Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-01-15
RICHMOND, JANUARY Is, 1929.
NENT PI{ESiDErIT-

HIS II tiic idNoric topic In The newspapers.
III Is SD IN some respects perhaps from the
want OF any other very Interesting subject 30
attract the attention of politcians.--few of
the newspapers too have come out very fully
upon it.-Not one in fifty has discussed the
pretensions of particular candidates-but thev
content themselves with sl>irmishin. ahou; tho
question Very few OF them even pretend 10
statea new fact touching it, We observe in the
last Boston Patriot, that its Editor Processes To
state the following fact - derived from an un-
| questionable sOurcc:"-'' Ii has been stated io
us by friend not very remote from the scene
OF operations, and who has had considerable
experience in political management. that on
or about the LIST inst. deputaton from the
Pennsylvania delegation waited unon MIR.
Calhoun to request him TO permit himself 20
be considered candidate for the Presidency,
and that he, alter having gently declined this
olier, ut last, ms favor, consent ID to be so con-
s!dercd A correspondent from Washington
IN the last Philadelphia Franklin Gazette. on
the 9th er hand, denies the statement n,ad, in
a y. j. paper" that meeting Of the s. Ca
| roiIna delegation and others had taken place i'm
this city, and fixed on Il candidate Mr. Gal
| houn) for President. This is erroneous. There
has been no meeting here in relation TO that
quesiion."-The y. Y. National Advocate
objects TO This agitation OF the question ut all :;
and proposes, II his {" republican colleagues
| throughout the Union concur i'm this opinion
| 10 exclude from our respective columns the
discussion of the presidential question,nntil b.
general consent, the time shall have arrived to
settle IT." We think, however, that Mr. No
an errs on the other side ''Four monlhs
(Says he) prior TO the election Of a President.
a nomination can be made with perfect ease
and the Executive elected without difficulty"
Does FIR n. wish congress to make the nomi-
nation lrso, they must sit until the last of ,Ju
ly for the electors vote early in Dec. -: The
great difficulty indeed after all is this very
nomination., IN case of a severe and irritating
contest.-Who is TO make it Is Congress TO
do 1t; or Is there any better mode of col
iccting the sense of the country? This is Il
point upon which we confess our opinion tina,
IA calm and disinterested discussion might :. do
the state some ser,ice."-The n Orleans Adj
vertIser OF the 18th ul;. is still more pointed.
he advises his " brother editors, not to be too
forward III urging the pretensions of their re-
spcctive fayorites in consideration Of a promise.
or hope of contingent rewald-that the
person 81 designated may die, or peradrcn-
lure, me Advertiser rery c0GrSeiV rcmarksl
" be hanged, long before we shall have I'm on
portunity to vote for hinl-that should such an
accident befall one of the candidates. those
who have asserted his claims, will be reduced
TO a very awkward diemma-they cannot
| change hands and cross over to another can
dIdate, because it is to be presumed that they
VIII have previously convicted every other
asplrant except their own favoritp of every
crime prohibited in the decalogue," SC. sc.
The Philadelphia Aurora, and the National
Gazette, which reached us last night. speak
OF an address which is circulated i'm Virginia.
on the subject of the right of suffrage Ii pro
poses that the representatives of such as are
not entitled to the right of suffrage two from
each county, shall meet at Charlottesville in
Conyention-to draft petition 80 to the body.
VINO have heen elected by few persons" and
improperly styled the representatives of Vir-
slnia'' praying them to call a Convention, and
allowing every white male, above the age of
II, to vote" Ii they refuse, the committee.
appointed at Charlottesville, are then TO order
day OF election, at which the people may
vote Tor Governor and two Representatives
from each cOunty.-These, when elected. are
TO meet at the Capitol in Richmond-and or
game goVernment-the representatives are
10 elect 36 OF their own body to form Senate.
ana ali officers are to be appointed necessary
for the Judicial and military departments of
the state-the Legislature is TO authorize the go
vernon to take possession of all the public build
in5s, archives, &c. &c. At the first session of
the legislature, law is to pass calling Con-
ventlon to form Constitution, &c. &c. "Here
leXclalms the Nat. Gazettr,) is a precious plan
ct revolution" &c. &c. 1.-THE rest Mr. Walsh
must excuse us from republishing.)
1t Is possible that such an Address NAV be
IN circulation in Virginia-but it is certainly
the first time we have ever heard it spoken of.
ut an adjourned meeting ofbe citizens Of Rich
mond, held dtthe Merchants Coffee House,
on Saturday the 10Th Jan. 1929.
1
no an and
THOMAS RUTHERFooRD, Secretary.
John Rutherford the Chairman of the
committee appointed by the meeting held on
the 10th inst. reported as follows
The committee who were appointed at a
meeting of the citizens of Richmond. held AT
the Coffee House on Thursday the 10th inst
to prepare resolutions expressive of the sense
OF our fellow citizens upon the policy of the
acts oil Congress, passed on the 18th of April.
1873, and on the 18th of May, 1890, prohibit
ing British vessels from bringing the produc-
tons of the colonies of Great Britain into orr
ports, and taking away in return those of our
country-havc had the same under consde-
. ration, and beg leave TO submit TO this meet
ing the expedlency of adopting the following
, preamble aud resolutions:
. whereas, the citizens of Richmond have
: been respectfully invited by their fellow citi-
zens of Norfolk, to offer a public expression
ot their sentiments upon the policy Of the re-
si'7ctiUe system established by the acts Of
Congress above mentioned /; and whereas. thcv
have taken into serious consideration the very
able and luminous memorial addressed to
: Congress by the citizens Of Norfolk, praying
for repeal Of the said prohil,itory acts:
\ ReSotUed, That we cordially unite in the SEN
G tlments expressed in the said Memorial that