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the peculiar interests of the southern states were involved, while it is a source of much satisfaction to know, that as
yet, no state has deliberately sustained their heresies. The legislature of Virginia have therefore deemed it suffiecient to
lay this general subject before the non-slaveholding states, without inviting their immediate co-operation. I have ac-
cordingly communicated the proceedings of our general assembly to all the states.
I am not instructed by the legislature to suggest any specific line of policy as likely to be adopted by this state, or
to be recommended to you. Common interests and common dangers require that there should be mutual confidence
and concert between us. Should the state of New York, or any other state, persist in this arbitrary denial of our
rights, you are apprised by the resolutions of our legislature, that the state of Virginia does not intend to submit to so
dangerous and palpable a violation of our compact. We desire to know whether those states which, like ourselves,
have peculiar interests involved in this question, concur in our convictions of right, and in our resolution to maintain
them.
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