Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Begun and Held at the Capttol, in the City of Richmond, on Monday, the Seventh Day ... Hundred and Thirty-Five (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Virginia General Assembly

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331973848 ISBN 13 : 9781331973843

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia: Begun and Held at the Capitol, in the City of Richmond, on Monday, the Seventh Day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Five

It is in vain to turn away our eyes from the state of things that now exists. We have to meet it, in some form or other; and it belongs properly to you to decide as to the manner in which this shall be done. It is no time to temporize. Should any thing arrest the progress of the scheme devised, for the present, experience teaches that it will surely be revived hereafter, whenever any circumstance may arise promising to its authors a more favourable re sult; and in such a government as that of the United States, occasions will often present themselves, even if they are not made, when such projects may be agitated with some fancied or pretended prospect of success. It behooves you, therefore, to settle, at once, upon the course proper to be pursued in such a contingency; and to inform those whom you represent, either to prepare for the occasion as becomes men determined to peril all in defence of their known rights, or to hold their possessions at the mere courtesy of others who are unacquainted with their situation and indifferent to their interests. Feeling with the other citizens of this commonwealth, and honoured by the re. Sponsible situation conferred upon me, I must be excused for callin your attention to this great subject, in a manner more impressive than I should think myself at liberty to adopt un or ordinary circumstances.

In regard to the first question, no one can doubt, that under the wise provisions of the public law, intended as this is to perpetuate the peace and harmony of all states, whenever an association exists within the territory of any state, the object of which association is to disturb the repose of another, the state whose tranquillity is jeoparded by such means, may rightfully demand of the other, the prompt

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331973848
• ISBN 13: 9781331973843
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308
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