Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-01-10
Pennsylvania.

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We find in the Philadelphia Press The Messag
of the Governor Of Pennsylvania. |, gives US plea
sure 10 copy and endorse the suhionsd sound ant
conservative sentiments expressed by the cover
nor Of that great State. These view. are particu
larry appropriate aud well timed in the present
excited state Of feeling between the two seeton'
Of the Union II such sound aud catholic views
prevailed throu CHOU, the whole North, the exist
ing sectional troubles would soon PASS away for
| ever:
The recent seizure of the public property oil the
United States at llarper's Ferry. aud the INVASION
OF the State Of Virginia. by small band oil d's-
peradocs with an intention to excite the slave
| population TO instruction, have drawn attention
to the dangers which beset our Federal relations.
It is n source of dissatisfaction TO know that Tue hu'
ihorties of Virginia possessed the means ana t1e
| determination to punish offenders with prompt
ness and justice; that the military iorce OF om'c1
States was power Immediately available to ND
| in putting down tho outbreak against the public
| peace; that the slave population were contenteI
with their condition, and unwilling to unite with
dsorderiy white men in acts OF treason and muir
der. and that the great masses of tho people have
no sympathy whatever with any ntiack upon the
rights and institutions Of any Of tic States, aud
have n deep aud abiding devotion to our great ana
gratifying to believe thot the citizens OF thus Com.
monwealth have not, in any manner. participated
in this unlawful proceeding. aud to know mat
when some Of the gully perpetrators were arres-
ted, within our ursdic,ihn, they were promptly
surrendered to the Justice OF the offended ard IN
jured State.
soveregnitics, except So fur ms they have granted
certain enumerated powers to the Federal Govern
ment In cases not provided for in tho Federal
CONSTITUTIONS tho several States IN their relations
to each other ought be governed T., the conduct
of civilized nations. These principles forbid, III
oil nations every evil practice tending to excite
disturbance in another Statc and are founded
on tho maxim. that different nations ought IN
time of pence to do one another oil the good they
can without prejudicing their real interests -
This maxim. recognized by all the civilized Coy
ernmeuts applies with peculiar force to tho se'f-
rnl States Of this Union bound together rs they
are by a sacred compact for mutual support and
protection, and, therefore any attempt in one
State to excite instruction IN another, is an Of
fence against all the States, because all bound
by tho Constitution toput down such disturbance,
and the act OF Congress authorizes the President
Of the United States to call out the militia oi the
several States for the purpose. 1t isn high Of
fence against the peace Of our Commonwealth for
disorIcrly persons within our Jurisdiction h com
bnc toScther for the purpose of stirring up insnr'
rccton in my ef tho States. to induce the slaves
in the Southern States to shscond from their mas
tcrs; and it would be proper. in my judgment, for
the General Assembly to consider whether add
tiona legislation may not DO necessary to insure
the prompt punishment Of such offenders against
our peace aud security.
In determining our relative duties towards eur
sister States the morality of scrvitude is not an
open question. for We are bound hy tho legal and
moral obligation of the compact Of the Union un-
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