The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-25
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
THURSDAY MORNING, JAN. 90, is4o.
The virginia Regulations.


The Virginia Resolutions.
Our readers are OF the decided vote by which
the Virginia legislature reafrmed the resolutions of
March. 1917, and expressed the hostility of the people of
Virginia 10 any interference on the part of Congress with
slavery the slave trade in the District of Columbia
We sincerely trust that the people and the representa-
lives OF the people OF the acknowledging States will
weigh those resolutions and the principles which
they are founded before they tolerate any further assault
upon southern Institutions. Virginia is of the Oldest
States of the confederacy, and we know that she is
bound by hooks of steel to the Union She can clam
for her large share of the credit which due for
the establishment OF this noble government Her citi-
zens proud of Washington. of Jefferson, OF Madison
and every Vgnans heart throbs with excusabe pride
in recalling their services to the Unona pride which is
enhanced only by the recollection that it a movement
in Virginia which led to the formation of our constitution
and the Union of these States Yes, may truly say that
the people of Virginia have loved the Union, and will do
much, very much, to maintain il to the death anything
indeed, but 10 quietly submit TO accumulated wrong-any
thing but to stand quiet while badge of nferority fixed
upon her and her institutions 1t is in this that her
resolutions are to be understood We know their history,
and the feelings which prompted them in 1917 They did
not spring from any hostility to the Union They had
their origin in firm conviction that in order to preserve
the Union blessing, not curse it is absolutely
necessary that the compromises of the constitution should
be respected and the equality of the States be maintain
ed Virginia has proved her attachment 10 the confede
racy than once Even before the present consttu-
ton framed, she generously-as ree-wlll offer
nggave up for the benefit of her sister States her mag
ni6cent domain in the Northwest. And with all her
well-known hostility to the protective policy, with her
deep and settled opposition to the black tariff of
1928. she would not join in cooperating with
spected sister southern State in multiplying that law,
and resisting the federal government She acted differ
emily She nierposed her good Offices TO mediate be-
tween South Carolina and the general government, and
sent one of her to calm the tempest which threat
ened the Union. Men may differ as to the influence
which she then exered but no man can question the
high and patriotic and loyal motive which prompted her
conduct that occasion. The same feeling aniinaes
her now, from her capital to her remotes confines She
proud of this Union proud of the part which her
took in its establishment, and proud of the glorious fruits
which it has showeIed this continent. But then
Virginia the danger which impends like cloud;
she the prospect of accumulated wrong; and
ing, she desires to avert it. She knows that Congress
must not usurp power not delegated that the compact
must be observed; that the equality of the States
must be maintained Without this provision there can
be no safety. To attain this end and preserve the
Union, the chief desire of the people of Virginia To
accomplish this object and to stay the torrent of attacks
upon her institutions and her rights reserved" by the
constitution she has passed her resolutions and she will
adhere TO them 10 the bitter end Her people are united
and they will remain firm. They great danger the
Union and 10 the principles which the Union is based,
and they but way to avoid it that is stand by
their rights under the constitution. They have taken
the lead and the other southern States will follow and
stand by them What will be the result none but He
who knows the future tell But of thing we are
sure and the people Of the North may be assured that
Virginia has acted for the best and from desire TO pre-
the Union. She has passed the resolutions which
we laid before readers yesterday She has passed
them BY an immense majority of both branches OF her
legislature, and OF both political parties And what she
has sad she will if necessary, the proper for
action, ACT OUT.
One OF the great maxims OF Virginia has been, +" The
Union of the States and the rights Of the STATES" She
holds these to be the great elements of federal
government, the two pillars of national edice.
Both must be reigiousy maintained Indeed, they are
inseparabiy connected. The Union must respect the
rights of the Staesand unless the rights of the States
are preserved, the Union itself is weakened or endan-
gered