The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-03-25
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ne lOIlOWlng are tne preamble ana IeSOiu-
tons offered in the Virginia Legislature on
Thursday last, by Mr.. Scorr, of Fauquier,
and which, when taken up in the House of
Delegates on the following day, after an ami
mated debate, were referred, by vote of Ga to
! 81, to select committee of thirteen:
"wHERzAs the States of New Hampshire, Mary
land and Indiana. through their conventions. and
the State of Illinois through her Legislature, have
expressed their appreciation of the series Of acts of
| the late Congress commonly known the "Com-
promise measures" and declared their determine
| ton to support the same final adjustment of
the sectional controversy that has 30 long agiated
| the Union; and whereas the State of South Caro-
lima has expressed opposition to those measures,
| and through her Legislature taken steps TO send
deputies to the Congress Of the southern States
proposed by the late Nashville convention, and,
connection Herewith, has provided for the assem-
bling of State convention to take into considera
ton the proceedings and recommendation of the
said Congress; and for the further purpose of tax
ing into confederation the general welfare of that
State in view Of her relations to the laws and Gov
eminent of the United States; and these acts hav-
ing been formally communicated to this General
Assembly, it il deemed proper that this State
should make known to her sister States her senti-
ments respecting the same:
ssBe IL therefore resolcsd By tie General Asssmbly
Of Virginia, That regarding the said acts of the
Congress of the United States final adjustment
the exciting questions to which they relate this
State is willing to acquesce in the same, and che
rishes the hope that il fairly executed. they will
store to the country that harmony and confidence
between its parts which oflate have been unhap-
PLY disturbed.
ss2. That while this State sincerely sympathizes
with South Carolina in the feelings excited by the
unwarrantable interference of the people of Of
the States with domestic institutions and whilst
cannot approve of all the legislation of Congress
touching the same, yet she perccves in the present
condition of the country nothing to justify any &C
ton calculated to endanger the integrity Of tho
Federal Union.
"3. That, in the. language of the Farewell Ad-
dress of the Father of Country she regards the
unity Of Government which constitutes one
people q main pillar of our real, independence;
the support Of our tranquility at home, our peace
abroad Of safety Of prosperity, of that very
liberty which We highly price, and, watching
for its safety with jealous nxiety this State deems
it duty 70 declare that she cannot unite in the
southern congress, nor in any way commit herself
to the evident consequences of such measure; and
she lie constrained respectfully but earnestly. to
monstrate with her sister State against any medi.
tated secession on her part. which but tend
to the destruction of the Union, and the loss of all
the countless blessings that spring from it.
-. That the legislation Of Vermont and other
slaveholding States designed to deprive the South
of the only measure of the Compromise conceded
for its protection deserves the scverest Reproduction,
peculiarly offensive to the southern States, de-
rogntory to their rights, and fraught with immi-
nent danger to the Union
"5. That the Governor be requested to transmit
copies of these resolutions to the Executives Of each
of the other States, with request that they be laid
before their respective Legislatures."