Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-17
IPAssEn January 10, 1893.


of the commonwealth, :" not complied with
according to their tenor, within the time allowed
nv the legislature, the executive be, and is
hereby required, to apply the money appropra-
ted to the fulflmen of those contracts to the pur
chase of other arms, wherever the same can De
had.
SEC. 9. And whereas it may be thought neces-
sary to distribute any arms which may be Pfocu-
red among the militia Be 1t enacted, that SO
much of any law may require the executive 10
erect an arsenal or arcenals shall be- and the same
Is hereby suspended until the next session OF as
sembly.
AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled an Act' to dts-
able certain Officers, ander the Constitutional
Government, from holding Offices ander tile dw-
Mority of this Commonwealth.
PASSED January 9, 1899.
SEcT1oN l. Be 1t enacted and declared by the
General assembly, That person holding or ac-
cepting any Office or place, or any commission or
appointment whatsoever civil or military, under
the authority of the United States, whether any
nav or emoument be attached to such office, place,
commission or appointment or otherwise, or ac-
ceptinp or receiving any emolument whatsoever,
from the United States, shall be capable OF beng
elected to or of holding any Office, legislative, ex-
ecutive or judicial, any other office, place, or
appointment of trust, or profit, under the govern
ment of this commonwealth Provided, That no
thing herein contained shall be so construed to
prevent members of Congress from sitting as coun-
ty court magistrates or from Kidding offices in the
militia or so as to exclude any person receiving a
pension from the United States, in consequence of
any wound received in war, from any Office under
this commonwealth, on account of such pension.
Sec. 9. Ind be at further enacted, That any per-
son nominated to any office, place, or appointment,
under the General Government, who shall not sig
Nifty his intention to decline the acceptance thereof
previous to acting under any appointment under
this commonwealth, shall be equally liable to the
exclusions of this act as if he had actually accep-
ted the same
Sec. 8. All acts and parts of acts, coming with
in the purview of this act, shall be, and are here
by repealed.
Sec. A. Nothing herein contained shall so operate
to create any exclusion whatsoever upon militia
ry officers or soldiees on account of the recon-
pense they may receive from the United States,
when called out into actual duty.
SEC. 5. This act shall commence and be in force
from and after the first day of July next.
The Importance of the occasion and the efficen-
cy of her action, are most accurately and elegant
ly described by one of Virginias noblest sons, in
1897, in speech in her Legislature-the Hon
W. B. Giles, on the resolutions and protest against
the Tariff:
''In 1798-'99, under much more discouragng
circumstances than the present, Virginia was again
threatened for daring to assert her rights. FoI
daring to resist the Alien and Sediton Laws He1
representatives on this floor were threatened with
arms, with incarceration Did they then mean
ly, and timdy yield to these alarms No sir
They determined again to regain their rights, OF
perish il the attempt; they then went earnestly
and Systematically to work. The first measure
they then adopted, was, to pass law, to protect
them in the freedom of debate requiring the
State Judges, in the event of any member, being
imprisoned for words used in debate, to issue
writ of habeas corpus and to replace the incarce
rated member in his place, on this floor. They
then determined to arm the militia and to make
provision to purchase 5000 stands of arms. Their
1t Sir, that the foundation for the regular sup
ply of arms to the militia was laid in the establish
ment of your armory. To defray the expenses o.
these measures they raised the whole taxes of the
State 25 per cent, with single scrape of the pen
Backed by these measures. they entered a solemn
protest against the offensive laws. These were
measures truly worthy of Virginia. Did they
eventuate in war +? in disunion No Sir. They
saved the Union-they saved the nation. These
measures regained liberties and once more
We were free. These measures well deserved sue
cess, and they were successful"
mean to beg and fret and scold, as some of hel
degenerate sons have since ignobly declared
Let the voice of her sister States to whom hel
resolutions were addressed, and who ought to have
understood her meaning-speak and let her own
voice, again spoken in reply to those States, an
swer the slanderous, cowardly lnsinuation. On
this point, offer extract from the pen of the
amented Augustus Smith Clayton, of Georgia,
written some years before his death, whose power
full review has left no oothold for either the ge-
MUS of Federalism or Websterism, to make a
stand on this subject.
Extracts from Judge Clayton's Letter, of 25M
jane, 1888
''But let us examine into the manner these res
olutionS were received by the other States, let us
see the sense in which they were taken by the very
persons to whom they were addressed. Cotem-
poraneous Interpretation is of the highest authori
ty. What said the State of Delaware, then and
now under the dominion of Federalism 'sThat
they considered the Resolutions from the State
of Virginia as a very unjustifable interference
with the General Government, and of dangerous
tendency, and therefore not fit subject for fur.
Their consideration of this General Assembly u
What The right to petition, to demonstrate, fol
the purpose of effectng, by its moral influence,
change of public opinion, an ''unjustfable inter
ference with the General Government p "Ot
dangerous tendency % Who so abuses that en-
lghtened, though little State of Delaware, as tc
believe that this was her meaning