Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-04-20

surely. dnmiDaering, II you VIII, out tTuIniul, nonest
and brave, rather than in that more modern part Of
phiIsnthropic profaaaions and puritanic p%re'ences
which he enacts 80 poorly. ] know That his bullets
are hard to stand but if ! am to have hs opposition,
let me meet him rather in open and manly encounter.
than receive him 40 the priest who wears the gown
and the rnbes marely IN conceal the coat of mail that
liss within. But he will have to strip him OF his robes;
the Philiatines ar. upon him. and the day II coming,
7 fear. which will try hs strength TO the utmost
Although we Of the South have much TO complain OF
at his hands, yet, cir, l wish him we'll through with
that day; for | cannot but feel that with him would
fall the last hope of regulated liberty in the Old
World.
Nor, Mr.. President. do l read the signs of the times
in regard to sentiment At nome az they are read ny
the Senator from New York. | believe that even
hers a reaction IL going on. II is said that our popu.
lation, by a natural law, Ia 10 gravitate 10 the equator.
1t il believed that q manifest destiny will draw our
people to the tropics, those Evergreen regions OF a
: never win.ering sum-" | will not say how well
founded ia this prediction, in my opinion but [ will
say, that if We play for these prizes Of empire, il can
only he upon the condition Of preserving the proper
suhord;nstiop of the inferior to the superior races,
when they are thrown together on the Same soil TO
struggle for q subsistence. Unless that condition ia
observed such acquisitions would prove to he nothing
but q continual curse and a perpetual plague. If
made. it will he found that this institution Of slavery,
30 far from being a cause OF dissension, and OF d'ff-r'
ebce will prove q common bond of union and strength,
because il will be by such means that each white
man, no matter what the section in which he may
live, will enjoy the largest share Of power, of infu.
enre. and OF wealth.
The Senator from New York says the white man
will have this continent. | say 60, too; and when he
does poaseaa il, he will take II, not as the Senator
from New York would pl.cs him. as the equal of the
Indian and the negro, but be will bold it as the mas
ter. and by right OF dominion. There are come re
giops of the world which he can only hold 10 ouch a
way. AZ yet do not know whether the Senator from
New York. in hs scheIe OF society, contemplated the
continual existence OF these inferior races. 1 do not
know whether he designs for them q fate which he did
not care to describe, because it is to be one Of utter
and entire determinations or may bs that be did not
CONSIDER himself as their keeper, or choose to be so
considered, when he was thus conaigning his brethren
to this wholesale destruction; but I will tell him thai.
they hold 10 existence by a tenure as firm in certain
regions of this world a. that by which the white man
holds bis in othsr portions Of the globe. There are
certain parts of the world which are peculiarly adapt.
ed TO each of theee races; and I do not know that il is
in the DEGREES Of Providence to consign any of them
to utter extinction. II it be true, az I bellows it 10 be
true, that there are certain regions in which the labor
Of the inferior races Is the only4sbor that can develop
their resources, it follows as q consequence that the
white man cannot enjoy those regions unless he goes