Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-20


reapagGay ~sp ,slsnpI "a ooElnlttse Consisting OF
,1c ioilG"i"g Senllemen Col element Caninglonn,
Capt Thomas Pettusy Henry A Watkins, William M |
Root Morton, Samuel d Morton, John Cole
man, Bryan Lester, George Hannah John Mar
shall John Thomas, J9hu Il Thomas Henry MAD Mad
Edward b Folwkes, Mathew ] Williams, Samuel l. |
Yenabe, VIM Bacon, John Booth, Francis Barnes,
iel, Thomas Spencer, Paul Darlington, John Daniel,
Charles Raine, Benjamin Marshall, Col ] Marshall,
II Marshall, Cornelius Barnes, DR. Hoge, Or
Samuel Daniel, Wnslow Robinson, Nicholas Ed
munds, Major Gaines, r ] Games, Henry Darlington,
Edward w Henry, Thos T Boudin, James w Bould-
ton Thomas Morton, Martin Hancock, D 3 Hancock,
Clement Hancock, Col Fl Spencer, G G Friend Jacob
Morton, Wyatt Cardwell, VIM Smith, Col Thomas
Read, Thomas Read, j, Archibald Davidson, VIM
T Scott Major Thomas Nelson, Isham Harvey, ST.,
Joel Watkins, Thos E Watkins, Major Samuel Bald
win, Robert Darlington and John Randolph, of Roa-
noke.
Col Clement Darlington having declined serving,
and the committee nm being called, Capt T Pettus J
Fowlkes, VIM Bacon, Marshall, ] H Marshall
Cornelius Barnes, Or Pauillo, DIR Garden, Nicholas
Edmand:, Henry Carrington, Ed ward w Henry
IhGmfS T ondln' Thongs MQEton Martin !, Han
T Nelson, Col Harvey, Joel Watkins, T E Wat
kins and Samuel Baldwin were found to be not pre-
sent.
The members present then formed themselves into
committee, Capt Henry A Watkins in the Chair,
and Wlnslow Robinson acting as Secretary.
Mr. William M Watkins then moved that the COM
mlttee to a resolution, recommending that the
meeting be adjourned to some future day, which was
lost. Whereupon, Mir. Watkins withdrew from the
committee. The committee then proceeded to take
the resolutions into consideration The four first re-
solutions were adopted unanimously. The fifth with
dissentient voice. Mr.. Green. On the sixth reso
luton, there were five dissentent voices. Mr. Paul
Darlington, Mr. Leslie, MI Madison, MIR Daniel and
Mr. lsham Harvey. The seventh resolution was
ried unanimously The eight, was also carried, Mr.
Paul Carr a and The nj nj
| tenth and eleventh were adopted unanimously.
The Committee then rose and reported the rTesolq-
| two dissenting voices--CoI Glenn. Darlington and
Mr.. r. w. Gaines
| On motion of Mr.. John Marshall, it was then
Resolved, That copies of the proceedings of this
meeting be sent for publication to the different press
| es in Richmond, Petersburg, Norfolk, Lynchburg,
| Fredericksburg and Washington, and that copies be
sent Mr. Bouldln our Representative in Congress,
and his colleagues; to Senators, the President
of the United States, TO Benjamin Watkins Leigh,
Esq, to the Governor of South Carolina and to Mai
Gen. James Hamilton, commander of the State troops
of s. Carolina, IN Charleston.
On motion of Mr., Whitfield Read,
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this
meeting be given to Mr. Randolph Tor his open and
decided support of the rights OF the States and his
strenuous and efficient opposition to the odious con-
solidang doctrines OF the Presidents late Proclama-
ton.
Mr. Randolph then expressed his thanks in a speech
of considerable length in the of which all the
warmest sympathles which have so long united him
to his old constituents, seemed to be awakened, and
on the breaking up OF the meeting they parted with
feelings such no man besides ever excited.
WINSLOW ROBINSON, Sec'y.
l. Reoved, That while retain grateful sense
of the many great and valuable services rendered by
Andrew Jackson, Esq to the United States, we owe
it to Country, and to posterity make our
solemn protest against many of the doctrines of his
late Proclamation.
2 Resolved, That Virginia sis and of right ought
to be free, sovereign and independent State' that
she became SO by her own separate act, which has
been since recognized by all the civilized world, and
has never been dsavowed, retraced, in any wise
impaired weakened by any subsequent act OF hers
3. Resolved, That when, for purposes Of common
defence and common welfare, Virginia entered into
strict league of amty and alliance with the other
twelve colonies of British North America she part
ed with No Portion of her Sovereignty: Although,
from the necessity of the case, the authority to
force obedience was IN certain and for certain
purposes, delegated to the common agents of the whole
confederacy,
4. Resolved, That Virginia has never parted with
the right to recall the authority delegated, for good
and sufficient cause, with the right Judge ofthe
suHicency of such cause and to secede from the
federacy whatsoever she shall find the benefits of the
Union exceeded by its evils: Uniou being the means
of securing liberty and happiness, and not end to
which these should be feed
5. Resolved, That the alleg lance of the people of
Virginia due to her-hat to her their obedience is
due, while to them she owes protection against all the
consequences of such obedience.
6. Resolved, That we have seen, with deep regret
that Andrew Jackson, Esq President of the United
States, has been influenced by designing counselo1s
TO subserve the purposes of their guilty ambition,
tion to the Chief Magstracy of the Government of THE
United ates and to transfer his real friends and sup
porers, bound hand and foot, to the tender merces of
his aud their bitterest enemesthe ultra Federasts,
ultra Bank, ultra Tariff, ultra Internal Improvement,
and Hartford Convention men, the habitual scofers at
State rights, and to this instrument the vena and
prosuIed press by which they have endeavoured and
but too successfully to influence and msead public
opinion
T. Resolved, That Virginia will be found her own
worst enemy whenever she consents 10 number among
her friends those who themselves but
when they are false TO their country.
3. Resolved, That we owe it to Justice, while de-
nouncing this portentous combination between Gen
Jackson and the late unhaowed coalition of his and
enemies, to acquit them oil auy derelcton of prn-
cpe, and TO acknowledge that they have but acted in
their vocation.
9. Resolved That We cannot consent to adopt prin-
ciples which we have always disavowed, merely be-
they have been adopted by the President and
although we shall be ia lean and prescribed minority
we are prepared again TO take up cross confident
OF success under that banner SO long as we keep the
faith and can have access to the public ear.
10. Resolved, That while utterly reprobate the
doctrine OF notification equally weak and mischiev-
ous we cannot Tor that reason give counenance to
principles equally unfounded and in the highest degree
dangerous to the liberties OF the people,
II. Resolved, That we highly approve of the mis-
sion OF Benjamin Watkins Leigh-no only as in itself
eXpedieuL and udleous, but uniting upon the man
the best qualified, whether for abilities integrity and
principles, moral and political, beyond all others in
the Commonwealth, or In tho United States, for the
high arduous and delicate task which has been devoyed
upon him by the unanimous suffrage of the Assembly
and we believe ofthe people, and which he alone is
perhaps capable from all these considerations united n
his person of discharging with success and restoring
this confederate Republic TO lts former harmony and
IN ion
tSigned)
JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke,
Chairman.