New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-12-05
virginin-Gov. PIoyd.s Message.

Gov. LLOYD OF Virginia IS Union
man after his sort. and in full communion
with our Castle Garden Committee of
Peace and Safety in their support Of the
Fugitive Slave Law and kindred Peace
measures. The following IS an extract
from his Message transmitted to the Legs
lature on the ID inst.
81 received sundry resolutions, some Just before
and some since your adjournment, from different
States touching the subject of state rights and
the agitation Of slavery. They are herewith
communicated.
am persuaded that the safety and welfare of
Virginia demand at your hands some mild, con-
ciliatorv measures. calculated to show the non
sIayehol6iDg States that we are resolved 70 coerce
q respect at their hands for our rights aud our
property. The slavery agitation IS direct at
tack upon both; and the Connecticut resolutions
are fair indication OF the Northern sentiment
We may be allowed to indulge the hope that more
mature reflection viii work beneficial change in
their minds. But, IN the meantime, We would
show 20 them By our acts that we have the peace
tul and lawful means at our command. 70 retallage
upon them Tor their gratuitous lntermeddling with
our slaves. 4 necessity now exists Tor increased
amounts of revenue, and earnestly recommend
TO your consideration the proprety Of laying
tar Hp2n all tie products Of tie zt0u-sidraboidlng
STATES offered for sale icithin ctr territory. II
can be easily accomplished and will, in my opin-
ion, constitute the most persuasive. OF all arzu-
ments to insure proper recognition OF our rights
Let Inspectors be appointed for each county
and town IN the State whose duty II shall be 70
examine all manufactures brought into their Dis
tricts and let a tax OF ten per cent. be imposed
upon such as are found to be manufactured or pro-
duced in the Non-Slavehoding States 1t should
be provided, moreover, that all merchandise be
taken and regarded as the production of Non
SayeholdiDg States, unless sufficient proof 70 the
contrary is afforded by the yender ! would also
recommend that such a tax be imposed upon far
eign goods imported through Non Slareholding
States, as will offer effectual encouragement to
direct Importation into our own ports.
This, you perceive, is no contingent, nor
partial, nor casual operation: the excise
proposed is to be levied on all the fabrics of
all non-Slaveholding States, whether they
have stood erect like Vermont, or consist
emily groyeled like Iowa, or tried walking
first and crawling afterward, Ike Pennsyl-
vania. Its to beimposed without limit Of
duration, without discrimination between
the goods or wares of Gerrit Smith and
those Of men who give away their princi-
pies in order to sell their goods; even the
New York Committee of Safety must pay
the ten per cent. in spite of the constitution
al inhibition of any such impost True,
you will say, This tax Is not imposed yet,
and won't be, but the a15inlus Is there. and
will do its work in time.
There is a column more like the above.
but we must be content with the following
extract:
"If no consideration Of prudence or patriotism
can restrain the majority from the non-slevehod
ing states in their head.long career OF usurpaton
and wrong: and should they repeal or essentially
modify the fugitive slave law. the most prompt
and decisive action viii be required at your hands
In either event, | would earnestly recommend
that a convention Of the people be called at once,
TO take into consideration the mode and measure
OF redress as well as the means Of providing for
our future security and peace.
Virginia, in this event, will have nothing to
reuroach herself with, however much she may
have 70 regret. She has advocated The principles
Of fire and Constitutional Government with IN
Esyeripg firnness. Neither the menaces nor the
arms of Great Britain could extinguish the love
of liberty in her bosom and when the federal
government usurped an authority which threat
ened our independence, she stoou the champion
of popular supremacy and saved the Conatitution.
Lef ,iottfe Gdrocatss Of freedom fear that Virginia
triH err later in her support 81 tie great cardinal
prinaplls Of Repu5lcaaisn,, 1i6erfy e'sd s94alay;
these she Will maintain although she stood alone
among the nations OF the earth
All this, you see, means that il Virginia
is not assisted by the Free States 70 the e1-
tent Of her desires, to make her poorest and
weakest people work without pay for the
support of her most intelligent and power
full in idleness and luxury, then she will
prove her devotion to Liberty and Equality
By kicking up the iolliest kind Of a general
row 1t must be hard for green-horn to
get at the meat of one of these Southern
diat7ibes. but it IS very rich when you fair
y reach it.
IN