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


or the information of Others behoves those of us who
Mere members, to speak without reference ourselves
WIN this reserve we may all be permitted saw with
out fear of contradiction that they fairly
whatever OF moral intellectual patriotic WORTH is
be found IN the charter of the New England community
they retained all the personal consideration con
hdence which enjoyed by the best citizens those who
have deceased TO the hour of DEATH and those who sur
vive TO the present time For the satisfaction of those
who look to self love, and TO private interest springs
human action 1T may be added, that among the OF
czens friends, and connexions, whom they represented
were many, whose fortunes principally vested i'm
the public funds, to whom the disunon of the States
would have been ruin. That convention may be said to
have originated with the people Measures relief had
been demanded from Immense numbers, in counties and
towns, all parts of the State, long before was orran-
lied Its main and avowed object was the defence of
part OF the country against the common encmy.-The
war then wore its most threatening aspect New Eng
land was destitute of national troops her treasures
hausted; her taxes drawn into the national Golfers
Inc proceedings, and report of the conventions were
conformity with this object The burden of that report
consisted IN recommending an applica ton Congress-
TO permit the States to provide for their defence,
ana 10 be indemniied with the expense, by reimburse
nlcnt In some shape, from the National Government of
at least aportion of their m0ncy This conyeontin
adjourned early in January On the 9th of the same
month an act of Congress passed. which gave the
State Governments the very power which was sought by
massachusetts,, viz-that OF raising organizing and Of
ferng state troops, TO be employed in the State raising
the same or In an adjoining State and providing for
their pay and subsistence This repeat was the most
important object aimed at by the institution of the con-
venton anc by the report OF that body Had this act of
Congress passed. before the of Massachusetts for or
ganizng the conventions that contention norer ,rouId
hase existed Had such acl been Anticipated bv the
convention passed before its adjournment that as
sembly would have considered its commission as i'm great
measure superseded For although it prepared and re-
ported sundry amendments the constitution of the L.
States to be submitted To all the States and might even
Knowing of this act of Congress have persisted in donp
the same thing yet, as this proposal for amendments
could have been accomplished other modes the coud
have had special motive for so doing but wba: arose
from their being together and from the consideration
winch might be hoped for, their propositions from
.f .
straton, to all who do not usurp the privilege of the
searched OF hearts, that the design of the Hartford Con-
aud It's beings were not only constitutional and
audaDie' out sanctioned by act of Congress, passed
aer the report was published, not indeed with express
reference TO H. but with its principal features and thus
admitting the reasonableness of its peneral tenor and
PthciPai object II is indeed grievous perceive Mr.
Adams condescendng to intimate that the Convention
was ADJOURNED TO boston, and in strain of rhetorical pa
mos connecting his ginary plot then least in the
lrteentn year OF Its age, with the catastrophe which
awaited the ultimate proceedings of the convention That
Assembly ndJo"rned oHhout day, after making It's re-
port IL was pso tacto dissolved like other Committees
One oil ITS resolutions did indeed purpor that if the an
pcaton OF these States to the government of the United
States, Recommended IN toregOing resoIt;ou) sboId
be unsuccessful, and peace should be concled and
me dccnce OF these States should be neglected as had
oeen since the commencement of the war; it will be- in
the opinion OF this Convention expcdent for the Iegs
aiures OF the several States to appoint delegates
oher convention to meet at Boston the third Tuesday
Oh June next with such powers and instructions the
cxIgency of crisis, momentous may require, On
this 1T is to be observed,
firs that the Convention contemplated in the forego-
ing resolution never was appointed and could have
pec, according to the terms of that northumberland
as rs shown above the object of the intended application
TO Congress mad been attained And secondly if the
mentioned in that resolution occurred the
question OF forming such Convention, and the APP
pohmcnt OF the delegates gone into the hands
Oh new assemblies because all the Legislatures of the
New-EnglaDd States would lave been dissolved and
lhere would have been elections, before the time
proposed Tor the second Convention And, lastly it
matter Oh pubic notorcty, that the report Of this Con-
Veon produced the effect of asssua giDg the public
spty ana operated to repress the vague and ardent
expectations entertained by many of our citizens
mediate and effectua relief from the evils of their condi
ton.
We pass the elaborate exposition of constitutional
law in the residents letter. having CALL any ncli
nation at tins time to controver its leading principles
nener 90 we comment upon, though perceive and
reel inc UNJUST and must be excused for saying, in
siuos mode In which he has grouped together distant
anu occurrences, which happened in his alb
sece rom the country for the purpose of producing by
heir coiiocaton garing and sinister effect upon the
federal party They of public nature The argu-
nents concerning their merit or demerit have been ex
hausted; ana time, and the good of intelligent
people, will place them ultimately in their true light e.
ven though MIR Adams should continue to throw obsta-
ces in the way to this harmonious reacon of nblc n
pnion.
1t has been of wonder and perpexty to many
IN our community, TO observe the difference in
inc Standards by which public opinion has been led to
measure the kind of dinrs when adopted i'm
derent States No pretense is urged that any actual
70 the laws, or torcibe violation of the cons
Constitutional questions have arisen here as in other
states 1t is surprising and consolatory that the number
mas not been create and that the termination of them
mas not been less admirable To the discussion of some
OF them great excitement unavoidaby incident
but IN comparing with an6 effects tho i'm
partial observer will perceive nothing to authorize any
usParagement to the State to the advantage of the
tensions OF other members of the confedcracy
On this subject dscaim the purpose of instuting
nVduous comparisons but every knows that Massa
chusetts hasnot been alone in complaints d remonstran
ces against the acts of the national government No
ng can be found the records of her Legislative pro-
ceedngs surprising the tone of resolutions adopted in
er states In reprobaton of the alien and sediton laws
IN one state, opposition to the execution of treaty, in
oters to the laws nstituting the bank has sounded the
hole OF preparation for resistance moro imprisoned
strains IMAM were adopted here And at this mo-
pent claims of State rights, and protests against the
measures of the national government in terms for which
no parallel can be found in Massachusetts, are ushered
o The halls of Congress under the most solemn and inn
posing forms of State authority II is part TO
sure or TO approve these has
oone nothing at any time in opposition the national
government and she has said nothing deroraion gifts
powers that is not fully justified by the constitution and
not so much other States have said with more decided
emphasis and it believed without the stimulus of the
same actual grievances. We no longer at a loss TO
account for the prevalence of these preudces against
shs part OF the Union, since they be traced
only 70 caiumnies openly propagated in the Of Bit
Ter contention by rfesed opponents but 20 the secret