Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-05-30
ApoIIrlON opJscrioss 70 slavery.

ABOLITION OBJECTIONS 10 SLAVERY.
I III ;ns June &unber CT 10 Bows kovisw, Ia III
elaborate article from 4. 5. Rosne OF inc Disr!ct
Columbia, treating upon this subject. We give an ex
tract in which the writer well exposes one OF tue eaa
ing arguments Of the abolonists
| will now proceed to the current on]ec '.S er
"sfdpery dsmoroh=es the community /" NUS"
| ISIS lad os the
1t is not necessary to be prox on tn; Snn,b do
objection has been often met. we aroge standard
no, feel ourselves TO be below the So ov think OF
1 of morals of free States whatever they ;Hu.rc. nj
! u.s. On the contrary, We believe ;m,o creator ac.
slavery TO be 10 deveope ana of''S NJ The HIGHER
| ,ivitv many Ut the so'iai '"'N
qualities of our nature s.ots of African slavery
one VI an community where it exists chiefly az
:''.I f,r the reason principally that suci i"o'i
I'e:s Iss skill than other species OF LABOR; auu
reqi,,rs in all ages of the world has been consd
I'D ,nust favorable TO virtue. The popuia'ioh "
nam slavehudng States is, III large measure u'oa:
and of saveholdiug States, on the contrary, =,
chAy rural. The census statistics do moi give !u''
information on this point. but have prepared t'
following results, which. presume, will give al, ap,
Proclamation to the relative proportions oi tnese s'
divisions of the population Of the United Sta'oS'
Urban Pop
.2,a75 96G
Southern States. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. mo -,
The above represents the population OF ony nU' IN
.nI
their relative order rs OF which are nor'hgIn ""I nj
southern No account is taken OF the Sa' ;''G.,
smaller towns. Ii will be seen, from 'hese .'i'pe -
r.turns that a vastly larger proportion VI '"' o
erp populnron is urban than OF the southel". ~
scarcely necessary resort 10 statistics u
A, men, then are aggregated into larger muses.
!, The non. slav ehodiny than in the sa'enoiulliS
States it follows that the temptations w 80.
the means of gratifying the sensua' apPe'aIS DIV
far greater than amuus scattered Agriculture" PIP
uariun. Another incentive 10 CRIME !" '''eo, -;
frequent want of employment and consequent uts.'
u,;nn and paupersm in the lower orders ot scce'!'
Most of ,hs crimes committed in all communities are
by the poor the ignorant and the destitute,
chiefly the labor,pg population. In the SOUP Inv; ;o
than three millions OF this population are heia III
Lave and subjected to a strcter surveance .n'n
n frse population possibly could be. II, Them !hey
b,,I tbs same inducements to commit crime, sutn es
yani and restitution, which they have not inc wy
lance of masters and overseers watching over anu TO
s;r.,ninp their vicious propeusities wouu pe M
effective in preventing it than any system VI po"''
vet devised elsewhere. ;,d from
While then, the following tables compneu .".a
the Census Compendium, show far greater rela.lse
nroportiop of crime aud pauperism IN the NVrtnei"
tban in the Southern States, We do NOT Oh tn". "
count claim any superior virtue except >" ,a
results from our fortunate position MS coDi"I;'
nossessn, better methods of preventing crnlu' WV
lations of law. ,o.o
Number of criminals conVic'eu'