Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-05-25

creasing daily and hourly TIL they have acquired the ba
lance ofpower in national count ilshold the House
of Representatives disorganzed for four weeks, and
stand prepared when the opportunity offers, TO shape
the legislation of Congress TO wound southern feelings
and strike down southern rights Who then that is not
wlfully blind fail to see that this is only the be
ginning of the end'-that when the ouposts have been
carried the citadel will be stormedthat when slavery
has been excluded from the territories will be attack
ed in the States, and that IN the name OF the Union we
shall be called upon to make new compromises and
fresh CONCESSIONS Why then should we wait! wait
until injury is heaped upon injury and insult is added 10
INSULT Wait to see if the fire which consuming your
edice will not 60 out ofitse? Wait to see the en-
during torrent will not dry up Wait until claim leads
to claim and power advances to power!" Wait I'M
"Conquests unresisted, cease to please,
And rights submitted leave them none to selze|
Resistance must be made at some point, and it had
better come whilst there is something worth preser-
wing. To delay and temporze now is only to increase
the danger To repose longer IN false security IS moi
only unwise but, might almost say. criminal AS
well might the mariner go on with full sail, when
the small speck of cloud has grown and risen Till It
fills the whole vault Of Heaven with its backness, and
shakes the deep with the roar OF lis artillery.
But while there have been such powerful inducements
for the South in concerted acon-whie the ar
guments which have so mperfectly recaptulaed were
ably urged by eloquent adyoc aes and every obec
ton speedily and successfully refuted, the people
have not met the suggestion in the spirit that we
hoped By some it has been openly resisted its friends
tainted with unjust and ungenerOuS lnSlnuat1ODS, anu
nowhere has it received anything beyond cold and
feeble support. You will give credit for sincerity,
| trust when / say that | am not induced to change
my position, swerve tor an instant on the Southern
question, by the abuse which has been heaped upon
us in certain quartersnor even by the ukew armness
and Indifference, which think the people have man,
tested their interests. Norhave been cheated
by the false hope THAI this question could be settled
without a stern remonsrance from the South. | as
cribe the slight pause in the course OF the North 10
what at one time seemed to be the uuanimity, OF
our peope-and trust ! may be false prophet Then
declare my belief that the anti slavery faction in Con-
gress will gain fresh strength from the apathy which
the South has manifested towards this Conven-
ton. Even while write the painful intelligence comes
TO me- that the Compromise Committee, in which
were centered all hopes has been unable to agree
upon any plan for the adjustment OF the slavery question
Thus vanshes another found deuslon and thus IS an
swered the chief objection to the Nashville Convention.
have not been able the force OF the suggestion
that we should leave TO the patriotic statesmen of the
North the maintenance OF those rights we will mot assert
for ourselves In the settlement OF this vexed question
would invoke whatever there is oinelect and patriot
ism in our country But disposed am to render all
due thanks to such Webster Dickinson and Cas-,
nothing TO induce the South to surrender its cause
desert standard, because our numbers have
been sweed by unexpected allies.
Nor have l been frightened from my propriety"
BY the frequent charge OF disunon. l love the Union,
but am little moved by the anathemas of those self.
constituted arbiters whose solemn broadsides turned
chiefly against the South have rather tended to increase
thing but treason in the Nashville Convention, will
ling believe the testimony OF an accused party,
that the Hartford Convention, was quite patriotic
and commendable affair. Somewhat deprecating the
course of the North, they suggest remedy for
the ills of the body polite but further concession from
the South-forcbly reminding us OF the wisdom and
impartialy of the judge who declared that he could
find law sustain the action OF the plaintiff but de-
cided that the defendant must pay the costs.
But with every disposition to lutte with the warmest
friends ofthe South, fear that little good could now
IL no., IF illn
1t could exert no influence unless it embodied the sen
ments wishes, and resolution ofthe whole South. The
indifference manifested in Georgia and other portions OF
the South make it highly probable that not more than
one or two States will be fully represented In Virgil
MA the proposition has shared fate than else
where. Not more than twenty counties east o. the
Blue Ridge have-moved in the matter, while west OF
the lne only county, believe, has thought proper
to send delegates 1t may well be questioned whether
in our district majority OF the people are In Ia
vor of it, have reason to believe that this doubt was
shared by portion of the Convention which met at
Charlottesville. | have no official record OF Its
proceedings, but have been informed, correctly no
doubt, that resolution introduced by Mr.. Rutfn, OF
Albemare, declining to send delegates to Nashville,
was sustained by about one-thlrd OF the Convention.
presume that these resolutions rested substantially on
the ground | have taken, that while as an original
question we had sustained the call tor Southern Con
vention that the indifference or hostility OF large por-
ton of the district and Of the South generally had strip
ped OF all moral force and made poweress tor good
need not say to you how deeply am panied and NOR
tilted at this result But the people supreme and we,
with mistaken convictions of the justice ofour cause
and the proprety OF course, must bow 10 their de-
cision Whilst | should have been proud and happy
under different auspices, to have represented the NTH
Congressional district of Virginia at Nashville
could ba We exered no influence except the organ
of an united and determined people. My own lndlyl-
dual expression OF opinion, however decided, would
have no weight there than at home, unless L
could say conscientously that spoke the sentiments
of decided majority of the people of the district.
Entertaining these views, beg leave most respect
fully to decline the appointment conferred upon me by
the District Convention Concurrng fully in its general
views-highy honored by the confidence OF so intel
on its course, and speaking only for myself, cannot
consent to assume will not say the Quixotc msslon
but the thankless and ungracious office OF asserting
rights which the people OF the district either do not
care to maintain or do not deem in danger.
Having come to this conclusion have troubled you
with this letter not, OF course to obtrude my opinions
upon Others but in courtesy to the Convention, and
clining to assume the position to which L was nnex-
pectedly called Nor did regret that an opportunity
| had presented itself when without presumption, l
might attempt vndcation OF the cause which has met
| W it'll such unmerited oboquy. In this may have
failed but until harmony is restored to the country,
| shall think that the South acted unwsely IN rejecting
the proposed remedy. But come from what qua ter it
hailng with Joy any which shall give peace to
| the nation, and enable Southern men TO show that
full sense other rights, and an ardent affection for the
land OF their birth, are not incompatible with an abb
ding affection for the whole Union.
'' ' B. BARBOUR
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