The constitutional union., 1861-03-29
GOTERN0R ELSE,S POSITION.
Governor Wise proposes that Virginia shal demand of the freesoil States guarantees or

Governor Wise proposes that Virginia shall demand of the freesoil States guarantees on the following points,
 l. As to full recognition of the rights of property in African slaves. s,7.,,,., 7. As to property in the Distr''' oi 00-N-l' bia.
 B As to tho powers of the Federal Gov ernD.ont over African slavery, and the em- ployment of slave labor in the forts, arsenals, dockyards, and all places ceded by the States for Federal uses.
 4. As toprotection against the pretensiOn to lay and collect excessive direct taxes on slaves.
 5. As to the rendition of fugitive slaves.
 G. As to the protection of the right and comity of transit with slaves through the linn its of the States, by land or water, and of the right of transportation of slaves on the hssh seas,
 ' The protection of the right of citizens of the United States owning slaves to sojourn temporarily with their slaves within the linn its of non-slaveholding States.
 S. The protection of equality of settlement by owners of slaves, with their slave property in the common territories of the United States.
 O. As to the rights of negroes of free per sons of the African race to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States.
 10. As to the equality of the African race with the white race in the States where it may reside. and the protection of that equality by State laws, and by the laws of the United States
 H. As to the better security of the indc- pendence of the Judicial Department of the ] Government of the United States, by chang ing the mode of appointing the Federal 1 judges.
 | F. As to the protection of the slavcholding States against the abduction of their slaves by repeating such State or Federal laws as may countenance the wrong, or by passing such laws by the States and by the Federal 1 Government as may be necessary and proper to suppress it.
 13. As to the protection of the domestic tranquility of the people of the United l States by expressing the incendiary assem- i blages, associations and publications which 1 have engendered the sectional wrongs and ha tired which have rent the Union asunder ana and now threaten a civil war.
 14 The protection of the public peace by suppressing societies and individual efforts fol the collection of money and and other means to invade the States or Territories of tho | United States
 15. And by suppressing all organizations seeking and introducing foreign aid and infu cnce to incite domestic violence in any of the States or Territories of the United States.
 Gov. Wise would allow the free State. al the present year in which to furnish the re quired guarantees; but he prefers that they should finish up the business before October lst He adds this condition:
 ''That in the meantime, 1t is recommended to the people of this Commonwealth, in tho event the Federal authorities shall, under any pretext whatever, attempt to intorce thei claim of jurisdiction over the people of thu seeded States, as by collecting the duties fo revenue, or diverting the transit or entranc, of commerce, or in any other mode, by force of arms. to resist such cxertion of force b, all the means in their power"