Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-07-01
FROM THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
To the People of Virginia.
Friends and Fe!iow Citizens!

A numerous meeting of the members
of your Legislature vas held within the
walls of your Capitol in February last
The friends of all the Presidential Cam
didates were Unfortunately invited,
for the avowed purpose of harmonizing
together, and sacrificing all predlec-
tons, to the will Of the majority. poll
was fairly opened for each of the candi-
dates. The name of every member was
publicly registered The result was,
that most decided majority of your
Representatives determined to recon-
mend to their fellow citizens, WILLIAM
H. CRAwFoRD, of Georgia, IS President,
and ALBERT GALLaTIN, of Pennsylvania,
IS Vice President of the United States.
They also framed an Electoral Ticket,
composed OF citizen from each of your
Electoral districts. You will find no
man upon this list who does not deserve
yourconiidence, Most OF them have al
ready acted as your Electors All ofthem
have foughtth good fight in the repub-
ican ranks.
Wesubmit the complete list Of Elac-
tors. With the exceptions OF two gen.
tlemen, tone of whom was d member of
the last Legislature. and decided friend
to w. II. Crawford, the other under
stood also to be his f,.end,) we have
heard from all the persons nominal
ted They have all expressed their
determination to support the candi-
dates recommended by the last Legisla-
ture.
This mode of selection has been sane
toned by the long established usages of
the Republican Party, as well as by the
advantages it has secured to us. Its
first result was the triumphant election
of the man of the People, THOMAS DER
PERSON. From that day to the present
no better expedient has been adopted.
Legislative nominations have the effect
of concentrating the scattered strength
of the Republican Party. SO long as
the present mode of electing your Pre-
sident prevails, whilst there is such
diversity in the manner of election in
the different states, it is important for
us to adopt some course which is calcu-
lated to give its full force to the vote of
the state. 1t was natural and proper
that the members of your last Legisla-
ture should have adhered to the old
forms of nomination. Few can dlsap-
prove o: it, but those politicians, who
unable to give their favorite candidate
the effect of such Recommendation,
have refused either to concur in it or to
sacrifice their personal partialities. 1t
is for you TO say in November next,
how far the strength of the Republican
party is to be broken up by minorities
and fragments of minorities. We beg
leave, also, to remind you, that legi.la-
tive nominations are now jealousy ad.
vocated in many of those states whose
2 Congressional Representatives refused
I b attend the caucus al Washington
= GU see other large states concerning
measures to give an undivided vote at
the approaching election. You see the
, state of Massachusetts exchanging her
district system for General Ticket
Why then should Virginia depart from
this course? Why should she despise
legislative nominations, either of her
own delegates at Richmond, or of the
Republican Representative at Wash
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