Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-29
Address TO the People Of Virgins from theil
~ 10 o. Representatives. ad l.s


The following Is the address to the people O
Virginia, adopted by the two Senators and eigh
Of the thirteen of the Representatives in Con-
gress. The paper was not presented 10 Hon
VIM. Smith, be being detained in Virginia BY
| illness. .iG .rlt.ssg-, brfo-r. tt-rI7 rilt-
TO he People Of Virginia.-We deem II ouI
duty, as your Representatives at Washington
to lay before you such information &c we may
passes in regard to the probable action OF Con
gress in the present alarming condition of the
At the beginning Of this session, now NOR,
than ilaif oyer, committees were appointed il
both Houses Of Congress to consider the stats
of the Union. Neither committee has beer
able TO agree upon any mode of settlement OF
the pending issues between the North and thu
| South. .
The Republican members in both committees
rejected propositions acknowledging the right
of property In slaves, or recommending the d.
vision of the territories between the slavehold-
ing and non=slaEeholding States by ageograph
| ical line. .Te-sI rIidl ,=9vsF 7-
In the Senate the propositions commonly
known as Mr.. Cnttenden 3 were voted against
by speyy Republican Senator; aad the House, OF
a vote BY yeas and nays, refused to consider
certain propositions moved by Mr.. Etheridge
which were even less favorable to the Soutt
than Mr.. Crittenden's. y-,sl-,r l.ljs 81
A resolution giving q pledge 70 sustain tn,
President in the use OF force against secedinL
States was adopted in the House Of Represen
tatives by large majorityi and In the Senat,
every Republican voted to substitute for Mr.
Cfittenden's propositions, resolutions offered b.
Mr.. Clark, OF New Hampshire, declaring that
no new cencessions, guarantees or amendment
49, TO-. haf (l,a Ia
mands of the South were unreasonable, and
that the. remedy for. the present danger was
simplyto enforce the laWs-in other WDrds, Co
ereion and ,oar. rss afi a's-7
In this state Of facts our duty is to warn yor
that ID is vain 70 hope for any measures Of
Cancellation or adjustment from Congress which
you could accept. We are also satsfed that
the republican party designs, by civil war alone
tocoerce the Southern States, under the pre-
text Of enforcing the laws, unless 1t shall be-
come speedily apparent that the seceding States
are 40 numerous, determined and united as to
make such an attempt hopeless.
b We are confirmed In these conclusions by our
general intercourse here, by the speeches Of the
republican leaders here and elsewhere, BY the
recent refnsals of the Legislatures Of Vermont,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania 10 repeal their obnox
ious 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.
4 We have thus placed before you the, facts
and conclusions which have become manifest
10 US from this post Of observation where
you have placed us. There is nothing to be
hoped from Congress; the remedy 70 with You
alone, when you assemble In sovereign conven.
tioD.
We conclude BY expressing our SOLEMN son-
yiction that prompt and decided action by The
people Of Virginia, IN convention, will afford the
surest means, under tho providence Of God, Of
avertiDg an impending civil war, and pressrv-
ing the hope Of reconsiructing Onion already
dissolved. .st ~
+. M Mason T.. s. Martin. M