Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-02-06

Assert, the exclusion OF slavery from the territories.
Or, in other words, they asseverate that noih!Es -
more foreign to their Intention than the aooiitiou U,
slavery in the Southern States, and tbatthelr real anu
only purpose is its restriction to it. present UNITS
Inseniously put and wisely conceived. Conceae lu.
aud the South concede everything. As wen may 1t
be undertaken to quell future hunger through a Pre-.
SAINT supply of food, az to quell the future wants VI "
DON'T nus!ly increasing land!"ss and day !aooring mas
through a present srpply flands. Surrender all the
Territories TO their present demands. and s'puia'e III
tho bond taken never go clearly and perempt9raiy
the condition on which il IS done, to be-, no trr'hriln'
reference with domestic slavery by printing, "ri'Ins,
engraving, speaking, voting, acting, or by any ctIel
mode and modes, aud device and devices no" known
or hereafter TO be, or that may be known whatsoever,
and still il would all he but the allaying OF a present
appetite. In a few years the(eiatlve propo.aph y
existing betweenth The no. property and property Glasses
Of the non. slsveholding States, would De re'estao.
lished, aud Hnder the law of their necessities as srea,
a want Of land would exist among the lanaieas, u
the contract made by their ancestors wouIu D . &c
garded by them as of no binding force upon con
science. Though the present may provide tor Tue III.
ture, the future nW provide tor itseii. = II 70"
OF all things to Look forw ard and NOT oachwalu' ~.
the present TO anticipate the future, tor the iutuIe ~
regard It's o future. and Tor the pas, 10 bsst;aII. or
material, direct only TO the future. Under tl.s iam
ancestry looks to postsrity, but pos'erlty looAa ~.
back upon ancestry, save as II suoserves Intele'ttU,
grsti6-s vanity. Parents sacrihce 10 cn,.ufen,T "
tnlIQICU 1Hh 10 ohCIi ~ ~ o'e" t-Al.
from their fountains towards the ocean. Inc uouo'er
faced Junus was only true OF destiny, or the ine =.
c~ausation, as.aeuotiug the tact oil Inc preseu. Dona
derived from the past aud LOOKING 10 ,ne -
o,b,r risa the face to the rear would have been aes'R-
mated with s,ehtless orbs. This law in legisla1'n
draws the pen through old statutory provisions u
rn.kss nsw ones. This law obhterales at VIII "tlt'en
constitutions, and r~uthiessly tears signatures h". .
marc compact would bind the future landless mun,ef
tudes of thu non slavebolding States on tne sunJsS;.W
~slavsryi Yield the Territories now TO asras !" .hoI;'
and It's next policy would be unavoidao!y .ne 90 he
lion Of negro slavery in me e. so na I and a war Of
races. the one having labor without LANDS, u I'D
lands without labor. In this war oo'h SUES 49,
no.r,sh and be dsstroyed,' and the southern 49,
would becoms re.populatea oy Tue u ~. Tsrritoyes pre-.
yiou.ly had boen. Again, yield the lerr.o orv sd
how would stand the question geographlcnhy' an.
s,,lI further politically Look at johnson Ieceht
rom mm the eastward would sweep down southwest,
wsrdly through Kansas along the western borders OF
Missouri; aud from the westward, south-eastwardiy
through New Mexico, along the western borders OF
Texas. The two streams would then nieet ano MN
gle with the rapidity Of thought in the Greek and
Cherokee DOMAIN, overwhelming the few helpless
indians there, and then dash their continent waves
against Arkansas. Thus the slaveholding States
would soon become e%nveloped between this sgrarlan
tide and the tide Of the Atlantic. Nor would the
agrsrian tide stop here, but next dash EDWARDS into
western Texas. forming O tree State there. hnd hem
ming In slavery siiIl more closely. BY this time by
the time the census would have bsen TWICE told IRON
This day, the political relations in the Government
between the non slaveholdiug and the slaveholdlng
States would be q controlling majority in the former,
and a hopeles. minority in the latter.
In this connection, as early as 1850, on the
9Th day Of November, Of that year, while the
simplicity, were shouting frr,h hcsannss to the r.
.toraiiou of peace and good will between me
North and tho South. through the adoption OF the
"Compromiee measures" end the Union move
ments OF the day, being somewhat behind The scenes,
aud knowing we'll the deception intended by the
{ Eortb, I ventured to address the following warning
to the so.th, through one of tEeir journals, which. in
The mad ecsrasy Of a foolish joy, then passed un-
he-d-d or unbeard, but which, under the verltlca'ion
Of time, and being Justly opposite 10 the context,
I again repeat, viz:
"The great Union Meeting as it lie styled, Of New
York, hiss resulted in placing that powerful State IN
the lead Of aboiiiionism, and II lie now for The slave
holdipg States to consider what they will do. New
York is backed in her present position by the whole
Of New England and the Northwest. Whether an
| effort Se or be not made in Congress, this coming
winter. TO the fugitive slave law, lconsiter,
under these circumstances. and looking 10 more I'M
pnr,ant consequences, a matter OF bat little moment.
The Free soil States are IN possession Of all tie Ter
r,ories belonging 10 the Government! In a few, rery
tso, years, these Territories will BIZ filled up with II
population from those States, aud will be admitted as
! Sthte6 INTO me IOlOU, Huu udSo Ilcl. ocHotOi uiu
representatives in Congress. Delaware, in the
meanwhile, wilt have abolished slavery, and be num-
bered with the reat iu the Government. We may
safely say that, in the course OF the present genera
ton, the Union will contain twenty-four or more non.
,iaveholdiug States. 1t stands now, placing Delaware
where she virtually belongs. seventeen non.slave-
holding S,ato. To fourteen slaveholdiug States. Add
10 the Fres soil States, Oregon, New Mexico, Mime
sofa, Deseret, SebTssEa, one or two from The Colnrs.
co, and one or two from the Northwes: Territory, and
Il il p,ain ;he ron slavehoitiny States will number
from twenty. four &c tgenty-six, while the slaveheid-
ing States will continue as 81 present. fourteen, hav:
ing no Territory e. their ihe Senate Will
then be composed OF from forly.eiRlt to fifty $50
or more sbulilioui,ts, aud only twerty-eight anti.
sboltioniats. The House Will exhibit q still larger
disvroportion between ihs Two. Ie A6otHtonls!s
epl non po.sess, in both House, Of Gosgreis. a tro.
thirds poie, phieh, under the Constitution nssT, gives
all amendments TO that i%ntrumsut. Nor uW Ibis be
all. Ihrov9h the electoral eolegss they 0tU haze The
nonrr TO el,ck tie President rnhoM any assistance
rhatever from tie South. This bsios the case, is 1t
not evident that not only the Central Government at
Washington, BE-. also the treasury, and tho army, and
the navy, would be liz their hands1 Indeed, the ar
my and ths navy, as well in officers commanding es
in nsn commanded, would be composed almost ex.
c'usjyely o! citizens from tha non-slayeho,din
States, and could not be expected to do otherwise
Than fraterpizs with those States were dissolution
forced upon the South. He who. reasoning from the
present existing !acts, cen doubt these %palpa6ls.
,houoh mos, omiuou. results, is capable Of doubling
thar the sun shines, or that he himself lives.
snow I wish to know, and / put the question 10
every rejecting man q, the South, if, when the abo-
litioa states shall be thus In possession OF all the
powers of the government, having in their grasp, and
under their entire control, tee Executive, fhe Legis'
lat;ve. and Tie judicial Departments, holding the
4 Treasury, directing as we'll as composing tie array
and The navy, and possessing a constitutional! major
ity IL the two Houses Of Congress, enabling them TO
propose aud cause to be adopted amendments 10 the
CONSTITUTION, r,N fhey 10. seek to On that roHst'tn'
honaI'y .h'eh thy are notc so sedhtoR'v ssriy'ne
10 do in despite of Constitutional guarantees and the
, obligations of justice7 If they as faithless and
tr.nch-rous non, when only half prepared for their
infamous, designa, what will they be then, when no
thing shall stand In their wa5 10 make them AFRAID
or stay their action Will they not Fave everything
At their command tn enforce obedience to their wish
81 viii they not have the army. and the navy, and
the treasury, he pure and the srord, and all other
mans at the disposal Of the Government, wherewi;h
10 suppress insurrec,iona and put deEn reoShon.-
Nor is it to be expected that, in seeking the accom-
plishmrnt Of The r purposes. they will be satisfied TO
use only the direct powers Of the Government. They
will have at their disposal other and indirect, though
not less potent means. to assist them IN carrying our
rhectually all conceived purposes. Inc PURGE OF the
Government and the officers of Government will both
be prostiiuted, as on several memorable occasions IN
European history, under somewhat similar clrcum
stances, TO the %nefarious purpose OF purchasing np
traitors a. the South, and the slaveholdiDRS States Will
have 10 contend not only sesiuet a gigantic 'r'trnH
power, capable OF overwhelming them through thu
force of numbers alone, bat also against A mighty
CORPS of political sapper' and miners' '"fer"at sp'es
and disioyal Arnolds.
when this day comes. and 1t ss'uredly VII come,
and that MT very d~i.tan'ly, as that the Union 'fia!s
last ana existing circumstances, "a operating causes,
shall be permitted 10 progress to full sru,t'on' the
South before the North, will be- as Powerless as a
hind in the crushing folds OF an anaconda; a.
one fell swoop two Thousand millions OF slave pro-
perty will be annihilated, together with twice that
amount of other intere.t.i and this immense 'arrrnce
of property will be the east of the evils inflicted upon
your sunny and NOW happy country. a moral p.sfl.
i-nce, in addition, will swrcp over you, like 10 that
which buried Sodom and Gomorrnh beneath the Wa.
ters Of wrath! like TO that which weighed in the bel,
ance. and hurried into oblivion The empire OF A'syrla;
ike N that which rended the Temple and obilterat'd
the Jewish nation from me earth! In the emanci-
-..ia.a e .La - AID hs elevation In the aama