The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1824-06-22
From the Richmond Enquirer.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
Friends and Ftiiow Citizens!

From the Richmond Enquirer
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
Friends and ftloo Cdi1cn5!
A numerous meeting of the members OF
| your Legislature was held within tie walls
of y3tir Capitol in February last The
! friends of all The Presidential Candidates
were indscrimnately invited, for the avow-
ed purpose Of harmonizing together, and
sacrificing all personal predictions, to the
will of the majority. A poll WAS fairly
opened for each of the candidates. The
name of every member was publ y regis
tered. The result was, that most decided
m loriiy of your representatives dcier,uin.
ed TO recommend to their Fellow. citizens,
WILLIAM II. CRAwFonp, of Georgia, as
President, and ALBERT GALLATtN, of
Pennsylvania, as Vice President, of the L.
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
your confidence. Most of them have al
ready served as your Electors. All of them
have fought The good iShtin tile republican
ranks.
We submit complete List Of Electors
With the exceptions of two gentlemen lone
of whom was a member of the last Legis-
lature, and decided friend TO w. II. Craw-
ford, the other understood also to be his
friend)-we have heard from all the persons
nominated They have all expressed their
determination 10 support the candidates re-
commended by the last Legislature.
This mode of selection has been sane
toned blythe long established usagcs Of the
republican party, as well as by the advan-
tages it has secured to us. lis first result
was the triumphant election of the man Of
the people, Thomas JEFFERSON. From
that day To the present no better expedicnt
has been adopted. Legislative nominations
have the effect of demonstrating the scatter
ed strength of the republican, party. So
ny as the present mode of electing your
President prevails, whilst there is such a
diversity in the manner of election in the
different stdtes, il is important for us to
| adopt some course which is calculated TO
give its full force to The vote of the state.
1t was natural aud proper that the members
of your last Legislature should have adhe-
| red to the old forms of nomination.. Few
can disapprove of it, but those politicians,
who, unable 10 give their fayorite can
ddate the effect of such recommends
ton, have refused either to concur IN it or
10 sacrifice their personal partialiiles. II
is for you to say ia November next, how
far the strength of the republican party is
TO be broken up by mnorities and lrag
ments of minorlties. We beg leave, also,
To remind you, that leg isiative Ilomlnrtions
are now zealously advocated in many oil
those states whose Congressional Repre-
s,ntniives refused 10 attend thr Caucus at
! Washington. You sire other large states
concerning measures 10 give an undivided
vote at the approaching election. You see
! the state Of Massachusetts exchanging her
district system for General Ticket 81
Why then should Virginia depart from this
course Why should she drspise icgisla.
tive nominations, either of her Dele gates at
Richmond or of the Representatives at
Wa hington Is the union of the plhlic
sentiment of less consequence on this than
any former occasion You SET the citizens
| Of these states distracted by variety of
candidates, each of whom has Zehous and
! devoted partizans. Shall zee rake no effort
to concentrate our votes No effort to
prevent an election by the House Of Rep.
resentatiyes /? No effort To secure to the
| larger states their due ascendancy in the
Union No effort to prevent the ;ninc ,lly
of votes from debating to ths majority ?
| Surely at such crisis. il bchooyes us to
use every cxertion to giTo to our beloved
state thc l"Et W,rsht to which she is
ehtllieo-and also to cooperate with other
st",es IN securing choice by the Electors
OF lie people. Can it be wise or patriotic
10 distract our citiztns at this moment,
when they should be united II is, for
another reason, highly important that we
should have concert at home. This ancient
commonwealth has been, for many years,
The most jealous 1--WE will not say abIe) sup
porter of republican principle those
principles on which our Institutions are
founded, and by which the administration
of our government has been SO often and
so gloriousiy directed. Is she prepared To
fritter away her strength, Ia sow discortl
among her own citizens and thus, perhaps
enable her opponents TO bring men into
OIL, g whose principles do not approximate
the nearest to her own, and who might ad
minister the government on principles es-
!, sentially distinct ? Are we prepared 70
strike the republican standard which has
so long waived triumphant in this state
under which our united citizens have so
long marched To victory and to enlist
perhaps, under different banner; to con
tend for principles, either different ffom
our own, or so mixed up and amalgamated
as to throw every thing into confusion and
disorder,