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Show sao Appendix. Jnbor and land. Then would be r ea lized the earnest WISil of ..,Na:-;hington, expressed in his letter to La Fayette, in the followincr words, refrrring to the emancipation of the slaves of the latter in Cayenne: "\Vonld to Gocl a like Rr>irit might din·u~e itRclf generally into rho minds of tho people of this COIIII!ry. B.nt r despair of R~·C'ill:,! it. • . . • ~r·o Ret t!le sla\"(':1. alloat at once would r rc,\lly bcl!e''e, he producti\'U of llHI<'h lllrl-lclllof and III<' Clll\'('llli'llrc ; but hy ti C'grees'it lative authority."r uight, anti assuredly ought to ho cflcctcd; a uti thnr, too, l1y legisThe people of the North would then glndly cooprrn.te with Virginia in her efforts at gradually freeing herself from rite evils of S laYery, and men of intelligence and energy would then seck the State instead of ftyi11g from it, as is now the case. Her exhausted lands would then again be brought into cultivation, and then would Norfolk become a commNcial city, which now it is not, nor can it ever he while the exten;,;ion of lhc :trca of Slavery shall contlllue to be regarded as the true policy of the State. H er people would then be educated, anti The Richmond IVlliy would cease to report such melancholy facts as arc given in the following pas:;agc taken from its columns: "ThC' ceusns ofl ·10 rcportC'tl58,732 as the nrrrrrhC'r of whil<'s over 20 years nf<~{!c who wero rrnahle to r('ad, with a wl1ito populatiou of 77!1,:100. 'l'llo Jato <'Cnsus c.( IH.iO shows 1110 uumhcr to ho 1:<0)000 (lilt of a popr!lariorr of 8H7,5:lt. ~o that, w ith au iulcarseta scoe nosfuosr rilnyd IiIr at,2o:dl4. "w hites, wo havo 21,~Gtl who aru urrahlo to read 11101'0 than tho 'Vel! may the writer speak of this as presenting fa cts "lmruiliating to our pride," and well lllay he dwell on the '' drcp m orti ficatinn" whi<"h, as a Virginian, he feels, in reflecting that if, in addition to those• who cannot read at all, there be added those " who, nlthouglr 1 ht•y read a litll<•, yt•t do it so imperfectly as to be but little if at all ht•n efited by it, the numht·r \\'i ll be nugment<'d to more than 100,000," or one .fourth of lite! u·ltolr wltitr• popttlation Ol'f'r fwf'nty ?Jf'ars of age. As A nwri cnn s we• a re gric n•d to rl'fkct that such a state of thing s h ould <'xist in any ~tate of the Union, ancl can r eadily irnnginc how great must be the grief of a Virginian who studies the fact that great a is now the proportion of tlw absolutely ignorant, it is likely at the next censns to uc yet far grcatrr. But in the <'vent of the mrnaced dissolution, with Virgiuia a Northern .S tate, all would be di fl'rrent. Her coal and h er iron ore would then be wrought, her water p owrrs would be put to work, h er bnd would bcromc proclu e li,·e, her ro;~ds would impro,·e until ::;he might almost tand side by :-;ide with the young Irrdi:mn, with h er 1,300 miles of railroad in operation, h<'r 1,0!>2 Jllilt•s in comse of construction, and her 732 miles projectrd and in part surn•yed - anc1 then her schools would inrrease in number ar.d improve in quality, and her people would not only read but write. The difference to Virginia between adhesion to the North or the South, is the dilft•rencc between absolute ruin on one hand and high pro:;pc•rity on the other. Such being the case, we cannot but h ope that our friends of Tl1e Enquirer will feel them elves relieved from all apprc•hcnsion of the occurrence of anarchy in the North as a consequence of the want of that portion of the conservative clement which is u ow furnishl'tl by the State Appendix. )01 they represent. Their fears arc groun<llrss. The ~tate that gave to the n ation \\Tashington, .Jcll'crson, and Madisou, is not to he srparat c<l from those which furnished Otis, Adams, Uret'n e, II a milton, «lHl Frauklin. They arc destined to stand or fall t.ogethcr; a. truth of which we. hope Ot~r Southern friends will now be connnced. \ Vhat , tatrs, then, \\'Ill constitute a l)outhcrn Union, if Virginia remain with the North? K entucky will not be in it, for she is a 11oble and gallant State, whose feelings havo always acconlcd far more with the North thnn_ with the ~?ut.h.. Several of the reasons that, as we h ave shown, would tnllucncc ' rrgmta, would be equally operative with her; ~mel we arc, .thcr.efoJ:;• entirely confident that whcnen•r the "dreadful COJI!mgency of c1tsumon shall occm, the la11d .or H enry Clay will be fonn d standing side lJy. side with ~ ho e Stntes "~ t h which under his l ead, it so long acted. \VhJch, then, will be the front1cr Sla,·c 'state? North Carolina? T ennessee? Neither the one nor the other. Both will keep company with Yirg inia and J( entt~cky, and a Southern Union can embrace no State n orth of fio11th C'arolma and Alabama. Snc!t a Union woul<l be utterly powerless, ancl well do m:my of the loudest advocates of secession know that such is the fac~. ' Vc n eed 110~, therc-f ) ·chentl tint the South will speedily r ush mto the alternatl\·c that ore, apr 1 • • • • • • 1 • she is so fond of threatening at every mttmatwr: that she 1s n.ot to t ,t~e her own wny in the govcrnmcJJ t. The South pl:unly cannot a.Jlo}'(l to dts- 1 tl U }·on 'l'h·1t thr N orth can we haYc already demonst ratc·cl ; ancl 50 \.C 1C I I • • . . . . f if we have succeeded in establishing in the pul~ltc nund the ~011\lc:llon o these two f ac t s, " ·c lt.".v e clone ·"• n important .t hm:g towards c.l ts. annrrr, g th.e slaveholders of their favorite weapon of legtslatwn, whcnc ' e~ tl.tC) ~ln\e some repulsi,·e or outrngcous measure to force upon the Free St,ttcs. \\hen the Not th shall scorn the threats of disunion from .the South, «~Hl ca.lm~y allow t l 1c seces.s -t· on l· ts to l~">Y O the whole le n'("'~ th of thetr tether, these tlno111c 1 tl threats of dissolution will qui ckly subside, ancl s~on come to be 1:<~ .<~ they should be with utter contempt, both 111 a.nd out of ~ont>tcss . Wuphone na st hat ti.m e shall ' arrive, the N orth WI' II n ot 1le SI' t a t c to. con:.- Hde. r ' 'n ll't l to act m. rcferr11cc to tl1 c f·. tc· t th'a t the benefits of the UniOn, as t t nov 1 . . to the ~outh and th:.tt its chief object, as now manng<•t' IS ex1sts enure ' ' ' 1 · 1 tl 0 1. , ))c of tho t 'on of f=ihvcrv for the attainment of w u c l 1e pc I t 1c ex cnst ' ' J' f 1 . · t , or free North arc erpet llally taxed for the purchase o save tent .Or), tccritor~ th~t is to be filled with slaves, while denied all protrctolon to thco'n· b 'ld" f mills and furnaces or for t lc unpt o' c selves, whr~hct: for the d ~~ r~~,~~ o 'Vith al'l this clearly felt and llndcr~tood, ment of thcu· n ,·ers an a " d' . ·mittcd to l>·tlsy the 11ern:s . . . nenacc of tsnmon pet , .. and wttNh no Iu nnlcantng J ' f . tl to make for thcmst'h es o le we may look Ol tcm ' of the orlt tcm pe} ' PfJ 'cr•e n t g ov' ernnten t f· 1, th·tt whi ch of late years h as I 01 ' ' another a JH a Y('ry t 1 . 1 1 ave "obtained the mas- 1 f I l the Southern men," 10 1, ' been mac c or t tern >y ~ 1 . I' , , th·tt it h· 1 s "fostered tcry in Congress," and have "s. ~> changlec ttls pco \~;l:scle ' ancl ~incw, in the . " f t} vho dC!5ll'ed to HI)' lOll ' . ' , the mtcre:-;ts o 10sc ' · 1 1 .. c.! to sell their own labor for form of hborcrs at the cost of those w 10 < esu e . 'l the benef' it of the' mselves, t h c t· r w·n . cs, a nd their clulc ren. |
