Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-01-10

will ceservc aud receive The appreciation and sup
port oil all the friends OF reform throughout the
State, and be carried into full execution.
Here, then, would be a government subsisng
AT RICHMOND, sustained by some seventeen thou
sand treeholders, and convention assembled at
that or or some oil eT point, representing twenty
two thousand freehoders, and sustained by the O.
pinions OF one hundred thousand citizens more
who are now deprived OF the right of suffrage
The convention, so sustained, and SO supported
would form constitution and organize n govern
ment. That government would 20 into iuinedi-
ale operation in all the convention counties Its
executive and legislative bodies would Of course,
assemble al some point, other than Richmond, at
hrst to avod collision with the functionares of the
expiring arisocracy. Possessing so great a pre-
ponderance Of moral and physical force-sustain.
Ell, not 10y numbers only but by the principles OF
the revoluton-the new overnment would rapid
| iy extend its territorial dominion The propensi-
ty OF men to join the strongest side is founded deep
| IN their nature, and is but a modification of the
principle of self-preservation The minority would
go over in crouds 10 the ne,c government and the
| ga would expire oil debility, did that Of the
Bourbons in France, when Napoleon returned in
triumph from the exile to which they had con-
demned him.
But suppose that it were to retain, for while.
us existence and organization. Would there not,
| If may be asked, be an inevitable and perhaps
violent collision between the two governments I,
answer, that the government would have
every inducement to pursue a course of the most
rotity oil physical force, il would not find il ne
ressary to anticipate resistance by measures of vio
fence calculated 20 cripple the force of its atver-
sares That is the expedient of usrpers dis
Tus'iii oil their own strength and knowing that the
peopie are against them. IL would extend its sway
| from county to county Just when SO and soon as
me people oil the respective counties became
sensible OF the expediency Of sending their adj
hesion-lt might even refrai., from axa,ion, in
The hrst year OF its existence, and defray the ex.
y OVprn hxl
ant collisions between the officers of the two gov
| ernments in counties of doubtful political charac-
| ter. In short, it would systematically RELY on the
march OF public opinion, and or the final preva-
| renee, anu practical recognition by the whole peo-
pie OF Virginia, of the great political truth that the
sovereign power, in every community is vested
oy nature and necessity, or in other words, right
July, in the majority o: the people.
III these tatterng anticipations should unhappi-
ly prove faacious, shall have the consolation
ieit' That though civil war is great calamity, a
siaVi-h submission TO usurped authority is still
greater. Such at least was the opinion of those
| gallant men who cemented with their blood the
foundations OF the commonwealth.
| 'ds' Onc0nPromtSing Friend Of Reform.
Game to the iast.-The printing of the laws OF
the United States has, within few days, been
| transferred, by Mr.. Clay, from the Co,anecticuf
Sentinel, whose editor is Iacksonian, 20 the .hey
| London Gazette, an Adams paper.
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DIRECTORS
| " the Bdak OF pirginid and Branches fer the
| year 1929.
RICHMOND.
John Bfockenbroush, Thomas Rutherford, Blair Buw.U
fhp fa1ai Robert Gwnthmsy, Garland II. MITCHELL Thorn
as Vadan Randolph HaIsen, JON Allan, William Ford
Benmn Hatcher, tJOhn r. fr,pe iGeorge L. sampson,
! tBeveriey Randolph.
PETERSBURG.
Wm- II; Maefatand, loan f. May Joseph Bragg, William
Htxall, Ewd Powell James S. Brander, o. T. oshorpe
Joho u Arm'tead Tho Wallace, John o. uob.on fDap,e
Dusser, tSamuei WInree, Tho. N. Lee.
NORFOLK.
VIM: D. Lamb, WI. H. SsIden, John +. Holt Jno South
gate, Albert Alimsnd Caleb Bcn.al, VIM "a seiey Tho.
pLcushten Eugene igsn', Waller Heron tiiemy Is.
aeaidon lEwd.Deiany fBmwe Is. mo,rey.
FREDERICksBURG.
husn meFeer' BAIL Gordon, John Scot, VIM. A. knox,
james vass John NJ Patton, John Moncure Wu.. X tiof
don, obn s. Wexford john u. Hail. 10 gorge Coz iJo, b.
fIckn, Robert Ellis.
- LYNCHUBURG.
VIM Warwick, Henry DAVIS, John J. CabeI John O. Left
w'Gh, VIM Mckinney, John Cake, Ssm' Csytur CLwejI
nsnn bslda MI Daniel Daniel Brown iDavd Wake tRo
Kyle, William w. NoIvelL '
Not IN the last Direcfory