The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-12
virginia Isas Spoken.


This gallant State has recorded,
with almost perfect unanimity, her
rejection of the odious amendment
submitted to the several States. The
Dispoch, of Thursday, says:
1.-The voice of Virginia was pro-
nounced yesterday upon the question
of the ratification Of the constitutional
amendment proposed by Congress at
It's last session, and pronounced with
unanimity even greater than we had
anticipated. The Senate was unani-
nous, and in the House of Delegates
there was but one dissenting vote
against the resolutions rejecting the
amendment. That one vote was given
by Mr.. Lewis, of Fairfax, who was
member OF the Southern Loyalist
Convention, held in Philadelphia,
last summer It is enough that Mr..
Lewis occupies the solitary position
of the one mo" to the seventy -four
yeas However unenviable his at
titude in the estimation OF his fellow
citizens, the radicals VIII consider
him Il hero.
The result of this matter in the
Legislature sets to rest all specula-
tons as to the course Of Virginia
upon the obnoxious proposition OF
the radical Congress- The letter
writers and rumor manufacturers who
so far misunderstood Virginia Us to
suppose that she would willingly
brand herself with perjury and dis
honor, or that even q corporal guard
of tho General Assembly could be
found to favor that disgrace, will see
how far they were mistaken III their
calculations. The tyrranical Con
gress usurping the powers of the Go
vernment may-should there be none
with holdness and power enough to
put u check upon their lawless cx-
ercisc Vi authority-imposc upon the
old com ommonwealth odious, unconsti-
tutional and oppressive measures.
To such she can plead that they are
acts of force which she cannot resist:
and their enforcement does her no
dlshonor. while, were she to accept
them by her own declared consent,
she would be disgraced and degraded,
bill the very namo Virginia. would be
offensive to the nostrils of all intelli-
gent and decent people. Those who
have respect for Virginia sons
abroad who have ever loved and ho-
norcd her-neel feel no anxiety for
the proud old commonwealth. She
never Will be diSgraccd in this man
ncr.
Inn PRESIDENT on THE E1c;urn. -
We extract the following from :. re-
port Of the celebration OF the battle
OF New Orleans:
About niua O'Clock the Presidcn. OF
the United States entered the hall,
and was received with cheers, the
waving Of handkcrchiefs and music
from the band. He was seated on
the right of The Hon. Francis 2.
Blair.
The following as the fras toast, was
announced: "The day we celebrate,
and the great event which made it a
national holiday" when Mr.. Franc is
p. Blair read q paper appropriate to
the occasion. The Hon. Montgomery
Blair here proposed the health of the
| L ICSlUcuI Oi lilc CU1tcO SCaICS. winch
was received with three cheers, and
the President on rising was again ap-
plaudcd. He said it was not his pur-
pose to makes speech on this occa-
sin, but simply to propose a scnti-
ment, which was read as follows:
"No State has q right of its own
will, under the Constitution, to re-
nounce its place i'll or to withdraw
from the Union; nor has the Congress
of the United States constitutional
power to degrade the people of any
State by reducing them to the CON
dition of mere territorial .depen-
dency upon the federal head The
one is q disruption and dissolution of
the Government, the other is con
solidation ana IN exercise of despotic
power. The advocates Of the latter
are alike the enemies Of union and OF
our constitutional form Of Govern
mcnt."
POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
PRESENT AND FUTURE The report OF
the Commissioner of the Land Office,
as the best accredited estimate, sets
down the entire population of the
United States at about 1905 900,
in the year 1900. This gives, for the
year 1870, about ~, 250,O00, and fol-