Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-04-08
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL s, 1861.


objection TIA. il slaves are taxed a3 property,
/ and direct taxation and representation 30 to-
sethcr they s!iculd moi be represented as per.
Sons. | DO rot sag tha! tie arguments sound,
but experience teaches us that our adYersaries
are satisfied with ths spec!ous and do not al
| ways necd tho solid.
The fifth section prohibits the foreign slave
trade" and thus interdicts expectation to for
| eign States as we'll as importation from them.
When the Confederate States Of the South are
recognized as all independent power, as no
doubt they soon will be, We shall DC cut of
by this provision from exporting our slaves,
| and We snail sec them accumulate while our
laboring whites will be enticed from lis by
Homestead bills. For it must be borne in
mind that this Homestead policy is Il cardinal
tert, Of the Republican party, and so soon ns u
bill donating one hundred and sixty acres OF the
public la.:d to each head Of Il family had been
defeated in Congress by an almost unanimous
Southern vote the policy was Incorporated in
the Chicago platform. Ii we arc prohibited from
sending our slaves Saith, and the Homestead
policy prevail We may sec Virginia Africanized.
The men OF Anglo-SaxoH and Of Norman blood
may be- lnrpd aray, and the African admitted
- full citizenship. may become eligible 70 tie
Presidential Chair itself. Shall We sanction
this policyl Shalt we permit the North under
prctence OF cutting Of the African slave trade,
to say thnt the negro shall stay here, and the
| whi;o nan be induced to 20 henc2y
In reference to the seventh section, Mr..
Chairman, desire 10 be informed why it is
that the language of the Crittenden PROPOSE
| ton, providing compensation for the master
I,-h In l,t-f
has been changed? la the Peace Conference
plan, such compensation is to te made ONLY
| where the fugitive is rescued by ''mobs" or
riotolls assembiayes." Nov, when We remem.
Der that these words have technical meaning;
that mob certainly implies many persons,
and that in some Of the States it requires not
less than twelve persons to constitute riot
Gus asseublage," we must see that cases CT
forcitic rescue, or intimidation, may occur
without :hc sgeacy If either mob or 'riot-
Gus asseinblages.'
If we are To pay ono half the damages, We
surely shoul! be compensated in AL cases OF
forciblc rescue.
In this same Sc ecsiOn is found that addendun
so anhorrcnt 10 our feelings, that even the gen.
tlclnan from kanawha gives it up and is will
ing to excise it. | mean the provision. making
it imperative on Congress ITO provide by law
for securing to the citizens OF each State the
privileges and i;nniunities Of the citizens of
the several States" BY virtue of this pro.
vision, our fugitive slaves purchased under the
same section by the General Government, made
citizens in some Northern State, might re.
turn ard stand as equals by the side OF their
masters. The gentleman from Kanawha has
rather incautouSly admitted that it was pro.
posed in the Peace Conference by the radicals
Of the North, and submitted to by the mode.
rate men, for fear Of their constituents. His
proposition, therefore, to exciso it, if carried
out, may lead to the rejection Of the whole
he one Of it's popular features. We have still
bette: evidence Of its popularity at the North,
in the fact that it was the only part ofhe Peace
Congress plan noticed and recommended by
President Lincoln in his Inaugural.
have endeayored, Mr.. Chairman, in the
discussion Of this pan TO avoid the statement
of objections already made, and, as the vcne.
rabe gentleman from Charles City lMr TvLEEi
has examined it e!ai,orp,el:, shall not datain
the Committee with 90 iu:ther consideration.
| shall now proceed TO consider the subject
in its other and more interesting aspect--aS q
commercial question. And shall take leave
! ta a,ate the question in tiis following forin:-
VIII the material Interests Of Virginia be pro-
NOTED by ainering 10 the North or by joining
the Southern Confrdcracy?
In vicw OF the great agency exercised upon
the production Of country by its mode OF
raising revenue, the first enquiry will naturally
be concerning the revenue systems Of the TWO
C0n(eleIacies
In the North the system is, and always will
be, highly protective In proof Of which, oh
serve the haste they made 10 adopt tariff
higher than any before Known, so soon Us they
were relieved from the presence Of some four
teen Southern Senators and thrty.odd South
ern Representatives.. In the South, as we gre
from their provisional Constitution, their pro-
v;siunal tariff and the debates Of their Con-
srrss q tariff for revenue will be adopted, aud
not free trade rs some fear, or affect to fear
l. would he strange indeed for people who
had never seen the face Of Il Federal tax-gath-
ercr, suddenly to depart from the usages Of n
lifetime and To resort TO direct taxation; but
We shall have a better guarantee than that
! against free trade. The representative popu.
laion OF the BIrder slave States is now
6.a25, ,2T2, Uh:!e that Of the cotton States IS
only 4.5ll.le7 Tha; OF Virginia, North Car
! oIina, Tennessee and Kentucky is nov
4,3773, 49g, and COON will exceed that Of al the
Gotten States. Ii Virginia goes TO the South.
ern CUntederacy | presume that the other
| border States will go also, not merely
from tho force Of her example, but because
they are operated on by the same causes which
! impel her think, therefore, that free trace
is mere bug.bcar which may be dismissed
| from al! further consideration here, as it has
! been at the South, and that we may regard Z
rcTenue tariff, averaging not less thnn ID or 2C
per cent as the settled policy Of the Southern
Confederacy.
Such being the case shall now proceed to
consi,lcr the staples Of our agricultural and
mining industry and t. enquire in reference tC
each. where lies Tie market? where the com
petition and how the re7cruc system affect:
the price?
Our principal agricultural productions ART
wheat, tobacco and live stock; our chief mnln;
products are salt, iron and coal In refer
ence 10 these productions | have prepared {
series OF tables, embracing all the reliable in
formation within my reach They are take!
mainly frcm the finance reports Of the Secre
tary Of thu Treasury. The estimate ofthe seet
and expectation Of wheat arc from number o
DcBow's Review. published while Mr.. DeBov
was connected with the Census Bureau. Some
few facts rro from the Patent Office reports
and the statistic; cG the Richmond trade wer
obtained from NJ. Greme Of the Richmont
"Whis"-a gentleman 20 whom tho State IS in
dubtrd for much statistical information con
ccrnng her trade, and who derives it from tn
official records OF the internal improvement
companies, having their chief Offices in thi
city. think therefore, that the tables which
I now submit to the Convention are atogetEe
reliable and arc entitled to consideration.
For the sake Of clearness, shall, at the rsl
of fatiguing the Convention, examine success
si7ely the staples ofour industry, and consice
in reference to each h- questions OF the market
the competition and the effect Of the revenu
system upon prices.
WmeAr-Ths latest reliable statistics il
reference TO the production Of wheat, ar
those Of the censrs Of 1880, since which
time we havo had Gothing but estimates
| Frnrr tbn .cho -.n.v cuhn;.ted 10 the CODyen