Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-11-05

with party hue, and pek.by thus 10 control
votes by an ar'fal effort ~ awaken forgotten
prejudices, which he could not influence by
candid appeal to the reason and Judgment.
And Il is objectionable, BADLY, because, in al.
tempting to illustrate u enioi ee one of his pro.
positions. he condescended 10 drawa low. dis.
gushing and exaggerated carcature OF the whole
population OF Alabama and New York, parti-
culary the former-in which he represents
(asa necessary consequence of making the
Governor elective by the people) the candi-
dates for that Office as ifampoosing" (has
Noah Webster angiicised and legitimaized this
word y trampoozing the whole State for
the purpose Of qualifying the voters 20 exercise
The elective fran hse to the best advantage, by
prostralng them with whiskey II is not, to
be sure TO be wondered at, that Gov. Gle.
should exhibit great regret at beholding the
probability ofthe transfer of the power of ap
pointing the Governor from the Legislature 10
the People, as it is natural that one I" should
praise the bridge which brought him safely
over '-and it is quite certain that, if the Pco.
pie instead of the Legislature, hsd all along ex
ercised the power Of choice, he never could
have disgraced an Office which had been rem
dered iliustrious by the virtues of his predeces
sois. II is not our purpose, now. TO show, that
this ought to be done, One thing may he said
however and that is. that if there be any
thing sound in Gov. CHESS objection TO the
transfer of this power, TO wit, that il leads 10
the consumption ofan unnecessary and MUIR.
Gus quantity of whiskey, the same argument
may, with the same correctness, be employed
against all popular eleclions-lhus proving
that an Oriental Dsspotism. where all power
centres in an individual, is toe best Of all pos
sible forms of government
With few remarks on two Of the Cover.
nor's extremely apt and happy efforts at illus
tration IF they may be SO termed) we shall
close these remarks,
! With regard TO the Right of Suffrage, Mr..
Giles refers 70 The state ofthings in Alabama,
IN order 10 deter the Convention from extending
IT. After describing, with great gusto, the ba,
Ibacues aud whiSkey trocS To winch he says
| ,Se liberal extension Of this Invaluable right
gives rise, (and which, according to his Ex-
,-elency, are carried TO so great an extent, "that
IN. re are scarcely sober voters enough left tn
take he votes of the drunken ones, y he grave
In saws" II, in carrying into effect this popu.
lar notion q electing universal officers by
universal suffra. re in The Alabama Constitution
the Trainers had efernrined that there should
be a, many public Oh. esrs IS hsfs wers poters
aud that each voter n light vote ior himself
they would have found themselves precisely
where they started, when tn ey Commences 'hf
formation Of their social compaci.' Now,
this is truism which every scho, 'l-boy hno"'
as well as His Excelency, inasmuc.h as re-
quires no extraordinary sagacity 10 pe'ce"'
that where all are ofice.holders, the same DE
gree of equality exists as where no Officer ar
known. But, the Governor seems TO thh'k
hat the prevailing System in Alabama does
operate the same effect though every mao
was in truth an officer for, he goes on
70 say l1OW Id tutH beSeut SOu-
siiiution falls short of this ertreme. ! leave
the Committee to iudge'-eyidenily en-
deavoring to create the impre sson, that if there
is any difference, it is so small, as not to de
serve notice The old gentleman must really
have thought his auditors were capable of di
costing any absurdiy, SO that il were prepared
by his skiiul hand-lhough even he might have
hesitated and blushed, if he could hesitate and
blush at any hing, on uttering such a remark.
The number of voters in Madison county in AL.
ALBANIA, Ito which the Governor particularly
refers is about 4 500, and the number of officers
they elect about IL or 10 This is the state of
society which Gov. Giles assimilates 10 that in
which every may be an officer by voting for
himself And this forced and nonsensical as
simlation too, is used as an argument against
the extension of the Right of Suffrage, by that
great chopper of logic, VIM. b. Giles OF the
Wigwam, in Amei ia a!
In Introducing the Panama Congress. howe
yer, His Excelency" ou,-herods Herod." The
most ingenious solver of riddles might set his
wis 10 WORK Tor years, an1 ne wouia never
fancy, unless he went in search OF incongruties
to what body of men the Panama Congress is
compared by Gov. Giles. nor the laughabe
mode by which he demonstrates the similari-
~ of their elements, their organization, their
object, and their result. II is 10 no less body
than the Continental Congress cf'76, which is.
sued the Declaration of lndepende nee, that
Gov. Giles compares the at one time contem.
plated Congress of Panama though ii seems
strange that he should have done so, seeing
that policy, if nothing else, would dictate that
he should affect, if he does not feel, reverence
for the one, which would be totally inconsist-
ent with his asowed detestaion and open de-
nunciaton of the other. The late projected,
| .Lo.,,,. banana Congrpss (saVs Gov CIlpSA if