Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-15

! Howser, Thos. r. Gresham. Thos w. Garrett
Horace d. Faulkner and VIM Bagby. &
Esser-Dr Austin Brockenbrough, Muscoe r.
H. Garrett, Larkin. Hunley, George Wright, r.
l.. Covington, DR. Thoss G Gordon, Warner Lewis
Thos w Lewis, John M Garnett, Jones C Cop-.
| ton, Edward Wright, William A Wright, Benz X
Baird, JAS Mathews, Thos Croxton and Muscoe
Garnett.
| On motion, r B Sempe of Spottsylvania, and
DR. Mann of Middlesex, were invited to take seats
in the Convention.
/ The conventionFthen proceeded to select two
delegates to the southern convention; one from
each OF the two great political parties of the Stae
when Willoughby Newton of Westmoreand, as.
delegate, and X B Semple of Spottsyvania as
alternate, from the Wing party, and VIM Tav-
lor of Caroline as delegate, and M r II Garnett
of Essex, as alternate, from the Democratic party.
were unanimously chosen.
On motion OF K B Semple, the following gen.
tlemen were appointed by the chair to repair re-
solutions for the consideration of the conventions
X L. L Beale, r III Coleman, p Fl Avlett. S F
Harwood and Benz r Baird
The committee having retired, it was on motion
resolved that the convention take recess until a
o'clock.
The convention having again assembled, R L
Beale, chairman of the committee, reported the
following resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted save one dissenting voice to the first,
third and fourth:
Resolued, BY the convention of Delegates of the sth
Congressional District convened for the pupose OF
Ding deiegatesto represent them in the Nashville Con-
| vention,
LIST. That we regard the Nashville Convention as
designed to afford the people Of the South the oppor-
tuny to meet together, and concert such measures,
as may be most available to protect their rights guaran
| teddy the Federal Constitution
| q Resolred, That the safety ofthe Union must de-
pend upon the preservation of the rights of the States
respectively; that the agitation of the cues
on Of slavery in Congress, and the proposed exclusion
OF the Southern States from their fair and equal share
in the territories acquired from Mexico, if persisted in
and consummated would be an outrage upon those
rights and destructive of their co-equalty as sovereign
members OF the confederacy
. Resoloed, That in the opinion of this convention
the admission of California State under her present
organization and with her proposed 'ndares, should
form no part OF such compromise as ne South should
accept. The Missouri Compromise, to the Pacific
| should be insisted on
a. Resolued That the object of this convention in
appointing delegates to those of their sister States
at Nashville is to preserve the Union so far as NAV
be consistent with the just and constitutional rights of
the Southern states, and should the present unhappy
controversy growing out of the question ofslavery be
adjusted to the satisfaction OF majority OF the Southern
members in Congress before the as sembly of the said
tshve Convention, then the powers the delegates
Res0iped That should the expenses of the delegates
appointed by this Convention to Nashville not be paid
by the Legislature OF Virginia at its next session. the
delegates in convention assembled pledge respective
counties to do so.
The following resolution, Offered by P. H. Aylett was
unanimously adopted
Resolved That such ofthe counties composing this
Congressional District represented here to-
day. be respectfully requested in their primary meetings
to in the appointment of delegates to the Nash
vile Convention and the resolutions adopted by this
| convention.
| On motion it was Resolved, That a copy of these
proceedings be forwarded by the etaries the ed-
tors of the Richmond and Fredericksburg papers with
request to publish the same and that copy be furnished
Convention. During the consideration OF the resou-
tons reported by the committee the Convention was
addressed in earnest and eloquent manner by the
Hon. Wiloughby Newton.
The Convention then adjourned sine die.
AUSTIN BROCKENBROUGH, }
JOHN T. RICE, { Chafhieh'
s. s f +. G G1nwasG' Secretaries.