Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-02-06

adjourned on yesterday, was negatlVed by vote d
ayes 43-noes 62.
RESOLUTIONS ON THE wILIeT PROvIso
The Joint Committee of the two Houses Of the
General Assembly, reported, on "Wednesday, the
following preamble and resolutions which were
made the order of the day for Tuesday next in that
body:
Whereas the recent action Of the General Assem-
bly, upon the Wimot Proviso and kindred subjects,
and in relation to fugitive slaves, has met with no
other response from the non slavehUlding States
than violent denuncatiUns and systematic peTse-
verance in the wrongs of which we complained
and whereas it is apparent that an Inevitable result
of such course Of action on the part ola portion OF
the States must be loexcte bitterness, jealousy and
disrus, among the rest, 10 kndfe the angresl pas
sons to extnguish that spirit of concession, and
destroy that mutual furbeaance and fraterna afec-
lion which founded and have sustained our con-
federacv, and finally to dissolve the Union itself
and whereas we are anxious, if possible, TO averi
the evils which threaten rs, and believe HAT The
most efeclual means of doing this are to be found
in The cordial union the whue S,uh for the main
tenance of the Constitution and The preservation OF
the Union il il can be preserved, and for their own
pre-, ervaon fit cannut:
|. BE it therefore resolved by the General As
semby Of Virginia, That upon the questions thus
perseverineiy and reckIessy forced upon the coun-
try, Virginia has taken her position, and that posi-
lion will be maintained. Her loyalty 10 The Union
is no matter of empty profession. II is Stamped
upon every page of her history. No Stale has done
as much to form the Union; none is prepared to do
more to perpeuate il in the spirit in which il was
formed and in which alone il can be preserved
But, loval as she is, and always has been, il were
fatal error TO suppose that Virginia will ever con-
sent that that Unun To which she has Looked as
source Of happiness and honor, shall be converted
into an instrument of degradation and oppression.
II. Resolved, That in the event Of The passage
of the Wllmut Proviso, or Of any law abollshng
slavery or the slave trade in the District Of Coum-
bia, or between the States, Virginia will BIZ ptepaf-
ed to unite with her sister slavehodng States, in
Convention or otherwise, in the adoption of any
measure that may be necessary 10 provide for their
mutual defence, or 10 secure their mutual safety.
ILL., Resolved, That 10 the opinion Of this Cen
eral Assembly a Southern Convention, in which
the States, as States, are represented, should con-
sis of delegates selected by the people Of the sew.
eraI States in Convention assembled, who should
carry with them all the authority derived from such
an appointment, and be prepared to ACT for those
whom they represent
w. Resolved, therefore, That, upon THE happen
ing of either of the contingencies contemplated in
the second resolution, the Governor be authorized
and requested (instead ofcJnvening the Legislature
TO issue his proclamation for The election otdeegates
TO State Convention to take into consideration the
mode and measure Of redress, to appoint delegates
to Southern Convention, and to adopt such meas
ures as the crisis nay demand. The said delegates
to be chosen by each city, or county, or election dis
tct according to its representation IN the ouse OF
Delegates and TO receive tie same pay and fhlleas
as members of the General Assembly.
V. Resolved, That, regarding the Convention
proposed to be held at Nashville, on the first Monday
in June next, asinehded to enable the people OF the
South to take counsel together as to the best and
most effecual means Of resisting the aggression OF
the North, Of enforcing compliance On their part
with theIf constitutional obligations, and thereby OF
pfeyenting the union of these States, now in i'm
minent peril by reason Of the course pursued by the
non savehoidlng States and their representatives in
Congress in the teaseess agitation, and that too; in
the NEST unfriendy spirit,) OF questions involving
| the peace, the institutions, and the very existence
of The Southern Staes-and approving the objects
Of said Convention as abuve Sci forth, the General
Assembly doth recommend Ia. the good people Of
this commonwealth to send delegates thereto, and
that, 10 This end, they hold primary meetings. in
each city, county, and election district, and appoint
delegates to a convention 10 be heId In each Con.
gressional district in the month of May next, and
that The district conventions 50 constituted do each
select two persons, Zone from each OF the two pollt
ica parties in the country who shall be delegates
10 The said Nashville Covenlion
VI. Resolved, That the Governor of this com
monwealih be requested TO send copy ofthese res
olut;ons 10 each Of the States Of this Union and also
to ouf Senators and Representatives in Congress.
A New FORM FOR DeEps.-After the first oil
July next, when the New Code takes effect, it will
be very easy to draw deed of bargain and sale in
| Virginia in little more than FIVE minutes. Under
the first sector of Oh rpier IL (page 5O3) deed
may be drawn in the following furm or 10 the same
effect:
"Ihis deed, made the - day Of -, in tht
gear 49,, betiOeen (here insert names Of parties,
lcitnesseh, that in consideration Of there state the
consideration, the said - doth (or dog grant unto
the said - al, &C., (here describe The property
and insert covenants Of any other prov!sions.) w.
ness The foloring signature and SEAL" Cor sigma
lures and seals.)
We do moi suppose that Connecticm deed car
be much shorter or palmer than this.
In the same report in which the revsors recon-
mended that the forms Of deeds should be thus sim
plifed, they also recommended that a person lend
ing money, though at more thar legal interest
should always be allowed to recover his principal
with six per cenlum interest-but this recommpn
dalton was not adopted by the LegisIa,ure.-Rich
Enquirer.
o. Hagerstown, Nd, for some weeks has beer
Suffering from that loathsome disease, The lich.-
| foot f,nrd ~, IA ana
prevented mu h travel from up passing through ,ha
place The Snn says. we are happy to learn tina
the physicians lave totally routed it, and that thee
is now nothing in Hagerstown or It's vicinity Il
cause the least---scralchlng.