Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-16

LETIYRS FROM 4 CLERG Y.NiN.-SC. tx

My Dear Brother: II IS plausible ground Of opposition 10
slavery charge with being the heir the guilt oi the
slave trade Ii argued that unless We are willing 10 ns
fy the capture of fee and innocent men, on ihciT own s
and their reduction from freedom slavery with m hc enor-
nus ice and cruelty OF the African slave trade. we
acknowledge that the title Of The Southern master 10 his
slave this day is unghcuus that system which had us
origin in wrong cannot become right oy The lapse ot time
that if The title of the prlca slavecacer thu coast OF
Africa unrghcous hr sell 10 the purchaser any
better title than he has and tina! unsound lille cannot
become sound by The passage OF time.
need hardly say, that ubhor the injustice cruelty mud
guilt of the African slavG-ade believe Is justly con-
dcmned by the public law Of Christcndom law which not
Wilbcrforce The British Parliament British nor an
kee Abo,ionists have the honor Of originating but the slave
holding Commonwealth OF Virginia 1t condemned by the
law of God Moses placed this among the Judicial statutes
of the Jews "And he that sealeh man and scItih him,
if he be found in his hand he shall surely be put 10 DEATH
We fully admit then that The title of the original slave
cr 10 the captured African unrighleos But few
can ignorant Of the principle that title, originally bad
may be replaced by good by transmission from hand
hand and by lapse Of time When the property has been
acquired by the latest holder fairly and honestly whcn in
the later transfers. fair equivalent was paid Tor IT. and the
last possrsso is innocent Of fraud in ntentinn and in
the actual mode Of his acquisition o. IT, more wrong
would be effected by destroying his uis, Than by eaV.
ing the original wrong unrcdresscd Common says
that whatever may the original title, and
valid has arisen Of the circumstances Of the
If this principle be denied half the property Of the civilized
world will be divorced from its present owners All now
agree that the precX which ground nr the conquest
William of Normandy was wicked; and however Just might
have becn by the laws natcns the conquest of gov
ernmen Of country ought disturb the rights Of in
dvuals in private property The Norman conquest result
ted in complete transfer of almost all the land England
the hands Of proprieors and nearly all the land
ties OF England the day. the legal progeny
ta, inquous robbery, which transferred the territory
the kingdom from the Saxon to the Norman barons. II
lapse Of tmc and change OF hands, cannot make bad IL
tie good then few Of the present landlords Of England
any right TO their estates. Upon the principles, the
leasing from them have right their leases and
consequently they have right the productions oil the
farms they hold If they have right those productions
then they cannot communicate any right those who pnr.
1 phn 1nafn IF IT,, ia,
bread wearing coat of English WOOL could be certain
that he was not consuming what not his own. Thus
ex'ravagant and absurd are the results OF such principle
Let apply to Tie aboIlonists their argument and
shall the of them from the snug homes whence
they hur dcnuncations a US 1t is we'll known that their
foreathers obtained the Of that territory from The moo,
Indians either by fraud violence If lapse Of time ana
subsequent transfers make sound title in place
unsound onc then few of The people ri the North have
any right TO the lands they hod and hcnesl men, they
| are bound to vacate them
To tbis even great Dr. Wayland has ATTEMPT.
cd an answer by saying that is right arising from bosses.
son only holds long the true, original owner or In,
nheritor Of his right does appear: and that when he
pears tho rish, erishes But gue-
the original and true claimant - The ownership of the slave
is always present. the Of the slave himself that
the right originating in possession exist nuenr
Without staring inquire whether tho presence of ie in.
heor OF the original right necessarily puts 40 end 10 This
right OF possesson proposition than ncsnnabr
would simply remark that TO represent the slave himself
as the possessor OF the original right is complete begging
of the question 1t assumes the vcry pon, in .pue whe
lhcr the right cf the master is sound And would
England.
Dr. Wayand say, should The lcctc remnants of the New
England Indians who lingering those States claim
all the fair domains o their tribe! And what would be said
in England ii people of Saxon descent should rise upon
all those nozzle houses who boast Norman origin and claim
their princeiy esatesi
If this principle of right originated by possession can be
sound any where il is sound in sappca,inn our slaves
The title by which the original slave cutchey held them was
most niqutos But these slave caichers were not citizens
Of the Southern colonies these slaves brought
by ships. They presented BY the irhu
man captors dragged in chains from filthy holds of the
slave sps nnd the alternative before the planter was either
purchase them from INN who had right sell them
re-cOnsign them TO ccrs disease death The ala
themselves hailed the conclusion Of sale with low and Ir-
ged the planters become their masters as means of res
from the horrors TO which they return if not sold
The planters far as they concerned paid fair com.
merca equivalent for The labor Of the saycs and the right
acquired has pnsscd legally through generations ren
hcr 10 son, or from seller 10 buyer The relation so iEqu-
ousy begun at first but fairly and Justly transferred
subsequent owners has resulted in civIzltion religious in
srEcton and untold blessings to tho slaves It's dissolution
would be runous 10 them Than 10 tho masters Who
cannot that the injustice in which the relation oraua-
ted. longer attaches IL Tie difference between the
title of tho original slave catcher and that OF the slave
present. s great between the ruar Norman
freebooter wlo conquered his ief Hastings and his law
abiding descendant the English ianhodcr the uinete el
century. Your uliecunaic brother
CHoREp1sCopUs.
We were not little surprised hear yesterday that
would before the T. S Circuit Court here,
involving the practice of The ade-he slaves being
brought from The West Indies into James River. We sus-
pec that the parties concerned will prove be native
virgnans but Yankees Al the worst they will turn out
to be Virginia lanksss.-Enqure-
------4ses---.----
a PATIENT JUDGE Judge Cirer OF Of The PhiIa
delphia courts, be down perfect model OF pa
tience. When the patcntgh case Of Sol V Spring Ct a
was terminated after reviewing testimony and laying
down the law which governed the case the Judge concu
sion said to the jury
Gentlemen, the court will be in session for whole month
If YOU shall not have agreed upon verde, the expiration
of that time you then seal up your verdict and INT
court will receive it at future period
A. H. Stephens ESQ.,, OF Georgia, declines being cand
date for Governor, aud recommends Howell Cobb, Esq