The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-12-06
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TELEGRAMS.

Meeting of the Virginia observation-disclosures
OF Gov. Wise-Iis Review of the Harper's
Ferry Invasion.
RICHMOND, Dec. 5.-The Virginia Legislature met
to-day and organized, when the Governors message
was transmitted. The Governor reviews the Har.
per's Ferry affair at great length. He speaks OF
the spirit of fanaticsm and the one idea of the
abolitionists, which has served to madden the
masses of one entire section of the country, which
enters into their religion education politics and
prayers, courts of justice and legislatures which
has trained up three generations in moral and social
habits of hatred to the masters of African slaves in
the United States but turns not upon slavery else
where; which has sent cOmforters and counseors,
and would have sent rescue to the assassins, rob
bers, murderers, and traitors whom it has sent to
feons graves.
Unless the numerical majority will cease to vio-
alate the confederate faith, and cease to disturb
our peace, to destroy our lives and property, and
to deprive us of all protection and redress under
the perverted forms and distorted workings of the
Union, we must take up arms The issue is too es
sential to be compromised any more. We cannot
stand such insults and outrages those at1arpers
Ferry without suffering than the deaths of
our ctiZens-without suffering dishonor-the death
of a State.
II 10 Hot W pe uenleu tnat we nave many sound
and sincere friends in the nonslav eholding States
but the conservative elements there are passive
while the fanatical active and the former fast
diminishing whilst the latter is increasing in num-
bers and force.
With regard to the insurgents, the Governor
says it is mockery to call them monomaniacs. If
they we're, then arc large portion of the people
of many Of the States monomaniacs The leader
bin,cal 81 Al. -.
upon trial. They were prompted by the evil spirit
Of incendarism which demoralzes the numerous
host of enemies behind them, who now boldly SYM
pathize with their deeds before the world He
hired them without themselves incurrng the risk
Of their crimes, and no wonder they now sympa-
thize with them even to madness; and that John
Brown despsed the hypocritical cant of their pre-
tence that he was insane.
The execution of our laws is necessary to warn
future victims not again to be the tools of this SYM
pathy. We have friends, or we have not, in the
States whence these invaders came. They must
now be not only conservative but active to prevent
invaders coming. 1t was impossible for so much of
such sympathy to exist without exciting bad men
to action-of rescue or revenge. On this presump-
ton, says the Governor, he acted, and he has been
compelled by apprehensions of most unparalleled
border war, to place the State in as full panoply
of military defence as if foreign enemy invaded
US. Indeed of the most intmidating features of
this predatory is that it has its seat in the
British Provinces which furnish asylums to our fu-
gitives, and send them and their hired outlaws
upon us from depots and rendezvous on bordering
States
There is no danger from our slaves or colored |
people. The slaves taken on the recent occasion |
refused to take up arms, and the first man killed
was respectable free negro, while running from
the philanthrOpists who came to berate the black
race
In closing his message, the Governor SAYS: We !
must rely upon ourselves and fight for peace. Or
ganize and arm. Demand of each State what posi- |
tion she means to maintain in future in respect to |
slavery and the provisions of the Constitution and
laws of the United States, and the provisions of |
State laws for its protection in our federal relations
and be governed according to the manner in which
the demand is answered.
W 18th regard to the reports and rumors of organ
zed cOnspiracies to obstruct our laws the Cover
nor says they were from so many sources, so stimuli
aneouS, so far apart, from persons so unlike in
the evidences of education, that they could be from
no conspiracy to hoax. But he relied not so much
upon them as upon the earnest, continued and gen
1ral appeal Of sympathizers with the crimes of the
invaders. Let us defend our own position or Weld |
t at once. Let us have action and resolve upon
iehnIte settlement-no more temporizing of the
more compromise. The other
'onvicts await execution, and will be ex-
.cuted unless the General Assembly orders
otherwise. This will meet the open invasion,
'ut acts only upon the individual convicts, and
ioes not settle the question of our peace and pro-
lection for the future. 1t remains only for me to
offer myself, all that | am and all that have, to
the commonwealth whenever she may order me or
mine in service when the term of my present office
closes.
second message makes detailed recommends
tionS, and alludes to State matters generally