Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-01-23
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.

FiKG1NiA LE5lSLAIORE.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RE-
LATIoNs.
fSubmitted by Mr.. BRoDNAx.l
The select committee, to whom were referred the
relations existing between the State of South Caro
ma and the government the United States the con-
sequence likely to result to each and to the common
wealth of Virginia especially, from ordinance and
other proceedings adopted by Convention recently
assembled in SoHtn Carona--a Proclamation BY
Andrew Jacson president Of the United States, con-
sequent thereon, lately addressed to the citizens of
the United States, and the communication OF the
Governor Of this commonwealth the same subject,
have carefully examined these various documents,
and devoted to the important subjects involved, their
anxious reflection and profound consideration; and
they recommend to the General Assembly the adop-
ton of the following resolutions:
l.. Resoloed, That we are painfully impressed with
sense OF the difficulties and dangers, as we'll as the
responsibilities and Importance of the impending cri-
SIS. That we deeply deplore the occurrence Of re-
cent events in precipitac succession, which arc OF
alarming import, and threaten alike the preservation
of those rights Of the States political communities,
which we never abandon---the stability Of that
Union, which We cherish with ardent attachment, as
essential to the prosperity and tranquility OF all
and the peace and happiness of our common country
That while we dcpore the existence of this perllous
emergency, and the extremities which on either hand
have been unhappiy approached, we feel called upon
by every consideration which can influence patriots
phianthropists or those citizens who love their
country and its hitherto prosperous institutions or
regard the welfare of the human race with its unborn
generations on whom the great experiment we are
making ola free representative governments must ope-
rate, to make every effort in our power to avert the
impending DANGER and u into repose the storm which
threatens to sweep from the earth in its course OF e-
ISOLATION, the fairest fabric Of human liberty which
was ever exhibited to an atmring world.
Resolred, That next to the blessings OF civil lib
ery, to secure which the union Of these states was
Originally formed, appreciate the blessings and
advantages Of that union. That so far from desiring
to impair it, most anxiously desire to preserve it,
by the only means, which, in our opinion, can en-
sure its preservation-by keeping, on one hand, the
General GOVERNMENT instituted principally with a
reference to exterior relations and interest," and
on the other, the governments osthc several states
constituted with aview to their interior and local
concerns and made the residuary dePostares OF ev-
cry rover not conceded to the former, strictly conf
ned in the discharge of their relative duties, within
their constitutional limits That we regard any aber
ration from the prescribed sphere, by which either
shall attempt an unauthorized accession of power as
weakening to both, and injurious to all. And, there
fore, that cannot, without anxious socitudc and
alarm, witness any attempts by an Individual State
to to herself rights unwaranted by the point
ical compact to which Shelf party, inconsistent
with the rights of the other States, and with the ex-
isence of the Unon nor, on the other manu- the as
scrton of principles. the usurpation Of power by
the General Government, subversive OF the rights OF
the States, not guaranteed by the constitution, and
which, if silently acquesced in might soon be erect
cd into the authority of precedents, and ultimately
lead to other and more dangerous assumptions
That the former il persisted in, might end in revou-
ton and bloos!shcd while the latter would pave the
way to that result not less disastrous in its conse
quenccs in which all efforts at free government have
hitherto unfortunately ended-a powerful CONSOLIDATE
ted government and an absolute dcspotsm. That wei
look on the alternative with equal apprehcnsons-
anarchy on the one hand; unlimited power on the
other. ~
3. Rcsoiped As declaration Of our principles and