Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-11-03
ROBERT TAYLOR,
REPLY.
Fredericksburg, Oct. oath, 1926.

Sin,
Your letter of the 10Th inst addressed TO me.
mas been received, and its contents refer to the
proceedings OF some of the citizens of Spottsylva-
MIA county, convened at their Court house, on a
SUBJECT OF public interest; and as it calls on me in
my character OF Chairman Of that meeting, /
ieit II duty to submit il to the Committee sppoint
Ell ny that meeting / have been instructed to
forward TO you, as an answer 10 your letter, the
following remarks
Acting as citizens and freeholders of the county,
ON question of national concern, we do not re-
cosnise any right OF interference, on uouy mar,
In our proceedings; that the tpiH ofthe constituent
may be paisied by the representative though a
fashionable doctrine among some politicians, we
will never suffer it with us 10 explode the old
republican principle, that we have right TO
choose our own representative, and 10 prefer
one feiiow-citizen 10 another. 1t was for this
purpose that the meeting at Spotisylvania Court
house was convened. 1t consisted not Of enc
mics 10 yourself, but of those who prefsr Judoe
Barbour, and be their number large or small. Won
cannot dispute their right TO act, nor ought YOU to
impeach their motives, standing az you do in the
character OF their present TeDresent1fiye- DeIiro-
ey soouid nave dictated an absence on your part,
from the Court, and especially from the room where
the proceedings were going on. The meeting al
me Courthouse was unquesionably very thin one ;
tne CourI having consumed the greater part of the
day IN their ordinary business, a meeting of the
people could not be convened until late in the after
noon, when many had gone away; as far as we have
heard about 30 or 40 reeholders were in the Court
house; some confusion having arisen, when the vote
was taken oy ayes and nays, ii was Tetaken by
ho'oing up OF hands; some respectable gentlemen
who sat upon the Justices Bench, and whose Gle b
waited seat enabled them to be better Judges, have
assured US, that on the adoption of the letter. a
majority OF hands was apparent, and the president
OF the meeting, from his own view, and the de
clarauon OF Others, proclaimed the resolution
adopted.
Whatever may have been the vote at that meet
ing, we are well assured that large majority of
the county, prefer Judge Barbour and that few IN
whom the letter has been presented have refused
to subscribe to it.
In answer to that part Of your letter, in which
you charge, on the confident opinion Of some
gentleman, that the account of the proceedings
published In the Virginia Herald, is not true. and
which you seem to think does not 90 AZ far as truth
would authorize, we have no other answer TO
give, than copy Of the proceedings, as prepared
by the committee, and published in the Herald -
viz:
Ata meeting Of some Of the citizens Of spot,.-
sylVsnIa county, at the courthouse, on Monday the
ID Of October, 1926.
Col. Thos. Minor was called 10 the Chair, and
Col. y. Smith, appointed Secretary
Inc OBJECT oil the meeting having been explain
ca; On motion the following address to Philip Pen
uielon barbour, was adopted, 20 wit:
TO PHILIP p. BARBOUR, Eso.
SiR, This Meeting has heard with much salts
iac''on' the request of their Fellow Citizens Of