The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-22

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We find the following Ia tho Richmond En-
quirsr, among the proceedings Of the legislature.
SLAVERY KssoLUrIoSs.
Nj. BOILING thought that it was tune the
true position of Virginia should be made known.
moro especially - she had recently given utter
aace TO doubtful vote
He accordingly offered the following resolu-
tons:
Whereas tho questions which lately sgitated
the Congrcss Of the United States, and threat-
ened the pence Of the country and the very exis-
tcncs Of the Union, have been happily terminated
by the several acts known as the Compromise
measures !" and, whereas the adjustment of those
questions was effected without ontraveninQ the
position taken by Virginia at the last session Of
the Legislature; and whereas the said Compro-
mise measures are regarded by Virginia as bind
ing upon all the States OF this Union, however
they or individuals may deem them short Of the
full measure Of justice to the slave States and
whereas Virginia considers, as she ever has con-
sdered, the Union great blessing; and where
as, also, Virginia regards the Compromise mea-
sures in the nature Of treaty Of peace between
the non saveholding and the slaveholding States
Therefore,
Bel RESOLVED by the General Assembly Of Vir-
ginia That Virginia will stand to and abide by
those measures In good faith, and will not sus-
tain or countenance any State in the violation
Of them.
Rssolred, That Virginia will consider the re-
peal of the Fugitive slave law dissolution Of
the Union, and will, in case it is repealed, refuse
any longer to recognize herself member there
Of.
RESOLVED, That Virginia looks with profound
contempt upon that reckless and lawless party
at the North, known as Abolitionsts, and re-
CARDS them ns persons destitute of all claim to
the respect or federation of mankind, and that
ench State owes it to its sister States to arrest
all farther agitation Of the slavery question by
them within their limits.
RESOLVED, also, That our Senators ia the Sem
ate Of the United States, be instructed, and our
members Of Congress be requested to sustain
the Compromise measures in good faith-and,
in case the law, generally known rs the Fugitive
law, is repealed-or, Congress- shall pass any
law, abolishing slavery in the District Of Colum-
bia, or abolishing slavery In, or the slave trade
between the States, that our said Senators and
members of Congress resign their seats in the
respective bodies of which they are members,
and return home.
Resolped, That the Governor of this Common
wealth be requested to send n copy of these re-
solutions to each State of this Union, and also
to our Senators and Representatives in Congress.
After some debate they were postponed indie
inately by vote Of SO to So.
On the next day Mr. DoRMAS introduced other
resolutions in favor Of the Compromise, which
on his own motion were laid on the table.
Fey Apprehensions are beginning to be ex-
cited even at the North that the Free-soilers are
kicking the submissive South too hard and fast
fora much longer acquiescence in repeated wrong
and outrage. While Southern submissionists are
rejoicing over the contemptuous forbearance
at present exercised in some of the higher law
quarters--and hailing the advent of an hour
when their meek endurance and philosophic com.
posture is to agve peace to this distracted coun.
try"-Northern men, more sagacious by far, are
striving to drive back the food tide of fnatioism
for time, and expostulating against the folly
and wickedness Of precptating the doom of the
South
Hence it is, that while the submission press
is silent on the subject of the infamous bill in
troduced into the New York Legislature, by
Mr. CoFFIN, one Of the New York papers, the
Cooperstopn Freeman's Journal speaks as fol
lows. Where its shoe pinches, the itilcised
paragraph shows. 1t goes for the CLAY pro-
gramme.
A FIREBRAND.-The Hon. Edwin s. Coffin
mem,e r Of the Assembly from the second As
sembly district of this county, introduced a bill
into that body, on the 10th inst, to which we
desire to call the attention of our readers. The
bill is in the following words, viz:
Here follows the bill.
We have not the patience to discuss this bill
calmly. II is an abomination--an outrage which
should be received with universal Kissing and
execration. Talk of the notification of South
Carolna-when did the ultra State-right doc
trines of that State take more obnoxious form
than this! Where has there ever occurred n
more direct conflict between the State and Fed
eral authorities than that which this delectabe
bin is intended to produce Well let the worst
come; let notification prevail, and the black
flag Of abolitonism float in triumph over the
capitol; then there will very soon be an end to
agitation, and the contest will be fought which
shall decide whether the Government of the
United States is the weakest government on
earth--that is, governmentincapable Of nforc-
ing its own laws whenever the State legislatures
choose to enact laws in conflict with them. That
is question which once brought the country to
the verge of civil war, and which now looms up
before us with an aspect that threatens the per-
petuity Of these United States, more than all
the disturbing causes that contributed to the
downfall of the ancient republics
We had hoped that the present legislature
would confne itself to its legitimate functions.
This negro question, if it belong anywhere this
side Of Pandemonium, belongs to Congress =
The whiie people Of This State hare interests Of
their opn--rast, raried and omplicated-inferesfs
Of Agriculture, Of Manufactures, Of Commerce
and these interest should not be disregnrded in
an overweening anxiety to legislate exclusively
for the imagined interests of the colored race.
A large number Of bills has already been intro
duced-some of them OF great interest and i'm
rortanc'. which will require the whole time Of
the session to attend to properly. We sincerely
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