Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-11-02


John A. King, resigned
CsHIsTopHKH NsALk, Of the District OF Co
lumbia, to De Judge OF the Orp hans Court for
the County OF Alexandra. in said District, in
place OF Philip X. Fendall resigned
JoHS BoYLE, of Kentucky, to be Judge of
the U. States IN and for the District OF Kentuc-
ky, IN place of Robert Trimble, appointed one
Of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court
VI the United States Mat. Journal
Joseph II. Sherrafd, Esq. of this town, has
purchased the establishment of the Winchester
Gazette, and will in the latter part of Novem
Der commence the publication of new paper,
to be entitled the winchester VIreinian." The
mechanical department will be under the charge
of Mr.. John b. Patterson -Hsn. Rep.
The following gentlemen have been
elected members to the 2oth Congress
from the state of Ohio. to wit: James
Findlay, John Wood, William M'Lean,
Joseph Vance. William Russell, VIM.
Creighton, jr Samuel F. Vinton, WIN.
Wilson. Philemon Beeclier, John Da-
venpor,, John C. Wright, John Sloan,
Mordicai BARLEY. ---~-a--
General .Asstmbly.--A few weeks
will introduce the session Of the General
Assembly of Virginia; and the subj cts
which are probably to occupy their at.
tie u,ion, are already beginning to excite
enquiry and interest these are SO nu-
me,'nus and weighty, that i will be pro.
badly the most important session which
has occurred for many years.
In the first rank Of interesting sub
;ects, stands the Convention question,
and we anticipate with entire confidence,
that it will be carried this session in the
affirmative, and thai the present Gener-
al A ssembly will be illustrated by faoiI
itatine a measure demanded for forty
wears. and heretofore withheld from the
decision OF the people by the influence
of Office holders, and an aristocratic
apprehension OF the competence of the
people to new model their Govern ment,
with discretion and wisdom. The ques-
ton will be presented in shape to test
the real republicanism of those who are
required to decide it. Will you submit
it to the people, who only are in.
terestea, to say il there should be a
convention or not? Will you acknowl-
edge thatthe people are really sover-
eign. by placing IN their hands, the des-
tinies of this all important question?-or
by again rejecting their petition, will The
Legislature say--there shall be no Con-
vention-we shall not grant those IA
cilities for ascestaining the sense of the
people whichthey ask of us--itis not fit
to trust so important question as this,
with the multitude theoretically, It is
true, we ack no Wedge their rig hi and
competence to self government, bat
practically, we deny iti These were
the opinions of the two last legislatures,
as declared by their acts--such, through
out the world, has always been the con-
duct Of the few, WHO in all ages, have
bridled the people, and rode them with
whip and spur. Even new, we should
hope bat little from those in power, if
there was not coercing rod in public
opinion, which will no longer suffer its
will 20 be dsobeyed with IMMUNITY.
We have recently, had personal op.
portunty of making extensive enquiry
in the state of public feeling or the Con-
vention question, and we say with con-
dence that il has never been so decided.
Its enemies finding that their resistance
must be fruitless at last, and acknowl-
edging that the longer the question is
kept undecided, the more exaspera,ed
and unfit for calm deliberaSon public
feeling will become, in many instances
with patriotic candor, acquiesce in the
propriety of submitting the question at
once to the people. Others, alarmed at
the auti-republican spirit which in two
successive Legislatures, defeated mea-
sure involving the sovereignty of the
people, have openly, declared for the
Convention. On all hands the changes
in opinoin have been propitious to sue
cess. The most inveterate opponents
have been softened, and the most neu-
trail friends have been stimulated to de-
cision. The elections in this part of the
State resulted in the acquisition of eight
or ten friends Of Convention and if
those counties which have supported it
for forty years, remain true, the sue
cass of the bill will be morally certain
in the House of Delegates. La the Sen
ate, there is well ascertained majority
of three.
Throughout the agitation ofthis ques-
ton, we have met no man except one
who did not acknowledge two facts
4. That there was much that might be