Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-02-08
LOUlSlAN A.

Both Houses OF the LOUISIANA Legislature met at ia
ton Rouge on Monday, the oath ut. The officers Of
the old Senate were reelected in the House Col. P
w Farrar, Whig) of New Orleans was elected Speak
or on the first ballot54 43 In the Senate, notice
given OF resolution for amending the Constitu-
ton to make the following officers elective: District
Judges, Attorney General Sc cretary of State State
Treasurer Adiuant enera and Clerk Of the Supreme
Court.
Governor Walker was inaugurated at Baton Rouge
with great pomp and ceremony, on the 2Sth ult The
inaugural message Of Gov. w. is a brief and pointed
address, remarkable for its moderation and simplicity
In relation to Northern aggression the Governor holds
the following language:
ain general should be unwilling to address you in
relation to matters not within the ordinary scope Of
State action; but circumstances, which have recently
TRANSFERRED elsewhere make 1t proper that | should do
otherwise The anti-savery agitation in the Northern
States, which had long been source OF irritation to
the South has, within the last two years, taken such
shape, that fears entertained by some hat is about
TO reach crisis uniavorable the stability OF the
Union. must confess that | have shared in
those fears There has been much said it is true, in
different States and in Congress- connected with this
agitation, which was calculated to aggravae the South
and must have been deplored by all lovers OF our con-
federacy. But in every instance the relations Of the
actors and their supporters, 10 party questions and to
parties have been such persuade that the heat
and fury OF the moment actuaed and displayed by
the designing for the attainment Of selfish purposes
and petty ends; and that large proportion OF the
population of the North was influenced by feelings Sc
riously hostile to the peculiar institutions OF the South
1.-The recent difficulty in Congress, to the election
OF Speaker of the House of Representatives, has not
weakened my conviction on this subject The loudest
and most violent among the alarmsts, could have
moved the apple OF dlscord at any moment, by voting
with one of the great parties for Southern man.
Why they did not do so, is best known to themselves
Whatever may have been the motive, think we have
right to conclude that it had real connection with
ythe persons who, in the previous Congress, joined to
defeat fair and satisfactory compromise of the very
question which is now made the stalking horse of dis
union
But whilst believe the Union is not as yet in ime-
date danger think the attitude taken by OF
sister States, affords proper occasion for admonshng
our Northern brethren, that 1t may be endangered by
the continuance and extension OF the agitation. The
people Of Louisiana yield to in attachment to the
Union. They take from it national name in which
they glory, and they owe it, under heaven the prosperity
they now enjoy But this attachment, great as it is has
its limits. 1t is the result of common interests, and of
the existence OF feelings OF mutual kindness between
the various members OF the contederacy, and it will not
Icing survive their loss Glorious has been the
OF the Union from its first formation to its present pitch
of greatness there has been event in its whole pro-
gress So truly glorious its origin 1t was formed
OF dlscordant elements, and cement by sacrifices,
made by each OF its me mbers, for the common good
It's foundations laid in the spirit OF concession and
compromise, and in that spirit alone can they be pre-
served and perpetuated,
Situated as we are, l think we owe it to ourselves
our sister States OF the Southland to our Northern
brethento declare that if, unhapply, the ant-slavery
agitation which has so long been allowed to insult our
feelings, should be carried the point of aggression
upon our rights-f the equality between all the men,
beers OF the conederacy, established and guaranteed by
the constitution, should be destroyed enched ON by
the action of the General Government then are pre-.
pared to make common cause with our neghhors OF the
slavehoding States, and pronounce the Union at an
end For myself, do not hesitate to say that should
look upon the dissolution OF the Union the greatest
calamity that could betal us; but that great as this
calamity would be- certain there is not one of our
citizens who would be willing, for moment to weigh
it in the balance against the dishonor of submission
Under these circumstances, concurlng in the patriotic
views Of my predecessor, deem it my duly, as the
chief magistrate OF Of the States whose vital inte
rests called in question, by the blindness of preu-
ton to the resolves of the people Of Mississippi and
suggest to you the expediency Of Lousanas co opera
ting with them, in an expression of sentiments firm, de-
termned and unmistakeable at the proposed convention
to be held at Nashville in June next.