Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-01-30
Address TO the People Of Virgins
from their Representatives.

Auurchs 10 the EeOpte OF virginia
from their Representatives.
From the Baltimore SUM
The following is the address to the people
Of Virginia, adopted BY the two Senator's and
eight Of the thirteen Of the Representatives in
Congress. The paper was not presented to
Hon. William Smith, be being detained in Yir-
ginia by illness:
10 II PEOPLE 81 YIRGIFIA-We deem
it our duty, as your Representatives at Wash
ington, to lay before you such information as
We may possess in regard to the probable &C.
ton Of Congress in the present alarming con-
diti0n OF the country.
At the beginning Of this session. now more
than half over, committees were appointed in
bosA Houses Of Congress 10 consider the state
Of the Union. Neither committee has been
able to agree upon any mode Of settlement Of
the pending issues between the Nor.h and the
South.
The Republican members 10 both committees
rejected proportions acknowledging the right
Of property ia slaves, OF recommending the
dtyision OF the territories between the slave
holding and non-slaveholding States by a geo
graphical line.
In the Senate the propositions commonly
known ss Mr.. Crittenden's were voted against
by erery RepubIieaa Senator and the House,
on a vote Of yeas and nays, refused to consider
certain propositions moved by Mr.. Etheridge,
which were even less favorable to the South
than Mr.. Crittenden's.
A resolution giving a pledge % sustain the
President in the use Of force against seeding
States was adopted in the House of Represent
tat.ves By a large majority; and in the Senate
every Republican voted 70 substitute for Mr..
Crittenden's propositions resolutions offered BY
Mr.. Clark, Of New Hampshire, declaring that
no new concessions, guarantees or amendments
70 the Constitution were necessary; that the
demands Of the South were unreasonable, and
that the remedy for the present danger was
simply to enforce the laws in other words,
coercion and BaT.
10 this state Of facts our duty is,to warn you
that it is vain to hope for any measures Of con-
~ciliation or adjustment from Congress which
you could accept. We IRE also satisfied that
the Republican party designs by civil war
alone, to cOerce the Southern States, under The
pretext Of enforcing the laws, unless it shall
become speedily apparent that the seeding
States are go numerous, determined ana united
as to make such an attempt hopeless.
We are confirmed in these conclusions BY
our general intercourse here, by the speeches
of The republican leaders here and elsewhere,
BY the recent ~refu7als Of the legislatures Of
Vermont, Ohio and Pennsylvania to repeal
their obnoxious personal liberty laws, by the
action Of the Illinois legislature on resolutions
approving the Crittenden propositions, and BY
the adoption Of resolutions in the New York
and Massachusetts, Legislatures, doubtless to
be followed BY others Offering men and money
for the war Of coercion.
We have thus placed before you the facts
and conclusions which have become manifest
to US from this post Of observation where you
have placed Us. There is nothing to be hoped
from Congress- the remedy is with you alone,
when you assemble in sovereign convention.
We conclude by expressing our solemn con
viction that prompt and decided action BY the
people Of Virginia in convention will afford
the surcst means, under the providence Of
God, lof a~vertiDg .ani impending war, snd
preserving the hope Of Feconstructing a Union
already dissolved.
J.. NJ. Mason, E.. S, Martin, R. N. T. Hun
ter, Fl. A. Edmundson, D.. C.. Dsrarnette.
Roger A. Pryor, NJ. K. H. Garnet, Thomas
S. Bocockl Shelton F. Leaks, A. G. Jenkins.
WASHINGTON CRY, January 2Sd, 1861.
SEIZURE OF GOoDs BY PoLIoe-Tbs fol-
dispatches have passed bstween sena-
tor Toom5s, Of Georgia, ard his Honor Mayor
Wood, relative to the seizure Of goods BY the
police on last Tuesday:
MiLIEDeEvILLE, Jan. p, 1861.
To his Honor Mayor Wo5di Is # true that
any arms intended for and cansigned to the
osdte Or HtpIStA nave oefn 6eiLzQ ~ pduiic I
in New York Your answer is
important 10 us and to New York. Answer at
once. r. TooMBs.
To which he Mayer returned the following
answers
Hon. Robert 1oombs, Mllsdgepfie, Ga In
reply to your dispatch, / regret 70 say that
arms intended for and consigned to ihs State
Of Georgia, have been seized by the police Of
state-bnt that the city Of New YoFk
5hosld in no way Sc made responsible for The
As mayor I haze no authority over the po-
Ice. IF had the power I should summariy
ganish ths authors Of this illegal aaG uninstif.
'ols seizure Of private properly.
FEREAEno Woop.