Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-01-07
For The Enquirer.
TO JOSEPH K. PENDLETON

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Sir: As ono Of your constituents address YOU and
through YOU the Legislature Of Virginia, subject VI deep
md vital interest 10 our State and 10 the Southern States
generally For than twenty years past ceaseess and
increasing agitation the subject of slavery has been kept
up in what called the free States OF this Union In utter
disregard Of constitutional rights OF property and equa
ty societies for the abolition Of slavery have been organ
lied whore does notexis large sums of money have been
contributed By citizens Of the North and avshly expended
in substituting the 10 oeale on public opinion and 10
put down every honest politician VINO regards the provisions
If tia, constitution which he is To support The ab
o,ionss like the harpes Of DID, belou and polue every
thing in the reach of their unclean touch They the
halls legislation where By their ceaseess agitation, dis
cord and confusion reign They denounce and insult their
cqualsnay, their betters; and they Observation-Disclosures
the temples of the living God. Under hypocrltica pre-
tence religious motive in total disregard of the prime and
chief reg sentiment, Charity they hcaped anahemas
of nvccve and abuse upon their brethren Of the South
until thew have forced total final separation OF the re
uious sects North and South. With The spirit and works
of endiah fanatics they profess submacd philanthropy
OF higher order Than the Constitution the Bible
They haze made encroacment upon encroachment with
out number rights and property without satisfaction
Nothing short Of our total prostraon and destruction will
satisfy their unhao~ed and odhirsty appetes. They
have taken away from the South partly by straagem, but
more by numerical force the whole Of the public territory
which acquired principally by Southern blood and ea-
sure thus reducing our limited constitutional Republic INTO
grand consolidated tcspotism Texas, the star OF the
South where hope well territory left, CO.
vcrcd TOO by broad shield Of independent State gov
ernmeni under quibbng and unjust dispute OF boundary
was by the general government with the whole
military force Of the Union unless she would submit
gaan, and chivaous people Of San JacntO memory ready
10 die in defence Of their rights with the whole South
ready sustain tlen-ant perhaps remembering the an
swsr of The oracle Fling Philip, Fight with silver
ons and you shall conquer ali ihngs concluded to bride
Texas with er own money and 10 despo of her lands
for free soil Under the specious word promise they
have deprived Of every thing and have promised moth
ing; in other words observe the Constitution in the dcye
~ Of fugitive slaves That law predicted will not be OBJ
served II has always been the law but is and will always
be dead letter. VIVA! we expec, of people who not
very long ago mobbed and grderei citizen Of Maryland
for taking lawful possession Of his runaway slaves in Penn
syvaa2 This free negro and abbe mob headed and
lead on by pseudo reverend clergyman, McClntock COL
gc professors and find Southern vordant enough
To- epoy Northern teachers and send their sons North
ern colleges whilst have plenty all kinds of teachers
schools and colleges of the highest merit de and respectable
ty amoG And consecrale inau he said McCiinock
was carried through ;he mockey OF trial and acquitted,
while sonie three Of the Tree negroes condemned
but immediately replieycd' Can you believe that people
intend TO execute law which is continually denounced
among By them by their press, from the stump and from the
pulplt while few none have the courage the hon
ssiy 10 advocate and sustain il! What do and
hear fugitive slave IS caught, the law is com
piled with by the owner, in cgtly particular; the
proof s full ample, complete; yet crowds and nobs col
ect 10 inmdate him-to obstruct proceedings
witnesses poduced a Of qubbes strnagems and
tricks brought up by volunteer and hired lawyers, while
the owner his agent Is treated with conumey and insult
his life threatened and he is in imminent DANGER or he
is mpsoned and prosecuted in all and forms,
one volunteering in his behalf sympathsng with him;
.rd FOR oil the help he gets he has 10 pay his money Is
This he execution he fugitive slave law, Is this the
feast 10 which were iIvi;eLi think not. Yet this is
all we get By the compromise made by Southern men, who
nn!tfern crafty political ambition sayong
complain of Shall We like the religious secs abruptly dis
solve the Union Shall kill The paiien; from fear of
his dying ldenounce however no man for the suggeS-
on of dsunion nal and safe remedy after oil other
rational plans tried The plan have 10 offer is one 10
reach MOI sympathy the justice the honesy fraterna
feeling Of the North but to Sac; he NoEthsIn Poese,
er (under the heading, THE WILMoT PRovIso-THE EVIL,
THn R-'rpv," and signed in equality and fraternity,
,I,n lie fall tho SntIh.
ern States 10 incorporate in heir bills a license
fee OF $1,000 $4,000 10 all retail anu siuvao Q! s2oVoU
to ali wholesale merchants trading in goods, either
manufactured in imported into any abolition Stale whlc
would b. practical embargo their trade lincluded all
States which tolerated The agitation 81 the slavery question
any form either by petitions Congress the organization
of societies and required of each OF the free STATES line
suppression OF all agitation on me suJee D! Peha'
ents ground that such agitation Is REASONABLE as
p.eiin.ny The rcccal of license laws us 10 such
Stale. believe was lac originate :. this scheme The
more have reflected IT, the more confluence haY1 IN H.
II is Tree from constitutions! objections glna has taxed
"a nuisance pcdars OF YANKEE clocks Su0 IN each county,
and no cubbrs could be found that had The
right 10 The details would eve 10 the better judg-
ent Of legislature The ,as should bs lighter one al
first liz Ill direct mpoitaions could 5e fully established then
gradually increasing and finally becoming entirely prohibto
~ The remedy is Jus, un reasonable one Is moi me-:
apiy.l but mathematical IL certain 10 nave the desired
effect and tai, il applied.
Governor Floyd has recommended the same plan, aud
call upon you and upon M Amber of the Senate 10 sustain
him with all your talents and energy The Gohs and
Eauaas uon us and the only buwark OF Defence the
ONLY rational remedy is the discriminating license law II
ia the orgumsntu1r non tcT.nn .ed al peeuniam the
Yankees soul
Remonstrance, platforms resolutions threats all nave
failed and they will fail The Northern people laugh TO
scorn our threats of dsuno and actually threaten TO treat
us as ra5eious subjects by military force five attempt IT.
Ny remedy peaceful one, and in The Cnlon me oenehs
OF which equally belong View il In any light and II
will profit the South and Southern independence eth
er in out of the UNloN'
Louisa, JAM I'd, 1851.