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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0680 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS.
No. .-Resolutions relative to the action of' South Carolina on the subject of a
proposed Southern Congress.
[Adopted larch 29, 1851.]
Whereas the legislature of tile state of South Carolina has passed an Preamble.
net to provide for the appointment of delegates to the Southern con-
gross, , to be entrusted with full power and authority to deliberate Nith
the view and intention of arresting further aggression, and if possible
of restoring the cobstitutional rights of tile South, and if not, to recom-
mend due provision for their future safety and independence, which act
has been formally communicated to this general assembly:
1. Be it therefore resolved by the general assembly of Virginia, That Against action on
whilst this state deeply sympathises with South Carolina in the feelings compromise
excited by tile unwarrantable interference of certain of the non-slave- latel to destroy
holding states with our common institutions; and whilst diversity of opi- th Union.
nion cxists among the people of this commonwealth in regard to the wis-
dom, justice and constitutionality of the measures of tile late congress
of the United States, taken as a whole, and commonly known as the
compromise measures, yet tile legislature of Virginia deems it a duty to
declare to her sister state of South Carolina, that the people of this
state are unwilling to take any action in consequence of the same, cal-
culated to destroy the integrity of this Union.
2. Resolved, That, regarding the said acts of tile congress of the United Declining to send
. * . fdeleg/ates to the
States, taken together, as all adjustment of tile exciting questions to southern con-
which they relate, and cherishing tile hope that if fairly executed they gress.
will restore to the country that harmony and confidence which of late
have been so unhappily disturbed, tile state of Virginia dcein it unwise
in the present condition of tile country to send delegates to the proposed
Southern congress.
3. Resolved, That Virginia earnestly and affectionately appeals to her Appeal to South
sister state of South Carolina to desist from any meditated secession Carolina not to
upon her part, which cannot but tend to the destruction of the Union secede.
and the loss to all of the states of tile benefits that spring from it.
4. Resolved, That Virginia, boliovin tile constitution of tile United sustaining tho
States, if faithfully administered, provides adequate protection to tile constitution ef
rights of all the states of this confederacy, and still lookinF to that in- the United Staics.
strumeit for defence within the Union, warned by tile experience of tile
past, the dangers of the present, and the hopes of the future, invokes
all who live under it to adhere more strictly to it, and to preserve invio-
lato tile safeguards which it affords to the rights of individual states aild
the interests of sectional minorities.
5. Resolved, That all acts of legislation or combinations designed in Reprobating acts
. . .. . td mo t t f f c t i n g W a l l i n .
any way injuriously to affect the institution of slavery, (eservto most ti.nnstvry.
unqualified reprobation, are peculiarly offensive to the Southern states,
and must, if persisted in, inevitably defeat the restoration of peaceful and
harmonious sentiments in the states.
6. Resolved, That tile governor of this commonwealth he requested Resolutions to be
to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the executive of the state of transmitted to
South Carolina, with the request that they be laid before her next legis-
lature, and that copies be also transmitted to the executive of each of
the other states of this Union, the state of Vermont only excepted. Exception.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.slavery/ssactsva0680&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)