the Shoe trade, esi-
mates the value Of shoes annually South from ~ York
alone al 00 000 Allowing $40 the average value o!
ench case the number of during the year. this
estimate is 25 00 Boston and Philadelphia send perhaps
many The trade was never more onIshng than
has been during the From which IL may
be inferred that intercourse is not the prevailing
Icy the South just yet But continue 20 press Your abo
ion tho spirit Of The past endorse Sewarc
ard his sectional sch.mes OF dlSinon play the ornen"
instead Of the broher and what is sadowed forth IN the
annexed letters will in due lime be realized"
Then follow letters from Georgia, showing the starting
the shoe trade there
The Evening Post threatens the merchants who sign The
call for the meeting with times greater loss than gan
they will lose the abolition patronage of the North Thu
Mirror reors with powerful sarcasm and bold and eoquen
TRUTH as follows:
at will probably be death blow Broad street. If ABBY
Kelly Fred. Douglass and Horace Greeley should tt
Boston for their boots and breeches Or il is just possih
that The An;iSlavery Society may hereafter resolve to hole
their Anniversaries elsewhere thus deprvng us of perindi
cal nundaton of beggars, who visit New York once
year and take up collection support few lazy niggers
black and white in going about the country, quarlerng
ton and the Ilwsi All this mny lose; but the laws
commerce. which the Post thinks will keep up perpetua
flow of trade 10 the of the naon may compensate
for the loss the city of Abolition patronage AZ oil
events think the merchants who sign the call have es
car than they who continue TO give their names 10 th
| support of Abolition newspapers.
''Mcll let the issue Let the battle between patriot
ism and ianaticism be fought ou, here. Let the Abolition
lists of all parties ruy under their black banner Of dsunion
let them stand by their and their journals
And let the UNION MEN whether Wing Democrat, d,
likewise Let them stand by The Union ind the friends
The Union rendering neither counenance support to h
enemies of the constitution and the laws There in rea
~ but pares-the Unionss and the Disunipniss-
and let this issue be forced homo both sides The ques
lion of philanthropy hns little nothing to do with the con
ic now going on between the different sections of
country II simply question Of atrotisme obedience
or rebellion TO the Government of the people"
FREE SOIL LAMENTATIONS.
| Mr. Spauldng the Representative from the Buffalo Dis
,ric which pudued his renomnaion thus groans in the