Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-01-17
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SATURDAY MORNING., JAN. II. 1870

The Georgia Protest, 8c.-It is n subject we he
lcve Of general if universal regret that the pro-
ceHdings Of the Legislature Of Georgia against the
Tariff, have reached the General Assembly IN shape
which may involve the necessity of considering them
fhe General Assembly has now been nearly seven
weeks IN session-they have done nothing as vet Of
generai interest, and have before then, an immense
mass OF local. besides all the public business OF the
seseion. Tho great question of convention. after
many days elaboration, remains very much ia siatp
qafo-nothing has been yet agreed upon aud no man
can say when the Legislature will reach any result or
what that result is to be. Unless the General Assem-
by cut short The business of the session when thew
have concluded the convention there is every pros
poet that the session will be the longest known i'm the
history Of the commonwealth And at what time
is this great Increase of the public expenditure incur
rcd! When the country is ground down in debt md
embarrassment, and when the extra expenses of the
convention are hanging over the Treasury
This then Is no time to be engaging in theorcti-
cal discussions and abstract resovings and re es0i
'uss. In the name of Heaven, has not the General
Assembly made confession of political faith often
enough Must they dc it every winter: Must the
people OF the state be subjected 10 Increased taxes
that the General Assembly may protest and max fine
fionp vioateds We Should be glad to learn what rood
the abstract resolutions OF the Iast three or four
have done. Wesee no converts made nor any CHANGE
ID tho measures of the general government effected
Fhere never was more unfortunate time for en-
terIng into the consideration of the subject of the
Georgia Resolutions. The General Assembly could
not under many days do Justice TO the vast and almost
unfhthouabe question of the Tariff or to themselves
fhe Convention completely and properly, enrrosses
the attention Of all men, and financiers are already
celebrating how the expenses which it must involve
are to be met. This is the time when Gov. FORSYTH
asks the General Assembly involve itself and IN,
people Of Virginia, in the labyrinth OF Tariff subtle
ties nnd constitutional metaphysics. We hope the
General Assembly will do TO such thing: but oxtop
ding to Georgia the respect 10 which sovereirn SIS
TER Is entitled politely beg to b excused from. he ve
~ arduots, prolonged aud useless task exactcd
We do not make tbsse remarks from any rol;tic1
approximations. We have none II is precisely tho
same thing to us, whether the General Assembly
shall pronounce the Parf constitutional or upco,sij
tutiona ami have such confidence in tho Relative
superiority Of this House of Delegates to others that
we have seen in the Capitol TINT we firmly believe
discussion of the Tariff would result in vote Of It's
constitutionalty But 'every season has its reason
no man would ask another to unriddlc an, eni,,rr2
when great city was fire, aud Georgia ought not
to expect Virginia to enter into abstract discussions
when the Commonwealth is shaken to the centre. by
question of Immediate pressing vital and oil asor-
hing importance. we think that he Georgia Rcso
lutons will sleep quietly the table, and that the
people may not be double taxed in order tia, they
may be considered. The substance of these rpsoIu
Intous has already been published.