Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-09-07
From the Charleston Courier, August ~.

LIE SoNbo i.N
MEsrRs EuIrURs An unii-nnl d.grr- 81 Interest
wAs excited lasl evening by the arrival il our bay al
the brig Echo with three tour huudrrd native
Africans IL seems -he captured On the coast al
Cuba aud brough into This port for such disposition
H. may be made or them by thu government of the
United States. And now thu qnesriun COMES: Want
shall bs done with htmi Eng land, under such cir =
ancts, sends them 10 her colony &" Sierra Lnne
(scn-ible 10 the last as she always i- but 10 there
u 10 such colony. Hitherto We have srn them back
10 Africa. in government ship., and il il BIZ cup
po--d That such will BE- the proposed this
occasion.
But il such conr.e 10 be adnptedl They are here
on The very threshold f civilization; shall send
them back Ia bnrbarisml They hr- N the dawn ui
C. rsiianIty shall srnd them back tn Ital-n
darknessl They almost within the pale OF law
and social state, where they take relations; -hnl!
VIZ send them back To tbe realm oi no law bu! that OF
brute orce mo relations but those TINT bruies hkel
They are here almost within the pale of q sOcefy
where they will be sale, and whrre every physical
want will be surely supplied will We send them hack
IA The precarOus Subsistence anatched from wrechps
As starving a. th-msnlvesi
Bat why should We send them back Dn we not
want them They Grr wanted -vrrywmra--cur
planters want them our Mechanic want h"m; oar
rrrUnd- want them; "ui waste l-n,H are III want 4
them. IL from any among cur-elveo. Of the
nhuInnnify of rendering them useful! We put our
and brothers under mh-iers Ia learn trade. and
il il hgman.. Ia do this and not human. ia do the
IL CrbHiuTtr lUhl ~ mNtU III lt"l
at training aud instruction There IL why
We should send them back. but in s that Il his be
conn. ngre-Hhla 10 annhrr srtii0n Of i!le Unirn 10
look with dingust on our institutions aud arr called
upon 10 make ihs sacrifice OF interest aud humanity
TO propitiate them.
If any snIio man asksd what il is TINT wOnd
he best Tor these negroes. ms would gay, put them
der the discipline aud care Of GONE whose duty
and interest II would be To train them TO usefulness
aud to care for them. Ask prudent man what must
os done with them and he will sAy, no matter how
we'll may provide for them here the ACT of provid
ing for them in any Southern State will be offensive
to the people nf tho North and 50, therefore,
do no, what il right-not what is humnne-nu what
/. 10 our nterest-uO what ia tn tbs interest OF the
n.rro- not what il agreeable TO our sense OF pro-
priety-but what il expected Of us by foreign sen.
timenr And would hrk whether such u state of
facts il Inconsistent with the rights and dignity of
a people that are vested with hc trusts Of liberty and
conscience
When these negroes shall be taken from the port Of
Charleston Except il be Ia take ih,n es-where in
slave STATED, it will ie brand upcU Institutions
that should fire the heart cl every that loves h-
country. Ii will be the declaration 10 the world that
this condition in which negroes arr, is 80 Of
l-nsive even own government, that II ia ncum.
bent upon il to lts sovereign power in r-acuing
from tn. like condition all who within liza rench.
Wan submit proper declarations, tn lhw- whose
practical enforcement If brought to door,. but
in iha net If repruha h-rt rnunt sg sn-t which
every Southern man ought enter his Indignant pro-
trst CURTIUs.