Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-01-20
Mr.. Memmtnger.

Mr. Memmfnger.
This gentleman, the commissioner to Vir-
ginia from the state Government of South
Carolina, has been the guest of the State
for several days, and addressed the LegisIa-
ture on yesterday. but We have not as yet
received report Of bis speech Mr.. Mem
minger, is represented as high toned gen
tleman. and an accomplished and experien-
ced Statesman; and we hope that much of
good may proceed from the interchange Of
ideaa between our own Legislators, and the
distinguished representative of our sister
State. What the substance Of the Gear
nest request" of South Carolina is. will be
seen by the following resolutions:
Whereas, the State of South Carolina,
by her ordinance Of A. D. 1852, affirmed
her right to secede from the Confederacy,
whenever the occasion should ari,e, justi-
flying her, in her own judgment, in taking
| that step and in the resolution adopted by
her Convention, declared that she forbore
the Immediate exercise of that right, from
consideration Of expediency only and,
Whereas, more than seven years have
elapsed since that Convention adjourned,
and in the intervening time, the assaults
upon the institution Of slavery, and upon
the rights and equality Of the Southern
States, have increasingly continued with in
creasing violence, and in new and more
alarming forms BE it therefore,
l. Resolved. unanimously, That the
State of South Carolina, still deferring to
her Southern sisters, nevertheless respect
fully announce to them. that it is the de-
liberate Judgment Of the General Assem-
bly,, that the slaveholding States should i'm
mediately meet together to concert mea-
sures for united action. M ~
2. Resolved unanimously, That the fore
going Preamble and Resolutions be COM
municated, by the Governor, to all the
slaveholding States, with the earnest re-
quest of this State, that they will appoint
deputies, and adopt such measures as in
their judgment will promote the said meet
ing.
| 8 Resolved, unanimously, That Spe-
cial Commissioner be appointed by His Ex-
cellency, the Governor, to communicate the
foregoing Preamble and Resolutions to the
State of Virginia. and to express to the
Authorities of that State. the cordial sym
pathy of the people of South Carolina with
the people of Virginia, and their earnest
! desire to unite with them in measures of
common defence.
4. Resolved, unanimously, that the
citizens to protect them and their property
from every enemy /; and that for the pur-
pose Of Military Preparations for an emer-
gency, the sum of 800, 600 be appropria-
ted for military contingencies.
hereby certify, That the foregoing is a
correct copy of the Preamble and Resolu-
tions of the General Assembly of South Caro-
lima, adopted on the 22d December, 1859
(Signed)
VIM. E. MARTIN,
Clerk of the Senate of South Carolina.
Dec 81, 1859.
Effects Of NOn-IntercOurse
The Non Intercourse policy Of the South
is beginning to make itself felt in the North.
The speeches of Southern public men, the
resolutions of primary meetings, and the
acts of Southern Merchants and consumers
have startled the Northern business men in
to the conviction that the policy of the Abo-
litionized Republican party, is causing a
real and business estrangement between the
North and South, which policy if persisted
10, must lead to the most disastrous conse-
quences. TIE New York Herald, remark
Tag upon these facts says:
''These facts, which are now coming home
to the pockets of the leading merchants and
manufacturers in the North, will soon be felt
in the pockets Of the thousands in their en-
ployment The pressure is increased by the
persistence of the black republicans to elect
as Speaker Sherman, the endorser of Hell
per and recommended Of the treason shops in
New York. The longer they insist upon
that revolutionary movement, the greater
will be the excitement and the more intense
the feeling of the popular mind against them
u4Cu dIe uCCouIluS 0OHsluCOu w uuO uauSCi
Of permitting this abolition fanaticism to go
on ruling their political action. Merchants
and manufacturers already feel the evil Of
government deviating from the path of its
duty, to enforce moral theories and one ST.
ded notions of abstract right. Artisans and
laborers, finding their daily earnings dimin-
ishing, are beginning to inquire of each 9th
err, "What right have Northern politicians
to dictate what shall be done in the South ?
and why should we be the sufferers ~ their
intrigues for Office and the spoils 2"
Arrival of the Arabia.
The Arabia arrived on the 9th, bringing
three days later news from Europe, the
most important Of which is manifesto by
Napoleon, expressive of views on the
Italian question, and the temporal power of
the Pope, The Emperor proposes in sub
stance, that the Pope shall retain certain
temporal power, without any political au-
thority, and free fronI the cares and trou-
bles of government, his territory to be con-
fined to the city of Rome, where he shall
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