Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1856-07-03

felt called utter your Earning against our doctres
on this subject your needless and in all Kindness
say, tauntiDg inslnuatoR that holding pro.
perry that belongs YOU your further adn Il speak of
the effect Of the words your ntenonl your taunt
about our sJc'HdHg you oil this combined with your
avowal that you mean 70 keep you are now and
have been doing in the past, looks a good deal like
. settled antagonism, and Unatered alienation" A
thing that remains IN the heart for twenty wears and
is declared will remain so ia the future looks very much
like settled and unsltered thing, and IL is not anago-
nism hnd alenauoait Is something right hard 20 define
But when you say IL is not, at once Withdraw the
charge and -hal not repeat IT, on these grounds
but the main question Is, che Assemblies hold
the same views, they liable the same aeitaons on
tue question OF Slavery You affirm, deny. What
your proofs
ls That the resolutions OF 1916 were strongly anti.
slavery, and that reasseted aud reafrmed" them in
1876, aud hence that antsavery even more anti
slavery than you are confess that amazed shen
read your argument not you intimate becsuse was
more Ignorant Of the documentary history sbs sbjsot
than you but because had knowledge on this
subeot which surely have escaped your notice OF
you would never have attempted 10 construct an afgu
ment which must reco with such crushing force your
self viii now prove % that you Individually have
claimed and defended this action Of 1913 AZ The action
Of your Assembly which you try 10 iasten exclusive
" on ~ that your Assembly has Te-assered and re-
affirmed IT, whilst onrs has not (3) that even IL all this
were not true, this action anti slavery IL
would seem from your letter antsavefy a. Acts
Of your Assembly aud ~ that IL il were IL has no force
Of law whatever bot only expression Of opinion and
proves the opinion only 81 the Of sls aud those
Of $50
% II will hardly be helsyed by many of your readers
Of June 10Th, IN which you Try 70 fasten the acdon Of
1878 on us ~ exclusively ours and strongly sntsavery
that ia your Southern circular, written in May the fol
lowing sentences occur IN which you claim Tor your.
selves, what in June you tried % hsten on rs.
"The General Assembly Of Church never has sanc.
toned the sentiment that the relation o and ser
want is sin PER The nearest approximation % this
opinion found the resolutions " the Assembly pass
ed w 1878. But, that u not the intention a te ~
semby OF 1918 20 express such opinion j. evident
from the fact that those resolutions adopted by
unanimous vOte-such men o. DE-. George Baxter and
Dr. Conrad Specie, Of Virginia voting for them" .
Here YOU claim the action Of ss the actos Of your
Assembly, AID icy 10 shOv that II peculiarly
strong auayefy action. This iu May vet in June
you discover that alone responsible Tor tst soton
and that 10 very anti slavery appeal from the Read
Of June 20 the Reed Of May the better reader Of the
two.
o. Your Assembly has rcassorted and rearmed this
action, whilst hos not
You ICY ~ prove that hsve asserted and re-af
hrmed This action, ~ she resolution of 1876 which wss
run through he Asenby day by piece Of adrOit
management aud which simply asserts that the rcsolu
on oi 1875 not intended 20 deay snd reacnd prev
Gus testimony this subject But surely 700 cannot
suppose that this Nas F-dHsSyfag and rCafTming it,
We I'D not deny fescnd because You show IN your
bouthern circflar the action Of 1918 only expressed
what vas pure conservatism then but sbat would he rad
icaism now but We did not re-sfhrm beoaase 10 would
not cypress our opinions nov. speak vth confidence