Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1829-03-07

itself But thrs.as Mr. Burke expresses it. is hioh
matter and must be left to to the United wis
dom of a a Northern and Eastern Conrention.-
The voice OF the people, who are our sorereigns
Will then be heard and must be respected To
continue to suffer, AS WE HAVE FOR EIGHT YEARS
PAST, from the incapacity of weak not cor
rupt Administration, is more than can be expect
ed iiom human patience or christian resiunation
The time has arrived when common prudence is
pusllanIm'ty, and moderation has ceased to be u
virtue"
Gr'ra'ts from The Journals of the Hartford Con
UenfiOn
Rules OF proceeding-adopted 18th, December.
lSl4, the first day of the Meeting
< The most inviolable secrecy shall be observ-
ed by each Member o. this Conventions, including
the Secretary, as to all propositions, debates and
proceedings thereof, until this Injunction shall be
suspended altered.
s. The Secretary of this Convention is author
ized to employ some suitable person to serve as a
door-keeper and messenger, together with suita-
bic assistant, if necessary neither of ohon. are at
any time to be made acquainted ,cih any of the
debates or proceedings of the Board
January 3, 1915.
After tie acceptance of tie final RepDrt
! On motion, ResOiced, That the Injunction of
secrecy, in regard to all the Debates and proceed
fSs oil this Convention except i'm so far as relates
TO the report finally adopted, be, and hereby is,
continued.
n b. This injunction of secrecy was never
removed The Convention adjourned the 9Th of
January.
Extracts from the final Report of the Conyen-
ton.
To prescribe patience and hrmness to those
who are already exhausted by distress, is some
times to drive them to despair, and the progress
towards reform By the regular road, is rkso me to
those whose Imaginations discern, and whose
feelings prompt, to a shorter course. But
when abuses. reduced to system and accumulate
ed through course OF years, have pervaded eve
ny department of Government, and spread corrup-
ton through every reg ion Of the State when these
are clothed with the forms CT law, and enforced
by All Executive whose will is their sonrce no sum
mary means Of rcAef can be applied ,Oithout re-
course to direct and Open resistance"
" 1t IS truth, not to be concealed that sem
| Iiment prevails to no il considerable extent, that
Administration have given such constructions TO
that instrument, and practised so many abuses,
| under color OF lis authority. Mm the time for a
change as at h0nd. Those who SO believe, regard
the evils which surround them as Intrinsic and ill.,
durable defects III the Constitutions They Yield
to persuasion, that no change. at any time, or
on any occasion, can agravale the misery of their
country. 1htS opinion mdy ultimately proue to be
Correct But as the evidence nm which, it rests is
not yet conclusive, and as mea: ures adopted upon
the assumption Of It's certaiEty might be rrevoca-
BILE, some general considerations are submitted
in The hope OF reconcIing all to course of mod
Grafton and trmness, which may SAGE them from,
the regret incident 20 sudden, DECISIONS pro6aGiu
"ccH tie eel, or at least insure consolation ana
success in the last resort"
The lust and caprice Of power, the corrup-
ten OF patronage, the oppression of the weaker
Interests OF the community bv the stronger neavy
taxes, wasteiul expenditures, and unjust and
uihous wars, are the natural offspring of bad Ad-
mnslra,ions in all ages and countries 1t was
indeed to tee hoped, that tie rulers Of these States
would not make such disastrous haste to involve
| their infancy in the embarrassmens of old and
often institutions. Yet all this haze they done
and their c0ndAct calls loudly far their dismission
end disgrace. But to attempt upon every abuse
OF power to change the Constitution, would be to
psrpetuate the evils of revolution"
Finally, 1t the Union be destined to dissou
ton, by reason of the multiplied abuses Of bad ad.
mlnIs'rations, it should, if possible, be the work o.
peaceable times, and deliberate consent. Some
new form of conlederacy should be substituted
among those States, which shall tend to main.
tam federal relation to each other. Events
may prove that the causes of our caIamities are
deep and permanent. They may be found to
proceed, not merely from the blindness OF preu.
dice, pride OF opinion, violence of party spirit OF
| the confusion OF the times but they NAV be
traced to Implacable combinations of individuals
or OF States, to monopolize power and office, and
TO trampIe without Iemorse upon the rights and
| interests of commercial sections of the Union
Whenever it shall appear that these causes are
radical and permanent, separation by equitable
arrangement, will be preferable to an alliance by
constant, among nominal friends but real enc.
| mics, n1amed by mutual hatred and eaIousies
and inviting by intestine divisions, contempt and
aggression from abroad. But severance of the
Union by one or more States, against the will o.
the rest, and especially in time of war, can be
justified only by absolute necessity. These are
among the principal objections against precipita,t
measures tending to disunte the States, and
when examined in connexion with the farewell
address of the Father OF his country, they must
1T IS believed, be deemed conclusive"
| p" In this whole series Of devices and measures
for raising men, this Convention discern u tota
disregard for tie Constitution, and II dispoSitio,
to Uiolate its provisions, demanding from the imdi
Uiduat States q firm and decided Opposition. An
IRON despotIsm can impose no harder seryitudt
upon the citizen, than to force him from his home
and his occupation, to wage offensive wars un