Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-01-21
COMMUNICATIONS.
PUBLIC MEETING.

PUBLIC MEETING.
Atavery numerous meeting Of the citizens Of
Lyneibnrg and its vicinity, convened at the Frank
I'm Hotel, IN pursuance of public notice, on Thurs
day afternoon, the l7lh inst 10 take into cunsidera-
ton the eA lsting crisis in our national affair.",
AMMON HANCOCK, Esq. wa. called to the
Chair, and RICHARD IL TOLER appointed Sc
crctary.
A motion was made by Mr. VIM Daniel, IT, and
seconded, that the Chair appoint committee of thir
teen, whose duty it shall be to prepare suitable IT.
solutions and report them 10 an adjourned meeting,
TO be held on Saturday ncxt--whith, after SOME
dehute, was rejected
Mr. Tolcr then moved that the Chair appoint h
committee OF seven, to prepare resolutions xprcs-
sive ofthe sense Of this meeting, to repor, forth
with; which, being adopted Richard H. Toler,
Patrick II. Cabr Henry Davis, VIM Daniel, ir
Charles l.. Mosby William VI Rves and Alex
ander Lggatt were APPOINTED said committee
The committee, having retired shor, time, re-
ported preamble and resolutions, which, with n
few verbal amendments made in meeting, read ss
follows
Deeply impressed with sense Of the vital i'm
portanco OF the questions which now agitate the
public notwithstanding the pcuce of the country
and the stability of our happy system of confeder-
ated government; the citizens of LynchbuIg and
its vicinity deem it alike their privilege and duty
to make public expression of their opinion, in
relation 10 the subjects in controversy. They deem
1t unnecessary, however, To sustain their views by
an elaborate argument, and will therefore content
themselves " ith barely submitting the conclusions
10 which their Judgments have conducted them
l. Re~iucd, That the federal constitution is
compact between independent States each of which
was, at the time of its formation, sDrereisn IN
the unqualified and unlimited meaning Of that
term but that on becoming party 10 tia, c,an-
pact each State surrendered portion of It's sove-
reIsnty,as individuals IN becoming members of
clety do portion OF their natural rights, for the
more etfcctua protection and the undisurbed en-
Joymcnt of such portion they retained
2. ReMtrcd, That The federal government is the
agent of the States, in their federal character that
1t possesses eteiusiUe sovereignty over all aucs-
tons embraced IN the powers granted by the com
pact between those States, and over all others
Which are necessary To carry into effect the dele
gated powers and that the governments and peo-
pie OF the States are sevorally c1olnS,reg sre5cicn
in all matters not thus delegated to their common
Sgent
3 Re~'rcd, That one of the powers thus dele.
gated to the federal government by the terms of
the compact, oonters upon II exclusive jurisdiction
and control OF all rercnnc lars, levying duties
upon foreign imporsations and therefore. that
an Ordinance recently adopted by a Conven.
ton held IN South Carolina declaring tie laws of
Congress levylng duties on imports, TO be null and
VOID, within the territorial limits of tina, State is
an unbiushins usurpaon of unrcserved and ucon-
ferrcd power ON the part of that Common.
wealth. and clear and palpable attempt TO pre-
vent the exercise, by the agent of the cuncdernted
states, ot power expressly granted 10, and du-
ty imposed upon II, by tho federal constitution.
T. heSoIted, mat II Is an essential principle
IN the nature OF all compacts that one party 10 il
cannot interpret its terms AMI proceed to act upon
that Interpretation, contrary the UNDERSTANDING.
against the consent, and to the manifest detrment
Of the co-partes
D. Res0lrsd, That the right of Secession is no,
among the reserved rights Of the States, under the
constltutlon-that it was not asserted BY and can
not be deduced from, the Report and Resolutions
penned by Mr. Madison, and adopted by the Vir-
gina Legislature in l79S-9-het it was triumph
antly combatted by the State Rights party of the
United States when it was first clamed bv the
Hartford Convention in lSl4-and that il can nev-
+er be practically exercised without ruin to the
co-States ofthe party so exercising it.
o. hesatrea, That the doctrine of NuIlf6catiou
Is rank heresy, absurd N its very nature, and de-
stroctive IN It's tendchcy-subve,sive of the cons,
ta'on' destructive Of the harmony of society. and
the parent OF Disunion Anarchy and Dcspot,sm.
RESOLVED, That our system of government is,
under the constitution, based on Public Opinion
ana that all evils which may grow out of its pract
ea' administration can be efec,ually corrected by
the popular suffrage "
D. hssol'ea, That the Federal Union must be
preserved; that, in order to SECURE this end the
laws OF the land which have received tho regular
CONSTITUTIONAL . sanctions, must be entorsed; and
'lal we cordially approve ofthe determination. ex.
pressed by the President in his late proclama,;on
to employ all the powers vested il, hin, No. ,to
sutu,'on aud laws, in repelns threatened forcibIe
resistance to those laws 'o'N''''
-, y o hssalped, That the principles contained in
s :. - ordinance Of The South Carolina Convention
x the acts Of the Legislature in pursuance ,htr.os
arc sigma upon the cause of free soyernmcr,
ana 'se unworthy cfthis libcrsi and rni,bmuai