The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-04-22
Virginia Resolutions.

The following resolutions have been ad
opted by the Virginia Senate. They ori
ginated from select Committee of III,
Honse-passed that body-and were ad
opted by the Senate in the present amended
form. They have returned to the House
and will doubtless be agreed to by that body:
WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State
OF South Carolina has passed an act to pro-
vide for the appointment of delegates to a
Southern Congress, to I've entrusted with
full power and authority to deliberate ith
the view and intention of arresting further
aggression, and If possible of restoring the
constitutional rights of the South and if not
to recommend due provisions for their future
safety and independence !" which act has
been formerly communicated to this General
Assembly:
1st. Bet therefore resolved by the Gene
raj AssemblyQf Virginia, That whilst this
State deeply sympathizes with South Caro-
lima in the feeling excited by the unwar-
rantable interference OF certain non-slave.
holding States with our common institu-
tions, and whilst diversity of opinion exists
among the people of this Commonwealth in
regard 20 the wisdom, justice and constitu.
tlonality OF the measures of the late Con-
gress of the United States, taken as 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 unwilling to take any action Gn
consequence of the same) calculated to des-
troy the integrity of this Union.
2. RESOLVED, That, regarding the said
acts OF the Congress of the United States,
taken together, as an adjustment of the ex-
citing question to which they relate, and
cherishing the hope that, if fairly executed,
they will restore to the country that harmo-
ny and confidence, which of late have been
so unhappily disturbed, the State of Virginia
deems it unwise Tin the present condition
of the country to send delegates to the pro-
posed Southern Congress.
Sd. Resotved, That Virginia earnestly and
ahectlonately appeals to her sister State
South Carolina to desist from any mediate
secession upon her part, which cannot but
endanger the perpetuity of the Union and
the benefits to all the States, resulting from
it,
4th' Resolved, That Virginia, believing
the constitution of the United States, If
faithfully administered, provides adequate
protection to the rights of all the States of
this confederacy, and still looking to that III
strument for defence 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 to ad-
here more strictly to it, and to preserve in
violate the safeguards which it affords to
the rights of individual States and the inter.
ests of sectional minorities.
9th. Resolved, That all acts of legislation
or combinations, designed in any way to
effect the institution of slavery, deserve the
most unqualified reprobation, are peculiarly
offensive to the Southern States, and must,
If persisted in, inevitably defeat the restora-
tion OF peaceful and harmonious sentiments
in these States.
9th. ResotUed, That the Government of
this Commonwealth be requested to trans
nit copy of these resolutions to the Exc
cutive of the State of South Carolina, with
the request that they be laid before the next
Legislature, and that copies be also trans
mitted to the executives of the other States
of this Union.