The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-05-25
Protest Against Compensated Ema nct-
tom.

From the proceedings Of the Virginia Senate May Is
Mr. co IlEs submitted the following joint luton -
The 6ene al Assembly Of Virginia doth hereby declare
that negroes in slavery in this State and the whole
south lwho witnal in higher condition OF civZa-
ton th m any OF their race has ever been esewhere)
having been property in their for hundred
and forty years. by use and custom at FIRST. and
since by gnition Of the public law various FORMS
ovgh not 10 be- and cannot Jusy De- nterfered with in
that relation Of property by the States her by the
People m convention assembled to alter sting
ssituton or TO form one for admission into the cone
Geracy nor by tho representatives OF the in
S1ie OF the Confederate Leg sature, by any means
or mode which the popular majority might aiqpt; ana
that the state whilst remaining republican slruc-
lure It's government can lawfully getrd of that species
OF property, il only b. the free Of the In
dvdua! owners being true as the General Assembly
doth further declare that for the State without the
free sent Of the owner deprive him OF his ident
ca prope ty by compelling him accept substituted
value thereof, how tanned or by the post
nah policy in any other way for public use
but view 10 rid the Stale of such property already
resident elm, and TO destroy the right property
IN the sub ect, to constraIn the send his
slaves out OF the State else to expatriats himself
carry them with him. would contravene and Illustrate
whereas, these Confederate States being now all slave
holding may be disturbed by act a. the majority
IN any one OF them in derogation of the rights Of the
nory unless this doctrine above declared be inter
Resolved by the General Assembly Of Virginia. That
1he Governor Of Virginia be- and he hereby requested
" communicate this proceeding to the several
u the Confederate States and TO request them
She same before their respective Legislatures and
nay severaiiy deem best calculated To secure stability
- the fundamental doctrine Of Southern civizatiI
which hereby declared and proposed be advanc ell.
Mr.. CoILIE did not press an immediate vote. His
rsAson Tor forbearing TO ask vote this time he
Was that he did not believe the public OF the South
appreciate the doctrine They do not appre
eiato it at its vital and most valuable point which It's
denial OF the power Of tbs majority in making consti
tuition fer State, 10 disturb pre-sxstrg and resi-
property. The prevalence OF this tho
gence Of the world alone give the slGveholdng
exemption from war IL is the reputation Of this doc
trns that Al the top ard bottom, all the circum.
ference OF the struggle in which engaged. II the
principal sentiments asserted in that decs alton and
from which the doctrine proposed tho practical result
sdncsd be no. sound in the PM osophy Of the subject
and ought not TO be adopted into the public law then
slavery ought TO be abb ished and Divine wisdom
will accomplish the deliverancs. But, he said he did
not believe the sentiments sound and tho doctrine logic
ally inevitable, and that negro slavery will exist 10
countries governed by the white until the native
land Of the black man shall have been civilized and
Christanized. Mr.. Collier said would only ado
the desire that every newspaper in the confedeacy
% many elsewhere as will, would publish that declara