Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-03-06

DIG c""'e'it"!''-sTgMia Is iu!:y reused upon
this questionable ant-conventionsts particularly,
are organizing. They have taken the subject pretty
much into their own keeping They passed the bill
-they framed it to their own iking-they silcnced
the voice Of 0,0C0 Of their fellow citizens, whose
right to participate in the change, was as good as
the!rs-and they arc now straning every nerve to
secure majority III it suhservient to their wishes,
who will arrest reform in its incipiency, or make such
provisions rs to induce the people to repudate their
iabors, and thus keep things statu quo Organized
as the Senatorial Districts are, when the majority of
the people must needs have minority of rcprescn-
tation the accomplishment CT their purpose can only
be defeated by concert, and unceasDg vigilance and
activity among the original friends of convention.
Of the convention proceedings, we shall notice
such throughout the state, are more particularly
interesting.
In Loudoun, meeting Of the non-sreeholicrs HAS
been called
In the District of Madison Orange, Louisa and
Spottsylvania, convention of delegates to select
candidates, has been determined upon to meet at
Orange courthouse. The people of Madison have
already met and deputed as delegates VIM. Madison,
Richard Booton, Leonard Barnes, James SomeryiIle
and Daniel Field.
On Tuesday the people of Spottsylvania followed
the example. Their proceedings are thus noticed in
the Virginia Herald.
Communicated for Che Virginia Herald
M. EDIToR,
AT a numerous and respectable meeting of the cit
liens OF SpOttsylvania al their Courthouse on YES
terdav, it was determined, almost unanirnously to
send five delegates to assemble at Onnge Courthouse
on to meet delegates from the other coun-
tics Of tins Senatorial district aud to select with
them, four individuals to represent the district in
Convention, their proceedings to be published, and
their nomination submitted to the people, The as
semblagc were ably addressed by John L. Marye and
John MINOR Esqr5, in which they were urged with
the most imprisoned eloquenCe to discard local and
sectional feeling in selecting their representation in
Convention-not to enquire where dwclt, but who
the Wisest and best men we could obtain to rep
resent us-thnt the Convention was not the meeting
of an ordinary legislature, whose iuprovident acts
could be corrected by subsequent session, but one
whose acts might influence the happiness misery
of ourselves and posterv for generations to come
good or evil, might greatly depend on the represent
tation of this district &c. The attention ofthc NEE
ting called to native ofSpottsylvania, of most
distinguished talents and iTeproachable morals, who
lad long and faithfully served them in the lcgsla-
ture who had presided over the House of Represen-
tatives and thus became known, and thus obtained
the respect of the whole state; who whilst he held
large possessions in his native county, at pre-
sent resident of Richmond--when the name Of
ROBERT STANATID was mentioned, its effect on
the feelings Of his fellow citizens manifested by
murmurs ofapplausc. Robert Crutchfeld, r. Towlcs,
J. Lewis, George Hamilton and John l.. Marye,
were then appointed Delegates, and the meeting dis
persed The wisdom of this measure is manifest
The delegation to meet at Orange, being all men of
responsibility and good sense, having private in
terest to subserve and actuaed only by desire to
benefit their country, will doubtless make such a
nomination as will include the most talented and best
men that can be obtained, and by presenting their
names to the district viii enable the people, should
they ratify the nomination, to exclude those who
seek to crafty their private ambition at the expense
of their cOuntry's welfare. a SPECTATOR.
Philip Thompson, Of Kentucky, was lately killed in a