Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-11-14

FoR WmG.
Prese"tatf1es in ConVentiOH, from the Oist,ic. OF
ffHSytvania, Franklin, Patrick, and Henry
Gentiemen: separate you from your colleagues in
TINS address, for reasons that your cousciences will
probably at once suggest. Messrs Cabell and Stuart
have violated no faith, betrayed no trust use stronp
language, and use it purpose. Then were not
elected upon one class of principles to come to the
convention, and give force and efficacy to another
Wien placed beyond the reach of the constituent,
fhey bavenot undertaken presume that the opinion
OF hat constituents expressed through their election
has changed or Will change; have they unde
to give vote in express abandonment of the latest
declaration of principle by their District, in the pre-
sumptuous expectation of bringing the people whom
hcy pretend to represent, their nezv way Of think
ing when they return home. These are my reasons
for separating you in this address.
l an friend ofbreviiy, and hate circumocution
WI! not detan you long. wish only TO ask YOU one
or two questions, which you may answer or not as vom
please. My object viii be equally attained bv your
silence, tor use you merely the medium of commu.
nication With your District To come IN tho ,;nt -,
once: go
white population? O"''' "
Could you have been elected at all but for the IN.
of that measure?
was not this question the hinge upon which the
election turned? "
1t you answer at all, you will and must as men Of
run, respond atfirmavely to these questions Of
Col 1artin, will ask, if he was not the man in the
district VINO CATER having Senator, opposed the bill
Wte poPuatIon) was most jealous and radical in favor
OF white population and reform, gen craIIyl This is
believed by me to be so.
Yet gentlemen, you are opposing white population
wi'h all your might. You have voted against it, and
you mean to vote against il in the final and decisive
struggle. what are your calculations in giving this
vote! cannot believe that the instant of giving
'1e Piedge, express or implied, upon which you were
elected, you secretly meant to violate it, know Won
Doth 10 be honorable men, and although am convinced
atm your hearts, you were friends to white
population, or TO any other serious reform vel do
believe that you designed TO act faithfully bv vony
constituents, when they gave you SO honorable 5roof
o' their confidence, and did not the der
notion Il can lind milder word TO convey the i,eal
Woich you have committed mean to commit What
then are your calcuations3 What has CHANGED vonS
Wyou say that the District has rcyolutionized since
the last Monday in May' Ifths be your ground ask
~''at evidence have you Of the fcG few yisitsnts
pm ihe District at tho Seat Of Government NAV have
lao uie nodesty to instruct you; you may have got
from some few at home; but you are men of Too
uCn sense, to offer these circumstances even true
as evidence OF the change of IS or 10000 people
I',S'S nave oeen no public meetings no assembIages
Oa''eu or accidental, through which the pcoDle ex.
bseSSo tneir change Of opinion, had it been so that
10y hSu changed. You must abandon this eroun.t
. 700 weak TO sustain you Having no proof that the
eOPIs nave changed, mayhap you think as iustihca.
uO" VI your abandoning the principles which elected
yo'' thst the people did not understand Themselves
nave eaTJ TINS idea adysncenot by you, but for Won
=, u"Oiosongly advanced and strenuousy maintained
eS-such Is the decay Of YepublcanteeIing-so much
me property and 0r7st0c"acy notions getting the
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