Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-02

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1t deserves to be added TO the considerations
suggested by the National Integencer IN the fol-
lowing article that the resolutions, adopted with
so near an approximation to unanimlty oy Inc
Legislature of Virginia, were in direct response
10 a communication from the Governor OF South
Carolina. urging the cooperation of this State in
the objects proposed by formal act OF the South
Carolina Legislature; and, foremost amongst these
objects, was a wish to carry out the Recommended
ton of the second Nashville Convention that the
slaveholding States should unite in Southern
Congress-. The preamble of the South Carolina
law recited the reasons for its enaciments, in the
following terms:
"Whereas the Convention of the saveholding States
lately assembled at Nashvlesave recommended 10 'e
said States meet in Congress or Convention, TO De
held such time and place as the States desiring 10 pe
represented may designate, TO be composed OF doune
the number of their Senators and Rep esenatlves III e
Congress of the Used States entrusted with ul pow
and authority TO deliberate, with the view anu MEN
ton of arestng further aggressons, and, II possible OF
restoring the Constitutional rights OF the South, ana
not to recommend some provision Tor Their luuie SAFE
ty and independence"
By the 9th section of the act the Governor
was directed to transmit copy to the Executives
of the slaveholding States, and to urge upon
those authorities 'sthe desire of South Carolina
that thesad States do send deputies to meet hers
| at Montgomery, Alabama, on the I'd OF January
1852. 1t is impossible, therefore, to conceive
more direct and formal refusal to participate in
the Dsunion movement than Virginia has vonch
saied through the resolutions of her Legislature
The reader will not fail to observe, in the ex.
tract from the speech of Mr.. Cheves, that the
leadership of Virginia is assumed to be almost
an indispensable condition precedent to his appro
| val of an attempt at secession.
From the National lnteuisencer.
To estimate at any thing like its full value and con
sequence the late action Of the Legislature fthe State
oil VIRGINIA repudating the Dsunon doctrines OF TIL
South and disavowiug ANY intention on her part
unite with South Carolina or any other State or State
in offering torcble resistance to the Laws and lnstliu
tons of the Uuion we must remember that these VIR
GINA RESOLUTIONS constitute the reply OF that State Il
the appeal TO her take the lead in the revolution pro
jected by the Hotspurs Of the South The time is ap
| Tor putting upon record in columns the terms il
| which that appeal was made, at the Nashville Con
vention, by the leading Delegate OF South Carolina
that Convention, and who has since been appointed
the Legislature oil the same State 10 be her leadin!
Delegate to the "Southern Congress"--the prolec
which VIRGINIA has so effectively rebuked.
We quote, therefore, from the Speech OF the Hon
| liangdOn CheVeS, IN Inc NaSnVlHe NoHHtutiou, III
passages which include the appeal to VIRGINIA t.
which we here REFER
81 will speak of our ability to resist by secession
should it be opposed. If VIRGINIA shall lead, hav
not the least apprehension that any blood will be spill
In that case tateit to be morally certain that at leas
| North Carolina Tennessee South Carolina, Georgia
Alabama Lousinna, Florida, Mississippi, and lexa
aoiH Immediately unite Nth her, and, in a little time
| every other slaveholding State will join them-excep
perhaps. Observation-Disclosures it will be their interest
do 80. Ii Virginia shall snbmt-which itseems impos
sible to beeve-the want OF unanimlty may embode
| the Government to try coercion. The power OF tn
Government OF the United States to subdue any two
three considerable States seems out OF the question:
is hard 10 subdue free people. The difficulties OF tn
Government OF the Union in accomplishing that obec
will be found to be insurmountabe.s The expens
will be enormous. Its revenue will be destroyed, ii
commerce will be subject to capture by our privaeer
Our cotton, rice, and tobacco will be carried in brs
and other foreign vessels Our supplies wi come 70 u
BY the same channels. Their manufactures will lind
Market bad one. Ii they attempt to invade u;
where is their armyP
"But flour great parent State LEAD Us, there W i
he no blood she'd And can it be doubted that she will
Virginia is the mother OF the Southern States Their
is scarcely family within their bounds in whose vein
| Virginia blood does not run VIII she abandon them
II they were 10 be engaged even IN struggle, o
doubtful right, would she abandon them But as the
will resist most atroclous Injustice an odiouS AMI
alarming tyranny, under which she, alike with them
suffers must she nooin then, 1t is the OF Virgil
MIA herself Does she not blush with shame at the con
dition in which she is placed !"
81 love and honor Virginia; halt the blood which
runs in my veins draw from her-and shall deeply
lament her recreancy. On the contrary, what destn,
is open to her; to be at the head of the most elo
rous Conederacies the toorld beheld OF her owl
blood, "bone of her bone and flesh OF her flesh
TO rescue herself and all the Southern States from an
ignominious bondage illustrat. by greater brlan
cy her former gores; rescuefrom sterily the mes
fertile territories the most elicous in soil and climate
the happest in position, heiiichet and most various Il
productions that the world in any given space can dis
play, walersd by the most splendid river on earth
which this Confederacy will enjoy and command
She has her choice, to be great insignificant. oh
has her choice between generations OF renown or age
of mean vassalage. lfths BE- true, Virginia piH hea
| the Confederacy."