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

pointed five Commissioners charged with the impor
tan duty Of repairing to the city of Washington the
9Th Of February to NEE. such Commissioners as may
be appointed by the other States for the purpose of de-
vsing if possible some suitable adjustment" of the
present unhappy controversies have compiled the
following brief sketches of the Commissioners appoint
ed, in connection with the most recent exposition Of
their views in regard to the national crisis
Ex-President JoHN TYLER is too well known through
out the country to require than brief outline Of
his public career He born in Charles City county
Virginia in $780, was elected to the Legislature at the
age Of twcutyone and, subs queuty, sent to Con
yress from his District In 1926 he chosen Governor
Of the State was then elected to the United States Sen
ate. retiring from which he did not again make his ap
pesrance in public life until 1870 when he elected
Vice President OF the United States. The death of GEN
Harrison raised him to the Chief Magstracy of the Re-
public His term of office expired in lsi5 since which
time he has been living in retirement his estate in
Charles City county.
In his letter, recently published in the Wig EXPIRE
sdent Tyler says:
"If nav be permitted to make a suggestion, it would
be that the Legislature, without delay and without III
reference with the call OF a convention, inaugurate
meeting Of the Border States of Delaware MARYLAND
and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa Free states through commissioners 70 be
appointed by each arrange, if possible, programme
of adjustment be submitted TO the other States, as
conclusive Of the whole matter.
This having failed then | would advise, a dernier
measure convention of all the Southern States, and
after Incorporating upon the present Constitution guaran-
tees going not one iOta beyond what strict Justice and
the security Of the South require, adop, the Constitution
of the United States as it is, and give broad uyi-
ation to the other States to enter cur Union with the
old flag living one and all When this is DONE ]
would say in conclusion, % all my countrymen rally
hack in all speed the Constitution thus nygordted aud
strengthened There but post OF safety and that
i. to stand by the Constitution"
Hon. wM c. RlyEs also enjoys National as well as
State reputation. BE born in Nelson county Va,
on tie 4th Nav 1885, studied law and politics under the
direction OF Thomas Jefferson aidde-camp in 1914
and sl5 with a body of militia and volunteers called
on, for the defence Virginia; several times elected
to the gisature from his native county and Albemare
served for three successive terms Representative in
Congress, commencing in 1928. In 1929, he was sp.
poia,sd by President Jackson Mioster to France On
his return in 1882 ne elected Senator in Congress-
and resigned in 1854 was reelected in 1855 and served
uata 1919. Iu lS4s he vas a second time appointed
Minister to France aud returned in 1861 when he finally
Albeuarle.
In letter 70 the Hon. Alexander r. Boteer, on the
causes which have led to the present condition Of
things" dated Castle Hill, sIh December 1850, and
published in the Wing of TIE 9th ult. Mr.. RryEs says
what them is to be dones Shall we rush at once to
dissolution OF our compact of union; tear down the pill
lars Of the temple which contains the precious deposit oil
our rights and liberties and bury ourseves-for time
at leas-n one common ruin with deluded offend
ing confederatCss This would TO be the course oil
desperation and bnduess-not Of reason and deibera-
ton.
There are few if any among who do not feel and
acknowledge that the Constitution Of the United States
if honestly and faithfully pursued nits letter and spirit
affords every desirable guarantee for the rights and ber
ties OF all the parties 70 t. We are entitled TO demand
and insist upon loyal and upr ght iulhment Of all It's
Obligations the sole and indispensable condition on
Which the Union can be maintained.
The equal rights of the State in the Terrific
ries Of the Union the immunity of their domestic nsti
tons from all external Interference and control direct or
indirect and the surrender of fugyes from service
fundamental principles of the constitutional compact,
which, however clear in theory practically denied in
various quarters and call therefore for and unequy
Ocl securities tor their future observance. II these
cures be demand With calm and dgnihed but nexibe
hrmneSs-not with buster aud denuncation-l cannot
doubt that they will be yielded by large majority, if
by all Of our co-states. II any should refuse them
by that act Of recusancy they will renouuce the authority
o. the Constitution ITSELF and put themselves virtually
out Of the pale of the Union
have ever believed that if unhappily, owing to
the centrifugal and airing tendencies sometimes mani
tested by the States the exremes of the Confederacy
our present glorious Union should be broken up the
States occupying the central belt Of the Continent from
oOcean including those ofthe valley of the Misss
spp would still hold together and keep alive with be6t
tug dignity and power the ancient and proud tradi
Ons OF the United States of America and perhaps in
the end win back to the fold those who might Temporal
/ rily have strayed from it."
| Judge JOIN w. BRoCEENBRoUGH was born in Rich
mOnd. Va, about the year 1904 and removed to Rock
bridge county in 1856. He is accomplished lawyer
and appointed Judge of the United States Court io
he Western District of Virginia by President Polk il
| 1916, which Office he still holds
The Only recent exposition of Judge BRocKENBROUGu
views which we have seen was furnished by CORES
pondent of the Dispatch in an account of public
meeting held in ROekbridge county on the 4th of De
cember at which several series of resolutions in respect
70 the national crisis offered and referred to com
mittee with instructions to report at subsequent meet
ing. The writer says: '..I
Il The opinion OF your correspondent that the able
aud eloquent speech Of Major Preston nearer ex
The sentiment Of the people of this county thar
that OF any other speaker He rebuked the conduct
the extremists, North aud South in the everest terms
expressed hs satisfaction with the Union as il is and
thought best to wait further Developments before "a
ing any step' that We might hereaf er regret He dis
tncy stated that he would ait the action of Virgn
aud would without hesitation do whatever she thought
best should be done in the premises. Mr. Dorman coin