Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-05-21
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY q, 1861.

:ol By way Of tribute to the North, and withor
h immediate secession We are relieved from tb
n burden.
% II our merchants should prefer to go to tn
q North to buy their goods, while they can g
o them cheaper elsewhere, tha. is their on
lanlt, and, think, we ought not 10 base ou
S important political action on such acts OF Ou
: own What harm do VIC sustsin9 We ar
{ not obliged to pay anything to the support G
Z Ihe General Government. Congress has pass
n ed no law TINT will grind US md my friea
t from Calpeper, (Mr BARBOUR has dcnons,ra
}. ted that the General Government cannot hur
Il US. Why, then, ask, should we ac. precip
ta'ely and go out Of the Union?
). hly friend from Culpeper, gives as one rca
son. that Seward, that arch enemy Of the South
mad advised waiting one, two or three years
but does not my friend remember that Gid
dlngs and Phillips unl other ultra Abolitnnist.
OF the North are saying, ns lie docs "dissolv,
this uccursed UDionY p If the men who art
: for debcratioa here lind Seward agreeing with
them. that woud take him out Of the category
} with ultra .AbolitionSts.
again nsk, why should We net prec! ptate-
: IyT What evil threatens us? Mr.. Chairman,
: secession has become poeticai idea
II seems to me as if it hsd invested itsul!
with MI That ;B gorgeous and beautiful Or fancy
} Il In; captivated even the ladies' Ii mas taken
ai! the young men. 1t has even carried away,
IN tie rush, many Of the oldest and wiSrSt
Ine!:. Ine speeches made for secession NIL
portray, in deep co!orS, the wrongs unler which
the Son!n Is supposed 70 suffer. They will
nor argue according to the existing State OF
iacis Ttey will give yuu no remedy for the
evil but that which their post;: fancy sug.
g"Sis-1Mme(tLntc sects,ivn. see 10 cllarp IN
i, '"r hare ielt, when lsid my head on lay
pliio~ ut b0:nr. when secession way first
preached by the South all its terror>, ard it
has lost all It's poetry for Inc.
Is it not the part of wisdnm 20 sny that we
will no: act immediatelyg We may have TO
COMO to secession and tel! you, rs States
flights man, tn.. u aeu InY cunscience aud
judgment tell me that sc a:e justified in that
extreme slep, will 90 for srccssion without
nay Scruple whatever But think we can
accomplish something yet within The Union.
| 81 long ns itiIt hope remains, aad so long
as there Is 40 danger in waiting will prefer
TO wait stated a while agn, Mr.. Chairman,
that the delay which we had advocated and
~h'csi mJority Of the people OF Virginia
advocated, had had good effect; that it had
drought The public mind TO the consideration
OF The adjustment; that It bad cooled down, ,o
a very great d"srec, the angry feelings which
had pefva'led the public mind. while il had
no. brought upon us tue evils which our
friends had predicted -
And, now, what is the position Of Virginia
70 day! Seven Uf hcr conledera;es Eav. l.lt
his GensraI Governmeut-gnne ont, and es.
ta1!lshed government which the report Of
your Committee says ought To he acknow.
lodged by Congress But Virginia isuot The onie
slave State now under the General Goveri.rent.
SAe is not in position nsc. iur herself alone
She has associates identified with her in feel.
log and in interest, ana SHE ought not to !akc
a step uEt! they are consulted. North Caro-
lima lies beta cen us and the Southern Confcd.
eracEy Kentucky and Tennessee are on our
West, Delaware and Maryland on our Narlh.
We are thus surrounded by slave Stales On
the North, South and West ask, then, il t
would not be lnorc courteous aud better, every
way, that We should wait, wticn there is no
danger in waiting until these, our sister border
slave States can be heard from?
The hour Of = having atr!7eA, the Couu,it-
tee took ren.ss Till 4 ------------a-
Iha Committee re.aS,rnlhlct nj r, Rtii 1lr :
TREDwAr continued bis remarks lie said
Nr Chairman, 6eture rrsutni1g HE vlc"' .
which was taking AZ the time IL. honr for
the recess arrived, must correct ui's&Err@.
henson which l understand has arisen in RI.
gard "a Il remark tha, mado d. not wish
to have any per: on Il explanation hereafter in
regard to what may say remarked, IN reply
TO wha: had been said by the gentleman from
Bedford tMr. GncpE.} that the 4th o! March
had passed by. ard that there had been no
such disuSter resulting from it Us he hai
prophescd and anticipated. was understood
10 say that no body hat! been injured, or in
the language Of Mr. Lincoln, tina! no one WAS
hurt, By the events which had transpiTed. |
did not mean 10 be so understood. Great dis
astcrs have resulted 10 the country. Panic,
alarm, and drrangernent Of commerce nave en-
sued, and enterprises OF ali kinds, have been
brought 10 stand still. did not say that
nobudv had been hu5;, but | said that the -ith
of March had net brought US TO civil war, ~
the gentlemen who advoc;ted precipitation had
prophesied.
And no., sir, will 60 on to consi;lcr the
| proposition Why fi-guia should not now, even,
prccipitate herself out Of this Union. Unc
beneficial result Of waiting sill longer would
he 10 ascertain rho position Of the border slaTe
States. Ii is due 10 them, inaStnuch rs The?
are arc asslnattd with US in Interest, th".
they silonId not be precipitated out Of the
Uniun, while there vas No danger.
\ statesman, looking 20 the mighty results
| involved, would not and ought 10 be willingt to
take the experiment just initiated as an expert
Inrilt that has been successfully consnu!n,tcd.
! 1t is still but an experiment II was initiated
bat the other day; and even yet It's Constitu.
lion has not bceu adopted by all the States IN
ic may have glowing antlcipations ~ to
the future Of that Confedciacy. | may he will
| ing TO RELY on its immense resources, yet still
! it Is but an all experiment, ard should Het be
regarded ~ al ultimate success wise
! s.atesfnan-one who looks for%arh To the
lGcve!0rGiucnts that mist arlsc-"uiid hr un'
| willing To take that experiment aa Tue basis Ci
such action az is proposed to Ue taken ny souc
gentlemen in ths Convention. ! say, there
urc, wait till you see the still further operation
| Of that experiment You ruu no risk by doing
! no. Ny friend from Gn'papsr demonstrated
1ha, this weak, i,nbecile Government OF which
". are nov II pa:l. can do lis no harm. We.
,iiasIure. by wai!lng, get all the advantages OF
,ielii,.raton, Of ctsncert with the border States
and with any other States that may consult and
Cooperate with III. VIA get tho advantage 81
! aay developments which may yet arise; and
then we Gun cerlarly act more adviscdly than
the wiSest tnen could act now.
;ir Chairman, ain not aTnOn5 thuse who
look upon The dissolution Of mgnty contede-
racy as a light matter. | an not among those
| who regard the fact ss demonstrated now. that
two distinct Governments formed out Of this
Union will go on in Il career OF prosperity and
success without difficulty NJ. AR; leave
ou, Of the question all that reverence and
! venerat;cn which ! hsve been taught from my
Youth to bear toward that Union under which
We have proIpered SO signaliy.
And say that in vicw oI the foreign rela-
tions of this country, il is Of immense moment
that we should preserve this Union The gen
lenan from Cul peper remarked that We in Vir'
glna we're unwilling to acknowledge the indie.
| nendanco of that Goyernmemt de [aeto which