New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
LETTER FROM JOHN MINOR Bolts.
RrruuoNn Va Ian ~ 1851
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RIcHMoSD, Va, Jan. a, 1861.
To CHRrrs PALMER, THosAs sAxPsoY T. T. JANIS, MnIS
BuEroS s.nE PUTSEr and several hundred others Of the
citizens Of Richmond
GESTLENES: have seen your card in The Wig
of this morning addressed to Messrs. McFarlane John
son. and myself asking that we will represent you in
the Convention soon TO be held in this State.
So far as my name is concerned have TO say, that
have neither sought desired TO occupy the position
which regard of far more responsibility and
importance than any with which my name has ever
been or can ever hereafter be associated for, Ear
the influence of Virginia control IT, single vote i'll
that Convention may sare destroy Empire in the
future such AS the world never has behed and never
will behold again. Yet Richmond has always been
true to me, and shall be false to my name when
prove false to Richmond, and therefore can shrink
from no responsibility that may be the pleasure OF her
citizens to bestow upon me. Still cannot accept this
important trust without lint enabling you tounderstand
distinctly, in advance what line Of policy should pur-
sue and recommend for your adoption, and then if de-
feated shall have for regret or my own ae-
count and shall be relieved of very responsible labor,
and il will require less time than il did in 1884, 30, and
Sc. TO find out who has consulted your interests most
faithfully.
The absence of all right the part of one State 10
separate herself from the other thirtytwo, when no
preense is set up that there is correave right on the
part of the hrtywo TO separate themselves from the
one is, to my mind, incOmprehensiblc logical alb
surdity which have already argued in your presence
during the late canvass and which neednot he repeated
here.
That the time has arrived when the public voice, and
indeed the public welfare demands that there shall be
a satisfactory and final adjustment of all questions Of
dscord between the two sections of the country, that
we may live in peace hereafter no one will dispute.
The question u.s. what ought TO be satisfactory to u.s. the
Southern section constituting, DO, the complain
ing party in this case.
For myself am prepared TO insist upon every jot or
title of right that the security or the honor OF Virginia
will entitle her to claim under the Constitution as II 49,
| am willing TO vote for and take as much more as The
North may be disposed to yield. IL have not hereto
fore claimed as much others, il was not that was
unwilling they should obtain and enjoy it, but because
did not believe il would be granted, or that we were
entitled TO demand il of right and therefore never
have cons en ed, and never will consent, to make the
existence or destruction ofths Government upon
any abstract mpraeicable question: that may or may
mol arise outside OF the Constitution such ~ now
proposed of guaranteeing Slavery, by constitutional
an endment in all the territory hereafter TO be acquired
from Mexico or South America, winch fus' ni''y
never be acquired at all
There ia nothing can do that will not do to avert
the utter desolnon that will assuredly follow in the
train of disunion, rebellion, and civil war. Will 90
as far as any man alive will or can 90 to settle BY
compromise and Cancellation every question ci disturb
ance or distraction in our National Councils. am
even free 10 saw that there compromise that has
been, or can be proposed that will prove satisfactory
TO the North and South and restore harmony to the
country, that will not meet with my cordial support,
and except az a matter Of curiosity, would agree
never TO inquire what compromise was adopted; for
have no interests in this Government that are not not
identified with thoee around me, and whatever VIII