New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-21

THE GsOzsGIA REsoHuTIONs AND fsOy
! IsETscItIaRsss n IEssAGEs ia s
The folowing are the Joint resolutions Or ii
| General Assembly d Georgia, passed at its ii
sesson, and passed nnanimously d
Resolued Do ne Senats and House t,f 2sr,ess,s,
Trees ct ne esGte Of tJeofYsd, III e. eneral asstM
ses That It IA the sense Of this General Assa1nbI
tMs tas separati0n Of those States now formin
ne gonsderate States Of America from the Unite
states III and ought to be final and irrevocab3e "a
that Georgia viii, under no oircumstances, entel
saiaAny proposition from any quarter which ma
nave Tor Its object restoration Or reconstructio
oItne late Onion. on any terms or conditions VIVA
Resoiuea, That the war which the United State
i y waging upon the Gonfe derate States shonld b
met on our part with the utmost via0r and energy
until ON indape dence and Nationality are uncon
dditionaily acknowl edged By the United States.
sister States Of the that she will stan
BY them throughout the struggle she will con
tribute ali the means which her resources viii sup
i PLY, 90 far IS the same may be necessary to ii,
suppofto f the cosumon eanse, and will not eonsen
% Inv Down arms until peace Is established On u,
/ basis OF the foregoing fes0l utions.
These Sresolution va need net say express TIL
senshnent Of ~ the other Confederate States ii
f1sll d Georgia, The separation II the American
Colonies from Great Britain was NOT half is fina
and irrevocshlei as the separation of tie South
erns sstates from he Northern. ii any objection
eould bs made ct AZ The passage Of such reso
aations, sould lie simply against sthsr super
fluffy. Itnay be regarded as u super huous piece
|Sof work 20 declare, BY solemn resolutions wha1
the people had already publicly declared long
II VI
& ID communicating these resolutions 10 the, Viz
ginfa Legislature, Gov. Letcher has accompanied
them with q message, in which lie pitches into the
Gorilla Government with extraora binary power,
and sErs up the chief Gorilla with the longest and
.sharpsst sort of a pole. The main point Of the
message y the parrallsl ne runs between the
grievances Sof the South at present and the
grievances Of the Colonies, as declared in tile
Declaration of Indepen dence. He shows that
We have sfar more cause for separation from
tie North than we had Id l776 for separating
from Great Britain that the same causes exist
noH o. then and, dition, many others equally
sas potent He shows, III besides, the various re-
specs hi which the dynasty has deliber-
ately violated and the Fed rai Con
shtution Says Gov, etcher q: s. - ts s.
Zig Gt Observation-Disclosures O0lLeQ
States onr fathers declared the purposes and
objects they had ID view in the formation Of the
Government and those purposes objects were
t0 establish justiee, insure domestic tranquility,
provide the common defence, promote the gem
pefaf welfare and secure the blessings of liberty
70 thsmselyes and their posterity. The Govern.
rnent has been 30 administered and directed az To-
Defeat all thase purposes and objects Justice has
mot been eatabl iahed, nor IT respected by Presi
dent LINCOLN and his Cabinet. II Domestic tram
a6rilitV lin
disturbance has been inaugnrated and encouraged.
The. common defence has not been provided for,
bat Northern sssas have been leqsled al Southern
breasts, and sthe welfare Of our people has been
totally dissegArded. The blessings Of liberty have
not been secnred to u.s.. bnt we have found the
Federal authorities exerting all their power and
using all the means at their command to reduce
ne Southern people TO abject submission to
Northers aimbsrs. Nv sS sssy ~ ny
These are general specid cations, but all true.t
Processing then to particular instances, the Coy.
ernor shows other modes in which the Federal
Constitution has been annalled first, By propo-
sition ~ partition GINA among other States and
blot out that Common nth altogether, in the
face u aapseia interdict against the same in the
organic law next. ~ abridging the freedom Of
speech and he press hich the Constitution says
shall not be done next, BY arrestings citizens
without authority and denying them the constitu-
lional Of trial and BY various other
acts sof oppression and tyranny, not paralleled
even in a.itocratic Governments. Tho bill Of in
iictment ii Il formidable one, hut WI may ask cats
yono2 The Southern sople need, no justiHea
RI their course, and to talk aense to a Northern
anatic is about AZ fruitess piece of business al
iinging psalms to d dead horse. q
But the parallel which the Governor makes be-
ween onr grievances now and oufs grievances ut |
be- time 9of the Revolution shows SO many points
e sinilafii that tits well worth edncing, par
ienlariy s as the subject has never before been
RESENTED IN this light so far as we have aeen
he tations are from the Declaration Of indie
endence N 4 Il
a, q The history of Abraham Lincoln els his
Dry ef repeated injuries and usurpations all hav-
direct object the establ Of an absolute
yraHny over these = Confederate g States.', 10 |
ls end 4 he has affected 70 render the military
Independent Of and superior to the civil power.n
he has combined with Pisrpont and other /
raitors in Virginia f. I'd subject us to jurisdiction
oreign te our constitution and unac knowiedged /
Y OFT laws giving his assent To their acts pre-
y & eldsay T. quartz IS large bodies q
fmed troops amoHgs ms. Y, II 81 i;55 ts Il II
y s ~ e trade With
, nv i snsayolpg t. impose
gI \ & q I
He is ndeayoring to deprive us In many cases
i me benefits OF trial by jury 'tls - n
a He has abdicated government here by declar- /
rs us ont 81 bis protection, and waging war /
Hs la plpndered our seas, ravagsd our coasts,
'arnt orr towns and destroy the lives Of Dur
d 81 this time transp ,orting large troopa of
,ercenaries to complete the works of DEATH desc
ltton and tyranny already begun with circuni-
tances Of cruelty and perfdy scarcely paralleled
the most harbarons ages, and totally unworthy /
1e head of 81 civilized nation. b VI 81 N s
He has endea yored to excite domestic $insirrec-f
oiia By proposing To put arms in the
ands of our ala YES. and thereby encourage them
"a, gnIabed destruction If az ages
He has niolat laws human and divine, to gra-
81 shis passion, to glpt his preiudtces, and to-
feak ma Ysnge ance upon q people who ask only
leits rights, and who are struggling to preserve
leir liberties. Cana Cove nment conducted upon 4
loh principle endnres III 5sS IS s!3s 4 S 81 II
IA evefy stage Of these expressions, attempted
prior 10 the secession Of the Slate n
n Warned President Lincoln and the Northern
aople of The Inevitable al qnenees of their +
oarase ana afsmnnlsled them that # Justice were
q accorded 70 nss the Union must be dissolved
avery stag Of these since the seces
on ct NE State, we have resisted them as became
II lfse people asserting dependence. Our adino.
lions and RESISTANCE have been answered hy4I
1psated Injury and preston, aggravated by i
az and bloc dshed, and by the assumption and Il
seIelse al ower llicf even an antocrat would