Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-08-31
~opruFRN MOVEMENTS.

,of,,e our readers this morning the res
,,oa a, the ANTI Abolition meeting re-
l., held at Boston.-"e have likewise before
,"'' lao not room to insert, the proceedings of
'' O"' mo.,nq at Lynn, Massachusetts, and we
'''''' .,,,, meetings are also called in Phila-
w., Now York, and other places, for like pur-
V ~ ,re nleascd with the general temper and
3D. pos,on resolutions, and with the scnti-
r ,ho distinguished speakers ON the occa-
'''S Gar rs they are glanced at by the papers of
They concur i'll showing that very
10 r,r,oa Of the people OF the North, embrace
a nearly all the intelligence, wealth and respcc-
ability OF that region have correct conception OF
s,;,utional right TO manage our own affairs
'.,,,;nr to our own views, as wellaN Oh the lnhcr-
;,s,rmoutable difficulties which lie in
.,, of the contamination OF the scheme OF the
.,.hoJ fanatics among them, even ii they had
,. ,;ph, to interfere with the subject OF Slavery,
uhc question, however, recnrS-Belng thus or
IL, IN opinion, will they be equally so in prac-
l., In other words, believing, as they profess to
oue oiheir resolutions, thatthe constitution, la
- occurred exclusively TO the people OF the slave
an 1,pr States the jurisdiction pcrtalning'o the re-
i, 10, If master and slave within their boundaries,
~ uon or Jody otmcn, except the people or go
,cruments of those States can 81 nshf do any da
g., dissolve or impair the obligations OF that con-
,.,,, ought thcynot oadopt means opunisl', if
,lo, c,nno, otherwise silence the ucendiares, who
arp by ,heirown showing, tlampilhg alike upon
,hoir constitutional obligations and our sacred
.;,h,., How can they refuse to do 50 We
confess that we cannot perceive upon what ground
,,o, c,n reject demand which it is no less their
Amy than their interest to acccde TO, aud which 1t
!, our unouc,tiouabc right to make al their hands.
With less than this the South will never be salts
fl, and for the best Of all possible reasons. 1t
NAV crafty our feelings, bat it does not diminish
our insecurity and hazard, TO be told, even hy a
LARGE majority of the people of The on,laychod-
inc States, that rights are fully acknowledged
the same time, score or two OF wealthy enthltsi-
a,ts and crack-braincd zcalots are permitted daily
to SANDER and libel US, and TO employ the pub
lie mails for the purpose of throwing these lihcls
and SANDERS in our very tccth--thuS adding in
suit to injury. Such ouragcs, constantly repeated,
would certainly unshcath the sword aganstan alien
race-Lct them not believe that because we are
brelhren'-desccndan of the men who linked
their shields together inthc War of Independence,
and fought side by side in common causc--a
Southron heading the armies olthc North, and a
Northerner leading the people Of the South to bat
tle--we say, let them not dcude themselves with
the hope that we can much longer submit to have
our chartered rights questioned and denied, in lam
guagc which might fire stole with the appetite
for blood, much less
4" The children of the sun
With whom Revenge is virtue.
We repeat, thcn---thc South will be satisfied
with the sentiments expressed in the Boston Res
buttons, as opinons-but they must require, not
simply as test of the sincerity with which Il cv
are entertained, but as being necessary to their
security and tranquility, that these opinions shall
be rendered opcratve-that they shall be cmbo-
died, not only in popular resolutions, but in the
criminal cOde--So that those who trampc on the
constitutional guarantees of the South shall no
longer find protection in the lars of the North