The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1826-07-31
From the National Intalirencer.

We have the pleasure 10 drknOU ledge
the receipt of a printed letter, without
date. but postmarked Philadelphia, and
signed by CHANDLER PRICE as Char
man, and by two other persons as Secre-
taries /; b, which letter we are invoked,
with mech earntstnes,. TO join these yer,
respectful gentlemen IN a purpose winch
may be inferred from the following para
graph. with which the lette, begins:
"FELLow.CITIzENs The cause of
onr country seems, at this iuncture. so
closely blended with The poltiaa eIeva-
ton of Gen. ANDREW JACKSON, thai
watchful and vigorous Efforts 10 promote
the latter must receive the and and appro-
baton of all sincerely attached 10 the for
mer."
We have read this letter with all the re.
speCt and ate ,tion due to the high source
from which it enanates. The grutlr men
who have addressed it to US Will accept
our acknou Judgments, if W. are obliged
10 withhold our assent to many of their
positions. Its enirely'too early TO con ST.
der the subject at large; nor Is it worth
while to refnte specifically propositions
contained III paper which is not before
our reade S. There is one p ssage in II,
particularly, / which our assent could
hardly have been expected. We refer Ia
that which makes the principal figure in
the Add ess, VIZ : that il was criminal IN
Members of Congress- to vote for any can
iidate for the Presidency who did not re-
ceive plurality If the electoral votes
criminal, IA having been guilty of some.
thing like teSe majesty against the Sovpr-
eighty of the People. Having ourseI, es
been among those who favored the claims
of Candidate who received still fewer of
the Electoral votes than he who was elect
ed to the Presidency, we protest against
TINS doctrine as neither constitutional nor
rational. The Constitution allows to the
States, as represented in the House of Re
representatives., freedom of choice among
the three highest on the list of persons ,o-
ted for. Reason tells us that it was impos
slble to say which of the four candidate
a majority ofthe People would have pre-
ierred, had that question been submitted
Tor their determination. And il is altoge-
Their begging the question, therefore, to ar
que, that the preference of the People
was dlsregarded in that election. Our
friends at Philadelphia would do well to
consult the Constitution itself, and collect
its splfIt from its letter rather than from
Their own maglnlngs.
-.s0s~.-
AT late meeting of the Society for the
promotion of Arts, Manufactures, &c. at
the klng's Theatre, London, a premium
was awarded to Mr.. Skinner, for a tran
Tor yermln. The novelty of this tran is.
mat 1t sets itself: the animal in TRYING at
the bait, draws out the support of the floor.
and is Itself precpitated sideways into a
chamber filled with water. The floor rights
tse'I again BY means ola counterpoise. and
the support OF she floor returns to the place
where II had been drawn out by the ami i.
NAL" VIII
-.e0e.-
Frankfort, Ky July IS.
BEAUCHAMP, the assassin of Col
Sharp, has expated his crimes.
Ihe sentence of the law was exprnted
upon HIM at the fork of the Lexington and
Noodtord roads, in the edge of Frank
fort, at half past one O'Clock Yesterday.
AN 'dfa mad gone abroad, that he would
address the people, at the gaIlows; but he
'naue no attempt OF the kind he was evi.
GENTLY too feeble, probably rendered so
oy MS attempts to commit suicide. bv
self. n'"h
soon alter arriving at the place of exc
cn'ion' he observed thatihe wished TO die
ana requested the Music which belongeJ
" TWO independent companies, which bad