New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-13
We@ Otleans DULY Gtestent.
TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IL, 1859.
PUBLIC FEELING IN yIRsI,1,

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1s, 1853.
PUBLIC FEELING IN VIRGINIA.
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Public feeling in Virginia seems to have risen I,
ie"er neat, i'll consequence Of the diabolical doing
| and contemplatlons OF the Abolitionists and w,
should not be surprised if the Legislature now i,
session. responding to the popular voice, shoul,
pass such stringent local laws as would amount Il
commercial non-intercourse with the North
virginia leads the way judiciousy most of tn
Southern States will follow her
Over -four columns of the Richmond Wbio of tb
5th instant are occupied with proceedings of count
public meetings; and the editor says he still ha
on hand enough of these proceedings to fill tw,
more entire issues of the Whig''-and the Whie
journal of mammoth dimensions. In further re
ference to this matter the Wing significantly OBJ
serves E" We hope the whole people of the Nortl
Will mark well and calmly the sentiments and pur
poses OF the people of Virginia. as displayed il
these proceedings. Never before, in the history o
this Commonwealth, were the people so aroused
and SO bent on maintaining their rights and homo
at any COST
We have only room for brief extracts from tn,
proceedings of few Of the most important publ
meetings.
their preamble that if the mad spirit of fanatcisr
cannot be stayed-if bands of armed murderers ar
to be thrown in mdst-if the peaceful quiet o
our homes is thus to be invaded then the prea
law of self-preservation must demand the imme
date dissolution of the Union unanimousl,
adopted the following resolutions:
Resolced, That this meeting recommend a con
yentlon of all the slaveholding States to take int
consideration the condition of the country an,
suggest The city of Charleston South Carolina, an,
the second Monday in April, 1860, as a suitable
place and time for the meeting of said convention
Resolued, That our merchants be requested mo-
to trade with the Northern cities or to obtail
through them articles either of foreign or domestic
production.
Resotued, That our Legislature be petitioned t,
pass such laws as may be enacted without viola
ton of the federal compact, to burden and restric
our commerce with the free States. and that sucl
burdens and restrictions be made to operate, as ia
as practicable, as total prohibition
Resolred, That should the coming Presidential
election result in the success Of the Black Bepubli
can tlcket-the effort to place in the Presidenta
chair one Of that party, and especially one be
ilevea 10 nave been cognizant of the movements a
Harpers Ferry, would demand the immediate
withdrawal OF all the slavcholding States from tn
Union
At a large meeting in Fauquier county, the fol
lowing resolutions, among others, were unani
mously adopted:
That oil persons who SHALL directly or Indirectly
sell in this State the manufactures of the non.slaye
holding States, SHALL in addition to the tax nov
pad by him Or them, pay annually the sum of fiy
hundred dollars or at that rate, SO long as he O
they may continue such sales
lhat no person or persons residing in this State
and doing business therein, who shall import goods
wares and merchandise from any foreign port di
rectiy thereirom, into any port ports in Virginia
shall pay any tax upon the sale thereof That al
persons who shall directly or indirectly in thi
state sell the manufactures of the non-slavehold
ing States shall, in addition1to the taxes nov
PAID by hlm or them pay annually the sum of fiy
hundred dollars at that rate so long as thew ma
continue such sales.
That any person or persons, companies or corpo
ratons residing or located within the State of Vir
ginla, VINO shall purchase steam engine of any de
scrption, or a freight or passenger car for u.s.
therein. manufactured within the non-slaveholdins
States, shall pay an annual tax on each stean
engine or car SO purchased, from time to time o
five hundred dollars.
The people of Bedford county held very larg
and enthusiastic meeting on the 2sth ult. In thei
preamble, after speaking of the attempts of trai
torous conspirators from Northern States, t,
deluge the soil of Virginia with blood, they say /:
Instead, however, of receiving from the Northern
people congratulations for providential escap,
from terrible and infamous plot-instead of al
indignant condemnation of the wicked men who
planned and perpetrated it, we have been sur
prised to find that with a few honorable excep
tons. the Northern press and pulpit have teemei
with ridcule and insult to our people. and ever
with insolent and impotent threats of vengeance f
the penalties of the law shall be inflicted upon the
convicted felons.
The following resolutions, together with the pre
amble, were unanimously adopted by the people
of Bedford county:
Resolced, That our Representatives in the State
Legislature be respectfully requested to consider
the propriety of providing by law for the following
objects:
lst. A more efficient organization of the militia
and police.
ID. A legal discrimination against goods manu-.
factured in on imported through States North OF
Maryland.
Sd. The expectation of our produce, and import
alton of merchandise in European or Southern
vessels BY direct trade with the markets of Europe
4th. The adoption of system of bounties to be
paid from the treasury for certain articles of prime
necessity to be manufactured in Virginia.
9Th. To provide for correspondence and codper-
alton with our sister States of the South, that we
may be prepared for any political emergency that
may arise.
9th. Toprovidc for Withdrawing in specie the pro-
ceeds of our exports annually deposited in Northern
banks and repaid us in merchandise.
7th. The improvement of our educational system
and establishment of a school for military instruc
ton, to be founded upon the fund appropriated to
the State Guard, and to conform in its system to
that of the Virginia Military Institute.
Sth. To provide for the enlarged manufacture of
arms upon modern model; and to encourage the
manufacture of ammunition.
Being pressed for room, we are constrained to
bring our extracts to Il close but we have given
sufficient to show the tone and temperof the people
of the Old Dominion
We are of opinion that laws which will bring
about complete commercial non-intercourse with
the North can be legally and constitutionallv
passed We cannot, of course, prevent their
bringing their imported or home manufactured
goods here, but the moment they offer those goods
for sale, we can discriminate against them so
heavily by local taxation as will drive them from
the market entirely, and leave the field open to
the foreign or other producer or manufacturer.
p. S.-Since the above was put in type, we
have received the able message of Gov. Wise,
copious extracts from which we will endeavor to
find room for tomorrow.
TALK ON CHANGE
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