Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-10-10


mon were followed in snyleness and humility rho
people might be happy i'll the fulness of their bcs
ings Idle, caprcious, and vain il that I.yjtv of r
hection accused and criminal is that purpose when
with the uncertainty of improving part wuuli ell
danger the whole. No language can d.nnuuc. in
sufficient Indignation the recklessness and III. law
esSness which will trampe down constitutions CT 4
states IN the pursuit Of q political phsnlasm %loss
end and glory may be spiked infants nn spcarAin
stead OF colOrs, white men sawed in two trrnWhs
violated OIL the dead bodies of their husbands aud
product OF t'2 OO.OOO, reduced in 81 years no..
tnIhg What Centuries Of degeneracy and bsr5H
rlsIn are included in the last fact and which s'ANi
START up and alarm the most phrenzied philanthropy
cih. 1t Is false, because il that ot y
good thing cannot be- abused Freedom Is good Il :
centiousness Is evil. Free action may be good, bui
sedon, murder, treason, and rebellion not good
Free speech may be good but sander and blasphruS
and sedltlous speech will destroy all the cha16e
private iie and overthrow the strongest gove{nmert
II is folly TO give free action and free speech 10 pc.
pulation whose unsustained action is horrible as
facts irst stated Indicate Free action and free speech
10 msgulded men who propose such iasces lS 10
open the breast to the ASSASSIN and .iumber while the
loren 10 being applied to your dwelling.
9TH. 1t is false in denying that there is dierenc.
IN men. Every man makes the discrimination He
selects his own lawyer he appoints his agent h"
trusts to the integrity of this he has conf
dence IN that one; all these determinations implying
belief III the fitness ar unhness integrity base
ness virtue or vice Of the one or the other. As ia tia
white the majority may have the qualities which
hit them for civil rights and political ireedom the
vast majority OF the coored race deficient dc
iective While 1t may be fairly and properly claimed
that the actual majority in society il is now organ
lzing are capable OF 'free government the cxcep
tions OF those blacks who would rise to the capacity
OF free government are limited indeed, that they
could not even execute or administer tolrrshe dos
potsm If confded to them.
3. Ii IL false, in teaching to do evil that good uay
come OF It, Their teachings involve disregard "l
the rights OF property; certainly il teaches sedu,
conspiracy, rebellion and revolution. Its sophsn.,
as applied to this subject may with slight alteration
be applied to every subject Of property and every
predicate of right. A man has right to live. Grant
this premises to fanatca phanthropist in its nbIo
lutte form, and he will, by rigid logic, prove his rgh;
to anotbers labor, If by labor he has more tho" will
supply his present wants, and the other by vice. ha,
not the meaus of supportfur he has the right to live
Such is The fallacy Of human reason, which would
overthrow one form Of subection or government tor
race who are unprepared for a better. God may
educe good out of evil and he does so but man. IN
the exercise of his best powers, and acting from the
holiest motives in the choice Of principle of
duct, lays the foundations of tremendous evils When
he doeth evil purposey, that good may come he will
learn is the lesson of individual and national lf
that he who 'sows 10 the wind must reap the whrl
wind" Bat 10 quote the language of pious man al
another hemisphere ale pleads the good Of poster
ty. Whose posterityl BY the sudden death Of thoS'
whom this maxim may have taken off he has dor"
his utmost that they shall have posterity; aTd by
holding out ali example 10 his own postery that they
may do evil to produce good, he has taught them ,r
rob and destroy each other as he has robbed and de-
stroyed the man of his own generation. For what
once lawful must be always lawful if robbct.
and assassination be lawful to the man,ainer of ;ha
princ pie, they will be lawful to his Children They
will be lawful to the ignorant aud ungoverlable pop.
NATION thus born Of this internal principle aud they
in turn will make al application OF lis radical but i"
gcal vengeance.
> 1t Is false, in presenting speculative theories in
stead of rel ying on positive facts. This experiment
has been tried III the West lndie-, anu hos cnLc n
q mixed condition Of anarchy and despotisn, in
which there is a continuing decline in order, in'r-
gence aud virtue. See, West Indies and North Am-
rica, by Robert Baird; Report Id. George BarlIcI,
ot lSiS Id. Staulys I'd letter to Mr. Gladstone; Al!
lisons Europe, vol. III, p 24l; Encyclopedia of Geo
vol. Ill. pp. 3O2 3U3; Mckenzie's ST. Domingo, Ill
!G0, 32l; Faukhur's Present Stale Of llayt, 26J.
10. Ii is false in excluding Divine Providence from
their system Of reform. What have heretofore snid
shows that, upon the part of these revoutonisie they
either deny the divinity Of the testament, or eNadc
its full effect by sophsms unworthy Of fair and
candid mind. Oblterate the testament, and the only
blble left is human reason. Whose human rraS"m
shall prevail J'heirs ours! They will not yield;
We cannot. = orce must be umpire. The logic il
short: the conclusion il terrible il it ia neither
vncing merciful or just. lvok at this question
mankind may-at this principle as il may present
itself in any form, and the conclusion is Irresistible.
that as depart from that standard OF faith which
has guided mankind from the terrors of Nero amd
Domitian, through the struggles and mutations oi
eighteen centuries 10 the tomb at Mount Vernon ami
appeal ~ "higher law, We only appeal from mercy
to ojudgment-we appeal from TRUTH which, !e t" IL
legitimate sequences, is both conservative and pro-
gressive, to unfettered zeal and uubrdled passions
H. Its false, that two differing SO radically and
cOnending for the means of subsistence eau lie un'"
the same political organization, without injury to both
either. The complaint has been frequently made,
by the arZans and abOrers Of our native population,
thnt the influx of foreigners has had tendency L.
depress wages and thus curail their means Of subs7
tence or competency. In this competition there WA
nothing unpleasant or offensive, save in tho lac. ui
competition. II was relieved by the idea or recoiec
ton OF the common source OF origin Not 90 in this
case. 1t farther relieved by the various relations
which spring up, or may spring up between them, tho
constant meeting with each other at public assem-
blages, and their frequent intermarrages made them
Yet this, before the recent influx Of gold,
occasioned competition which was severely cont
planned of as narrowly limiting the means OF living
Throw loose this immense mass, and II 1t does not
produce the direfu effects heretofore enumerated,
from its ignorance and insufficient development, II
will come into competition with the white labOrer.
Having greater proclivity towards subseryiencr,
without that pride of character and sense Of personal
independence, which caves the white man from de-
gradaton when he is sorely pressed, this class
will take his place in the daily avocatons OF lIic.--
The white man and the white woman will be displaced,
and their employments discharged by a more cony"
nient and subservient race.
With limitation of the means Of subsistence ""-
casiOned by this competition and collision, the n""ut
of comfort, ease and Improvement must in like pro
portion be circumscribed these causes combining
with the associations which must inevitably take
place, and the sense Of an equality, at the 10" est
point OF human comparison, cannot fail To do thr'r
deadly work Of degradation for the white The entl'i'
sas, with fervid imagination and unbalanced JUDI
Inen may indulge in reyeries OF abstract ana uhi-
versal and unlimited equality, without regard I" v
tue intelligence, culture untll III the hallucna'i"n
he may willingly consent TO practice what he be-
lieves aud the odor of the equality may be incense
to his brain. But TO him terrible will be the resc
ton But the equality which comes from consfan,
and continuing degradation, from a loss of dignity
and independence; from want OF culture and loss oi
virtue, is al equality which s fatal to the republic
That this evil would Affect our population, Ilo IN"
who sensbly reflects can doubt; that il would affect
the free States, where the mechanical md laborn.
classes are more numerous, ls still more evIdcnt.--
This is matter for their economists, and IL not n"
ce.sary though proper and pertinent, for the vnd'
cation OF the laws which the Virginia Legislature hns
deemed proper for the protection of the internal or
der of the Commonwealth
l9. The movement is false bee ause it is oundedur
mistaken notion Of their duty and our charn"ter.--
The deeds and the fame Of Virginia are incorporated
into the history Of the country. On her sol the ru'
yoluti was commenced on her soil it was glOrl0u-
ly consummatsd; there WAS no voice more eloGu'n'i
there WAS no battle field of braver deeds; there w,.
no nobler spirit OF generosity, and ths coil whic'
She gave for the seats of enlightened Freedom is no"
made the mounded defence Of those who cast thor
poisoned arrows at her perpetuty and her fame III"
union which she aided 10 create, and which she :"
often and gnllanty defended, is to be mad" az
empalement Of fire from which she cannot escai''r
and in which she is to perish with the horrors "i CON
fusion and blood. Such would be the results "l
fglse philosophy in the hands of men who nave SUB
stituted the dogmas of truculen revolution tor the
silent and solemn grandeurs OF progress slowly anu
surely developing under the Influences OF our own
responsibilities and the guarantees Of our safety aud
dignity.
SAM HAS YIELDED TO SAMBO.
The Fillmore men out of the city of Philadelphia
have capiulated to the black mans party. They
have surrendered without striking blOw-hauled
down the american ~ banner, and will hereafter
rally under the black flag of Abolition and dsuuon
The majority Of the party seem to have had no will OF
their own, honest independence of opinion but al!
lowed themselves To be transferred to the sectional
hv THAR if hay hal