Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-03-09

e1o'e'n suoscIioers, many OF lem. remonstratc1
threatened, or withdrew; but it had no influence
upon our course. Meanwhile, many persons in the
west, Judging us it may be, by themselves. seemed
10 think some selfish motive niece ssary to stm,.
late our exertions. and hold to our prncin,cs.
and lessened themselves, and insultcd u.s. by HOLDING
out the prospect of ultimate REGARD. They vastly
admired our independence, they said, ard were de-
'crinned ut proper time, to show their estimate of
that' as well as their sense of tcmporzin policy
We did not feel fattered bv their promises
anu wrote to two of them, that we needed them not
TO continue us true to cause to which we were nj
ways attached, and which we had supported man and.
boy, tor fifteen years. Now mark the end of il. no
the parson said. The Convention assembled our MANS
was thrown before it its printer and these west
ern gentlemen with few exceptions voted for another
for mat other, whose cold support they had so;5
was damning to their cause. We knew the re.sons
which RYsticus assigns for their course at the time;
ana we were not only not dispeased, but satisfied.
Personal motives had never swayed us IN our sunnort
OF Convention or of western principles of Reform
nor could personal motives influence us to abandon
what we considered truth and Justice. We nerse.
Vered and were among the last to strike our f3ao n
stern and nsupcrable necessity Constitution b,v.
ing been made by the Convention the question ayose
land according to Judgment that was aud is. the
only question: which the best, the old or tho
new We preferred the new, because it effected
three-fourths OF the changes which we and others
desired The western gentlemen preferred the o,5
because under it, they had fraction more of nowsr
In the General Assembly. Now comes the offence
for Withholding the hundredth favor (if favor il can
be called). We, who in conjunction with two or
three others had originated the movement which eff
feeted their darling object-who for five years and
more had supported it through prosperity and reyer
ses, When thousands deserted and when those who
bad been jealous grew cold-who had compromitted
our interests, and lost many personal friends and pa
irons, by supporting high western principles-and
We're among the last quit the ship-we had no
sooner declared for the Constitution in the ex
ercse of our best and most disnterested iudpment.
as preferable oftwo evils to the od-than these west
ern friends attack consistency and not satisfied
with that, write anonymous letters to insult and
intimdate and puzzle their ingenuity and rack their
imagnations to discover base and dishonorable mo-
tives for our conduct! The united Convention marty.
with extremely few exceptions) East of the Blue
Ridge, concur in choce-so does the Enouirer
whose editor at least cannot partake of the spite at
tributed to u.s. All this passes unheeded and because
we were conspicuous for zeal in behalf of western
principles if for nothing else, we are singled out as
the object of censure disapprobation and ANONYMOUS
persecution We aude not to Rusticus to whose
humor we take no exception whatever. True. if the
new Constitution adopted we shall be relieved of
the pains and penalties of the duelne act but that
places Us not inch nearer office for which ,ye
nave no ambltion-our views in life being solely di-
rected to escape from embarrassment and to the se
curing an humble independence We shall be FREE.
and that is all we expected or desired.
One word in conclusion. These gentlemen arm
welcome to think and say what they please. Neither
the fear of their disapprobation, nor sense of their
ungratefui injustice, will have the smallest influence
over our COURSE which always select for ourselves
and never permit to be dictated to US by others
! To THE EDIroR OF THE WH,e.
Slr-"-a Citizen" having finished his numbers re.
specting the amended Constitution and those MN
bers having been carefully read and examined bv me-
permit me through the medium of your paper lone
who though born and raised in Virginia, is vet no
cHlzen, out VINO mas been, and under the amended
Constitution, it is likely will continue to be treated
by the laws and constitution of Virginia as an alien
IN the land of his birth, the land that inurns tbe
bones of his progenitors his friends and reations to
make a remark or two those numbers
list. would like to know, whether those pieena
are the production of that gentleman who so pathet
!caly deprecated the representation of Western Ia
oour, to the great defiment, injury, and i.conyen-
TSe vi Tue Poof razor, negroes Suppo5e) of the
East. If they are the production of that gentleman
humble as ann would scorn to notice the proud
and lofty wholesale defamer of his less avoured and
less educated Fellow citizens, who banded the
words bck aUooss cote, with such seeming infinite
satisfaction to himsef,-but if they are not his pro-
duction, then sir / will answers
LIST. That in my opinion, the whole falIacy of those
pieces consists in thIs-hat the W. country did not
insist upon the call Of Convention for the purpose
OF retaining their relative weight in the government
1t was called for the purpose of obtaining our po-
tical equality. Did we obtain that, No OuGbt
we to have obtained it, Yes Then for one will
not accept constitution emitting that principle
though Coofed by one of the valley members ofthe
late Convention, in his best style, and served I'D and
urged upon us with all the zeal and energy of the
Wing.
And by way of episode, / will here remark, that
the bow publicly made before the people, by one of