New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-29

The following resolutions were adopted In the
Virginia Legislature, on Tuesday last, with but
one or two dissenting votes:
URereas The Legislature OF the State OF Soatn
CerOlina has pasEed an act to provide for the ap-
pointment Of Delegates TO Southern Congress,
ito be entrusted with full power and authority to
deliberate with the view and intention Of resist
sg further ssion and If possible Of restoring
the constitutional rights of the South and If not,
10 recommend due provision for her future safety
and indepe ndence y which act has been formally
communicated to this General Assembly; be it
therefore,
Resolved, BIZ the General Assembly of Virginia.
That while this State deeply sympethizes with
South Carolina in the feelings excited by the un-
warrantable interference Of the non-ssveholding
States with our common institutions, and while
diversity Of opinion exists among the people OF
this commonwealth in regard TO the wisdom.
justice and constitutionaity OF the measures OF
she late Congress Of the United States, taken as
a whole and commonly known as the compromise
measures; yet the Legislature OF Virginia deems
it duty to declare to her sister State of South
Carolina, that the people of this State are I'M
willing to take any action (in consequence OF the
same) calculated to destroy the integrity OF this
Union
Resolved, That regarding the said acts of the
Congress of the United States, taken together, as
an adjustment OF the exciting questions TO which
they relate and cherishing the hope that, il fairly
executed, they will restore to the country that
harmony and confidence which of late have been
90 unhappily disturbed, the State of Virginia
deems it unwise lin the present condition OF the
country) TO send delegates to the proposed
Southern Congress.
ResOlved. That Virginia earnestly and affection.
ately appeals to her sister State Of South Caro-
lima, to desist from any meditated secession upon
her part which cannot bat tend to the destruction
of the Upion and the loss to all of the States Of
The benefits that spring from it.
ReSolUed That Virginia. believing the Consti.u
ton Of the United States, faithfully admins
tered provides adequate protection 20 the rights
of all the States of this confederacy, and skill
looking 10 that instrument for defense within the
Union warned by the experience Of the past, the
dangers of the present, and the hopes OF the
future invokes all who live under it 20 adhere
more strictly TO it, and to preserve inviolste the
safeguards which it affords 10 the rights OF lndl
vidual States and the interests of sectional
minOrities
Resolred That all legislation or combinations
designed in any way to affect the Institutions
peculiar 10 the South deserves the most unquali-
fed reprobation. is derogatory 20 the rights OF,
and peculiarly offensive to- the Southern States,
ard must, If persisted in, inevitably defeat the
restoration Of peaceful and harmonious sentl'
ments in these States.
Resolved That the Governor Of this Common
wealth be requested to transmit copy OF these
resolutions TO the Executive OF the State OF South
Carolina with the request that they be laid be-
fore her next Legislature, and that copies be
also transmitted TO the Executive OF each of the
other States Of this URion-the State OF Vermont
only excepted.