The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-12-13
'The Conv;enfio,,.s.

.oA oAuthahS0I tu1S AOrHinB, lntrO-
duced by r. b. Bullock, OF Rich
mond, which reads as follows: 3
+ "Be ii enacted, de-, That from and
after the passing of this ordinance,
all levies which have been or may be
made under execution, issued from
any court of this State, shall be stls-
pended until this Convention shall
have taken, or refused to take, final
action upon the matter of relief; and
that oil sales under executions, in
violation of this ordinance, shall be
null and void, and of no effect"
| The Georgia Supreme Court hav-
ing decided that the stay laws of the
last Legislature are unconstitutional,
this ordinance, which it is under
stoca T;H 5o enforced by Gen. Pope,
commanding this Military District,
will operate Us barrier to all legal
actions upon private debts, until the
| Convention can act further.
| RICHMOND, December I2.--The
Conservative Convention met this
morning. The committee reported
series Of resolutions, which were
adopted unanimously, as follows:
The first recognizes that by the result
of the war, slavery has been abolish
ed, and it is not the desire of the
people of Virginia to reduce to slave
ry again people emancipated by the
events of the war, and by amend
ments to the Constitution OF the
United States. The second asserts
the right of Virginia to be restored
to the Union, and declares her inten-
tlon in good faith, to perform her
duties to the Union. The third pro-
tests against the governing of Vir-
GINA IN any way not defined in the
Federal Constitution. The fourth
adopts the language of the resolution
adopted ut the Cooper Institute, New
York, that Military Governments are
subversive of the fundamental ideas
OF our Government, and its object,
which is to subject the people of the
Southern States to the rule of q race
Just emerged from slavery, is alb
horrent to the civilization of mankind,
and the Northern people, in surren-
derlng, as it does, one-third of the
Senate and one-quarter of the House
OF Representatives, which are to
legislate over us, to the dominion of
all organized class of emancipatcd
slaves, who are without any of the
training, habits, or traditions of self
government. Fifth disclaims oil hos
tility to the black population, and
asserts that the people of Virginia
sincerely desire to see their advance
in intelligence, and are willing to ex-
tend to them liberal protection; but
while any Constitution adopted by
the State, should make NIL men equal
before the law, yet this Convention
distinctly declares that Governments
OF the States and Union were formed
by white men, to be subject to their
control, and suffrage should still be
regulated so rs continue both under
control and direction of the white
race.
A resolution was adopted, authoriz-
ing the Central Committee to take
steps for testing the constitutionality
OF the Reconstruction Acts in the
United States Supreme Court. In
discussing this resolution, Gen. I'M
boden, who had sued out n manda-
mus against Gen. Schofield, stated
that his case, with similar ones rcla-
tive to suffrage in Alabama and Mis-
sissippi, would be carried to the Su-
preme Court.
The President was authorized to
appoint a committee to prepare nm
address to the people of Virginia and
OF the United States, and the Con-
vention adjourned sine die.
After the adjournment, Hon. r.
M. Il. Hunter made short address,
In answer to calls, in which he said
that between slavery and military
rule, he preferred the latter-for the
men who welded the latter were of
his own race. He cited Hayti and
Jamaica rs results of negro rule, and
believed that the radical majority in
Congress, if they expected to control
the blacks and prevent their excesses,
would find themselves woefully mis-
taken. TO give the blacks the power
of governments in the Southern
States would be the highest crime
against nature, and he believed when
the North saw the results, there
would be q reaction which would
sweep such governments from the
face of America. This generation
has suffered, and may suffer more;
but tho Stota will live ond Iool, bool,