Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-12-11
VIRGINIA, FRIDAY, ,ECEMgsE,g, =, 1920

exhausted, he would detan the Committee will
only very few concluding remarks. Nothing i
easier than to take down. Livery BOBBY with
tyowel in his hand, can take down the mos
splendid cdifice. How dishonorable would il b,
! To us, to be mere dlapdators and waste all th,
blessings we have received from our ioreiathcrs
suppose we do but little and do all we car
do, and we go home, what would be the effect
of doing nptking It's great deal ht-.vr ti,.S
| to do mischief. He believed every gentien,ar
was for doirg something-to do good deal
We may tell our people that we did not find thi.
Constitution as bad as we eXpccteG-but W,
had done nll the good we could we had cut of
the unthrifty scious, and planted better ones il
their L!lce. Another consideration he would
present : our tnrofathcrs had their differences
but they conciated. Let us rccolect them and
their god like deeds. Yet we have suffered our
heroic 81 god like ancestors TO be forgotten & il
the very ~, Goth day of june INSTEAD of the
Fourth q July which first brough. liberty 10 a
benight world, has been forgotten Let rs
clli up 'eir names-rciresh our rccolcctiops %,
their hi IA spirlt-let take them from their ~.
arc ,ra.ion--fiom oblIvion--il these yoc,n,
I,Th ~
trnm to fill the Capitol.
When MIR q. closed. the Comittee rose
oh the motion "t MIR. Chapman Jnhnson
who is expected to take the floor I'M,
morning
MIR. Morgan moved that the Convention
adjourn.
Mr.. Venable begged the gentleman n
withdraw his r.otinn. Ii appeared eyi.
dent, he said, that they should not finish
their deliberations before the mce.ino oC
the Legislature. Already the numuer of
persons who attended orr deliberations
from curiosity aud other motives, was so
great as IL render it desirable To rive
greater accommodations But still The
pressure would he greater during the ses-
sion of Legislature. and therefore he sub
United the following Resolution
Resoired, That committee be ap-
pointed to inquire whether a convenient
room can be obtained for the SITTING Of
the Convention should they Judge it en-
ped'ent TO retire from tho Legislative Hall
and report.
The question being put thcrenpon. was
determined IN the negative. Aud then
on MIR. Morgan's motion, the Convention
adjourned till this morning II o'cIook.
NOVEMBER IL, 1929.
Yesterday, the Convention was opened
with prayers by the Rev. Nj. Horner O,
the Roman Catholic Church-and the
President took the Chair
On motion of Mr.. p. p. Barbour. the
Convention resolved itself into the Com
mittee of the Whole on the Constitution
MIR. Powell in the Chair.
Mr.. Johnson addressed the Committee
in substance as follows -
The subject under consideration has
already occupied much time in discussion
and will occupy much more during the
deliberations of this Committee. Its
great Importance, its extreme delicacy.
cntitle it to all the aid we can derive from
talent, from temper, from forbearance.
from Cancellation, from that free inter-
change of opinion which the most labor
Gus investigation Of the subject can afford
On the one hand we are ENCOURAGED bv
The most anxious hopes and by the antci-
pated benefits to result from success, Oh the
other hand we are alarmed by the most
anxious fears the whole country exhibits
the most intense interest convinced as
they are that upon your deliberations de-
ponds much of veal or woe.
We are engaged in a contest conceal
1t as you will for power Disguise it as
you may, call it by what name you choose
call ii a discussion Of the rights of man in
his natural or IN his social state, still it is
nothing more nor less than contest for
power Imagine yourself, sir, presiding
over school of philosophers, deyising
political systems for all relations of man.
metaphysical, abstract systems, or if you
please, systems OF practical utility, but
whether Trey he metaphysical reasoning
or practical rules, they are still the arms
employed To decide The contest whether
"the scrPtre shall pass from Judah or the
Iaw-giver from Israel"
feel peculiar interest on this occa-
sion, because with one party it is my pre-
sent residence, it is the land Of my natl
witty, to many Of whose citizens, am
bound by the strong ties of affinity and
blDOd with the other party. is my pro-
perry and constituents, 10 whom ] am
''"'' at WI anu Wy
the endearments Of ErIendship-by the
confidence extended Ia me before | had
earned IT, ana which has been since con-
tlnued, though thought il well might
have been lost by my removal. Under
these circumstances. had taken council
from prudence, ] should have heid slsicr
neutrality but, ST., have looked upon
ne mt IF q l.,
same communlty--having some minor liz
tercsts not exactly in accordance, but ideu-
tined by the same goverEment-bavIng
the same leading Understanding ore
common object--ihe integrity, the happi
ness, the glory of one common county,
| had INDUCED IN the fond, perhaps delu.
aive hope, that it was not impossible tc