Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-04-15
STUDIES ON SLAVERY.

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STUDIES ON SLAVERY.
This subject is at all times interesting, for it
intimately concerns the well-bcing Of every hui
man being in civilized society, whether he live
in State where domestic servitude exists. or
in one where only slavery to capital is permit
ted; this subject, we say has become vitality
and feariully important, from the fact that en-
tremists, on the one side, are renewing the slave
trade, and, on the other, endeavoring to abolish
all human slavery, whether mere negro scrvi-
tudc or that quasi slavery furnished by ind'
vidua ownership of land, by parental and mari
tai authority, by church government, by the
dominion Of officers in the navy, army and
merchant service, and by subjection TO govern
ment Of any kind.
The attempted renewal of the slave trade,
and the attempts of aboitionists to abolish ne
gro slavery, endangcr the Union. The efforts
of the socialists in the bosom of free society,
to do away with all private property, all rcll
gious establishments, and all human govern
ment, may bcgct in America Sanguinary social
revolutions, such as they have already begotten
in France, and such as are barely suppressed by
immense standing armies throughout Western
Europe The Sociaistic philosophers and states
men who invoke and endeavor TO bring about
these radical changes. include i'll their ranks
fOur-Glths of the genius and learnngo ol West
crn Europe and our North In fact, all modern
literature is more or less tinged with socialism.
If there be not something rotten in the State
Of Denmark" then symptoms in the social
world are wholly deceptive; then is the ror
p0puIi false oracle, and the philosophic, OBJ
servant and conservative Carlyle. when he eX-
claims, THERE MUST BE- 4 new world. if we are
to have, much longer, any world at all = n Cas-
sandra, without her prophetic vision
Besides the pressing emergencies of the
times. the antiquity and almost universal
prevalence of domestic slavery and its high au-
thority, as well protane as divine, enttlc it to
mature investigation and serious contempla-
ton and study.
There is no regal road to mathematics,
nor to any thing else. 1t matters very little
how we begin the study ofSlavery, or what or
der we pursue in continuing it. As it is dilii.
cult, however, TO see ourselves as others
see us" VIC would advise the student not to be-
yin with Southern works but to read, first the
pamphlet of Professor Stewart, Of Andovcr, OH
the Christian authority for slavery, with the
texts referred to by him. Miss MurTays travels
in the Southern States; Rev. Nehemiah Adams
South.sde view of slavery; Aristotc's Politics
and Economics, together with Gillics' Introdnc-
ton thereto, Bohus Classical Library Edition,
price Sl.25, TO be had in any Of the Northern
book stores; then the last edition ofa work by Il
Mr.. Mott Of Boston, afterwards 'thc Latter Day
Pamphlets by Mr.. Carlyle
Aristotle gives the most satisfactory theory
of the origin of society. lie maintains that
it is as old and as natural rs man, and did not
originate by compact as taught by Rousseau.
Locke, Tom Paine, Jefferson, Blackstone AMI
Others This is the first great question, upon
which depends the solution Of the subject OF
domestic slavery, and also Of human equality.
Jc Tho advocates OF the social contract VINO
hold that man is not social, grcgarlous AM
NAL. like hares, ants and herds, but that oris-
nalv men were separate human monades, or Ill
dyidual atoms, brought together under govern
ment and social regulations, by contract AMI
distinct or implied individual agreement; it
these authors be right and Aristotle and his
commentator, Mr.. Gillic, wrong then is slavery
ndctenSible.
Miss Murray's and Mr. Adams books are
valuable. because they came South with strong
preiudices against slavery, and had those pre-,
iudiccs entirely removed by close and critical
observation of the working of the system. Ar'
Motifs work admits and shows up the entire
failure of the emancipation OF white slaves or
serfs in Europe. Mr. Greeley and all the lead,
ing abolitionists agree with Mr.. Mott, aud
maintain that as yet abolition has but hall
done its work, and only made things worse
by substituting slavery to capital lor uoi''c;''
tic slavery. Mr. Carlyle's Latter Day Pamph-
lets not only condemn the abolition oil West
India slavery, but propose these institutions oi
white slavery as the only means to govern the
vicious, idle and worthless, in Europe. The
single idea of the work of Mr.. CAylc. various
ly expressed and illustrated is that the
.;woRLp," under the guidance of extreme applI-
cations of the doctrines of political economy.
''Is TOO LITTLE GOVERNED"
After having read these works, the student
will be prepared to take up the defence OF
slavery, as maintained by Southern writer's
Let him now read work on this subject, BY
the late Professor Dew. President Of William
and Mary College, Virginia; Professor Bed
soe's and Professor VIM. a. Smiths works. on
the same subject; also, Sociology for the
South and "Cannibals All, by George fltz
hugh, and Scriptural Defence Of slavery, by
Rev. - Stringfellow. All these gentlemen
are virginians. and their works, we presume
may be had of A. Morris, bookseller and pub
Usher, Richmond, Virginia.
IT. after this, the student will read the varI'
Gus articles which have appeared in De Bow :
Review on Slavery, in its many aspects, eco
nomical, moral, social, religious and political,
he will be sure to cease waglng hostil'ties
against the institution, and be able and
ready to defend, at least, negro slavery, *
it exists at the South. We have not en-,
merated very many able books, essays ani
arguments that have been written in defence OF
slavery by Southern gentlemen, because most
of them have been re-published in De Bow ;
Review, within six years past. The price OF
the works we have enumerated, excepting De
Bows Review will average less than dollar
EACH This Review, besides furnishing the
fullest defence and exposition of slavery, is the
most valuable statistical work published in
America. and Indispensable in every large anil
wcll.selcctcd library.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN LUNENBURG.
In CONSEQUENCE Of the withdrawal OF Geo.
Hardy ESQ from the canvass for the Office oi S,in
FOR for this district. the Democrats OF Luncnbur.
county held meeting at the Court House: on Mon