Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-15

we nre NOT unaware that hardship, exposure and
personal peril await ns. We may fell By the clinnte,
We may fall 10y the hand Of border rui,n Aud
now, friends, friends Of God, Humanity and frredom
| brief farewell. II Heaven SD wills we will mel
again. II otherwise, we will welcome "tLe la.t oi
earth,' with harness on, and in full faith tl.at
| Whether on tie galows h;cb
Or III 'he battles van;
ihe hohlrSt death that man can die
IL when he dies for man
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ARlSIOCRACI AND ABOLITlONISM.
An Irish journal informs the world that the Earl q.
Carlisle corresponds cOnfdentialy with Charles Sum.
ner, and 'mparts to him many pertinent and useu,
suggestions III hls warfare upon slavery There i.
nothing new or surprising in this development.
| 1t is something less than century since the cry
against negro slavery originated with small and ol,
scure set Of crazy fanatics in England aud from tina,
day to this the Abolition movement has derived il.
impulse and direction from British sympathy and .,l-
courageinen Men OF practical sense and genuine pie
y were disgused by the false philanthropy and vision
ary theories Of the ncgrophists. George Whitfield
was personally Interested in the support of slavery in
the province OF Georgia. John Newton was master
OF slaVe'shp for years after his conversion. His
services III the redemption of the negro from the bond
nge OF pagansm contrast we'll with tho silly senti.
rncnthlism Of the crazy poet Of Oacy. Still Aboli-
tionsm spread like raging epidemic throughout
Great Britain. The slave trade was anuihilued and
with it the prosperity Of the second city of the empire
and the fortunes Of many innocent people, Planting
themselves Oh the vanage ground Of this great sue
cess, the Abolitionsts organized scheme for the
overthrow Of slavery itself All the platform phall.
| thrpp mn hmm M nf tha
listed in support Of the cause, which, although it ell.
coun:ered the resistance of vested interest and com.
mon sense, finally achieved signal triumph. For.
tunaely, however, fov the interests of civilization
the American colonies had meanwhile thrown Off the
British yoke and thus they escaped the wiIe-wasting
ruin which has sntten the fair fields and lourishng
cities OF the West India provinces.
The wonderful success Of the an-slavery move.
usnt, is easily explained by reference 10 the mingled
| virtues and vices Of human nature.
The mass of the people in Great Britain, weighed
down with the heavy load Of poverty and political
degradation, readily offered their sympathy to Il cause
which affected TO contend against the very evils from
which they themselves suffered severely. The
white slaves Of England were in the beginning, a
they are now, the most Jealous champions OF Abo
! tionsm. Phnrisces and professional Phauthrupis;'
swelled the clamor with long prayers aud dull ha
ransues. In the din, the pulling verse OF the hedgc
ling poet whispered soft persuasion 10 minds OF con
genial imbeciIity. Soon the public opinion Of thC
British empire intamed by the incessanl and in
ccndary appeals Of the anti-siavery coniederacy.-
! TO the mischievuus movement the arstocracy o.
| posed no sort of resistance. On the contrary the!
gave money to help it forward and from very oh
| vious motives.
The British a.istocracy are and have ever bee:
the richest and most oppressive siave-uwners IL th,
world. But they are not utterly without conscience
and its reproving whispers were hushed by indiSna
ton against distant and imaginary wrongs They KEEP
accounts with heaven, and thought to balance chea
professions cf phil~2hropy sgains their o~n horihi
| iuidu,s There !lnch too Of selfish cunning i
their conduct. To reconcile tie white slaves oi Eng
land to the evils of their condition. the nris;ocrac
frightened them with terrible representations OF tii
sufi,.rincs of the negroes. To rescue their own he
reditary privileges from Destruction the aristocrac
compromised with Radicn-m and consented 4
io;n it in the crusade against African slavery VIII
a very small outlay of money and al agreeable g,ls
Of benevolent feeling, the aristocracy OF Engnn'
contrivcd 10 tlallcr the serf of their soil with III
conce that he was free and well fed person, aud t.
divert the searching scrutiny of reform from The hr,
Wy and hoary abuses of their own system. Events
however, are demonstrating that their short sighted
wisdom was but the folly o fear, nnd that their uw
fabric of pride md power and il-;;oien wealth. mus
soon fall before the very passions which they inea';
to sopthe bv concession. After the overthrow "
fJ,t tl,f,, s.i
the best part of It's mission to accomplish in the abo
liiion OF white slavery.
The ari.ocracy of England have apecial motive
for abeine the anti.slavery movement in this coun
try.
In this country alone does perfect equality OF civi
and social privilege exist among the white population
and il exists solely because We have black slaves
! Freedom is not possible without slavery. Ever
civil poIity, and every social system imply gradA
ton of rank and condition. In the States OF tn
South an urstocracy OF white men is based on negr
slavery and the abscmcc Of negro slavery would b.
| SUPPLIED by white men. Now this perfect polliica
equality among the white men oithe South, is stanu
ing reproach TO the a-istocracy of England, and
signal condemnation of their social system and cvl
pciiry. 1t shows that equality OF civil franchise
not only possible, but is the normal relation among
men of the same blood and capacities. The specta
Gle of Republican freedom and Democratic equal'
in this country, eye-sore to nn arStocracy who's
system Of exclusive privilege and arbitrary dstinc
iiuns, rests upon the false assumption OF right i
degrade and oppress men whom God has made II
good ar themselves The abolition o: negro SLAYER
in the South would not only necessate the substI
tuition of white slavery but would inevitably end u
the ruin of the political constitution Of the country
and would, by this double opcrat.on justify and con
aolidate tile usurpaons of the arstocracy of Eng
land.
We do not mean to say that the sympathy bctwee
Aristocracy and AbOliiionsm, is the anticipated re
suit of such refined reasoning, Perhaps neither Lor
Shaftcsbury nor the Earl Of Carlisle ever presente
the argument clearly to his own mind; but that IN
snct of interest which anticipates the slow dedu'
,ion of logic has shown them the necessary ati'nI
and alliance between the two mpostures.
The South has nothing very serious 10 apprehen
from the connexion between Summer and his Vice
Regal correspondent; and we only allude to their il
innate associations fas Illustration Of the natural an
hereditary Syispathy between Aristvcracy end Abo!
| t!Cnsm.
A YANKEE SPECULATION.
The Baltimore Sun na-ra.es amusing inclder