Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-09-14
RICHMOND EN4UlRE::.
MONDAY MoRNINc, sErrEMnER IL. lss2


GEN SCOTTS "NIRGlNlA EDUCAiloN'
The facts that Gen. Scott born in Virginia raised and
educated in Virginia. practsed law in Virginia ct tecTa are
urged by The Wings cas upon South Tor support in
the present II is said that man, reared under cir
such these can never prove recrean to
interests or be- in fact dangerously hostile 10 onr lnstitu
tons Now without going farther back than 1880 We can
show, that the Wings in their positions under Taylor and
afterwards under Fillmore furnished practical answer To
this boasted argument The Wings Of the South. with Mr.
Clay al their head grew exceedingly drustfu OF General
Taylor before his death They plainly that he was
der the guidance of influences with what they deem
ed the interests of the South aud Of the Union His mouth
piece in the Senate William II Seward. His position
on the Compromise known TO be exceedingly objection
able to Southern Wings and his message the subject Of
the territorial questions contained doc,ines deeply reud
ca 10 the South and dangerous the Union Indeed Mr.
Clay spoke in little less than enunciato'y of Gen.
Taylor and his policy, and the whole South with almost en-
tire unanimy, joined in with him.
Gen. Taylor died the very crisis OF affairs. lie
moulned brave and honest cid soldiers but We venture
the assertion that millions felt his death be most wise
dpensaion of Providence The country felt relieved from
awful agony, when Mr. Fillmore took the rcins Of gov
ernmen threw aside Gen. Tayors advisers formed better
cabinet and gave his conscience 10 other keepers than Sew
ard. The whole policy Of the government was Immediately
changed. The Compromise measures quickly passed, and
The whole country relieved rom lis painful anxiety Ever
since that change The Southern Wings have become
and devoted to Mr.. Fillmore. He became their cho
leader their special and particular candidate for the
Presidency whilst the North, deserving him. took up with
another who their purposes better and used him put
down Mr. Fillmore because ho venuIcd TO brave their ndg
nation.
Th, is all history. is truth! And how powerful is lie
argument furnishes 10 answer the Wings now. when they
prsnch he s0rndness of Gen of
that he born and educated in Virginia! Gen. Taylor
born in Virsnia; he reared in the South
large slave holder: whilst Mr. Fillmore had been educated
in New York, and proved 10 hold doctrines exceedingly
Objectionable TO the South But how weak the restraints
of education with these men! The one listening the
voice of advisers whose souls Seward had beathed the
poison Of his unholy politics. pursued policy which
wIeckng this nation upon the shoals Of disunon;
while the other cleansing The capital Of ls raitorous den
Zens dsregaded the whispers OF early pcndce and helped
by the mighty engine Of executive Influence, quiet the
country and 20 all portions from injury and disonor
We do not approve Of Mr. Flmorcs administration in all
OF its policy but free 10 say that he has made in
hni,e better President for the South than Gen Taylor did
would have done; aad believe that there is Wing
South OF Mason and Dixons line wo does not in his heart
believe the thing.
Unansweratc as this argument is 10 prove that South.
ern man may make President who shall prove hostile TO
The South, we propose 10 little iuthe' md enquire
whether Gen Scott though raised ard educated in The Scul
did here mbibe opinions exceedingly dangerous 10 South
institutions The present Iuncturc Of national Affairs
General Scuu left Vlrani. before the o:
the slavery agitation in Congress. Before that time abo
onsts plentiful in Virginia. Indeed, the institution
Of slavery had lis ardent and efficient opponents III
the convention which framed the Fcdcrn! Constitution,
among the Southern delegates that body. All Of our
lead Wern to
II as moral social and political evil. But the
slavery agitation commenced in Congress- So the
South themselves nsuted their rights attacked and
disrcgardcd, change took place in the public mind Men
began look suspiciousy into The arguments urged
against slavery They began question the truth OF their
previously entertained sentiments aud found out that
slavery the unmtigacd evil which they had be-
ievei; that il was like every human institution mixture
good and evil and that when considered in the balance
with the alternatives of emancipation md anrag inaon
which were urged by the North il best let slavery
remain it was, be dealt with by the humanity and wis
dom Of poseriy So mighty and thorough this change
that it strikes reader OF the history Of times
most singular and stupcndous revolution in The public mind
We live under disPcnsaton. What all Of The
South opposed, they with equal unanimy uphold
and defend We now regard our ancient sentiments danger
ous vtay dangerous errors; and whenever one who held
these errors Of old, offers himself represent Virginia in
any high official capacity, require him TO give most
public rccanta,ion Of his former doctrines.
Now Gen Scott was raised under the old dspensation-
He SAYS in his Atkinson letter written in 5i3 Sin boyood
al William and Mary College, and in common with most,
If not all my companions, became deeply Impressed with
The view. given by Mr. Jefferson in his Notes Virginia.
and by Judge Tucker in the Appendix TO his edition of
Backstones Commentaries in favor OF gradual cmanci
patton OF slaves" it is here that Gen Scott though
educated in the Old Dominion, educated believe in
The doctrines OF Jcrrsons Notes and fuckers Apr cndx.
What those doctrinesl
Here is an abstract Of Mr. Jeerson's views Sec Notes
page 295, &c:
"The whole commerce between master aud slave is per-
petua exercise Of The boserous passions. The most
unremitling despUsm the part and degrading sub
missions other Our children this they initiate 1t
The must be prodigy who retain his manners and
morals undepraved BY such circumstances And with what
execa'ions wond the statesman be loaded who permitting
half the citizens thuj 10 tramPo on the rights OF The
other transforms them into despors destroys the morals OF
the one party and the patr8 Of the other With The
morals OF the nation their industry also is destoyet-and
the liberties Of nation be thought securs when
we have removed their only firm basis conviction IN
The minds OF The people, that these liberties the git vi
Cad? that they to be- violated hut with his wrath
Indeed rcmble for my country when reflect that God Is
that his justice cannot sleep orever-tha considering
numbers and natural means only, revolution OF he
wheels OF fortune exchange OF situation among possi-
BILE events may become probable by supernatural in
,erfeencel The Almighty has attribute that take
temperate and pursue this subject through The various
considerations of policy of morals, of history natural and
civil We must be contentsd 10 hope that they will force
their way 10 every ones mind think change already
psrcephe since the origin Of the present revolution The
spirit Of the il abang that of the slave rising from
the dust his condition modifying; the way hope pe2ar-
ing under tho auspices Of Heaven for total emancipation;
and that this is disposed in The order Of events 10 DC with
the Of their masters rather than BY their exrpa-
tion."
Such were Mr.. Jee'sons views at the beginning OF our
government What changes took place in his mind every
one knows And he had lived this tire, he would have
seen that his whole argument faacious and tha, idslo
ry did not bear him out in his prophecies
Let US now what the position of Judge Tucker, as
laid down in the Appendix which Gen Scott refers Iae
Appendix was printed far back 1903 When il was
written we do exactly know. Judge fuckers views
are found in elaborate his edition Of the Con'en
tares and are long be given here Suffice that nc
held slavery in utter abhorence He thus opens his dscus
sion OF the subject:
In the preceding enquiry into the absolute rights Of the
sixens OF united America, be understood AZ
those rights equally and universally tie privilege Of al
the inhshita of The United Slaes of thosn VINO
NAV challenge this land of freedom their native cnnnty
Among the blessings which the Almighty has shoTered