The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-03

con Time persistently to war against them
He closed with an urgent and forcible appeal
to gen tlemen on the other side to come over
and aid in placing Virginia in a position of
safety. Every consideration required that
she should secede at once, and settle her diff
cuities, peaceaely if she can, forcibly IL she
must, Ii he was in error. it was an error OF
his heart, and he meant TO stand by it to the
bitter end, Whatever might be Firginia's
destiny, he would never forsake her, but
woald live here and die here, and trust TO
posterity to vindicate his course. lApplause.
NJ. MAcrARLaSp. of Richmond, took the
fioor, but the Chairman requested him TO sus-
pend his remarks for moment, while the
Sergeant Arms again cleared the gallery
and the lobby.
Mr. M.cFssLAND and Mr.. WISE appealed to
the Chair TO withdraw the order, which the
CHAIR consented to do, alludiug TO the pain
which it gave him to enforce such an order,
and admonishing the spectators that il the
thing were again repeated, the order would be
perenpt toriy executed
|, Mr. MAcFARLASp then commenced his speech
with the remark that he entered nron the
discussion with a painful sense OF the respon-
Sihility which the position implied. When
the secession movement began, the country
was i'll the pienitude OF its strength yet the
evils resulted from causes which had long been
operating in the public mind. No Union could
long exist, where the people on oae side con-
stantly exercised spirit of hostility against
| the people of the other side, and to this con-
stant agitation he attributed the present evils
overshado wing the country. He proceeded 10
con slider the question whether the sentimen I
of hostility at the North might be overc ome
and supplanted 10y sentiment of kind
ness aud friendlness to the South -
1t was, he conceived the part of wise states
manship not to dismiss and abandon institu-
| tions like ours, without at leas1 making one
| intrepid effort TO retain them. There was
neither courage nor intrepidiiy in despair
The peace of the world placed in
jeopardy far more imminent under the iufiam-
| ing Influence of 4 religious ontroversy, than
| il was now under the agitation of the African
| slavery question and yet il was found tha t
| by toleration the Protestant and the Roman
| Catholic might dwell together in peace. He
| Sppreheaded that III years hence 1t would be
| found thai the people of This country might
| dwell together rs peacefully as the people of
any one county in either section. No sugges-
tion of the fntility OF making an effort to this
end should discourage us from making il. If
success should fortunately crown the effort,
there was not an individual here engaged in
the work of endea voring to restore the Union,
but would establish o claim upon pos terity
for reverence and gratitude. 1t it were posi-
bic, by amendments to the Cons stitution, to
close the door of agitation SO that no human
power could open it, was there not at least a
prospect of annihilating the evils which have
so wrought upon the feeling of the SOUTH
He would not say that the report of the COM
mittee was sufficient, but he took the ground
that amendments might be introduced which
would satisfy, not only Virginia, but the
whole South. The question is not whether
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the Southern Confederacy, but whether she
shall continue in the Union restored and re-
constructed as a whole. He could not con-
sent 10 abandon the Southern States, nor the
Border States; but believed that the whole
Union should be preserved, and through iu-
dicious efforts the North might be brought to
proper concessions, such as would satisfy the
| extreme South. Pennsylvania, according to
reliable information, would consent to such 4
scheme, and with Pennsylvania would come
the whole Northwest. With Pennsylvania
and the Northwest united, it would be i'm
possible to keep New England out OF the
Union.
On this point Mr. Macfarland argued un til
half past o'clock, when he yielded the floor
at the request of Mr.. Passion, who moved
that the Committee rise.
The CHAIR could not entertain the motion
since the Committee had agreed TO sit until 2
O'Clock.
Mr.. SPEED said that the object could be at.
tained by the general consent of the Commit
tee. Mr.. Macfarsnd WAS laborins under
physical disability, and under such circum-
stances he supposed no objection would be
made.
The Committee then took recess until /
O'Clock Z. NJ.