Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-09-03

"a the senate; and it may well hs on0"
| tloned whether there be nower qO1s"
Legislature to alter or abridge this claim; ;rS
but what cannot be done directly. whs.
cannot be done by law, may be ind;re @4Ss
accomplished thro' the medium Of N. ~
tsIslatlve recommendation. And altho,"t
|the people cannot be commanded to ss :"
facilities Tor acting may be afforded thsm'
ito very great extent. '''Hs
I The general assembly then are resno,.
! fully requested to recommend to tho pos
pie OF the commonwealth the election 'o os
IA convention to alter and amend the d.
iects OF the constitution. And in dosns
tins 1t is confidently hoped that such nri1s'
Iclples OF representation viii be aJon,"S
t lana snch modes of election prescribed. AZ
will lnsure to every part Of the state, !,
weight IN the Convention to be assembled
|proportioned to its white population. Thus
Eand thas only can the excItements exit
ing IN the state be alla}ed, The erea.
ends OF republican government be attsipeS
Eand the constitution be placed on base
to lnsare Its own duraoiity,as we'll as tbs
lpeace and happiness of those for VIII, m -
has been framed.
/ MIR. Johnson moved that said rpsolu,;o,
land memorial lie on the t4De. which uss
|overruied by the house.
/ he question was then put will tba
House adopt the said resolution and me-
moral," and decided in the affirmative
layes 81, noes Z.
Tn motion Of Mr.. Johnson, se,oodrd h,
Mr.. Noiand.
Ordered that the ayes ard noes on the
sad question be entered in the iou,.
|nal.
The names Of those who voted in the
affirmative are, Messrs. " Gods, Gordon,
porteFtleld, Cameron, Leftwich, BOYD,
Ward, EdgIngton, Marshall, Arnold,
Moss, Fitzhugh, fucker, of Frederick,
Williams, Pickett, Chapman, BurweIl,
COOK, Mayors, Smith, French, Chapman,
Jack, Armstrong, Williams. Seymour,
(Pindail. Jackson, Reed, Hairston, Turner.
FLOOD, Donnelly, White, holland, osburr,
otaley, Wilson, Estill, WOodyiIie, Raw
ing, CabelI, Reeves, Letter, Chaplin,
Mccoy, Dyer, Tucker Of Pittsylvania,
iownes, Love, Brooke, Penn, Staples,
duncan, Anderson, Bryan, Harrison,
oamuels, Lowell. Creel, Bceson, Fisback
l-6l.
The names of the gentlemen who yOt-
led in the negative are Messrs. Brecken
|rldge President, Johnson. Blackburn.
Taylor, Edmonson, Mcdowell, Leyburu,
Z.
Mir. Fitzhugh from the same committee,
also reported memorial ID be recon-
mended to the people OF this common
wealth as follows;
TO The GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
VIRGINIA
Tie Memorial Of the Citi@cns Of
County,
The undersigned, inhabitants of
county, uniting for tie pa pose Of obtain
Ing such amendments to the constitution
tot this commonwealth, as will secure to
1.-THE good people thereof, all Che rights and
privileges, to which they are bynalure en-.
!titled and of which they have been de.
lprived by the ealIy edoption at principles,
which il not originally 4 radically wroDg
have become so by the subsequent ope-
ration OF natural and accidental causes"
peg leave to lay before the Legislature Of
'he state, such ali exposition Of their
grievances, as will estab sh at once, tie
certainty OF their existence, the extent Ct
thelr operation and the necessity Of their
removal. Passing over many lesser evils,
connected with all inseparaDle from tAc
exlstlns constitution they are satisfied On
the present occasion, to c0nGne their al,
tenhon exclusively TO one not doubling
that the same remedy which VIII be ap-
Iplled to it; will at tie sane time be eI~
tended to every principle in tie cons;itu-
ton, inimical to the ri shts and happiness
OF an independent people. no doctrine
has received more universal assent tbail
that in republican government, the VIII
OF the majority should lie the law Of the
land. And yet i'll state boastiog Of TIE
Ipure republican character II lis iastltu'
lions this first and fundamental principle
OF repubicanism does rot exist: forO
borrow the language of late eloquent aP'
peal to the people of Virginia, che s@'
yernment OF the commonwealth is actual
ly in the hands OF a minority and "h't
lis still more perniciouS t. the general ~
Iterests in the hands Of n usrity iuhabltNg
a particular sectlo. o re state. for,F
mine counties ad accent 10 each otAer N
the eostern and southeru sections a the
state including three OF The borop2s ,itas'--