Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-07-28

the land; that agitation WHICH n-' 'eH 80 =
ties who have sworn to protect the Consultation oil
the Tinted States 10 violate daily some OF the most
important provisions of that compact
Slavery has done none of these things. Antslave'
nv agitation has. Would u not be wei ior you' sir,
10 turn your powers to putting down this fell denoni
but fear you are part of it. fear You are also OF
those who hug to your bosom the enemy. Who 1t not
soon crushed, will des! d1ath'blow to the onion,
| and with i; to the prosperity OF the New EDsianu
States. .
shall proceed to discus, your plan. show You ts
defects and then offer plan of my own, in which as
| u plan,hroDist Ask your aid
You propose to appropriate the proGeeus % .ne
public iauds to paying for the negroes IN any Stale
that NAV emaucpate them, to stay in their midst al
$3.50 each.
| obiect to this proposon-:frsf, because thep price
is not sufficient. ;, w..
pina county, the average value of slaves OF all kinds
would not be less than $50O. 1t Is true that there
are some old servants, worn out with age ana
| ~, who are a burden TO their masters; but these
would not dimnah the average value rs low as Sou;
And Won ask Southern men to give up ST. $50 ooo 0oO
of property the receipt OF htty per cent. IL %ouu
no doubt be matter of surprise il people coald De
found willing give away SS75, OOO Oop OF properly
But that is not all ninths OF the federal reVe
nu. is paid either directly indirectly by the South
40 that out OF 3s7j0OU,U0O received. she would have
| 10 paw out about $675,OOOOOO, thus losing
81 $50, 900 900, at one sweep Why SIR II would n
yolye The whole South in bankruptcy, and you may
ask any of the solid of Boston the effect OF such
| misfortune on New England. Her ships would rot
her merchants break her factories stop, and her peo
| ole s.arve. Would New England be willing, even
for the sake OF seeing the country freed from slavery
| TO suffer all hatl doubt it.
You seem to think The negro would be more valua
bic as freeman than slave. know, that IN West
ern Europe and in the North, free labor is cheaper
than slave labor would be- Society has to take care
of tho DOOR the aged, the worn out The capitalist
does not have to provide for the family Of that poor
man from whose labor he is realizing his three or four
| hundred per cent We, OF the South, do NOT desire
free labor with its accompanying evils, but II We
we're willing to adopt il, know The negro chatac.
ter too well to believe that he would work, except un
der compulsion. The free negro will not work
Does he in Haytl Her exports now compared with
| those before the French Revolution answers that
question You cannot reply that the planters offered
petty shilling day here; the lands belonged to the
nee6 race they might cultivate, 1t they pleased; but
they were too ndolent. Conseq uen:ly, her panta-
tons have gone down. aud now she is the least pro.
ductivs of the Archipelago. The negro there under
half century of freedom, has not advanced step
in civilization lie ia the same barbarian "a in the
British Islands, with but this difference; he has some
control exercised over him by white men in the lat
| ter and consequently is not so degraded.
| In the British and French Islands, loud complaints
are heard oi the want ut labor. Nor 10 II the low
wages offered that has caused this dearth for men
not going to let such valuable lands 90 10 waste,
| simply because they are not willing to pay fair
| price for labor. Such idea is cauiuon. II
!. the inherent dleness Of the only race capable oi
| laboriug in those tropical regions. Already the
| question of re.mtroducing slavery is sgated in the
| British West Indies while the papers inform us that
| contracts have been made for supply Of l00OO
African apprentices in tile French Islands. The free
Degroes in those islands are pest and nuisance,
| and such they will remnin unless enSaved.
| Does the Tree negro work in Canada There the
climate, presume. compels him to labor more than
| he would 10 more congenal land; but doubt nor,
| sir, you have seen what Col Prince, who has lived
amOp, them, and represents section Of the country
| inhabited by fugitives from the United States, said
the other day ia the Canadian Parliament about those
whom the underground rail road had carried 10 that
| land nf liberty. Lest, however you have not seen
Col Ps speeolI let ms extract the following pSsCsges
al pronounce them to be- rs such THAT il, as BODY
the greatest curse ever inflicted upon the two mag
nifcent Western counties, which have the honor
20 represent in the legislative council Of this province
and few men have had the experience Of them that
have"
"Ameng the many estinable qualitiea they possess
asystemarc habit Of ing is not tue least prominent
have taken them int" my service have ted and clothed
them year after year, thsir arrival from the States
and in return have setleray found them rogues ani
| thieves. and grncecss, worthless thrtess, lying
| set of vagabouda.'
Such Is the opinion Of n man who has lived among
them, and who To protect his constituency from the
| demorazing influence of the race, proposed that
they b. sent 70 the Mantouline islands, other
| pac, out of tho way Of tbs whites.
| Wi! not Col. Princes description answer for the
| mass "f negroes at the Norh7 Ny own limited OBJ
servaon is that it is And 1T The South, the
conscious Of tue fact that free negroes
| !, lazy, thrftess class.
Are thay benefit to any community in which they
exist The proposition 10 remove the fugitive colony
in Canada to the Manituune Islands is evidence
that thinking men there find them a nuisance. The
refusal in Of the Northern Stetes to allow them
TO live in their Territory Is an evidence that they
too. look upon them nuisance. And, SIR if your
State will receive them Virginia will gladly pay the
expense of transporting her tens of thousands OF free
negroes 10 Massachusetts,, even II they would en;itle
...u C..,a Han
Trus, 10 tree negro labor. aud if the bankruptcy
spoke Of above did not take pacs the plantations
would be ruined. noae o: our seini.tropcal produce
could 10 exported ms:.Gfactu.ed. simply because
uoue would be produced. 81! free soce;y would be
cnuvuls-d TO its very centre. The millions who I've
10y the manufacture aud cQnmerce in the products OF
| slave labor. would be driven by starvation to such
excuses that state OF things worse than the world
has ever would result in Western Europe aud
New England
With such weighty objections. "a these, il would be-
mere trnng to mention tho constitutional objection
to the method of raising the money. have already
shown sufficient why ths scheme ought not ia
be adopted. will give in addition two rea.
| sons why it could not. Of course the above would
be paramount why it could not be doae az once. You
propose ,hnt each Stat" gets enlightened, perhaps,
the scheme would gradually be adopted. will now
attempt To show why that hope is falacious. We will
suppose that constitutional scrupes were gotten rid
Ut that majority OF both Houses aud President
could be found regardless OF the Constitution as 10
one or two OF thu border States, say Delaware and
Maryland, WERE in accordance with IFS terms, 10 de-
termine TO enancpate their slaves at once an EXC.
dus would take place Every able bodied man, every
child, every woman, who would bring more than the
S25I, would be hurried South. In very short time
but few negroes would bs left in thoss States H.
| IN those Other Northern States III which slavery
existed aud was abolished. Men DO not destroy pro-
perry often. But gay these were permitted To sell
their slaves South; bsfors Virgins would be ready 10
enter upon the agreeent, the whole South would be
closed, and know the people of Virginia too well 10
believe they would bs willing that such herd of
We love State TOO we'll to be willing to SEQ her
plantations, her farms. her comfortable negro quar-
tiers go to ruin with host Of lazy, theving blacks in
SOM places Communicating the white population.
D9 sohs have already said enough in opposition to
VIII eeI shocked at II, but am in earnest in my pro-
posat thlnkit the only way Of Kidding the Country
ot the anti'slaVery agitation. know the country is
not yet tor 1t The South is not yet but if
read the signs OF the times Alright she SON will be.
The North Is not, but she think will begin to
look at things in their proper light and will give her
aid to the scheme am in no hurry. can wait
Blu. the time is near ut hand when II must be adopt.
Cd aud every true philsuhropist will hail it With
Joy; ,,ao Them !. simply re.oDeD0s Of ,hs Arr
eau slave trade under re trictOns. No doubt il you
have read thus far, you VIII hold up your bands in
holy horror at the barbarian. who, III the nineteenth
century, proposes to the cruelties OF tue md.
die passagt; tut hope you will read my reasons.
assert tina, Africa needs it Europe needs it
America needs it, Civilization needs it. Africa needs
rsopenug of the slave trade. as means Of civil
l@'ng, as far they capable, her people. as.
ser aud hold myself prepared to prove that tor every
ha.Ns AFRICAN converted TO Christianity by mission.
AIRY efforts within the last hundred years, fifty Of
!oe race have been civilized aud Chris,ianized
through the slave trade The African after be gets
Auerlca nss more comforts is better provided for
!oau ae would be had he remained in Africa. Since
inc euors on the part of various nations 10 put dowu
the saVs trade the cruelty Of the trade has necessar
ly increased 1t is Northern men who have carried