Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1826-03-28
Comorsasscnal.
AMENDMENT OF TIE CONSTITUTION
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believe The gcn,Icrnan's next objection the gene
raj ticket scfn that tended throw the row
CIR oil the state INTO the han.s of political ntr.ucse,
through the fundamentally of that much famed pol,i
cal in,tu;'on-tle caucus. On this subject cannot
speak with much confidence. never attended a ca,,-
Gus III my NE, except rs an edited spec;atur-one
among four or five thousand, that assemble in Faneul
iiai to do what we arc dong-consdcr the st,tc
of the Union. Farther t',;n is know nothing from,
ex?ericncc this subject. The gentleman tells us
that 1t Is o the nature Of the caucus; tha by he aid
ut that political organization il the row or OF five or
six leaders in tic command OF onr i've thousand well
drilled veteran troops 10 put TO fight weuy thousand
oil the ordinary voting militia.
But suspect the gentleman rates. o.! he mis-
takes, IN hs haste tbs pow of the believe
Il may reconcile, Oh great point pr eviousy ascor-
tainat majority of which the members had been sepa-
rated only b. subordinate divisUus-l believe NAY
enable previously asccrtaNcd majority 10 act ia con
cert So: unison with each ntlori believe may serve
to reduce question 70 an issue between a majority and
majority Farther than this, cannot believe eau.
cns'?G can 20. IL IS game at which than one
SIDE can play; and, do not believe arc So wanting
IN ''Poca u'agicaus, whatever you choose TO call
them that four or five are all that this country or anv
State IN IT. at one time, produce; and that they in
all be on one SIDE believe that taking things as they
are the only way ycu can4ut twenty thousand voters
10 Hight IS by ta. ching UP 10 The POLLS with twenty
thousand and one-thas viii do il, and nothing else will
But low does the geu;leman's system afford ans re-
medy to the evil of caucusing: The only effect of the
District system will he, that shall have two hundred
and sixty caucises, instead of the twenty four al,
ready provided for; &c you double the number that
each SIDE may have its caucUS) the forty eight now like
" 70 exist This would more probably be the efnc, of
introducing an uniform District system. Another
iln what IS 10 become OF the mnorities the Dis
trict system: | could here tell the gentleman some
thing about that arrangement in State 10 which,
hc a!!nded-by name which OF rcspect 10 n yc-
nerah!e patriot and Statesman OF the Revolution, nov
no more, and who had nothing 10 do with the transac-
ION, shall! not rePrat-a 4 time, when the parties i'm
the State nearly balanced there was stglI mn
jory on the Federal side; fifty one thousand rerh aps ca
the one side, and forty nine Thousand on the other In
tsat state of public feeling, by virtue Of a system Of
Districts, consisting of diacen territory and thu same
amount Of population, (for in all these details believe
uic division was perfectly fair il was contrved that
Tie minority chose twenty nine State Senator's and the
MAJORITY chose eicVei:; and more votes given for
thesc eleven, than given for the twenty nine
This IS, indeed, eectul protection afforded by Tia,
District system 10 the minority The gentleman from
Virginia, Mr.. SteV enson,l pointed out 10 Won in the
state OF Mary land, at the last election, similar result:
aording illustration equally strong of Tie benic,
effects OF the District system.
In this part ofthe subject tie gentleman made ma tbctic
appeal IN tie political leaders OF New York. lie told
them they must have felt, in the uctuaon their pa rites
that really better for themselves that they should
not possess 'e power of alternately WELDING aaust ea
nh't 'ne whole power and patronage OF that state
Sir, care not low often the parties ia New York have
been up and down. What these Fluctuations Of partv
al New "k 10 az, To ticI, 10 body? When look
nj New iok, which always tahe pleasure in doing,
can see n"hius hui her guiccu, METROPOLIS her oycr
multiplying for charity r science f,, the or,s
10" social Improvement; her paradise of abundance
and prosperity; =! the glory of Inc aye, her great canal
lA"S' have gone on, going and will 20 or
UNDER all the fluctuations Q! her parties; whilst could
name 10 yo" states wHicl have always marched the
polls IN "acc'"ninn halauX, that have fallen far be-
h"d New York in those objects al orgauza-
ton.
As to the parties in New York have read their paurre
more or less i"r fifteen and DO now know The
meaning OF their little loc" applications, nor am going TO
lay my haGd on the Constitutions and alter H. IN oer Ia,
, the factions in New York
/ May fall with dian;ty--with temper rise"