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Preamble and Resolutions in respect to the Nature and Conduct of the pending War. 1862 27 (1862.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0804 and id is 1 raw text is: nlESOLUTIONS. No. 12.-1esolution for the Destruction of certain Coupon Bonds. Adopted May 15, 1862. Resolved by the general assembly, that the treasurer and the so- Coupon bonds cond auditor be authorized and required to cause to be destroyed any to be destroyed canceled coupon bonds that may have been guaranteed by the state, of which a register has been kept. No. 13.-Preamble and Resolutions in respect to the Nature and Conduct of the pending War. Adopted May 9, 1502. The general assembly of Virginia, now convened in extraordinary Preamble session, deem this a fit occasion briefly to review the nature and con- duct of the pending war, and.solemnly to reaffirm the sentiments which animate them, and those principles of civil liberty which the people of this state and of the Confederate States have maintained from the commencement of the contest, and which, with the bhkssing of God, they will continue to maintain with unshaken constancy to its close. For more than a year the government and people of the north have waged a cruel, unjust and unrelenting war against us. They deny to us the inalienable right of self-government, in defence of which, in the war of tile revolution of seventeen hundred and seventy- six, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. With professed regard for the rights of man, tiey have at different periods sympathized with tile Greeks, the Poles, the Irish, tile Hun- garians, the South American states, and all others who have at any time sought by force to dissolve their subsisting political ties, and to establish a separate nationality ; yet they deny to those whom they call their brethren, tile right, which cleairly belongs to them as sove- reign states, to withdraw peaceably from their union, and to govern thenselves; which right the people of the Confederate States have declared their solenmn purpose to exercise, with a unanimity without a parallel in the history of civil revolutions. In prosecuting the war they have violated without scruple the con- stitution which they profess to defend. They have suspended by executive proctmation and without law, the writ of habeas corpus; imprisoned, without legal warrant or military necessity, thousands of respectable citizens of both sexes; violated their obligations to the state of Maryland, and their solemn compact in the compromise re- solutions of eighteen hundred and fifty, by abolishing slavery in the district of Cohumbia. They have trampled on private rights, by 14

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