The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-01


higher moral integrity. lie had never seen
there single African, although ther were
imported by cargoes to the Goa st of Cuba. II
the business had ever been carried on i'm the
", oouthern states, 1t was done on far grea ter
| Seaie by the smuggling Yankees of the North
Win regard To the difficulty of transit aliu-
deG TO, IN case Virginia went with the South
ne believed thai Fortress Monroe and the
mp haps would belong to Virginia He
wouid rally under the lead of the gentleman
near him tMr. Wise,) and pluck the plume
from the brow of the Lieutenant General -
He anticipated none of the difficulties spoken
of by others.
He again urged the necessity of secession
| Where were the interests of Virginia in u
Northern Confederacy, when for thirty years
they had been warning upon her and her in
stitutions If he were to agree TO a union
with the North, he would consider himself
base enough to bend the knee to his oppres-
sor, 10 bow his neck TO the yoke, 10 ex tend his
| hands tor the manacles. lie believed In Sc
cesSion as a measure OF peace but if war
| must come. he would rather have four mil
lions OF slaves and eight millions OF freemen
than sixteen millions of ffeemen and not u
single slave. lie did not conceive that nnder
surrounding circumstances, the ideas ad-
vanced from the other side could alarm the
women or the men.
On some future occasion he proposed To
show that it would be to the nIaterial in
1erest of Virginia TO 20 with the South-
All the great interes Is would be promoted by
| it. In ten yeass, Richmond would reap more
material advantages than she would in thirty
years in the Union, while Norfolk would be
come 4 rival of New York In conclusion
ne thanked the Convention for the patience
with which he had been listened to.
Mr.. MORTON spoke more than two hours
| and the foregoing is but Il mere outline OF his
remarks.
Mr.. BAYLOR, OF Augusta, next took the floor.
He said he was glad that almost every gentle
man W ho had spoken had Gi:claimed party
politics. Il on that ground that he came
q rp tad ,t,-
where the party TO which he had belonged
was always iii a minority.
He proceeded 70 speak of the resolutions OF
the gent.eman from Rock bridge fMr Moore J
The first of those resolu tions sets forth some
OF the grievances we had suffered from the
North. Net il has been said, notwi thst stand-
| ing, that there has not been complaint er Jugh
OF the acts OF the Norti-that we have not
abused them enough. Gentlemen are not sa-
nsiied with resolutions announcing Northern
aggression, but would have us go farther.
1t was true that some of the Northern
States-not all--had passed what they called
Personal Liberty bills, TO obstruct the ope-
ration of the Fugitive Slave Law These
states we denounce, and say they ought to
repeal those laws. But it was the universal
practice, when alluding to our grievances to
denounce the whole people of the North
ithoutany exception. The Personal Liberty
bills, he proceeded, were agains 1.-THE rights and
III tereSts OF the Southern people, and we
ought to demand their repeal: but we ought
TO remember, at the same time, that they are
not Federal laws and so far as Federal law
l. concerned, they are Just no Ii WIS at all. No
one could say that Congress had not done am
pie jus tice TO the Son Ia on the uestions which
involve her vital interest
He had heard il said outside of this hall rs
well as in t-he believed it had been said to-
day-that Virginia ought not to hesitate but
go out at once. He believed he heard the gem
tleman from Orange say this, and he asked
him If he undeFe TODD him right.
Mr.. MoEToS.-Iou did, sir.
Mr.. BATLoR.-tIo out for what? He wanted
gentlemen to state their reasons. Nothing
had been said yet sufficient 10 satisfy him that
there was any good reason for it. He admitted
that the Union was already dissolyed-that
six or seven links in the great chain had gone
but twenty-siX yet remained, and Virginia
was not among the number that had gone
The stars and stripes still toated over her
and he meant to hold on to that flag till the
last hope had fled.
He intended to Let the Convention know
just where he stood on this question but as
it was now late, and as it had been the prac-
tice 10 adjourn over to give members q full
opportunity of expressing their views, he
wonld give way any one desired TO submit
such Il motion
A motion to adjourn was made. but with
presented a communica tion from the Dean OF
members of the Convention to attend the
coInmencenent of that Institution, at Metro
poiitan Hall, on Fsiaisy night
On motion OF Mr.: EARLY, the Convention
adjourned.