Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-01-26

cIed urety much in the conservative views OF Major ~
hut Colonel Smith and Judge Brockenbrough warmly
dssented from them, and contended that the ngnts OIL
the South must be maintained and kept lnvoiate-nas
South Carolina had Just for her present secession
or revolutionary proceedings and that Virginia ought 70
unite with her and her sister slave States III forming
Southern Confederacy"
Hon GEO. w. SUMMERS born in Fairfax county,
Va near Alexandria but has lived from infancy in IA
nawha county, in the Western part of the State lie
represented that county in the Legislature several years
and served two terms in Congress- commencing in lS4l
He was An able aud influential member OF the Conven-
ton of 1880 which framed the present Constitution Of
Virginia. In 1851 he was the Wing candidate for Gov
erpor. In Nav 1882 he was elected Judge of the 18th
Circuit and having served in that capacity for six years
he resigned his Office July LIST, 1858. He is now devo
ting himself to agriculture and the practice of the law
InMr SUMMERS letter to DR.. JnO j. Thompson, Of the
House of Delegates, of Virginia. published in the Wing
of the 22d inst, he says
The public peace and the continuance of the national
Union require that all the vexed questions growing out
of the institution Of slavery should be settled
permanent basis. The repeal Of all statutes, now in
force in any of the Northern States, having for their
purpose effect to delay impede, or nullify the Fug
tive Slave Law, should be firmly demanded, with the
fair understanding that if such unfrendy and unconst
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time the slaveholding States would be compelled to
regard such failure as evincing deliberate purpose 10
disregard the most solemn constitutional obligation, war
rauting the termination of any further connection with
such offending States.
The equal rights of all the States in the territories
belonging 10 the United States compromising the right
TO migrate thereto with any species of property, recog
nzed as such in the State from which such property
carried and to enjoy the same without diminuton or
molesation while the territorial condition continues OF
Just and equitable partition of such territories, should
be insisted on and provided for by amendment of the
constitution.
| have lived all my days in Virginia, and have
rarely been beyond her limits. love her, as son
loves his mother NV first duty is to her. and where she
goes BY the solemn judgment of her people, go. Her
destiny is nv destiny But desire, also, to retain the
name and the privileges of an American citizen, and am
unwilling to give them up, until every possible effort has
| been fully made for their preservation.
God grant that our institutions both State and Nation
al NAV come out of this fiery trial unframed, only to
become the dearer all because OF the pers through
which they have passed and survived"
Hon JAMES A. Seldom is Virginian, of acknowledg
ed abilities whose public has been confined to
service of two terms in Congress- Representative
from the Metropolitan district viz in 1851 and lS49
al He is about fifty years Of age. Mr.. seldom was
one of the Delegates from this District to the National
Democratic Convention, in 1852 and 1885, aud at the
Cincinnati Convention received the ballots of the South
Carolina delegation for the nomination for Vice Pres
dent He resides in Goochland county.
At the dinner to Ex-Gov. Floyd at the Exchange Ho-
tel in this city, on the 18th inst Mr. SEDDoN responded
to the regular toast 1.-THE constitution as our fathers
made it." and is reported to have said that
"He had been, as he now such lover OF the I'm
ion that he was anxious improve 1t; and probably his
first suggestion might be Union Of the South He allud
ed TO the past gores of the Union which had been Ia
ken possession of by devouring demon The Union OF
our fathers was much union OF interest as union
of sympathy; a union upheld by honor and bravery
Alas il was now a union OF hate. Why this change, and
how? He claimed that we of Virginia were fautess in
the matter Always ready maintain the rights of 9TH
ers equally with our own, had been engaged in the
work of developing industry Yet we have been
for five aud twenty years the objects OF Northern mag-
uity and outrage until last wrongs have cumina-
ted in the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presden-
cy Without giving catalogue of our wrongs, he said,
il was time to examine well and inquire whether there be
not in that grandest work Of mantle Constitution
some imperiections which may be remedied. We must
INQUIRE into the cause of the mischief and be ready TO
apDly the remedy IL will not do 10 merely wipe out the
wrongs already inflicted, but must destroy the viper
from which the poison springs. He cautioned them to
be careful to demand power by which our destiny
NAV be held in hands and not subject hereafter
| to Black Republican control.