Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-01-18
NORTH CAROLINA.

rage Dill, was, on mOuon OF MIR. Love, recon-
sidered, and the Bill passed on its third reading,
ayes IS, noes 36-more than three-fillhs voting
in the affirmative.
In the Senate, on the Sd inst, the following
special message was received from the Governor
EXECUTIVE OFFleG.
January End, 1851.
To the honorable
The General Assembly of the State Of North Carolina
have the honor herewith to transmit comn1unl-
cation received from his eXcelleney the Governor OF
South Carolina enclosing act passed by the Legs
lature oil that State 10 provide for calling Southern
Convention, &c; And also, COMMUNICATION rom
the President OF the Nashville Convention, In feia-
ton 10 the Slavery question, and the rights OF the
States. DAVID S. REID.
Executive DEPARTMENT,
Columbia, So. Ca. 81 Deer lS50j
10 His Excellency, DAVID S. REID,
Governor of the State OF North Carolina:
:, DEAR SIR,-By direction of the Legislature OF the
State OF South Carolina, send you the Act passed at
its late sitting, which is herewith enclosed.
need scarcely remind your Excelency thatthe COM
mon dangers with which our Institutions are threaten
ed call loudly upon the South to be UNITED, that they
may be averted. The course pursued towards us by
Northern brethren ifnot checked, must involve not
only our Institutions, but ourselves, in ruin. The his
tory OF the e slaon of Congress for the last few yea
is such to prove that aggressions upon the South
will not cease but move onward. The Constitution Is,
in my humble Judgment, entirely dsregarded, and the
only hope possibly have that our liberties
our Institutions can be permanent, is to be derived
from OURSELVES. L have little doubt but that your
Excelency will agree with me, that the interests of the
States over which have the honor to preside the
same and this induces me earnestly request your
Act.
have the homer to be,
With distinguished consideration
Your Excellencys obedept servant,
MARIETTA, Gro, I
End Dec. 1850.
SIR-1 have the honor to forward to you copy Of
the preanabe and resolutions. adopted by the Southern
Convention sat its late session in Mas vile You will
perceive that it was the expectation OF the Conven ton
that this document would be laid before your Legisla
ture, at as early day as it may suit your Excelen
cys convenience with the hope that their proceedings
may produce harmony of action, among the States
interested in he subject to which they relate.
have the honor to be-
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES MCDONALD.
To GOVERNOR REID.
The South Carolina act and the resolutions
passed by the Nashville Convention have already
been placed before our readers, and we need not
republish them at length. 1t may be well, how
ever, to insert the following section of the act
referred to, as explanatory of Gov. Means COM
munication
And be it further enacted by the authority afore-
SUU, nat the governor be ana Is hereby requested,
forthwith, alter the passage OF this act, 10 commune
cate an authentic copy of the same TO the Executive
OF each OF the saveholdng States of the Union, and
urge upon the said authorities, in such as he
may deem best, the desire 1.-THE State OF South Caro-
lima that the said slaveholdipg states do send duly
commissioned deputies to meet the deputies herein pro-
vlded to be elected at the city OF Montgomery the
State of Alabama, the I'd day of January, Ammo
Domni, 1852.
1t will have been seen from the resolutions
adopted by the North Carolina Senate, which we
published yesterday, that that body differs very
widely from Gov. Means, as to the proper inter-
probation of the legislation of Congress. He con-
siders the constitution 'entirey disregarded,"
and wants North Carolina to unite with South
Carolina in Southern Congress to repudiate al
together the Union which such constitution
holds together. But the sentiment of North Ca
roina is, ''to accept the Compromise as the aoork
of peace and to resist any future violations of its
spirit. Instead of favouring the project of Sou
thern Congress to bring about actual secession
for existing causes, North Carolina is even dis
has right to secede at all, except as a revolu-
tonary measure, and proposes to summon togeth-
er her Legislature, with all its constitutional res
possibility, il good reason for dissatisfaction be
given in future. Gov Means, we think, has taken
very little by his notion so far as the sold North
State" is concerned. We are not aware that he
has as yet urged upon our own Governor ''the
desire of South Carolina that the said slavehold.
ing States do send duly commissioned deputies"
to the proposed Congress at Montgomery.
The Charleston Mercury 10th to give up a
foregone conclusion, insists, that although North
ern men interposed to vindicate the efficiency of
the Fugitive Law in the case of Henry Long and
prevailed in causing the fugitive to be delivered up
free of all expense to the claimant, yet the South
must infer from the whole proceeding that the law
is utterly worthless. Long was delivered up, it
argues, as a sort of political measure, and the
Union Committee paid the costs, as party mana
gers subscribe money at an election. "Ihe
redaofhe Fillmore Administration the Mercu-
" rather unwittingy remarks, seas al stake" and
f it was, we submit that it was triumphantly sus-
aimed. Let those in Virginia who unworthily
carp at the patriotic course of the President mark
his frank acknowledgement of the Disunion Or
,an.
MASSACHUSETTS, COALIT ION.
While the telegraph anticipates the mails in
eporting general results, it generally ignoers all
letails we therefore give the voting in the Massa