Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-02-02

cd upon this subject by the Legislature of North Ca
roiina! MIR ) here read the parts Of the resolutions
showing this ac Sir, said Mr. s., let here address
myselfto that portion of the House who, believe, will
not be led at the bidding OF partzans, to the suppress
sion Publication the sentiments they maintain
fore their constituents let me exhibit before them,
portions of the history oftha drama which has
acted within these walls during the past few da yset
do this order TO show how far facts aud evidence
bear professions of sincerity which have been
avshy made by certain gentlemen in connection with
this subject beg TO be permitted to give this history,
Tor the purpose OF furnishing grounds which the pco
pie Of large may Judge ofthe public of public
To show that have grounds for the of dis
trust have expressed in the candor and of disgust
tue discrimination of public men, beg the House
collect, that when the resolution offered by the gentle
man from Albemarle under discussion days
since, the gentleman from Mecklenburg hazardrd the
groundless and hardy assertion that those who support
ed that resolutions and acted with The mover, had de-
sire TO act upon this subject that they wished delay
it; To keep 1t from the consideration of the House
beg the House recolect that the Meek
enourg said he was DESTROYS to have the question dis.
posed of by the committee that he had pre- pared
tons Tor the committees and that lie would present such
resolutions as soon sthe committee could be induced TO
convene.
Mr. GARLAND: Did say had endeavorcd to get the
committee TO convene
Mr. SrAs.RD No; but the gentleman said when the
committee did convene, he would lay his resolutions
fore Them and that he had been anxious TO do so thus
clearly ntmang that he had before prepared his rcso-
luitons ask the House il the impression was not
clearly and distinctly made by the gentleman Meek
en5nrg, that he had maturely prepared of resou
tons for the consideration of the Committee aud that
he was only prevented from Offering them by the propo-
siuon wicl had been introduced by
Aibemarie: And now, Sir what is the ac' Why, that
on that very morning, when the gentleman addressed
the House. against the resolution of the gentleman from
Aloemare, on that very morning the mail brought the
North Carolina resolutoss these are coped in
part The resolutions which the gentleman then read in
his place, and has since offered through the COMMITTEE
oihs House Let the House read the resolutions offered
by the gentleman. and then compare them with those
| passed by the Legislature of North Carolina and il
would be seen, that of them in substance
nay almost literally transcripts of other You have
them sir, the FACT that at the time the gentleman was
flpefI ctrhn al.
he desired to present his resolutions 20 the Committee
such resolutions had not in fact been proposed by him
and that those he protested be TO Law before the
Committee, must have been in great part hastily CO.
pied that very day from the resolutions of the Legsla
ture OF North Carolina.
/ Mr. GARLAND: viii the gentleman from Richmond
undertake TO say that had prepared resolutions
previously to the arrival of those from NJ Caronas
Mr. SrASARD: | cannot say. only know the fact
his own but copied in great part The morning the
gentleman spoke, from the North Carolina and
that he gave them to the House, those which he de-
clared he had felt such anxiety offer
Mr. GARLAsD said, unless the gentleman from Rich
nond knew his NH. G.'s) heart il impossible for
him to say that resolutions had been prepared by
him prior TO the arrival from North Carolina
MIR SrANARD repeated that he only knew the fact he
had last stated, and did not know that the gentleman
had or had not prepared other resolutions give this
iniormation' SIR, said MIR 5, 10 Justify the dstrust
ioudes in their potestaons of sincerity upon inns sub.
Ject in their desire for action and in their denuncntions
against the motives of others And to prove Thai co..,
temen are not sincere in this matter that their acts do
not correspond with their words that they do not wish
as they say they do 10 carry the feeling the peo
pie ask the House TO compare the drift the rnjrt of
the member from Mecklenburg with the North Carolina
resolutions. They will find though in some Respects
the member from heckenburg has copied from those re-
solutions almost eertotim GieTatm, he has one par
ticular made most significant omssion-an omission bv
which the strength of the North Carolina resolutions is
most materially diluted Mr. 5. here read from the I'd
OF Tue North Carolina resolutions this effect Resoned
That ready and willing To make on this subject n
common cause with the rest of sister slave holding
States
The gentleman from NJ, sir has left out this. He
mas discarded the declaration made by the Legislature
oil North Carolina, that they ready and willing to
make common with their sister slave hoIdin
States In evidence of the fact that the resolutions Of
North Caroina in fact copied hastily and without
considerations take leave notice one circumstances
The Sd resolution, originally published The nc
papers was obviously nngranmol;cal in consequence
the omission oil word yet such the haste with
which II was copied that This grammatical error was re-
tanned in the copy, and little consideration was be-
slowed on IL by the gentleman and his colaboers that
II was offered in the select committee first by the gen
tenIan, and then 10y his friend, with the same bemsh
But let call the attention of the House tn nnother
fact The House will observe that after all the p,n,a
ny meetings held by the people upon this suhjcct-atcr
all the resolutions passed at those meetings indicative
the people wishes the resolutions offered by the rem
tenan, contain not one word about the right of Virgi
ma 10 call upon the holding States suppress
those associations.
Mr. GARLAxD. Not by penal laws
Mr.STANARD. Does the gentleman say we have not
right to call upon the people of the slave holding
states TO suppress these ncendary associations by penal
/ laws?
| Mr.. GARLAND. say have no such fgbt We
have no right to call upon them suppress associations
oil Their own citizens They have right suppress such
associations.
Mr. SrANARD. | am speaking not of associations rc.
neray, but OF those societies. the object whose enter.
PRISE Is the destruction Of Southern peace and pronerv
and the endangerlng of Southern life and wc have now
from The gentleman from Meckcnburg the distinct dc.
claration, that far from having right TO call
upon the Northern States put down these Societies
oy Peha laws the Northern states have not themselves
the right TO pass such laws. Let us sir examine the
gentemans claims TO consistency, too in this matter
let us sec 10y dt means c proposes arrest the prac
tees of the abolonsts MIR Stanard here read the
9th resolution from the report of the minority 1t is as
follows:
s. Resoired, That confding in The Justice and oy,Iv
TO the principles of The Union the
STATES reiniorcedby the strong sympahies of common
dHngers, suHerings and trufnphs, the identity
rests, great and multcin, the social aud political tics
that connect and that ought bind in fraternal con-
cord, the States and the People of this Union the dan
with which that Union will be nenaced should these
societies. emboldened by impunty perseycre in their
infatuated or incendiay schemes The General Assembly
OF virginia respectfully, but earnestly request that .
legislatures OF tie States in which such societies have
oeeH formed, or may be projected will take PROMPT and
eHecual measures OF penal inhibition suppress or nre
vent me formation of them and by adequate penalties
prevent or punish the printing circulation of the r;ns
pamphlets and pictorial representations aforesaid
Mr. GARLAND said the South had a rigbt ia call unon
the Northern States TO pass laws for SURPRISING the
/ publications issued by these societies
MI STAEARD continued. In the preamble also which
the gentleman had given To- the House land which nv
the bye, coniaised libel upon the whole Southern
S'aies and the principles they had pronulgated) the
gentleman had adopted the very LANGUAGE of onc or t.
resolutions Of the majority which he now proposcd 10
strike out Mr. $ here read from the preamble of the
minority The following sentence for the ptirooae of o,y