Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-07-01

RICHMOND. July /. HOS
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PRE SiDE.NIL Ef.EC'TVON

III CsSfDCsNILfL ELECIIO.F.
Meetings have been held at Blountsville.
resolutions were adopted TO support Gen. A.
Jackson.
We have an accountin the Florence Gazette
Alabama ofthe result of a numerous meeting
ot the citizens Of Lauderdale county, held ON
the S0th May for the purpose of nominating
"A President. Capt. Samuel Savage in the
chair, and Mr. Il. Childrtss appointed Score
tary proposition WAS then made "tliat
some person declare himself in favor of each
of the several candidates, and divide the com
pany SO as to ascertain the strength of each
party, when NEARLY all the company followed
the man who declared for Gen. a. Jackson, in
favor ofwhom $50 votes were given. Among
those who remained, (but who would not be
counted) tliepincipal part were in favor of
Mr.. Adams."-The Gazette observes, &" that
with the exception Of few perspna! friends
MIR. Clay will not receive any support iii this
county. MIR. Crawford is, not considered of
spoken Of as Il candidate
Thus zoe go On-Fve candidates are pitt in
nomination, and each of them has friends who
indulge sanguine hopes ofhis success. What
makes the lottery more extraordinary is, that
the Western Interest, which is SD far short of
the object of its attainment, is to be divided
between two candidatps-and some rem
shre,rd politicians are for starting a new cour-
ser in the person of Mr.. Macon How is this
struggle to end I? Is the choice To be left To
the electors, or thrown into the III. Of R.-If
the former. Is no plan TO be devised or If
one he devised, is none to he carried into eff
fect, for concentrating the votes of the people
upon some particular candidate? Or are we
To yield up the election to the II. of II. where
each voter will sickle for his favorite until the
last extremity ? where Missouri, Delaware,
and RhnHp leland
as n. York, Pennsylvania and Virginia Are
we to have the same scenes repeated which
were acted IN 1900 ? " the So successive bal
loiings," as the n. Intelligcncer asks ? the
" three successive days and one night" of bal
lettings and anxiety the same alarm COM
municated to the people of IL President Gre
ated by law, and derosed by the sword "'rhe
same scenes" II these things we're done,
when there were hut two candidates before the
House, s. for one ofwhom the voice of the PEG
pie had sounded as loud and distinct as the
thunders of Heaven, what must we EXPECT
when there shall be three candidates presented,
each with aspiring hopes, and with ANXIOUS
par.izans TO press their preicnsions to The last
extremity ?-We solemnly repeat, that some
mode must be adopted for avoiding such ex-
tremites, and that we will sooner bow 10 a
nomination by acaucus, than fy to such evils.
The Governor Gf Massachusetts has APP
pointed Messrs. q. Sullivan and Pierce, as
Agents To settle the claims of that State
against the U. Stafes.-A Boston paper in
noticing this appointment takes q distinction
between such Claims n,ry come within the
rules now laid down by the Jar Department
for the allowance or disallowance Of the
Militia claims of all the States ), and such,
Constituting the greater part of the Massachi-
seIts claim, as do not lie within the power Of