The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-01-28
THE STATE CONVENTION.
For other 'ConreRtieun Notices see LIST Pace
z - TO NESSRS. CuAS. PALMER

FARLAXn mir. JOHNSON, and myself asking thar
we VIII represent YOU, i elected to the Conven-
| ton soon TO be held in this State.
80 Tar As my name i concerned, / have to say
mat nave ueithersought nor desired to occupy the
position, which regard as one of far more re-
sp0nSibility and importance than any with which
my name has ever been, can ever hereafter be
asSociated for a. far the influence of Virginia
cah coh{Fol It. aslngie vote in that Convention may
sGre or destroy an Empire In the future such as the
world never has aud never will behold again.
4e, t;lcAmond mas ever been true to me, and
snail be false TO my own name when prove false
to Richmond, and Therefore can shrink from II
responsibility that ii may be the pleasure of bnr
citizens 70 hcstow hpon me sill cannot accent
this Important trust without first enabling Won 10
understand distinctly in advance what line Of pol
icy should pursue and recommend for your adop-
ton, and then, if defeated i shall have no cause
OF regret on my own account, aud shall be relieved
OF a very. fe7IonSjhle duty, and il will require
Who mas consulted your Interests most faithfully.
The absence Of all right on the part of one State
10 separate herself from the other thirty-two
when no prctence is set mp that there Is ro-rela-
tive rig at on the part Of the thirty to separate
themselves from the Que, is, to my mind, an in
COMPROMISING and logical ahsurdity. that have
already argued in your presepte, during the late
That the time has ariyc ben tRc
and. indeed. the public welfare demands that
there shall be satisfactory and final adjustment
81 all questions Of disc0Td between the two see
tons ct tue country, in order that may live in
pence hereafter no one will dispute. The ques-
tloh Is what ought to be satisfactory to us, the
Southern section, constituting, as we do the com
planning party in this ease? For myself ] am
prepared 10 INSIST upon every lot title of right
that the security or the honor Of Virginia will
entitlc her to claim under the Constitution -
am willing 10 vote for, and take, much as
me HoFth may be disposed to yield. If have
hot hfretoforc claimed IS much AS others, il was
nor because was unwilling they should obtain
and enjoy it, but because did not believe il would
he granted, or that were entitled to demand IT,
as Of right aud therefore never have and nerer
iriu consent to make the existence or Destruction
OF thIa hoVcrnment dependent upon any abstract
or Improbable question that mav or NAV not
arise outside of the Constitution such as is now
n ante nj.
tional amendment IN all the territory that NAV be
hereafter acquired south of $3.50 whether III Mex
lco, South America or the Sandwich Islands
There Is nothing that can do that will NOT do
to avert the utter desolation that will assnredIy
follow IN the train of Disunion, Rebellion and
CYL war VIII go as far as any man can go, to
eettie by compromise and c0nciliation every ques-
non OF disturbance in our National councils I am
even ffee To say that there is no compromise that
can be offered, that will prove satisfactory to the
North and South, and that will restore harmony to
The country, that will not meet with NV cordial
approval, and, except as a matter of curiosity.
would agree neyerto inquire what compromise had
eminent that are not Identified with those around
me- ana whatever satisfies them will satisfy me
N : a. not ser myself up II maker Of laws, or
bend and yield. Nevertheless. ] am not without
my own views as TO the proper mode of adjustment
Nhlch could be settled by making "a case en each
Gapnted point for the immediate decision Of the
h ~ oGr, whic. i the tribunal established
,,e @ inlioh for that purpose and chen We
SnouId see which party it is that is not willing to
NV u!der tue present form Of Government fairly
and properly administered
90 not believe that since the world was in 4 |
state OF cna0s there ever was or will be again. /
so general and universe! an upheaving of society
so rulnouS and desolatng disturbance of all tie
s4elal, moral, political, aud industrial elements
OF people, for such slight and insufficient cause
As this country now exhibits to the gaze of the |
ast0undcd nations of the earth every ou, of winch
causes may be settled harlnOniously and satistac
t9fiy within the next sixty DAYS. If taken out of
the hands of selfish and aspiring politicians and
entrusted to the hands Of the people at the polls
cd hs In (Fes..
resolutions: whilst there is not one that will not
he thousand fold aggravated when you go ont Of
entire organization of the Governments the ARMY |
lhe Navy, the treasury, the public lands in III the
If tbe a. wSi! as an the Territories, in the hands
"a ne epaDilcan party, from whose apprehended |
designs the Secessonlsts are fur running of and /
IeiF EiS behlnd them all they claim.
AFTER the events of the John Brown affair inst
one year ago, and the scenes through which we
are now passing, let US never again have word !
10 say about the eXcitabiiity OF the French : Tor.
compared with us, they are an immoyabla ANA mn
lmPfesSlble race of people.
Now, believe | constitute a fair type of what
,n oS co9dl9n OF every man in the Sou,h
sense, aud fnd myself in the full free and nor
ect exercise OF every blessing and Of every right
u personal nature, that | have cnioyed since /
anne into the world. am also in tho possession
ma enjoyment 81 whatever property may own
ma nobody, as far a know, propose, to aist,irh
n dispossess me vi it; can any human beipc
nus qlSposSess me. except by due course of law
low long this state Of things NAV continue Omni
science only can tell hut is there apv one in
heSe particulars, in worse condition than am? !
mere Is; II ne instance can be presented of any
ne man. out OF the 10. 900 OF the white popula
Ion II the southern States, who is laborng under
my OPPRESSION, wrong, Injustice grievance that
dhh"t be redrcssed in the Union, and which can /
'e redressed cut of the Union, then will pledge |
ny sell to vote for disunion whenever the Question
ONES ON mp nut If no sucn person can be found,
ilu never consent to give up this Government, !
ne work OF men lrhoSe iie ue ne er shalt {oJ 7,l
,sa'a, Tor aay other government which the de-
tfUyers OF tbs are likely TO substitute in its stead
VIII not destroy the house in which live ana
Which protects nie from the blasts and storms OF
Winter, when not one brick il burnt or a stick al
imber is cut with which to erect another viii
on, OF Franklin of Carroll of Morris and ~
'inckney, to take upon trust the clumsy machinery
4 Yancey, and khett, and Pickens, and Toomb$
nj Davis. will not surrender this Government
or ne.
When see in the distance the frightful and an
al ling eonseqa ences OF dissolution and civil war,
which many Will not until the reality j.
rought 10 their own hrcsides and hearth STONES
Fhere orr wives and our daughters, and q II that
cherished earth is clustered I cannot but
ersuade myself that both parties will shudder
nd recoii AT It's approach, and come to honorable
erms of sette ment For one shall aerer despair of
he Republic.
When see, that upon the secession of any or all
he Southern states, the President is left no alter
ative and no discretion, but is sOlemnlv sworn
cfore his God to Preseyre, protect and defend the
constitution, that that Constitution declares .sthe
the land, which he - shall take wee faith-
lfg executed, - and places the army and navy OF the
nlted states under his control, and provides for
allns forth the militia to enable him to execute
he laws, and suppress instructions, | cannot
oubt that the declaration of secession, however
luch 1t may be depiored, will necessarily impose |
pom the Government the obligation of resorting | F.,
D such measures as will enable him to see the
avs faithfully executed, the right to do which |
as too firmly established in the days of President
ackson by the legislation of ls32 ever 10 be over
brown whilst the Government endures. / only !
peak Of this as existing fact, which is NOT !
key and hardly possible to be changed II IL | ,
m be avoided | shall be glad to see il and |
'hilst cannot doubt the power would as Your
representative in the Cow ention eheerfntiy Unite
any recommendation or remonsrance against |
ne exercise of the power.
W hen see, too, that without the power to | :
fike blow In resistance or defence without
he means TO vindicatc herself, the State may be
umbied and subdued-and all the gasconade and
ravado of light headed and nppapt would- hs
ttriots cannot prevent it;-when see that a SIN
le steam trlgate, stationed at the Gapes of E,r-
MA Will hs ehectually block up aud destroy the
ltife commerce OF Virginia and MARYLAND AZ il
ley were surrounded by icebergs In the Arctic '
eau whilst we have no naval force with which /
dtsioagc or remove the blockade; when 1 see
ay be cut off in the same way and by the same
cans, by sending one or more war steamers 10
ocE up tie ports of Cape Fear river, Charleston
the coast OF Florida, Mobile Bay and l
Q mouth OF the Mississippi river, whist the =
mmerce OF every free stats In the valley or the .
ississippi is left open, by means Ut raj Iroad lake.
ID canal communications with New York when <
lee that of y Sol, militia enrolled In the =
allied states that the North has upwards of
've 700, with 40 negroes TO guard III home, and
lighters to protect, aud eur negroes 10 watch: z
ben noe that upon all constitutional OBJ I
Iations being broken down. there must be
eessant aud exhaustiug hostilities carried on