Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-03-16


which press for consideration are of entire novelty
and Of great intrinsic difficulty and that their prop
er solution will require the part of our Govern
ments, State and Federal and of our people the ex-
ercise of the utmost prudence discretion calmness
and forbearance.
OF indispensable necessity TO maintain the peace of
the country, and to avoid everything calculated or
tending to produce collision and bloodshed
The grievances for which several of the States
have withdrawn from the Union and oyerthrown the
Federal Government within their limits are such as
have affected the people of Virginia to greater ex
tent than any of the seeded States and it is their
determined purpose to require such guarantees for
the protection of the rights of the people of the
slaveholdng States as in the judgment of Virginia
will be sufficient for the accomplishment of that OBJ
ject
Deeply deploring the present distracted condition
of the country, and amenting the wrongs that have
mpelled some of the States to cast off obedience to
the Federal Government, but sensible of the bless
ngs of Union, and impressed with its importance to
the peace prosperity and progress of the people
indulge the hope, that an adjustment may be reach
ed by which the Union may be preserved in its in
tegrty, and peace prosperity and fraterna feelings
be restored throughout the land Virginia having
initiated measures to obtain such guarantees pro-
per self-respect mpels her to demand of all the par
ties chat they shall refrain during the tendency of
her efforts for amicable adjustment from all action
tending to produce collision of forces therefore,
ReSstred, That the people of Virginia are under
existing circumstances unaltera5ly opposed to the
exercise Of any species of force the part of the
Federal Government towards the States that have
withdrawn from the Union, and believing that any
armed collision between the Federal authorities and
those of the seeded States would render utterly u
tile the efforts in which Virginia is engaged to re-
conce the differences now existing between the
States and would cause the irrevocable dissolution
of the Union they earnestly insist that the Federal
Government shall adopt a pacific policy towards
those States; shall make attempt to subject them
to Federal authority or reinforce the forts in
possession of the military forces of the United States
or to recapture the FORTS arsenas other property
Of the United States within their limits nor to re-
sort to any measures calculated in the present exct
ed state of feeling to provoke hostile collision; and
on the other hand they invoke the seeded States to
abstain from any act tending to produce such COLI
sion between them and the Federal Government
Res0LUed, That the peculiar relations of the States
of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas to the
other States make it proper in the judgment of this
Convention that the former States should consult
together and concert such measures for their final
action the honor the interests and the safety of
the people thereof may demand, and for that pur-
pose the proper authorities Of those States are re-
quested to appoint commissioners to meet commits
sioners to be appointed by this Convention on behalf
the people Of this State at Frankfort in the State of
Kentucky, on the last Monday in May next
ResOlred That whilst we desire to confer with
the States mentioned in the preceding resolution,
upon this upon all other matters connected with
our national troubles yet we deem it proper to de-
clare that we regard the propositions agreed upon
by the Convention recently in session in the city of
Washington known the Peace Congress" as
affording if adopted as amendments to the Consti-
tuition, fair, proper and honorable basis of adjust
ment Of all our national difficulties.
Resolred, That the people Of Virginia, confding
in the justice Of the people Of her sister States ap-
peals to them for a satisfactory adjustment of the
existing difficulties in Federal Relations. Vir-
ginia, therefore, invites the people of the several
States, either by popular vote or in Conventions,
similar to her own TO respond, at their earliest
venience to the positions assumed in the foregoing
resolutions. She cannot regard failure to obtain
such adjustment in any other light than as final
overthrow of the Union of these States"
MISSOURI CONVENTION-REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON FEDERAL RELATIONS.
After some unimportant proceedings in the Mis-
souri, Convention, Saturday, the Chairman of the
Committee Federal Relations presented the re-
port Of that Committee. The report is long and
carefully written, containing full exposition of all
the circumstances surrounding the position and af-
fecting the interests of Missouri 1t recounts the
evils of which the South may rightfully complain
admonishes the North that the hostile fanatica feel
ings towards Southern institutions manifested by
large numbers of that section are productive only of
evil and expresses the hope that better knowledge
of the subject will remove their prejudices. The
report does not assume a threatening attitude to-
wards either section of the country, and concludes
with the following resolutions, which repro
duction of the main features of the report:
Resolred, That at present there is adequate
cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connection
with the Federal Union, but, the contrary, she
will labor for such an adjustment of the existing
troubles will secure peace the rights and equality
of all the States.
ResOlred, That the people of this State are de-
votedly attached to the institutions of our country
and earnestly desire that, by fair and amcable adj
ustment the present causes of disagreement may be
removed, the Union perpetuated and peace and har-
mony restored between the North and the South.
ResotUed, That the people of this State deem the
amendments to the Constitution of the United States
proposed by Mr.. Crittenden, with the extension of
the same to the territory hereafter to be acquired
basis of adjustment which will successfully remove
the causes of difference forever from the arena of
national politics.
ReSolued, That the people of Missouri believe
that the peace and quiet of the country will be pro-
NOTED by Convention to propose amendments to
the Constitution of the United States, and this Con-
venton urges the Legislature of the State to take
steps for calling such Convention.
Resolred, That in the opinion of this Convention
the employment of military force by the Federal
Government coercve of the seeding States, or the
employment of military force by the seeding States
to assail the Government of the United States, will
inevitably plunge the country into civil war, and
thereby extinguish all hope of amicable settle
ment of the issue now pending. We, therefore,
earnestly entreat the Federal Government, as well
the seeding States, to stay the arm of military
power, and on no pretence whatever to bring upon
the nation the horrors of civil war.
ReSOLUed, That when the Convention adjourns, it
adjourn to meet at jefferson City, on the third Mon
day of December
Resolred, That a committee be elected. the ma
ority of which shall have the power to convene the
Convention at such time and place prior to the third
Monday of December, as the public exigency may
reouire