The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-13
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

| The House was ca He'd TO order at IL O'Clock
| by Mr.. TUafIS, of King William
| The passage of Il number of bills by the
| Senate was communicated from that body -
| The House agreed to Senate amendments to
| hill establishing branches of the Merchan is
| Banks at certain places.
| Senate Bi{tS PusSfd Senate bills were
! passed as follows Enforcing the payment OF
| balances due from Commissioners upon for
! feited and delinq uent lands ncorpora I'll Q
| the Rockbrdge White Sulphur Springs Com.
| pany: amending the act incorporating the
| Mason City Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany, in Mason county: providing for the
| voluntary ensayement of certain free ne
groes of Fauquer county; incorporating the
| Virginia Mineral Oil and Coal COMPANY. in
Mason county ineorpora ting the jackson
County Agricultural Society providing for
the voluntary enslavement of certain free ne
groes in Hanover county.
Tufhpike Comprehensive bill amending
that portion of the Code concerning Turn pike
Companies was laid on the table.
Federat Re{nti0ns-MT. ROBERTSON said he
designed 10 offer for the action of the House,
a series of resolutions on the present state OF
affairs. He requested that they be read
| which was done, as follows:
Resoiuei 5q The General assembly qf If,qinig That
! without deening il necessary to decide on the
right Of state 10 secede from the Union, we Vet
recognize the fact that States ut least hs %
actually seeded, and have peacefully oryanil ed
and established state Governments, and a Con
fcdeTate 60vernmaut Oi tneir own. To which til a
people thereof seem 10 pay all alegia nee, and
any other Government.
.. That without, in like manner, deeming it ne
cessarT to inquire into the right Of the General
Government TO execute the laws of the Cuited
States within the territory, or against the people
We yet wholly deprecate aud denouncs the policy
Of attempting to do SO, which seems to be indf-
Gated by the President Of the United States as that
which he proposes 10 pursue. as being, in the
actual circumstances which exist utterly inexps-
dieut and reprehen~ble, and tending 10 involve
the whole country III an unnecessary and abhor-
rent
8 Tha, Interests Of Virginia, Of vast magni-
tude, vital % her safety, aud of paramount
Importance to all others, and common, more
over, to other States Of the Union are so
bound up in, aud imperilled by, the inevitable
secedinS States, which seems t. be fvresha-
duwed in the Presidents inaugural address az to
from attempting to carry any such purposes into
execution, II such has been his lesig IN and to
declare that, il such attempt be made, Virginia
should In our opiEion aud vii oppose to IL with
all her means, and in such mode a. her sovereign
authorities shall deem most expedient, deter
That by the ratification of the Conventions
OF niue States OF the original thirteen. the GOV
lished Government among the Powers OF the
earth that as the accession. of other States
to the Union does not increase or change in
the slightest degree its political powers SO
neither does, nor can, the secession of others
from it lessen or effect them that ii remains
Union a I'D complete Government to all intents and
purposes. with the rights conferred on it by
the CONSTITUTION, iNIt duu uHlmpd1Teu forever,
long as nine States, whose concurrence sutRced
originally, rightiully to establish It, shall choose
TO continue it.
s. That the Government of the United States is
therefore competent to consider tn seeded States
the Confederate States of America, without any
necessity for deciding the validity of the claim
they assert to independence de jure as being indie
pendent de fdeo, and may treat and deal with them
Ia all respects, so far as the question Of power is
concerned, as with any other States people
claiming independent political existence.
O. That the mode Of dealing with such cases.
-hcfltn nv nus
ment should depend on the causes which give TO
the'" the consequences they entail, aud all
the circumstances that surround them that in
none of these considerations, in the present in
stance. can be fnnhd just cause Of war. and we
earnestly ree'Inmend the present recognition by
the Government of the United states of the fact
of the Independent political existence of the
Southern States, or Confedera,ion-hut, at ali
events, its total abstsning from all efforts forei-
bly, - execute the avs of the United States With
IN tber territorial limits, sgaiust their citi-
zens, or to hold. occupy or possess the property
and places belonging to it therein, or to collect
The duties and Imports. AS bein8 IN effect, lead
ing inevitably to, war.
the Nor h and the south are 10 he found in the of
fensive interaeddIing of he former with our ex-
rs si gr ap'nss'f %
them, aud in the Insulting claim TO exclude us
from all Territories Of which We are part owners,
except upon The condition OF our parting with our
slaves. and, in the formation and accession TO
power OF party founded on geographical dis
equally against the spirit and provisions of the
Just equality Of rights and 81 ella
duty that the first duty of the North. ii 1t would
win back the States that have gone out OF the
& nion or would keep In those which still re-
main is 10 'tdo justice" TO the south by removing
these causes Of complaint But II, from preu-
dice they choose TO iadulge or in Incorrect ap-
probation of their obligations they shall decide
that they canuot or win not remove those capses,
then they should at once concur ia some proper
Ia ode of providing for the peaceful separation
from another OF such States as may choose to re-
main uuited the original terms of eonstitu-
banai and social equality, to be secured by pro-
per additional guarantees, and those which re-
fnsc to continue in the Union on these terms--for
conttnued Union on any other terms Is simply I'M
possible.
:. That IL is the true policy, and should be the
aim OF Virginia, unless driven by force policy |
of the General Government into disruption or
war, TO matntain aud restore her Union with all |
me states North and South of her that willing
10 stand loyalty 0n the Constitutions In its origi-
lal spirit aud meaning, with such amendmehts |
here"f a. experiences has shown to be necessary |
% carry out the original objects of Its formation
.nd 10 force out Of the Union all suo. rtates as
IRE ianhless 10 los obligation. aud its obieet. aud
shall refuse TO cqneur in making su n amend |
Aeuts and to facilitate that object shouId nr,- |
reed now, by her Convention, 10 prepare such |
lmsndnents as they may deem sat,abhi and sa,- |
sfaetory, snd take proper measures 10 obtain ia.
ssriiest practicable action then by the nnopl.
" The direrent states, through General Con.