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, natural, physical sovereignty of Virginia. The Governor was probably the first to discover that States-Right is a physical fact, not a metaphysical abstraction. He never did belong to the metaphysical States-Rights school — that of Madison, Jefferson, and Calhoun — but, in 1856, and again after the John Brown raid, led the physical school in an astonishingly earnest fashion. We ought to have in all our Colleges and Universities a Professor of Political Anatomy. Such a chair, well filled, God and Nature had formed them, as they had grown up, and not attempt to create them. Doso, and tinker, and mend, and revise their institutions as Moses and Confucious, Lycurgus and English Alfred did; but not profanely attempt, like Locke and Jefferson, and Abbe Sierges, to make them out and out. States-Rights are never in danger so long as State political organization remain with adequate military strength to defend and maintain that organization. Institutions — natural, prescriptive i<
a change in the treatment of the rebels, I have it that propositions have been received at Washington from leading Southern men suggesting the holding of a National Convention of representatives from all parts of the Union to consider the feasibility of setting the present difficulty. It is understood that the South propose as a basis of settlement: First--That the North shall recognize State-Rights doctrine of secession, which they claim to be found in the Resolutions of 1798 and '99 by Jefferson and Madison. Second--The North to return fugitives from labor or pay their value to the owners. It is also understood that they will accept the Crittenden Compromise as the basis of a settlement relating to slavery in Territories. If the Governors do not sanction the holding of such Convention, then they are to unite in demanding of the President a vigorous prosecution of the war. The failure to supply M'Clellan's army — Deserters in Washington. A letter from Washington, dated