Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-03-09

thfcatcnods or Withdrew; but il had no influence
upon our course. Meanwhile, many persons in the
west, judging Us it may be, by ahomscives, seemed
to think some selfsk motive was necessary to stimu
late our exertions, aud hold as to our pruciple,:
and lcsscncd themselves, and nsutcd US, by holding
out the prospect Of ultimate REGARD. They vastlv
admired our independence, they said, ard were de-
iormned at proper time, to show their estimate of
that, as well as their sense OF temporzing poiev
We did not feel fattcrcd by their promises.
and 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 woshud supported man md
boy, for fifteen years. Now mark the end Of IT, as
the parson said. The Convention assembled our mama
was thrown before it its printer, and these wcst
ern gentlemen with few exceptions voted for another
for Mdt Other, whose cold support they had said.
vas damning to their cnusc. We knew the reasons
which Rustcus assigns for their course at the tinre
ans we wcro not only not dspcased but satisfied.
motives had never swayed IN our support
OF Convention or Of western principles of Reform
nor could personal motives influence us 10 abandon
what we considered truth and justice. We persr.
uered and were among the last to strike our ae to
stern md 'nsuperable necessity A Constitution hay.
ing been made by the Convention the question arose.
and according to our Judgment that was and IT, the
only question: which was the best the old or the
new! We preferred the new, because it objected
thrce-fourths OF the changes which we and others
desired. The western gentlemen preferred the old
because under it. they had fraction more of power
IN the General Assembly. Now comes the offence
for withholding the hundredth favor: (if favor it can
be called). We, who in conjunction with two or
three others had originated the movement which ef
ected their darling object-who for five years and
more had supported it through prosperity and rover
ses, when thousands deserted and when those who
had been jealous grew cold-who had compounded
our interests and lost many personal friends and ma.
irons, by supporting high western princples-and
were among the last quit the shp--we had no
sooner declared for the Constitution in the ex.
ercise Of our best and most DISTINGUISHED Judgment
as preferable oftwo evils to the od--than these west
esn friends attack consistency and not satisfied
with that, write us anonymous letters to insult and
n,imidate; and puzzle their ingenuity, and rack their
imagnations, to discover base and dshonorablo mo-
tives for conduct The united Convention party.
with extremely few exceptons) East of the Blue
Ridge, concur in our choice-so does the ENQUIRER
whose editor at least partakc of the spite at
tributcd to All this passes unheeded and because
we were conspicuous for calm behalf of western
the object of censure, disappobation and anonymous
persecution! We allude not to Rusticas, to whose
humor we take exception whatever. True, if the
new Constitution is adopted, wo shall be relieved of
the pains and penalties of the duelng oct; but that
places us not one inch nearer Office, for which we
have ambition-our views in life being solely d.
rected to escape from embarrassment and to tho Sc.
curing an humble independence. We shall be- free.
nd Int ic Toll toJ .
| One word in conclusion. These rentleucn arc
welcome to think and say what they please Neither
the fear of their Interpretations nor sense of their
ungrateiui injustice, will have the smallest influence
over our course, which always select for ourselves
and pever permit to be dictated to us by others.
! To THE EDlroR OF THE Vino.
Slr-"A Citizen" having finished his numbers 70
specting the amended Constitution, and those num-
bers having been carefully read and examined NV nnc
permit me through the medium of your paper ionc.
who though born and raised in Virginia, is yot no
citizen, but who has been, and under the amendad
Constitution, it is likely will continue to be treated
by the laws and constitution of Virgnia as On alien
in the land of his birth, the land that inurns the
bones OF his progenors, his friends and reations to
make remark or two on those numbers.
LIST. would like to know, whether those pieces
are the production of that gentleman who so patbct-
lcnlly deprecated the representation Of Western la
oour TO the great dctrment injury, and inconyehi-
cnce of the poor labor negroes supposed of the
East IL they are the product ion Of that gentleman
humble as ami would scorn to notice the proud
and lofty wholesale dcfamcr of his less favoured and
less educated fellow citizens who banded the
words, buck GOODS vote, with such seeming infinite
satisfaction to himsolf-but if they are not his pro-
ducton, then sir will answer: l4t
LIST. That in my opinion, the whole fallacy of thosn
pieces consists in this-that the w. country did not
insist upon the call OF Convention for the purpose
of retaining their relative weight in the government
lit was called for the purpose of obtaining our Do
litical equality. Did we obtain that No. Ought
we to have obtained it, Yes Then for one will
not accept a constitution emitting that principle
though Cooked by ono of the valley members Of the
late Convention, in his best style, aud served up and
urged upon us with all the zeal and energy of tho
Wing. -
And by way Of epsode,I will here rcmarL that