The North Carolina Standard

Do we find the following characteristic charge against the democratic party in the Virginia legislature?

"But Virginia she who was wont to lead where she is now even afraid to follow—has proved recreant to the South in its need. She has refused to unite with the other Southern States, in the assertion that the question of Slavery is one which they are competent to decide on for themselves, and one, with which they will not permit others to interfere.

Virginia has ingloriously shrunk from the crisis, and thereby subjected the State to the charge of having in its Legislature a majority, so lost to every other consideration in their devotion to party—so fearful that any new object should engage the public attention, until they have seized the spoils of victory—as to refuse to rally under the waving banner of the South, on whose ample folds is inscribed, UNION AMONG OURSELVES, FOR THE PRESERVATION OF OUR RIGHTS."

Now for the truth of the Register's charge. In the Richmond Compiler, a whig paper, of the 15th, it is stated, in reference to the debate on the abolition question, that, on the day previous, the House of Delegates declared, (only 6 members absent,) by a vote of 115 to 13, that Congress has no constitutional right to interfere with the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia.

Those who voted in the negative, were as follows: Noes.—Messrs. Brooke, Craig, Henshaw, Hunter of Berkeley, Mullen, Griggs, Berry, Summers, Beard, Powell, Taylor of Loudoun, Leyburn, and Prentiss—13.

On this vote, the Editor of the Petersburg Constellation remarks in the following strain of biting sarcasm:

And now, gentle reader! after the Whig clamor in the newspapers—after all their public declamation on the subject, who think you were the thirteen gentlemen in the Virginia Legislature, that voted against a resolution, denying the right of Congress to abolish (interfere with) slavery in the District of Columbia? We will tell you. They are Whigs! Whigs! every man of them. Not a friend of the Administration—not one single supporter of Martin Van Buren—(Look to the vote on the Election of Councillor for proof) not one single Democratic Republican was among them!

Comment is unnecessary.