Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-10-16

So'c'nor ny the people, was thrown out some days
ago, by tic. We understondit will be brough. for
ward again.
Our limits will permit TO notice to-day what
has been done by the Judiciary Committee (of which
Gen. Marshall is Chairman that Of the Bill Of
Rights. &C. tof which Mr.. Taylor Of Chesterfield
Is Chairmon.) We shall do so in our next We
regret much the irnpossbility of presenting to the
reader, the interesting debates which are every dav
occurring before the Committees. But the tlng il
The great paper in London. six feet by
five, would no, contain them. What diminisbos tho
regret however, is that the same ground will no
gone over again in Convention, when the reader
will more likely complain of sureit than starvation.
OurseiueS.-Wc are not much in the habit of sneak |
ing OF ourselves and we have on more than one oc
ca-i"n, expressed disgust mt the vanity which
prompted some ofour contemporaries TO offend deic,
cy' 10y publishing the compliments paid them by
othcrs. In committing this slme offence, bv pull.
fishing the annexed observations from tho LYNCH
ohrg 'rginan we have this apoogy-that they fur
uisn disinterestcd evidence in cxcn,n?tion nj, tnc
motives which originally influenced aud have c7utin
ucd to iilucnc the Senior Editor of this papcr IN hi,
support Of the call of Convention. Som, hive bean
KIND enough To say, that these motives were ner
sonal, aud looked further than hi. liberation +o,,
tho disabilities OF statute, which he had leep unl,
tunatc enough TO incur. Had this been so-bud his
first and only motive been to extricatc himself from
those disabilities ana to retrieve his birth right, the
privileges ana immunties granted by the Consti
tuition alike to every citizen of the Repubiolad it
been his object to win for hilnself and othc-s tho
restoration of rights of which they had been ufcnn
Dticnll ai,I
had his views been limited to .his we are not ap
priscd that they could have been jas;v conl,n,cl r
lssaied. 1t may be no hardship to those who hnyo
no expectations wishes, to be disscised of the "a
Pncity to hold Office bu; it is n hardship to he dopri
we'd Of that which all others possess, which orr m.
cesors secured for ALL and by those who had no iay
ful power TO divest Us of il. The evidences of ,bo
Virginan shows that support of u Convention.
was anterior TO the time when any personal motives
existed to sway us, which was moi bct re the fall of
1928. So much for that.
As 10 the printing ofthe Convention. as orr smooth
contemporary said ON somewhat similar OCCASION
''wc can live without it." We never crinoed ,r i,
nor attery expected IT. and we had therefore 10 dis
appointment to encounter, the pane worse than dis
appointment the consciousness OF fawninp and self
abasement thrown away. We never supported the.
cause of the Convention in expectation or hone of
reward; though the contrary, the zeal which we
have manifested in It's support originating in early and
sincere conviction GIFTS utility and nccessity has do
prived us of extensive patronage il, the tide yyeier
country of Virginia. In the admission which. ono
side charges reproach, the other As CONN i,nont
that tins paper has contributed in The smallest deorec
to the calling of the convention our sclEloye finds
ample grstiGcation; for our REGARD VIC a-c content
ed to find it in the Increased prosperity spring and
elasticity, which persuaded will be tho consc
quences Of that suspicious event.
hSOH' N.e Ly''ehb,S,g TIrgiiian Of oct ~
CoNvESTloN.--Ne publish this morning the, mo-
ceedmgs Of this body to the 18th ins-the latest date
received from Richmond. The two first DAYS pro-
cocdngs laid before many of our rea:crs i'm an
extra sheet last Friday but many papers had been
circulated before they were received, well rs be-
cause wish TO preserve connected record of
them on our fiies we give place 10 them This morn
ing
We shall make no remark on the proceedings of
that body at present. except with regard 20 the APP
pontmcnt of its Printer. We have never luown an
act of more gross injustice, than tie choice of Mr..
Rtche, To the exclusion of MIR Peasants. u is an
nscertsined fact. that considerable majority OF the
members of the Convention friendly long since
To the call of that body-perceving they had dorc
the great and pressing necessity OF some change in
the fundamental law of the Commonwealth. In the
selection Of it's officers, then, they should have acted
the candidates. IL Is believed, and we tHnk the fact
will be cheeriuy conceded, by every original frierd
of the call of a Convention, that to John H. Pleas
ants, more than TO any other man in the Cum
monwealth, Is owing, that that body is noic in
session. True IT is, that public opinion was swiftly
tending to the point from the operation of eau
ses which every duy gained fresh strength AMI hic
would, OF themselves ultimately have produced the
same result. Years, however, would have rolled bv, |
and perhaps the present generation would have pass
ed away, before this great event would have been
constmmatcd, but for tho bodncss with which Mr..
Peasants pointed out the abuses of which the pre-
sent Constitution Is necessarily productive, and the
zeal and ardor with which nc attacked and subdued
the pTeludccs which warped so many judgments -
The writer of this paragraph knows, that so early as
the year 1891, when there had been for number of
years previously. dead silence the subject, pro-
duccd by the icgisiGtiUc quackCry Of 1916, (which
P1t~tcd the question by the passage of the Scnntor
al District law) Mr. Peasants, then Editor of this
p1pcr with two other gentlemen of this place form
cd the design of renewing its discussion in series
of Nos pointing out the gross defects in the Lcgis
latiyc, Executive and Judicial organization Of the