Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-05

tive should be withheld from the violated iu.tice
IN" State, or be detained in custody ia Va. und,
laws against which be has not offended in cons,
qn,ncs Of any unreasonable delay on the part OF n
cation Of the Executive 81 Va. Ills Exeeleney n
Gov. OF Va. 10 therefore respectfully Informed III,
oy reference TO papers heretofore transmitted 10 nj,
and his predecessors, il will be found, that befor
me requisiton for the said Peter Johnson, Edwar
II smith and Isaac Gansey came under the considers
uon OF The Executive ofthis State. those person
were by competent judicial officer, discharge
from arrest upon writ Of habeas corpus, which
writ secured by the Constitution to every citize
~ 'h,s Ststei because the papers defective an
nsumeient even TO charge an offence against th
Hass OF Va. and that when the said rcquisiton cam
9eiote the Executive OF this State, it was decide
that the charge was in form, defective"
It's thus manifest that MIR Rufin is in error i
saying that Gov. Seward did no, object to the sui
ieeney Of the evidence. But as he made the Gene
raj his guide, do not wonder at it, for that per
'onase's whole stuo has been to presen, only sucl
views OF the matter as would inAame the Souti
against the New York Wings, and to keep bacl
every view which might have a tendency to heal
mollify or mitigate. With the doughty purpos,
OF creating modicum OF party capital from tn,
controversy, he has applied his we'll filed lung,
all the time TO blow up the flame: he has repre-
scented the offence premedita,ed, the insult
rs studied. the rights OF the South as wantonly
ana OF malice aforethousht, Iampled under foot
All this is we'll understood here, and under
stood moreover TO be first movement toward,
shecnng an impossibility-the impossibili,y Of
making MIR Calhoun Presiden,-by creating high
southern excitement, and then under that excite
ment, banding the South in his favor. Failing in
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was designed to make this controversy, il possible
the entering wedge to a dissolution of the Union
Seeing or thinking We saw the insidious and
|unpatriote designs with which this conlroyer-
sy was inhamed by the partizans of an as
pirant whose dark and crooked ambition il, ever
on the watch to appropriate every incident which,
may, by possibility, "enure to its benefit, we
nave been, and are, the advocates Of mild andl
measures. None will 60 farther forI
southern rights, when they are seriously inva-!
ded; tut until the wrong is something more thanI
an abstraction, we will not cease to implore.
The People Of New York and Virginia to "asreeI
quickly" land not to suffer their friendly relations
to be disturbed, and unknown calamties to he
drawn upon their country, by dispute so aceiden
's IN It's origin, harmless in its FIST immediate
SNIHShSts, aHu COulu never have OeCOmes
serious but for the stupidity OF some who had an!
early agency IN IT, and the uojust able uses TO which,
desperate politicians, for their own ends, haveS
sought TO apply it. Let the Legislature of Newk
ork, now in session. recognize the right of Vrgi
MA, under the Constitution, TO reclaim "fusitiyes!
from labor" and Virginia will he satisfied. She
cares not Tor the three who have been refused her
She has no vindetive feelings against them to gra
niy She cares not for their punishment, except ,o
protect her rights by the example. She demands
the recognition of her right torecaim fugtives from
labor. She wants PROTECTION TO her rights
Tor the future, not rsUengs for the past.
Is It possible that the Legislature of New York
Fan deny the RICH, Of Virginia to reclaim her fugi
i've sIaves-or her 'fugitives from labor since
hose are the words of the Constitution, and MIR
Verplanck prefers them' Not ono man in New
Y ork, can or does deny it.