Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-03-07

tent Of the injury inflicted the determination man.
ltested to persist in it, and the danger of delay.
But in cases OF deliberate, dangerous, and palpab.
attractions of the Constitution. affecting the SOW
ereienty OF State, and Liberties of the people i,
is not only the right, but the duty of such State
to interpose its authority Cor their protection in
the manner best calculated to secure that end.
When emergencies occur which are either be-
yond the reach Of the judicial tribunals, or too
pressing 10 admit OF the delay incident to their
forms, States, which have no common umpire
must be their own Judges, and execute their own
decisions. 1t will THUS PROPER for the sever
al States to await the ultimate disposal of the OBJ
noXious measures, recommended by the Secreta-
ny OF War, or pending before Congress, aud so to
use their power according to the character these
measures shall finally assume, as effec,ually to
protect their own sovereignty, and the rights and
liberties of their citizens"
" The last inquiry, what course OF conduct
ought 10 be adopted by the aggrieved States, is in
high degree momentous When a great and
brave people shall feel themselves deserted by
their Government, and reduced to the necessity
either of submission to foreign enemy, or of ap-
proPriatIng TO their own use those means of de-
fence which are indispensable to selfpreservatom.
they cannot consent to wait passive spectators of
approaching ruin, which it is in their power 10
avert, aid to resign the last remnant of their in
dustrious earnings, to be dissipaed in support Of
measures destructive Of the best Interests of the
nation"
" This Convention ,ciN not trust themselves to
cypress their cOnuttiOn of the catuSfr0phe to aohich
such state Of things inevitably tends"
E" 1t would be inexpedient for this Convention
TO diminish the hope of successful issue to such
an application, by recommending, upon SUPPOSE
t'"n OF contrary event, ultetior proceedings.
Ncr is 1t indeed within their province In state
OK things SO solemn and trying as may then arise,
the LIE. isatures of the States, or Conventions of
the wiole People, or delegates appointed 10y them
ior the express purpose in another Convention,
must act as such urgent circumstances NAV then
nire-"TllEREFORE RESOLVED,
" That 1t be and hereby is recommended to the
: Legislatures of the several States represented in
this Convention, to adopt all such measures as
may be necessary efectually to protect the cti-
zens OF said States from the operation and effects
OF all acts which HAVE BEEN or may be passed by
the Congress of the United States, which shall
contain provisions, suhjecting the militia or other
citizens to forclble drafts, conscriptions or i'm
pressmens, not authorised by the Constitution of
the United States"
Resolved, That it be AMI hereby is recon-
mended to the said Legislatures, to authorize an
immediate and earnest application to he made to
the Government of the United States -cc::c;tinu
their consent to some arrangement, whereby the
SAID States may, separately or in concert, be en-
| powered 10 assume upon themselves the defence
OF their territory against the enemy; and that rea-
sonable potion of the taxes, collected within said
States, may be paid into the respective treasu-
RES thereof, and appropriated to the payment OF
! the balance due said States and to the future de-
fence Of the same The amount SO paid into the
said treasures to be credited and the disburse-
ments made as aforesaid to be charged to the
United States
Resolved, That if the application of these
States to the government Of the United States,
recommended in a foregoing solution, should
lie unsuccessful, and peace should not he concIu
ded, and the defence of these States should he
neglected, as it has been since the commence
melt of the war, it VIII, in the opinion of this
Convention, be expedent for the Legislatures OF
the several States to appoint Delegates to another
Convention to meet at Boston, in the State OF
Massachusetts,, on the third Thursday Of June
next, with such powers and instructions as the
eXigency OF Crisis so momentous may require "
Resolved, That the Hon George Cabot, the
| Hon. ChauDcey Goodrich, and the Hon. d. mel
Lyman, or any two of them he authorised to cal
another meeting of this Convention, to be holden
in Boston, at any time before new Delegates
shall be chosen as recommended in the above
resolution, #, IN their judgment the situation oil
the country shall urgently require it,"