Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-12-16

lknowIedging the receipt or the resolution.
adopted By The general assembly Of Virginia
9th Of March last directing sword 10 be pre-
scented to those officers for their gallant servi-
ces on the 9Th and 9th Of May, 1916. This
resolution also embraced lieutenant colonel
Garland, from whom have received no reply.
TIE swords have not been prepared. Docs.
Nos. az and 49,.
visited the University Of Virginia al her
late anniversary, and Witnessed with great
! pleasure her highly interesting ceremonies and
+ performances. To the various circumstances
which have recently threatened her stability,
was added during The past summer, the offers
made TO several Of the professors 10 take chairs
in other institutions. These offers however
were declined, and ihe circumstances advcT-
ted 10 have ceased TO operate; and can now
confidently congratulate you that our noble
university has commenced a new and brilliant
career Of usefulness and will yet nobIy realize
the anxious expectations Of our common
wealth, and the ardent hopes Of her great pa
iron the ilustrious Jefferson. See Doc. No.
Is.
The Lexington institute is diligently aud
successfully engaged in its useful and benev-
client duties. In its confined and restricted
sphere !; is unsurpassed for valuable and
practical usefulness. | commend il 10 your
favor and ask careful examination Of lis va
rous reports. See Doc. No. g.
The lunatic asyums seem to be well con
Quoted, eifeciing no doubt large amount of
relief to the afflicted. Docs. No. 8 and 10.
! The reports Of the deaf and dumb and the
blind are highly interesting, and most CRATE
full TO every benevolent heart They illustrate
i ctes fhen ,nf, Il
the wonders of education. The deprivation of
some Of the most important senses and organs
are so happily supplied by the aid of science as
TO relieve those so afflicted Of all apparent
sense of calamity, and TO make the useful,
happy and frequently most interesting mem
bers Of society. The bounty of the state is
ample. and has been, have no doubt, wisely
and judiciously expended. See Doc. No. z. I
! The condition of the banks of the common
wealth will be found in their various reports,
to which your attention will of course be d.
rected. The acts authorizing branch of the
| farmers Bank and also OF the Exchange
| Bank in the town of Alexandria, and of the
Valley Bank in the town of Staunton, have
been executed, and branches Of those institu
tons IN the places stated are in successful CD
Grafton. The act passed at your last session TO
establish the Bank of Martinsburg in Virgin
| ia, is. believe, yet wholly unexecuted, and
will. trust, be repealed. The policy of scat
| termg small banking institutions over the coun
| Try is IN my Judgment unwise, and ought to
/ be abandoned. The establishment of banks
| in commercial cities is sustained BY many
| plausible reasons but their establishment in
the country is repugDant TO the soundest prin-
cIples OF political economy, and injurious to
the best interests of society. hope the dav
will not arrive when money power organized
| by law. shall become the ruling interest of this
! good old commonwealth.
| The practice OF the banks to which called
the attention Of the assembly in my last mes
sage still continues. | am surprised at it, be
cause | can see no necessity 10 excuse it,
| That il does the character and business of the
state an injury have not doubt, and that il
should be persevered in by our banks. sound
and healthy as they undoubtedly are, and un-
der the administration of gentlemen of superb
or intelligence, is to me a source of unfelgned
astonishment and regret. The remedy is in
your hands, and If the practice be not volun-
tary abandoned, will trus. be applied.
! have had suggestions from highly respec-
table quarters, proposing that the law allow
ing proxies TO be repealed, as it found that
practically il places the bank under the COZ
troll Of a few individuals. 1t has also been
suggested that the quarterly bank returns
should embrace return from each branch, as
well as the general returns required by law
As these suggestions are from gentlemen of
high intelligence. submit them 10 your CON
sderatIon. See Docs. "a ,25, &c. II and 90. /
herewith communicate certain resolutions
of the legislature of the state of Maine. appro-
we'd June IA, lS47, relative to a railroad from
lake Michigan TO the Pacific coasts and also
similar resolutions of the general assembly oil
the state OF Connecticut, approved May Goth.
lS47, relative to the same subject | also
communicate preamble and resolutions of
the general assembly of the state of CONNECT
cut, expressive Of their opinion, that if any
territory should hereafter be acquired from the
Mexican republic, the treaty of acquisition
"shOuld contain an unalterable fundamental
article or provision that the southern people
with their slaves should not be allowed to set.
tie theren.-ESee Docs Nos. 80 and 81.
II is difficult to subdue our feelings suffi-
GENTLY to reason with such a proposition as
this. Virginia. a co-equal partner in our great
confederecy, entitled to all the rights of prop
erty, migration and settlement possessed by
any Of her sister states, is gravely told that
future acquisitions OF territory, even if won
and moistened by her blood, are not open TO
her occupation
Mr.. justice Story, in the case 10 which
have previously referred, in delivering the o.
pinion of the court says: SIT is his torically
well known, that,he object of the clause in the
constitution Of the United States, relating to
persons owing service and labour in one state
and escaping into other states, was TO secure
TO the citizens of the slaveholding states the
complete right and title of ownership in their
slaves, as property, in every state in the Union
into which they might escape from the state
where they were held in servitude. The full
recognition Of this right and title was indispen-
sable 10 the security of this species of proper
ty in all the saveholding states; and indeed
was so vital to the preservation of their do
nestle interests and institutions, that il cannot
be doubted that it constituted fundamental
article, without the adoption of which the u
Mon could not have been formed It's true de-
sign was 10 guard against the doctrines pre-
vailing in the non-slaveholding states, by pre-
venting them from in'ermeddlng with or OBJ
ls,ructing or abolishing The rights Of the owners
of slaves" And yet this institution thus pro-
tected. without which the Union could not
have been formed, and intended to shield ii
against the ''intermeddling" of the non slave.
/ holding states, is to be crushed and the rights
of the master annihilated, in disregard of rea-
son, humanity, the constitution, and all the
considerations which teach us the value of