Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-01-04

by requiring the faithful application thereof to the pay
ment OF the interest on Us well the principal of the
public debt.
The promotion and diffusion Of knowledge among
our citizens has been secured by the dedication OF the
school fund to system OF public instruction primary
schools which properly tostered and managed by the
Legislature, WILL we hope, in time, each county is
cured by the constitution its due proportion of that
fund, bring the means of common education within
reach OF all the children in the Commonwealth.
Iheretdtion bet,oeen master and sIdue remains as
oqs under the old Constitution Public sentiment, far
from demanding any change expressly rebuked any
constitutional action thereon Hence has been unoucl
ed and this great element of wealth and of social and
political power will remain uudsurbed and secure
long as this constitution shall continue the paramount
law of our land.
The tree negro population among us is conceded by
all to be worthless and highly detrimental to the value
OF our slaves well the security of the The
new constitution provides that slave shall be
cpaed but upon condition that such emancpated slave
be sent out OF the State.
The great personal civil and political rights which
were declared and secured by the old have been still fur
Their secured in the new constitution.
The delegates state that no change has been
adopted in the new constitution concerning the re-
ation of master and slave. The following are
the principal provisions on that subject. We quote
them, as they differ materially from the provisions
of the constitution of Virginia:
SECTION l. The General Assembly shall have no
pass
out the consent of their owners or without their
owners, previous to such emancipation full equivalent
in money tor the slaves enancpated and providing
tor their removal from the State. They shall have no
power to prevent immigrants to this State from bring
ing with them such persons deemed slaves by the
laws OF any Of the United States, so long any person
OF the age description shall be continued in sla
very by the laws Of this State They shall pass laws to
permit owners OF slaves to emancpate Them saving the
rights OF creditors and to prevent them from remaining
in this State after they are emancpated. They shall
have full power to prevent slaves being brought into this
State merchandise They shall have full power to
prevent any slaves being brought into this State, who
have been since the first day Of January 1885, or may
hereafter be imported into any Of the United States from
foreign country. And they shall have full power to
pass such laws may be necessary to obge the own
ers OF slaves to treat them with humanity, provide for
them necessary clothing and provisions to abstain from
all injuries to them, extending life mb and in case
Of their neglect or refusal to comply with the directions
OF such laws, to have such slave slaves sold for the
benefit OF their owner or owners.
2. The General Assembly shall pass laws providing
that any free negro mulao hereafter mmgrang to,
or being emancpated in, and refusing to leave this State,
or having left shall return and settle within the State
shaft be deemed guilty Of te ony and punished by con-
finement in the Penitentiary thereof.