Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-03-18

TO MY FELLOW CITIzENso OF CAROLINE COUNTY:

TO MY FELLOW CITlZENso OF Caroline COUNTY:
am candidate fer your suages for scat in the ensu-
ing Legislature Of Virginia.
In presenting myself before you il s but right that you
should require Of my views of the leading political topics
of tho dry; and Of the especially which engrosses the
attention OF all parlies East West, North and SOUTH
the Compromse Ac!s passed al tile session oil Con-
gress in 1850.
Under state of eversh excitement, the whole country
watched the progress Of slave measures Civil war; with
all accompanying horrors seemed to be RAPIDLY approach
ing without the passage OF measure calculated TO ar
rest and alay raging political elements War In the en-
trcme South would be the result Under this state Of things
we have had sent forth a remedy the 'Compromse Acts
the only practicable remedy which, under the 'hen stae
7, il rue fellow czens that of these are not
whn we claimed and demanded, and the passage OF them
w,s we'll calculated disturb and arouse the fears OF the
South while the Fugitive Slave act intended solely for the
Southern slave owner has met with opposition BY disunion-
lists al the South and fanatics at the NORTH out source
Of graduation every lover oil s country that we have,
Soulh and North many and trust decided minority, and
csecially at the North who determined that this law
shall DO faithfully executed For we have assurances OF
large publc meetings, and of influential leading men,
in most of the Northern and North western States,
that the law shall be faithfully executed Should we
wait ihcn the further development OF N"rnern aen'
nc Mt and action before rush nady Eto dissolution Of
these now prosperous States! say should We lose
bt little comparatively by thus exercising little PATIENCE
and We shall inevitably bring on The South 10y dissoluon
civil and sevile war; without any reasonable prospect Of
ever again enjoying any blessings with which we
surrounded Here permit me to ask what good can result
what We now enjoy If may answer, say none We
have now protection of aw, and the guarantees OF the
Constitution with friends in the North; but should
disruption take place. without boodshed even and entire
" with the of ALL any man for moment suppose
hut that our now Northern friends will, with such result
he made enemies and the entire population of the North and
North west be made enemies What then will become
Of our saves2 Where now escapes, hundreds will CO.
and that without any prospect of being recovered To
pcct 10 establish treaty s,pulutions with the Northern
federacv will be futile in the extreme and line OF packets
extending from garrisoned by fifty thousand
soldiers will not BIO found available; leaving out the demo-
razng and dangerous tendencies of large standing army
Then saw taking this view Of the SUBJECT and do not
in what other light it be viewed that am decidedly in
favor of waiting awhile and how this law will work, re-
living on our Northern friends TO make good their promises
and preserve the Union and ndivisble as measure Of
sedencc and preservation let the South sustain Southern
ENTERPRISES do her own importing and exporting In such
manner MS not to engender bad feeling within our own bor
dcrs or with view favor encourage dissolution of
the Union or spiri, of vndctiveness but with de-
termination 10 Union and foster and sustain
own beloved Virginia. ~
do no, wsh to be understood that the Legislature will
be exclusively devoted Federal politics. but shall in
son explain you my views State policy and State le
pisation; and have no doubt that II ia generally known
that am Jctersonan Republican.
Your felow-cizen, lRA WHITE
March l2th, 1851.