Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-05-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the New York Day Book.
ABOLITION MEETINGS.

We perceive that the insane rawlings of Garrison,
Fred Douglass and other black and white Abolition
ists are producing impression throughout the c0un
try very prejudicia to New York. Their nfamma-
tory speeches are cited as the opinions Of the city,
and New Workers. held responsible for them. All
here know how ungrounded this s yet people reason,
and they are justified in doing that wherever such
doctrines are uttered there must be state of public
sentiment that, to extent at least sympathises
with them. Then, too, they aee their speeches re-
ported in some Of the daily papers without rebuke.
and they very naturally conclude that community
that can allow such rank treason uttered in its midst
suoh diabolca counses for amalgamation, poisoning
aud incen1srsm must be more or less rotten at the
core. We are compelled to say there s reason for
this. A few years ago even James Watson Webb
cuunseed that these obscene persons be mobbed and
We feel sure that such feeling is the natural instinct
of every heart before it becomes perverted by Adolf
ton teachings We feel that we are disgraced by al
lowing the utterance of doctrines from which mora
~ and even common decency revoit-and that there
ia Twice as much reason in breaking up forcbly, il
necessary, such assemblagea of black aud white de-
graded beings as have been held n city recently,
as there was for expelling the "free lovers. There
Ara some offences against social order aud virtue
that only seem to weld 10 mob law, which s, after
all only the indignant protest against such vileness
"a saps the very fundamental principles OF society,"
IL meu who outrage everything pure aud sacred are
t 20 live unmolested then the world is not tit to live
in.
If these gatherings of mGniecs allowed to meet
often here and New York is to he held responsible
for their speechcs city will soon have as bad
name throughout the country as Boston. Every bu
siness man knows that Abolitionlsm has almost rain
ed that city as place for trade. She has little
tail business with the New England States, and some
few of the Western ones, but many Southern men
will not step their feet in the place upon any conside
ration. We know one very wealthy Southern plant
err whose wife, by the decease Of relative, fell heir
10 large property in Boston, who will not 80 much
as visit that city under any inducement, or touch
cent of the income his wife from her proper
~ there Real estate in Boston is much lower than
In New York. and has not risen in half quarter the
ratio it has here. Throughout the entire South and
West Boston has the reputation Of being filled with
narrow contracted, fanatical set of men, and it is
held up as word and reproach. Whatever may be
said in defence of Boston, or however unworthy many
of her citizens may be Of this character, az we know
mauv of them and perhaps most Of them yet they
have allowed such men as Garrison, Phillips, Parker,
&C., give the character to their city, and for good
for bad they cannot relieve Themselves fit. They
resp the reward in having hundreds avoid It who
would otherwise visit it both for pleasure and bust
ness.
II nav yet become a question with our merchants
aud business men how far they willing to allow
tn. sentiments Of Garrison, Phillips, Fred Douglass,
Garrett, &c. to go forth to the country as an n6i.
cation of public sentiment here. If New York
should become the headquarters Of open disunionists
and amalsamafionsfs, We have no doubt Philadel.
pha would be the gamer by the operation, but we
haze no desire to see such result. We know that
Garrisons doctrines are really repusive to our cir
ze0s, and it s the nsigniicance of these creatures
that really insures their safety. Any molestation
would, perhaps, give them tho very nctor;ety they
desired: but We insist that every newspaper which
has really the interest Of the city at heart should r.
fuse to report their doings and sayings. II they
We're allowed to rave By Themselves they would pro-
badly conclude with the old negro, who got terribly
exercised under a preacher whom he mistakngly
supposed was Whitfield, that they had made great
fuss flor nofin."