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Joint Resolution in regard to the movement of Troops and Arms within the limits of this Commonwealth, by the General Government. 1861 339 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0782 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. United States now held or hereafter acquired south of latitude thirty- six degrees and thirty minutes, and provide that slavery of the Afri- can race shall be effectually protected as property therein during the continuance of the territorial government, and the fourth article shall secure to the owners of slaves the right of transit with their slaves between and through the non-slaveholding states and territo- ries, constitute the basis of such an adjustment of the unhappy con- troversy which now divides the states of this confederacy, as would 'be accepted by tile people of this commonwealth. 6. Resolved, that Ex-president John Tyler is hereby appointed Commtpoinnr Ito prte ident by the concurrent vote of each branch of tile general assembly, arov-,d commissioner to tie president of tie United States, and Judge John lst Robertson is hereby appointed, by a like vote, a conmmissioner to the state of South Carolina, and the other states that have seceded, or shall secede, with instructions respectfully to request the president of the United States and the authorities of such states to agree to abstain, pending the proceedings contemplated hy the action of this general assembly,.from any and all acts calculated to produce a col- lision of arnis between the states and the government of the United States. 7. Resolved, that copies of the foregoing resolutions he forthwith aovermor to I fo~rm comn- telegraphed to the executives of the several states, and also to the mhIuoners, &c president of tile United States, and that the governor be requested to inform, without delay, the commi.sioners of their appointment by the foregoing resolutions. No. 4.-Joint Resolution in regard to the movement of Troops and Arms within the limits of this Commonwealth, by the General Government. Adopted April 1, 1861. Whereas the people of Virginia, in convention assembled, are now Preamble deliberating as to their future relations with the government at Wash- ington, D. C., and the non-slaveholding states of the confederacy, known as tile United States of North America: And whereas the general assembly of Virginia (at present sitting), and the governor of this commonwealth have declared their opposition to the exercise of force against the slaveholding seceding states, and to tile organi- zation in, or the marehing through our territory of military expedi- tions for that purpose : And whereas, in the present nnsettled condi- tion of our inter-state and federal relations, it is the highest obligation of duty on all public functionaries to watch vigilantly, and prevent or thwart every hostile movement either against tile seceded states or those that may be supposed to sympathize with them : And whereas it has come to the knowledge of this legislature that a large number

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