South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-01-16
Virginia Legislature.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Saturday, January 2.

HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Saturday, January 2.
On motion Of Mr.. Nixon, Resolv ed,
That this house will, on Friday the
! 9th instant, proceed by joint vote
with the Senate, to the election Of a
Brigadier General for the l 9Th brigade
Virginia Militia, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the death of sGeaeral
William Mccoy.
| Monday, Jan. A.
I On motion of Mr.. Sloan, Resolued,
Tha, leave be given to bring in bill
TO change the place Of holding the Gun.
| diff precinct election in the county Of
Hampshire.
| On motion of Mr.. Rinker, ResoIusd,
That the Committee for Courts Of
Justice be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of so amending the act
passed April 9th, 1891, for reducing
into one act the several acts concerning
the Court Of Appeals and the Special
Court Of Appeals, as to provide that
| Appeals taken from the Courts Of the
counties Of Shenandoah, Hardy, and
Page, shall be tried at the Court Of
! Appeals holden at Lewisburg, instead
Of the Court Of Appeals held in the
atty Of Richmond.
| On motion of Mr.. Holleman, Resell.
ved, That the Committee for Courts
Of Justice b instructed to inquire into
the expediency Of requiring by law tina,
all free negroes, (if males,) under the
age Of Is years, be hired out annually
to white masters by the ovsrseers Of the
poor, and the nett proceeds Of hire to
be paid over 10 the parents Of said free
negroes.
| ResolUed, That the said committee
also inquire whether any further legis.
lation be necessary TO remove free
negroes from the Commonwealth.
| BILL PASSED.
| A bill directing change oflocation
Of the North Western Turspike shro'
the town OF Evansville.
AWSSUNyJ SU"s %
| Mr.. OAKLAND, of Mecklenburgifrom
the Select Committee, on the subject
| Of Abolition, made the following Re.
port:
1 The Select Committee to whom vas
referred ESQ much Of the Governors
Message az relates TO the disorganizing,
seditious, and incendiary doctrines Of
certain associations created in the Nor.
thsrn and Eastern States, for the pur.
| pose Of producing direct interference
with the slave property Of the South"
have had the same under considera-
ton, and report in part the following
resolutions:
| Resolved, That the General Assem-
bly, solemnly declares its warm attach
ment to the Union, and its firm con-
viction that while the measures of the
| General Government are kept within
the limitations Of the Constitution, and
those of the States directed by the
spirit OF which that Union is the OF.
spring, it is the surest safeguard Of the
peace, prosperity and happiness Of
each member thereof.
! Resolved, That each State had orr.
ginally the sole and exclusive right 10
interfere with, control, or legislale up
on the subject ofdomestic slavery, with
in its jurisdictional limits !; a right
which, SO far from being impaired, is
recognised aud guaranteed by the Con-
stisution ofthe United States and that
all interference Herewith by the Gen.
eral Government, the other States, o.
the citizens thereof, is invasive Of the
rights Of the States, and violates the
obligations Of the Constitution.
Resolred, That the General Assem-
bly, faithfully expresses the sentiments
Of the people, and it's own, when tide
clares its just adherence and repro
baton of the faaatical, or reckless, or
malignant zeal that has embodied SO
many societies in the non -slavehold-
ing States, under the denomination Of
abolitionists, carrying on by concert
and confsderacy, common scheme,
endangering the peace, prosperity, and
safety oftEis and the other slave-hold-
ing States, regardless of the moral, 30
cial and political obligations they vio-
late, and the evils they bring on the
objects of their pretended or mistaken
philanthropy. And, with this senti-
ment of adherence, is mingled one Of
the profoundest regret, that amongst
the mischiefs likely TO flow from such
| societies, aud their enterprises, if un.
checked, is to be numbered the aliena-
ton of the members of this great con-
| federacy from each other, and the de-