Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1849-01-22
VA. STATURE.
Friday January IL.
SENATE.

tne OH dppFopfidteS SflV 10 enable
the Institute to educate one State Cadet
from each Senatorial District, the present
appropriations being insufficient for that
purpose.
The bill authorizing separate election
at the New School House, i'll the county
OF Pendeton was passed.
Saturaay, January 49,
The bill for purchasing furniture for the
Lunaic Asylums, was taken up OH motion
of Mr.. Kinney and passed
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
1&arsdaH January II.
Reports from the different committees
were received
From the committee for Courts of JUS
tee:
A report adverse to the expediency Of
Amending the act allowing the taking Of
dispositions, in cases where The witnesses
reside more than one hundred miles from
the place where they are to testify.
report adverse TO the expedencv Of
so amending the law in relation 20 the
County Courts as to dispense with the
holdiAg Of the monthly term thereof.
\ report against the expediency of pro-
vldlag that, when any PERSONS land be SO
out the water overlooking the coterminous
lands, he be permitted to enter upon such
cotermnous land aud construct drains. 49,
petition was presented by Mr.. Shelley
offs citizens Of Bath, for the extension Of
the Louisa Railroad.
Mr. Scott of Fauquier addressed the
House at considerable length, in OPPOSE
ton TO the report Of the committee, and
Ind. Il IL
Saturday, January 10.
Mr.. Conway spoke in reply to Mr.. Scott
and in support Of the resolutions Of tie
Joint committee.
Monday January Is.
Mr.. Pitts of Ohio County, sustained the
resolutions Of the committee, in a neat,
concise s. forcibe argument. He consider
ed the question one above party, aud oc-
'cupying peculiar position as the repre-
sentative OF a portion Of the Northwest i'll
which slavery existed to but small ex.
constituents TO stand by their fellow ci,i-
.zens in the assertion of the rights Of Vir-
.gina.
Tuesday January Is.
Mr.. Ferguson of Logan occupied the
sAoor for nearly two hours, in support Of
ahese resolutions, and in reply to the argu-
ments of Messrs. Scott and Smith Mr..
F. denied that Congress had any power
ON the subject of slavery except those
granted expressly by the constitution. Ho
also denied that the effect of these resolu-
aions would be to produce dissolution of
the Union.
Mr.. Harrison Of Loudoun followed, in
opposition to the resolutions before the
House, and in explanation of his course
upon the resolutions of 1917.
The following are the resolutions referred to a
bove, and are the same that passed our Legislature
in March 1917, by unanimous vote.
Resolutions rslatiue to the prohibition BIZ the Con-
grcss Of The United States Gf Slavery Il. any ter
''tory to be acquired by conquest or treaty. A
dopted March Sth, lS47.
a. Be it Resolved, unanimously, by the Gen
eral Assembly of Virginia, That the Government
of the United States has control, directly or in
directly, mediatey or Immediately, over the insti-
tuition of slavery, so to impair the rights of the
Shareholder; and that, in taking any such control,
at transcends the limits of its legitimate functions
by destroying the internal organization Of the
seigniies who created it,
80 Resolved, unanimously, That all territory
which may be acquired by the arms Of the United
J
belongs to the several States Of this Union, as
their joint and common property i'll which each and
all have equal rights; and that the enactment, by
the Federal Government, OF any law which should
directly, or by its effects, prevent the citizens of
any State from emigrating, with their property, Of
whatever description into such territory, would
make discrimination unwarranted by and in vio-
laion of the compromises Of the Constitution and
the rights of the States from which such citizens
emigrated, and in derogation OF that perfect equali-
ty that belongs to the several States members of
this Union, and would tend directly to subvert the
Union itself.
50. Resolved, That if, in disregard alike Of the
spirit and principles of the act Of Congress on the
admission Of the State Of Missouri into the Union
generally known as the Missouri Compromise, and
Of every consideration of justice, of constitutional
right and oPfTaternal feeling, the fearful issue shall
be forced upon the country, which must result from
the adoption and attempted enforcement of the pro
viso aforesaid. as act ofthe General Government
the people Of Virginia can have no difficulty in choos
ing between the only alternatives that will then re-
main, of abect submission aggression and out
rage on the one hand, or determined resistance on
the oher at all hazards and to the last extremity
sd. Resolved, unanimously, That the General
Assembly holds it to be the duty of every man, in +
every section of this confederacy, Gfthe Union is
dear to him,) to oppose the passage of any law, for
whatever purpose, by which territory to be acquired
may be subject to such restriction.
SIS. Resolved, unanimously, That the passage
of the above mentioned proviso makes it the duty of
every saveholding State, and of all the citizens
thereof, as they value their dearest privileges, their
sovereignty, their independence, their rights prop
erty, 10 take firm, united and concerted action in
this emergency"
II. Resolved, That we regard the passage of
law by the Congress of the United States abolish
ing slavery the slave trade in the District Of Co
aumbia, as birectat upon the institutions of the
Southern States to de resisted at every hazard.
ILL., Resolved, That in the event of the pas
sage by Congress of the ''Wilmot Proviso" or
any law abolishing slavery slave trade in the /
District of Columbia, the Governor of this
lnanMealil is reanested immediately to convene |