The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-02-10
Virginia Legi.la,ure.-speeeh OF
thN VAR. Scalf.

RR'SS ,,s.,,,sn without tumbhng INTO max
8 Nl ...l.T,tiOas IS solemn aud positive as POI
afi W.. si,bOut uDquslihedly committing them
Sax -, should the measure they denounc
=, = ,Ioptsd. So, st least we read 'hs ln0''
msnL ,.,s5 from the Joint Commii
I'D Conference Aavegi's" '''e'0 an e''''''
5sbaie. -. h.s ,I;s,;nguishedhi him
NJ hold opposition to them. We copy
a y -, of his speech, made in the House O
He ~ an Fnday, the 10Th alt. 1t vii
= "a with lively interest The utieranoe Q
i'a- .,;,nsDt. in Virginia Legislature SHOULD
' 90 -, m,ny Northern Unconstitutional Era
'lI Soa,b Carolina did what you propose tc
'OT T.on eontroverted question Of con
~ law. she raised the standard o
S I.IJ:oD The question now before US il
IeOeti, D"n,s oOntroverted than that of Null
e INV In Carolina, there was a Union
losuO md Notification party. There will
Pa ,So.e tao parties here. Voice, near the
LIE. - :. hope the Union party will
i' I,;s, If himself alone.'l Father will be
so, AGAINST son, brother against brother.
E, me good cause, and though ela'm
o ~ 1.- -, Quantity of animal courage than
o ~ and | will stand boldly forth. But
-, he swo.d in my hand, and call upon
= r. "a strike at the children of this Union
r. sDcb a cause as this, and the shade oil
y, majestic form-will in
,,nose 10 intercept the blow, and the steel
vii drop from my grasp.
There i another point from which | would
view The question. know how party leel-
irv, iO5urats the heart; but ! yet hope that
h: motives to which | would appeal have
., ,bs;r force. What is it that We wish to
accomplish! Isl to force the institution OF
,I.ysrT UPON California and New Mexico!
"a, this proud Commonwealth, al this day,
ssuDed forth to force upon a conquered
psoole that thing! Then We have forgotten
he day when Virginia stood uPto oppose
40 oppressor for creating that institution
against her will. within her borders. We
'crget he pa;nOt who stood up in the Par
lament of Britain, and said that he rejoiced
% know that three millions Of freemen
would neither be made slaves themselves,
nor the instruments to make slaves Of others.
Those words were once engraved in letters
Of gold upon The walls Of the Capitol; but
in is halls, the representatives Of Virginia
are nsw called upon to take the initiative
SEP to overthrow this principle. We have
ooaquered this people by our arms. But
he principle which lies at the foundation o.
our Constitution is, that each people have &
right TO their own forms Of government
There is no outrage in the wide would
greater than this We propose to do. As a
colony, We legislated to prohibit the intro
dGciion Of slaves into our territories. This
legislation was killed by the negative OF
The Crown. But the preamble Of the law
was Preserved-it is pref1ed to our present
Constitution. And in the enumeration OF
The causes by which Virginia looked for her
Justification before the world, stands the act
Of mat Prince in perpetuating this inhuman
nhc. And in the early Congress, in op-
position to the Northern States, Virginia
EOsd TO declare that traffic piracy. | recm
10 Ihese facts to show what Virginia once
thought Of measures like these-to show that
ne thought them acts Of wrong, Of oPpres-
son, Of tyranny.
II ! stand alone in this Hall, in this
Commonwealth, and'in this country, | will
FalSe ny voice in pIotestation against this
measure. For regard II as an outrage
against every principle Of civil and religious
liberty, and an outrage upon humanity. II
hete IS one man on this floor who is willing
% lend bis hand to aid practically in it,
snould like to see his face. There is not
one but would feel it an imputation upon
hs honor to say that he would infict slavery
upon these territories. Then why quarrel
Sll congress Tor proposing to prevent what
none would do
Eah to say few words upon the pro.
posed measure Of abolition OF slavery in
Gs District. look upon that in a very
Gnerent light from the light in which | view
ae ff9SIso. ! stand on the same principle
u Don cases. ! say that all legislative
sosel Is trust. 1t should be exercised fol
VIC OeieHt Vt the sovsrnad. When il cease.
% S mus exercised, it is a tyranny. The
illcuon oil slavery on the territory woulC
Ot '0ch the abolition of slavery in the Dis
uic' would be the same. We see the las
more clearly than the first, because it i
hsai 70 Us. But let us not Se less lynx
s,eo with regard to our more remote breth
"a. The abolition Of slavery in the Dis
We would resist to the last extremity, an,
every means which lies within the reacl
o. nan. 'O''0
WY pass these resolutionsi You Te.at
nm Then you once affirmed. And. q
H4le[ OIL Consistency, you must stand b
your old resolutions, and carry out no,
VIA! you proposed to do then. But Won
consistency is already gone. Why did ne
ne sword flash from its scabbard when N
oregon Bill was passed.
I9e papers have published that | was
-suOer oil the House which passed tho,
IssOlulons. But that is great m;stak,
My mind must have been in a sineul,
aale when ! voted that the slavehOldeI9 +,
natural and indeleasible right to carry \
saves into the territories. Voice. .Tba,
noI IN the resOlutiOns.1 (scott read /
Passsge.) "
MI. All; conway said that, as they were
TT'O ea 10 The statute book, that passage
MI. Ar; Scott said, if Mr.. Conway had
ENDED to what he had said. he would \,
o zen saved his pains. That passage did !,