Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-04-05
QUESTION AND ANSWER.

we shall make NO exultau0n upon Inc late ri-
umph of truth, and reason, and patriotism in the
Legislature of the State Of VIRsINIA first, in her
House Of Delegates, and, secondly, in her Senate.
The Members Of both these bodies, we have no
doubt have faithfully reflected the sentiment Of the
People of that State. We notice it only to intro
duce to our readers the following question by a
Virginia Press, and the answer to il by the central
organ of the Disunion party, which, in themselves
Sufficiently expressive, require no comment from vs.
THE QUESTION.
From the Richmond Republicans of SATURDAY,.
PosrIos OF YIReIssA-Ths Resolutions Of the Virginia
Legislature, in reference the great of tho last
Congress, sufficiently "de6ne her position to show that
she has sympathy with Secession and that she Is resolved
to abide by the adjustments Of the last Congress- What will
the Southern Press say now Will it brand Virginia
submissioniss
. THE ANSWER.
From tie "Scathern Press" of tie same morning.
The Resolutions adopted BY the Virginia House Of Dele
gates, submitting to the Compromise have, with trivial
alterations been adopted by the sensefour Senators only
in the negative, viz. Messs Wood. Tribe Thompson, Of
D., and Amber. Mr.. Amber cruel enough propose
substitute the Virginia resolutions Of 1857, but his
motion was lost by vote Of ayes'3. noes 81.
proach unanmiy in the vota Virginia has taken her po-
son as the most submissive State Of the South. How
the mighty fallen
To estimate at. any thing like its full value and
consequence the late action Of the Legislature Of the
State of VIRGINIA repsdiating the Disunion doc
trines Of the South, and dsavowing any intention on
her part to unite with South Carolina or any other
State or States in offering forcibe resistance to the
Laws and Institutions Of the Union, we must re-
member that these VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS consti-
tute thereby of that State to the appeal to her to
take the lead in the revolution projected by the
Hotspurs Of the South. The time is apt for put
ting upon record in our columns the terms in which
that appeal was made, at the Nashville Convention,
by the leading Delegate Of South Carolina to that
Convention, and who has since been appointed by
the Legislature of the same State to be her leading
Delegate to the g Southern Congress the pro.
ject which VIRGINIA has so effectively rebuked.
We quote, therefore, from the Speech Of the
Hon. LsNGDoN CHEvEs, in the Nashville Conven.
ton, the passages which include the "appeal : to
VIRGINIA. to which we here refer:
sI will now speak Of our ability to resist by secession,
u
the least apprehension that any blood will be split In that
case, take il to be morally certain that at least North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, South Carolina Georgia Aabama, Lou
isiana, Flords, Mississippi and Texas ,oH Immediately
unite ,oi her, and in little time, every other slaveholdns
State will join them-except, perhaps Deawae-because
will be their interest do If Virginia shall submit
which seems impossible believehe want Of unanmiy
may emboden the Government try coercion. The power
Of the Government the United States to subdue any two
three considerable States out Of the question 1t
hard to subdue free people, The difficulties Of the Gov
eminent Of the Union in accomplishing that object will
found to be nsurmounsbe The expense will be enormous
It's revenue aciH be destroyed its commerce uaA be sucec
to capture y OUR pRIvATEsRs Our cotton, rice and TO
bacco iH be carried in British and other foreign vesse
Our supplies ,uH to By the same channe Thei
manufactures win find Market bad one. they at
| tempt to invade US, where is their army =
"But If our great parent State US, there will be NJ
blood shed. And it be doubted that she will Virgins
il the mother Of the Southern States. There is scarcely
family within their bounds in whose veins Virginia blood doe
not run. WSUshe abaadon emf If they were to be en-
gagged even in struggle Of doubtful right would she aban
don them But they will resist atrocous injustice
an odous and alarming tyranny, under which she, alik'
with Them SUFFERS nsust she not join them It is the caus
Of Virginia herself Does she blush with shame at thu
condition in which she is placed I"
81 love and honor Virginia half the blood which ir
my veins draw from her-and shall deeply lament her
creancy. On the contrary what destiny open to her
to be at THE Of Of the most glorious Conedva
cies the rold er beheld Of her blood, bone Of he
bone and flesh Of her flesh to rescue herself and all tht
Southern States from gnomnious bondage TO illustrate
by greater brlancy her former goes to rescue from ste
ty the fertile territories the most citous in soil ant
climate the happies in position the richest and most various
in productions that the world in any given space display
watsred BY the splendid river earth which this Con
federacy viii enjoy and command She has her choice,
BE GREAT Insignificant. She has her choice between
generations of renown ages Of vassaage this Be
true, VIRGINIA WEE HEAD THE CosrEDERAcr." .ts9
The Senate of the State Of Pennsylvania has
passed bill to repeal the section Of the law Of
ls47 which forbids the jails of that Commonwealth
to be used for the saekeeping Of alleged fugitives.
The vote was IL ayes to 8 noes. The :" Penn
sylvanian" says:
"There is no doubt Of the House concurring in
this action of the Senate. We hope our friends
in that body will give the subject their earliest at
tention. Pennsylvania could not allow this multi
fvnO law tn remain an the statute books without