North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-02
THE YIRelNIA REsoLuTIoNs.

Legislature of Virginia by the Committee of Thireen
and which have passed the House Of Delegates by
almost unanimous vote. We presume that, ere this,
they have passed the Senate. Theyare follows :
WHEREAS, The Legislature of the State of South
Carolina has passed to provide for theaPPont
ment of delegates TO Southern Congress, . to be
entrusted with full power and authority to deliberate
with the view and intention of resisting further ag-
gresson, and if possible of restoring the constitution
al rights of the South, and if not, to recommend due
provision for her future safety and independence 3;
which act has been formally communicated TO this
General Assembly
lst Be ii therefore Resoied, by the General assen.
biz of Vlrginta, That whilst this State deeply SYM
pahzes with South Carolina in the feelings excited
by the unwarrantable interference of the non-save-
holding States with our common institutions, and
whilst diversity of opinion exists among the people
of this commonwealth in regard to the wisdom, JUS
tice and consttutonay of the measures of the late
Congress of the United States taken as WHOLE and
commonly known as the compromise measures; vet
the Legislature of Virginia deems it duty to declare
to her sister State of South Carolina that the people
of this State unwilling take any action Tin con-
sequence of the same calculated destroy the integ
rity of this Union.
I'd. ResOiUed, That regarding the said acts of the
Congress of the United States, taken together an
adjustment of the exciting questions to which they
relate, and cherishing the hope that if fairly
ted they will restore to the country that harmony and
confidence, which of late have been SO unhappily
disturbed, the State of Virginia deems it unwise Tin
the present condition of the country to send dele
gates to the proposed Southern Congress.
Sd. ReSolced, That Virginia earnestly and Affection
atey appeals to her sister State of South Carolina
desist from any meditated secession upon her part,
which cannot but tend to the destruction Of the Unon
and the loss to all of the States of the benefits that
spring from it.
4th. RESOLVED, That Virginia. believing the consti-
tuition of the United States, if faithfully administer
ed provides adequate protection to the rights of all
the States of this confederacy, and still looking to
that instrument for defence within the Union warned
by the experience of the past the dangers of the pres
ent and the hopes of the FUTURE invokes all who live
under it to adhere more strictly to it, and to
invioate the safeguards which it affords to the rights
of individual States and the interests of sectional
minorities.
5th Resolued, That all Legislation combinations,
designed in any way affect the institutions pecu-
liar to the South deserve the most unqualified rep
rotation derogatoy to the rights Of and peculiarly
offensive the Southern States, and must, if perss-
ted in inevitably defeat the restoration of peaceful
and harmonious sentiments in these States.
9Th. ResoiUed, That the governor of this common
wealth be requested to transmit copy of these
lutons to the executive of the State of South Caro-
lima, with the request that they be laid before her
next legislature, and that copies be also transmitted
the executive of each of the other States of this
Union-the State of Vermont only excepted.
The Richmond Enquirer approves these Resolu-
tions-ca3ls them - admirable '-and expresses the
hope that they will Sc receive the unanimous assent of
the Legislature" They also meet the appreciation
of the Wing press of Richmond and Of the State gen.
orally. On the other hand, the Petersburg South
Side Democrat says:
"The Resolutions reported by the Committee of
I" thirteen :" passed the House by almost unan-
nous vote. A more mature reflection has but con-
frmed our first impression of this business. We still
think the whole proceeding iInpotic to the last de-
gree. These resolutions nothing but God-speed
to aboltionism. Virginia has announced by egisla-
tive enactment that she 1UiN submit to the Compromise
What effect will any future attitude of resistance,
though never imposing, assumed by Virginia, pro-
duce upon the North Why nought but derision and
rdcule. Clearly the proper course for the Southern
States to pursue, was have submitted silently
the Compromise, for any authoritative declaration OF
submission will estop US in any future emergency,
from pleading the iniquity of the measures of the
Compromise in justification of any decided step the
South may be forced to take By all means, the
Resolutions should have contained protest against
the principle and justice of these Compromise meas
ures and have declared that the Legislature ac9uesc
ed in their operation only from an unwllilngness to
destroy the Union.
The passage of Campbell's resolutions at any rate,
defeated Mr. Freesoiler Scott in his attempt to pros
titute the loyalty the Union felt by the people of
this State, to base party purposes. In this respect
the resolutions are commendable. And if any
lutions about the Compromise were to be adopted,
doubtless Campbell's as fdultess as possible,
excepting however, one very Important clause IN the
second resolution regarding the Compromise
an adjustment" Sc. Now an adjustment is equi-
table arrangements I1ir settlement. But the Com
promise was unjust and unfair in every feature and
to the last degree; therefore, think the second of
Mr. Campbell's series of resolutions should have
been amended. We trust the Legislature of Virginia
now done with resolving either to submit resist
Real men never resolve they do Let US be quiet
and silent, or if do not to tolerate the ag-
gressons of the North let then without any blus-
ter or brag dissolve all connection with our enemies,
and set up a government for ourselves. We can gov
ern ourselves least we'll as the North govern u.s.
The Norfolk Argus says:
"PEcAvr! The Legislature of this State has ia
ken its position definitely in the adoption of the
lutions reported by the Select Committee to the House
of Delegates on Tuesday last. Virginia has done
but poor Justice her ancient renowp. by any of her
proceedings, touching this great controversy. Her
whole legislation upon the subject from the first mo-
ment that the aboltonists became formidable as a
party and her institution endangered, have evinced
an unmanIy indecison, and tremulous inhrmity of
purpose well calculated to destroy her influence, and
expose her to derison. After all the clustering pre-
tension which makes little boys whistle in the dark,
to keep off spectres, she has at last submitted, with
PRAYER for mercy, her Northern sisters. Well,
time that her temporlzng policy had been aban-
doned 1t was better to surrender at once and make
grace of it, than keep up mere show OF resls'
lance which only served to increase the pressure p
on
What now will be the course of the Northern
Statesl Will they wake up to proper sense OF oul
rights and their own duty If we trace the history
of this subject its origin to the present time,
shall find that the pretensions OF the abolltonste
have never in any instance been relaxed, and thai
thew have uniformly claimed more and more, precise
| ly in proportion we have receded or acquesced
Thev will now see in the feebeness and inehciency
of our measures, proof that selfrespect is gone