Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1822-03-12
DOM ESYIC.
REPUBLICAN MEETING AT ALLAN

nv q iSSAiiE VI tbt iIlCli-
bers OF both houses Of the legislature Of
the state of Newly DIRK, now in session,
held at the Senate Chamber, in the CAPT
to-, at Albany, on Friday the oith Janua-
iy, 1922, Col Nathaniel Rochester, of
the assembly, was called to the chair,
and VIM. c. Douck, Esq. of the senate,
appointed secretary.
The recitals and resolution following
were adopted BY the meeting:
Whereas It appears that premature
agitation en- the subject of the next Pre-
sidency now exists at The seat Of govern
ment, and that the republican members
OF one state legislature have already
nominated a candidate for that highly I'M
portant station: And whereas, it is the
opinion of this meeting, that it will be
destructive 10 the best interests of this
nation, and will violate every rule of cX-
pediency and proprie,y, thus unseasona-
bly, to bring forward candidates, either
by the members Of state legislatures, or
of Congress :--Therelore,
Resolved, That willis. we approve Of
the old way OF nominating candidates for
the highest elective Offices, by the repre-
sentatives OF the people assembled al the
scat OF government, we cannot but de-
precate premature agitation of the pre-
sidential question:: And that nomina-
ton of candidates for President and Vice
President, to be made by the republican
members of the next Congress of the
United States, according to established
usage, is alone calculated to unite the
wishes and exertions Of the friends to re-
publican government.
from the New-York Daily Advertiser, Feb Q.
We have some doubts whether it will
be fair, hereafter, to accuse the House Of
Representatives Of the United States OF
being inattentiYe to then duty. In a !a(e
debate, on resolution submitted by Mr..
Cook, OF Illinois, calling on the Sccreta-
~ of the Treasury for information, in
which he had underscored certain words,
for what particular cause We pretend not
to be informed, the friends of that Head
of Department took the alarm, and APP
parontly considering it as an insidious
backnanded stroke at him, opposed the
resolution most manfully. How long
the debate continued we are not precise
ly nformetl--though from a remark by
the reporter Of the Intelligence respect
ing it, and the number of speakers who
engaged in it, it must have occupied
considerable time, probably large por-
ton Of one sitting. Thrust be gratifying
to the country at large to see, at the end
ofthc second month Of the session, when
next to nothing of importance has thus
far been accomplished, this venerable
body warmly enlisted in controversy on
SO important topic as that of undcrscor-
ing some half dozen of words in a motion
for inform alton. OF what importance
are the Apportionment Bill, the Bank
rupt Bill, the Navigation system, &c. &c.
compared with this underAand attack, if
attack it was, upon one of the candidates
for the next presidency? Indeed, what
could have been more insidious, or more
fatal to mans character, and of course
to his prospects and schemes of ambition,
than such stab as this The Secretary
of State has been, for several successive
periods in our political history, our prac-
teal Prince of Wales. Ii is understood
that he intends, at the approaching cleo
ton, to claim the rights and privileges of
primogeniture.- the tables are turn
cd somewhat-his title will be disputed
by the whole royal family-evcry Secre-
tary being, as is generally understood,
candidate for the inheritance. Indeed,
it is supposed that an attempt will be
made to change the tenure completely,
and that instead of the eldest, the young
est son will be pushed forward to demand
the estate upon the principles Of what
the lawyers call Borough English. This
does not mean the English Rotten b.
roughs, or Borough-monger system, but
peculiar law Of descent which prevails
in certain places in England, and by
which the youngest son takes, to the ex-
clusion of the oldest. The most promi-
nent claimant against the Secretary of
State, however, is the Secretary of the
Treasury; and it would be very unfor-
tunate for him, and indeed very unjust,
if his title should be destroyed, or even
preiudiced, in such an indirect manner as
seems to have been supposed to be max
ing in the case under consideration-that
is by underscoring motion for informa-
ton. His friends, in this instance, mani
tested a laudable degree of watchfulness
and jealousy, and, it is to be presumed,
defeated whatever views of hostility might
have been cloaked under such mystic
rious plot.