Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-12-08
GOVERNORS MESSAGE.
s Feliom Caizeas OF The SsHafe
and Hoase Of Dehgofls :

have the honor TO communicate 10 the cenr-
RI, Assembly u letter addressed 10 me on The |
3Oth OF April last, BY Litilcton Waller Iazrwel'
ESQ., resienng the Office OF Governor "i thIs Com-
monwealih. Having completed almost The circle
Of his countr, : huors, that distinguished gentle
man exercised NJ length the privilege OF long ser
vice to rrtir. lroa, the Turmoil OF pubic affairs to
the quiet and rcposo OF private l'ir
From The period OF Mr.. IazrweIs retirement,
il dcvolved on me- under the constitution, 10 as
same as Lieutenant Governor. the performance
OF the high and responsible duties oi he Office al
the Governor. The weigh, ol so important trust,
| have felt most sensbly, and am conscious how
inadcqua,cly have discharged myself al lis OBJ
legations VI so far rs any success may have al
tended my rn3eavors 10 dSch 'rec them, ifti
bound 10 ascrihc il 10 The prompt aud valuable CO.
operation received general, from the public OIL
GERS of the Commonwealth aud m"fe especially
from those with whom have been most 'mnrd-
atclv associated.
In dschaig,, o the dnlV enloined On me by the
Constitution, 10 exhibit to you, on Your annual
meeting the condition OF the Commonwealth, aud
recommend 20 Your consideration such measures
as may seem 10 me expedcnt, proceed, in the
first place, to mvne your attention To snch cNtcfha'
concerns as appear mos, materially to a''cet that
condition, ana most strongly 70 demand your at
tcntive consideration.
traorlinarv spectacle which modern times have
witnessed and which still is exhibited, as for some
wears mast, il has heen, in the Northern States, OF
bands of organized consplrators, gravely, IN broad
dav, setting in judgment on tho domestic and Pc
cuIiar institutions o the Southern members oi tbs
conlederacy-holdmeu up their citizens as objects OF
execratiun to all the eartb--denoupcing their con-
stitution and laws as lniquous, impous, and OF
no force and inSolenily resolving never to rcin-
I'll and laws he
uverturned--,o that end, employing money, APP
pointing agents. dsse mnatine false and inilanna-
tory publications. and inviting the whole world 10
ION them in their mad and mischievons crusade.
And we see this, not in IA hostile, or Essen neu-
fral land but under the eye and The projection OF
Suites bound up with us, Ia many respec's,as one
people, in league, the closest and most ira,er
nal in its spirit and provisions, and IN IT'S sanctions
the most sacred, that ever yet united sovereign
powers.
wish for the preservation of this interesting
a., IN, aluabie bond for the sake OF peace and
true Humanity, that II were IN my power to an
nouue, to Won the subsistence of this III bodng Ia
nntcism. Bui. regret TO say, neither such ihlor-
nation as | have been able TO obtain, nor the oc-
of the wear, authorize such an assurance
Deaf TO emit, eaiy ,despsing admonl,ion, mpenetra-
Bile 10 all appeals unabashed by rehnke, and nm
awed bv the denunciation OF all wise and good
men throue houl the Union, these incendarles, re-
sarlless as they avow themselves, of consequences
zealously 10 promote iheir design, n con family 10
increase their numbers. The - handful of lana-
tics" as they were Justly described but a frwyears
2 ago, now boast their five SIX hundred affiliated
- societies, numbering not less than fifty thousand
members. Sill, Cor themselves, were They too in
significant to challenge notice. yet the fact can nc
& ti,er be disguised nor denied, that through their
secret, assassin like emissarics, and the noiscless
circulation of lleir incendary publications. they
have il in their power, unless arrested by nst and
necessary laws 10 scatter throug the South seeds
that must ripen sooner later, into harvest of
4 blood and dissolution.
s. Already we begin 10 experience II faretaste of
= the bitter calan,ities which to follow in the
. train of this most Understandable and unprovokcd
5. interference with our exclusive concerns that
free and cordial intercourse in strengthening the
ties which bind ms together, is already threatened
with serious interruption, By reason Of tic notori-
Gus aud too often successful attempts OF abolition
s', spread every where along The principal routes,
to drraive;. BY seduction force, tie citizens Of
the Southern States OF their travelling doniestics
--'leir properly, b, AS high sanctions any they /
Shod--having often moral value, Independent, Of, I
and iar beyond, any they may possess as mere
property.
= hecentiy, too, Il has been decided BY the Su- !
psem'e Court OF Msssachnseis, that a slave, youn-
far'y fakeniinio that State BY his owner loses al
enco i's character OF property, and becomes, to
."snenfs iree-a principle which, if il exist has at
'rass iain dormantior near half century, and is
doubtless, now, for the first time excited 10 acy-
~ by The miscellaneous influence Of abolition
doc'r'nes Accordingly ciliztn Of Louisiana has /,
mao hrs slave arrested fran him. recently IN ,ba,
ctaae. N the hamc.aDd under the sanction Of law
eso altogether without compensation. THUS we 9
see doct1ine asserted by whicI, the property of
-In, maybe condscated without remunc- n
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