Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-06-05
that probably the ociu vote Of every county will be
necessary to decide the contest
.bollrioni.m, Socialism, Agrnriunism, Infidciity,
; suti-nInrringe Doctrines al the North.

,,d Anti-nIarriagc Doctrines al the North.
We fear. tim, both here and at the North, the mag
n;tudo md the dagger OF tho great social movement
now progressing everywhere in free society, great
lv underratet This movement is much oldertkan abo
ii,iou, and abolition is but small part of it. II had
its origin in the religious inelty OF the ss century
Religious iniideity begat other iudclitics Those
who had learned rencratc Deity lost n respect
for government, for law, for property for MARRIAGE
and indeed for society itself This generaloss of iah
occasioned the horrors of the first French Revelation
and all the revolutions that have since occurred III
Western Europe Despite oftheir bloody Instructions
inidolity is more rampant and more common th"h
ever-common, however, only in free society. Ill
Europe, Asia and America, wherever slavery III
any form prevails, infdelity is almost unknown NO
where does this want of faith appear moro conspc"-
Gus or more active than in our Northern Free Sta'os'
Will not in time bring forth the same fruits he'e
that it has horne in Europel The "wiessnesS Oh a'-
t-rentsn, and the frequent appe"i' 10 Tie h's"''
law, show that this movement has already thwaf'e'
the administration of Justice and thrrnttns Win over
throw the Constitution of our country
The active nbOitionists almost 10 man, h"iu '"o
disor-suizirc and revolutionary doctrines winch we
have enumerated. How much moro then, has INC
North TO apprehend from abolition than We lh'!
NAV. and urubably will succeed ike Western Euro
peans in exciting civil brols nnd social and poi'cn'
revolutions at home. Their assaults upon s""h''"
institutions. but make us cling the more closely 10
those institutions. Every day the South 'S pc''""
moro religious, conservative, anu moro
to the institution of sluvery, whst the Norm 'e''''
+, be hurrying iuto the maelsrom OF anarchy ""o
inadclty. No doubt there is much conservatism ~
the North-but that conservatism Is passive "'c" !.
should be active. The wise and the pruden'
they will Look to the portentous SiGns "l Tie ''"''
md como,r, them with the history of Western Eu-
rope for tha last seventy years. Will ma
cason for constant and energetic action. Inc SOU"
.rd ,;,, nrcvcpt The sprcad of all social herescs
, ,,, uh. cau do little 10 e1tinguish them at The
North.
The fuet that this universal want of faith prevails
avarvubaro in free sooiey that II did NOT exist SD
long as slavery In any form continued IN those S"cie
,;os and that this war of fsth il found nowhere IN
slsye-holding countries now, goes far TO prove
,ha, slavery is necessary element OF soc-
.tv Where this institution exists, content
meut rsirns hunger and nnkodness are unknown,
rslrion huurishes, and conservatism rules
Tn ia ab.ence discomfort, breaking out into mob',
riots and revolutions keep society in bloody warfare
or continuous turmoil hagga.d poverty stake
abroad in rags, or pines in cellars and in cabirs-
crime and mcndacty abound--religion is sc"iird at,
law aud government conicmned- just.
fed-property threateued, and anarchy invoked.
In the history Of tho world infdrli;y at all lk"
,bnt which now deaces and dturbs free society, hns
ev.r occurred. Wo annex beautiful extract from
Mr.. CARLYLE, on this subject. lie. and most wrl'
rers in Europe, think il the distinguishing feature Of
the nsc, but they are misahci il is distinction that
belongs alone to free society:
"Now this is especially the miscr: that has fallen
OH man in our era. Belief-f'iiir-hns we'll nigh
vanished from the world. III" yoGth Oh AVA
ken;ne in this wunirous universe, no longer finds n
competent theory Of its wondcr'. limir was, wh'ii,
ii lie asked himself what Is mnn!-whai are ie aiir'
Of ,an,-;hc answ-er stood ready written for him.
lsu: now the anceu: ground plot Of the ALL bciie6 IL
self when hrough. - c"EiGct with reHity. Mother
Church has, 10 the most, become s1p"raHHua;e';
.i,u-nIn;her, whose ''-svus 60 unrcSaT'.", or are
.rorppd nj end cainsaid. For young faior, and
thirst nf action, IN ideal chvairv, invites to hnroisni
prcscrbcs what is heroic The old ideal 81 mnnh""G
has grown obsolete and the Is .;ill invisible 4"
U.s. aud yTe grupu after it in dGrkness, one cutchimg
,hi. phantom, another that. Na'crlsm. ByrOniain,
even B.u.nuicllisn, each las lis day For cOn!em-
pation and love vi wisdom no cioster now opens ia
religious shades the Tinker must III all scaFoEs, wan
der homeless too often aim!ess, looking up tn llca
vun which 10 drad for him. round to an earth which
il deaf. Action, in those nld days, was ensv was vol
untarv for tho divine worth o human things lay ac
knowed sed. Speculation was wholesome, for Ii
ranged itself as the hendmad uf action: what %"Gld
not so range ITSELF died out by its natural death, by
neglect.
"I.oyalty {" still hallow"d Obedience and made rule
noble there was still something. 10 he loyal 10: H."
God like stond embodied Unlrr many symbol IN
mans interest nnd bnsncss the finite sadowrd for
the infinite; eternity looked through time The life
OF man was cncompass"d and crcrcanopcd by the Go-
~ of Heaven; even Is his dwelling place by the
azure vault. How changed in there new days
Truly it may be said the Divinity has withdrawn
from the csrth or hides himself in that wde wasting
,vhirlwind Of departing era. wherein the frw"st
can discover his goings. MOI GDdhegd, but hn IRON.
;gnblo circle n necessity, embraces Mi things binds
lIe youth OF these times into sluggish trll. or e."
.xusperaes him into rebel. Heroic action is para
lived; for what works remain u:gucsoEnbe
with himl At the feveri-h period when his Whole
nuure cries aloud for acton there is nu,h;ng sncrrd
under whose banners he can act the course and kind
and conditions of free action nnOht uDd:scGvcr-
able. Doubt streams in OF him through every ave-
nue. inquiries OF the deepest paiEfurst sort must be
engaged wh and the imv!ncihc energy of young
Years wastes itself in scepcn suicidal cnvlmgs; in
passionate queationings Of destiny, when answer
will be returned - MiscrIlauics. VOL 3, p. 70.