Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-07-01

enforce IN the lowest depths of society, morality
and decency rarely pracsed among The abornp clas,
| III other countries.
Abolition assaing tho South from w;tbout a,d
slavery inducing caution and circum.pectou within.
occasion /" healthy, conservative public opinion,
witch oesldes begeting religious rath and observ.
ance' moral practices and family purity, checks the
sprlt OF change and innovation, and secures perna
nence TO government. 1t yst an unsolved problem
whether universal suffrage and sei.govrrnment are
practicable in the absence Of outside pressure and in
side necessity. The experiment has only been made
IN our North, aud there is nothing in its situation to
satisfy us that the experiment will be successful
Open war is there made by the AbOhtionists, Social.
lss and all the other isns upon the family. This war
began and is still waged in Western Europe. Out.
side the slave States Of the South, almost the whole
att'oe intellect of the most civilized nations of Chris
tendon, is engaged in Il movement which proposes
to upset and destroy religion, property and family
government. We believe all the three nre natural
truthful and God.ordaued, aud, in the long run, will
prevail. But We know not how much of mischief
the disorganizers may accomplish, unless the
vayes oppose agitation to agitation, zeal to zeal
t1Rtbo otnirlsnleesu HhlblH Slave y@lN9 he cppser
advise our Northern conservative friend. .o odo.
1t has been tried there, and was abolished because
was not healthful natural, useful and cxpedent.-
But we do advise them to put down the social, moral,
religious and political agitation Of the isns-at any
cost and by any means. These isms beget the evile
Of which they complain. They make the wife, the
child the apprentice, the hired domestic and the free
laborer dissatisfied with their condition, and th~n
.,:, n 81, NIL
wrong and rotten in society, and that all requires
subversion and reconstruction In old societies the
condition Of the laborer is hard and UNJUST
Not 50 in the North, where few dollars vii!
carry him to the West and make him an Independent
proprietor. All this clamor nbout the tyranny and
injustice of capital in this country, is wicked device
of Northern Abolitouists, who are equally the enc
mies of the North and the South. II is o"r tavorite
theory that the despotis,n OF capital ID worse, iar
worse, than domestic slavery; but there can be no
unfair or improper despo!ism Of capital in country
like ours, where each laborer can if he pleases, be
proprietor in forty-eisht hours. He who lags behind
will find himself, if situated than slave yet
situated as nature Intended. We believe that, in the
ordinary aud normal condition ui society, domestic
slavery is both natural and necessary TO protect the
masses who have no property, ana EttIe chanCe ol
acquiring it, since all property is monopozed and ap-
proprated Negro slavery in the South is necessary
from the first because the climate forbds the cultva'
ton OF all OF our best lands except by African slaves,
TO whom malaria is neither mortal or detrInenta-
The whole periodical literature Of our day teens with
onslaughs on the family relations, and with plans
and schemes as substitutes for those relations. That
the family which we Of the South all love and vene.
rats, is in danger, ali readers know, and will
therefore excuse and justify us for putting in word
in its behalf. We will add but siugle piece OF evil
deuce which We find in the writings OF one of the
ables, Abotonists OF the North, viz 1.-The restraints
of marriage and becoming daily less. Its expressions
are fc, more and more. 1Hcrr ioroy, az o"
mid<t, ten h0cs as many f"sfires ro'" mar'm"ay as
tugHiccS from s'arery; aud Il may ~sR be d0"6t'd
II Tie aggregate, or Ms acreage, ct h,fr sHysr"rs
has bern less. There is hardly country village which
has not from one to dozen such persuns.' The
italics are the authors To such Condition have
free love and abolition doctrines brought The fire. 10.
rers and dboikioaisiS of tho North. The balance Of
society there is like our own.