Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-31

EXTRACTS FROM THE aPGgcH DELIVER
Ed BY hlB. SUMMERS. IN THE vtR9 lNIA
STATE CONVENTION, ON THE % OF
MAY, 1851.
But etus continue the history of these proceedings.
On the same day that the report which have read
was made from the committee. motion submit
ted by Mr. Preston, TO amend the same by resolution
in these words:
Resolved, AS the opinion of this committee that it
Is expedlent to adopt legislative enactments Tor
the abolition Of slavery"
f To those who familiar with parliamentary pro-
ceedings need not say that this was in fleet simply
motion to strike out the word lneXpedient' from
The committees report and to substitute the word ex-
pedent IN Its stead. The report affirmed that it was
inexpedent for the present. to legislae the sub
, lec The plan of Mr.. Randolph still before the
House, ana there were many who desired that it should
be considered. The adoption of the report would cut
of all further consideration OF the question Mr. Pres.
tons amendment made issue with the committee on
the question oftime. fit had prevailed it would~ have
preserved mr.; Randolphs scheme Tor examinaon, Ell
her by the House or in the committee. No one con-
tempiated gong any further IT Mr.. Preston'8 amend
ment had been successful than to consider the exped-
ency OF Mr.. Randolph's plan.
On the 25th of January Mr.. Witcher moved the
lnde1nIe pc ponement OF the report OF the committee,
and OF Mr. Preston's amendment. On this motion, the
vote was 90 in the affirmative and II in the negative.
nineteen members from the east side Of the Blue Ridge
voted IN the negative, viz Messrs. Drummond, oil Ac-
ccmac, Wood, OF Abemarle, Randolph of Albemare,
GaIiend, OF Amherst, Boiling, of Buckingham, ives,
OF campbell, Jones, OF Elizabeth city, Marshall of
fauqnlr, Bryce, of (3oochand, Roauc, of Hanover,
Mayo OF Henrlco. McIlheny, CordeII and Caldwell, of
Eoudoun, Chandler and Leigh OF Norfolk, Moncure of
Stafford, and Powell, of Spottsylvauia.
The vote then required on the adoption of Mr. Pres.
tons amendment, which was lost, there being fifty
eight 10 the affirmative and seventy three in the
alive Eight eastern members voted for the amend
men VIZ: Messrs Drummond, Randolph, Garland
Boiling Jones, McIIheny, Cordel, and Caldwell
Mr. Bryce OF GoochIand, then moved an amend.
ment to the report OF the committee by way of pre-
amble, (which adopted by the House and which
ca sed the report to read thus:
profoundly sensible ofthe great evils arising from
the condltlon Of the olored population OF this Com
monweallh. induced by humanity as we'll as policy to
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ther action Tor the removal of the slaves should await
| a more definite development of public opinion:
" Resolved AS the opinion OF this commjttee, that
IT'S ne1pedlent for the present to make any legsa-
| tive enactments for the abolition of slavery !"
In this form it was finally adopted bv a vote of 65
to So. Among those who voted for the report as
amended IN tins :. form were twenty one eastern
| dolph OF Albemarle, Garland OF Amherst BOILING of
buckingham Riyes Of Campbell, Jones, of EIIzabeth
city, Marshall Of Fauqner, Bryce, beforehand Roane
OF Hanover Mayo, fHenrico, Hooa, of King Georoe
Mcllheny, Cordell and Caldwell, of Loudon Cha n
dler and Leigh, ofNorIok county, Powell, Of SPOT
syyanis Moncure, Of Stafford King, of Norfolk citv
This is the shape the measure finally assumed and
there stands to this day unreversed 1t passed bvt he
mingled vote OF eastern men and of western men
The resolution is precisely that reported bv the com
mittee ITSELF and the preamble does not contain SON
ment which was not announced over ard over aaajn
by eastern men IN that discussion and by MANY who,
when the vote came declined to record their names
in its support. Yet it passed with the votes Of 81
eastern delegates, notwithstanding all the appliances
used create larm
Gen; Brodnax, the chairman of the committee of
| Sybjo "A
ed did not finally vote for when became amended
by tie adoption OF Mr.. Bryces preamble But his po
slon may be ascertaned by reference 10 what he said
upon the motion of the gentleman from MeckIenburg
TO discharge the committee. read an extract ftom
thu" Enquirer" oil January II, 1882:
January ID 1932-Mr. Brodnax moved to take I'm
the resolution OF Mr.. Goode to DISCHARGE the COM
m,ttee, &C., and the amendment of Mr.. Randolph -
| They taken up.
MIR. Broadnax addressed the House in q each nj
nearly 'hree hours length He declared himself eq1al
! y opposed to the resolution and amendment stafinn
his hrm conviction that something must be done to
avert consequences which were otherwise inevabIe
out That plan Tor this purpose ought to have as its
polar principles
"Ist. That not a slave should be manumtted with
out being deported from the State
SGD. Nothing should be attempted which conld af
iect nlumously the value or security OF property
''3d That the State should take from no citizen
| slave without the consent of the owner
He thought the deportation of 500 900 free negroes
at the cost OF 100000 annually to Liberia Would
keep down the increase of the coloued population and
Here 1t Will be that Gen Rrodnax onlv differ
ed from others as to the quo motto. He became of
opinion mat an annual appropriation of two hundred
thousand dollars would carry off 10 Liberia all the
free negroes and would induce emancipation bv the
owners to considerable extent of their slaves to be
transported thher also.
This review will have exhibited in some DEGREE he
state 1.-THE public mind In Virginia, aud especially in
Eastern Virginia, at that day upon the question miro
Guced 80 unexpectedly into the House of Delegates
But the sentiment then prevalent can in no manner
be better tested than by the tone of the public press
that time Many OF the leading newspapers ia east
ern Virginia out full moulhed for actIon n, this
SUBJECT among these stood prominent and foremost
the Richmond Enquirer and the Richmond Wing, the
organs OF the two great political parties of the State
a.e anu uSlaea IN opinion upon almost every
othef SUBJECT but united and embarked in a COM
mon cause as to this. The Enquirer then the lead
lngJournal OF the State, and exercising verv con.
trolling influence upon public opinion, was the open
advocate of decisive action by the legislature With
the permission Of the committee will trouble YOU
WIN single extract from from an editorial article in that
create and TO direct the public sentiment is also most
generally faithful mirror reflect the public senti-
ment as 1t exists
This extract has been recently published in the
Itm'es we were not aware that it was embodied in
Mr.. Summers speech.]
Such, sir, was the language which the "Fnouirar
employed while this question was pending before the
House OF Delegates; such was the tocsn voice of The
chlel organ OF eastern opinion, that urged ac
ton, and yet because of the investigation then made
at the instance of eastern petitioners and eastern re
personalities, western men charged with having
furnished twenty years ago an example which renders
It dangerous to extend equal representative power 10
the western people.
might here ask attention to the petitions and me-
MORALS from many of the eastern counties which
were referred to the committee of twenty-one, as
forming the ground of all the action which washad or
attempted or to the clerks office of The House of
Delegates and read the imploIinq language of the me-
morals irom Hanover, Charles City, Caroline, Prince
W lllam, Buckingham, Loudoun, Fauquier and other
counlles IN eastern Virginia.
MR. S. then read from the proceedings in Loudoun
county, and petitions from Fauquiel and Prince Viii
Ham, to show that the appeal for emancipation came
from the East to the West sand to prove that since
you choose to go back to past transaction for evil