Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-01-17
MEETING IN ROANE.

At meeting Of the citizens of Spencer, Roane county
held at the Court House thereof the night of the lOt
instant
On motion, Thomas Boggess was called to the Chair
and Jas. l.. Powell appointed Secretary.
Whereupon the object OF the meeting declared
10 be for the purpose of Interchange of opinion in
gard 10 the recent instruction arpers Ferry; aud
approval of the prompt and decisive measures adopted
by Gov. Wise in aTestng II, &c.
On motion OF Andrew Mcdonald, Committee consist
ing of the following gentlemen was appointed by the
Chair to adopt resolutions expressive OF the above oh
iect and report the to further meeting, TO be held
in pursuance Of adjournment, viz: Andrew Mcdonald
Samuel H. Tompkins DR.. A. G.. Bailey JAS. l.. Powell
G. W. Duyal, DR.. \ D. Chapman, \. Boreman, VIM
Golf Henry Stumps j. A. Daniels B. D. Williams, VIM
Pool, Thos. Bootnghi, Henry McWhorter, A. G. lngra
BAN, John Cain, and VIM. Rade.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet again on
Monday night following.
In pursuance of adjournment the citizens OF Spencer
and the adjacent county met Monday night, the 18th
inst Tho- Boggess in the Chair Jas L. Powell Secre
tarv The meeting having been called TO order and the
minutes of the preceding meeting read and adopted the
Committee offered the following preamble and resolu
tons which being read were unanimously adopted, viz
Whereas the events of the last two months at Har
pers Ferry have recalled the fact that bands OF
armed Northern desperadoes ready at any moment
TO invade the soil of Virginia. TO plumber and murder
our people and revOlutionze our government; and,
whereas our immediate vicinity TO a colony composed
of Northern men, at the head of which stands Eli Thayer
who has privately avowed that his object is TO- evenu
av abolish slavery in Virginia that we have
reason TO fear that the next blow aimed at the State
NAV fall in this quarter; therefore, be it
Resolrtd That not only dcnOunce the treason al
ready committed but ready ITO show our faith by
our works and march to any portion of the Common
wealth to maintain domestic institutions.
RssolUed That regard the institutions OF our State
whether moral or immoral right or wrong, as Of domcs
tie privilege aud sancty, aud that We will resstf neces
sary 40 the knife and the knife the ht all nterier
ences therein matter from what quarter they may
come or in What form they pay be offered.
Resolred That the Governor of Virginia has perform
ed his whole duty in the premises and give him ou
grateful thanks for bis irmness and energy
Resoiucd That the Governor Of Pennsylvania in hi:
nroposal TO place an armed force along the southern
boundary of his State and his tender of ten Thousand
men to yndicate the laws OF Virginia has proven that
the better days of the Republic have not yet ceased
in the Keystone State and we hereby return to Governor
Packer our most profound and grateful thanks
Resolved That the spiut manifested by the citizens
Harpers Ferry in quietly submitting for "A hours prs
oners of war TO John Brown and his sixteen yagabondS
is peculiar to that locality and has sympathy in any
other spot in the Old Dominion.
| Resolped That Secretary Floyd is censurabe for hi
conduct in not bringing to light the matter dvuged t
him in the anonymous letter received by him IN relation
to the late instruction at Harper's Ferry.
Res0iued, That pledge each other to enforce tn
law of Virginia against the of abolition senti
ments or the circulation of ncendiary publications with
| in the limits of Roane county.
1t was moved and adopted that the proceedings OF TIM
meeting be published in the Richmond Wing and virgin
ia Chronicle and that all other papers in the State be re
| quested to copy
| On motion the meeting adjourned sine die.
THOMAS BOGGESS, Pres't.
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