Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-07-13


ed to publish them.
On motion the meeting then adjourn
ed.
JAMES JOHNSON, Chairman.
J. DYER. Secretary.
"%r
At meeting of citizens OF Waynosbo-
rough and its vicinity, friendly to the Elec-
ton of HENRY CLAY, to tho next Presiden-
cy, and JOHN SERGEANT, 10 the Vice
Presidency of the United States, convened
at the WayneSborough Hotel, on Monday
the 9th day of July 1882, for the purpose of
eiectlng Delegates TO the Convention, pro-
posed TO be held in the town of Stanton on
the Sd Monday Of the present month.
Daniel Perrow, Esq. was called TO the
Chair, and b. L. Reid appointed Secre-
tary.
A committee, consisting of Drs. r. II. Hen
nv, and l.. Waddel, and Messrs Bernard,
King, and A. Nj. Austin, having been ap-
pointed 10 prepare suitable preamble and
resolutions, expressive of the sense of this
meeting, reported the following which were
unanimously adopted.
Whereas, in the opinion of this meeting
the present Chief Magistrate, has totally
failed in giving satisfaction TO u large portion
OF the people OF the o. States,-a morco-
yer proved himself incompetent 10 the dis
charge of many duties both foreign and do
mestic-and whereas the long tried services,
splendid talents, devoted patriotism ard I'M
bending integrity of Henry Clay, preemi-
nentlv qualify him for the first Office in the
gilt oil his counrymen, and the duties of
which office, we believe he will discharge to
the honor and best interest ofthe whole coun-
try. And whereas the distinguished abili-
ties of John Sergeant of Pennsylvania, re
commend him asa suitable person 10 fill the
office of the Vice Presidency. Therefore,
Resolved, That we fully concur in the
nomination of Henry Clay for President,
and John Sergeant for Vice President of the
U. States, for four years from the 4th day
OF March next ensuing.
Resolved, That we cordially approve of
the proposed Clay Convention TO be held in
Staunton on the Sd Monday of this month.
Resolved, That be and
they are hereby appointed delegates to rep
resent us in the above named Convention
The blank in the Sd resolution was filled
with the names of Messrs. ID. Perrow, j.
Wayt, T. Burns, Drs. L.. Waddel and r. ii.
Henry
On motion it was Resolved that the pro-
ceedings of this meeting be published in the
Stanton Spectator.
When the meeting adjourned.
ID. PERROW, Chairman,
BENZ. I. REID, Secretary.
-sTsA
The fraud established We invite the
attention of our readers to the able re-
port of the committee on public lands re-
lative to the fraud contemplated by VIM
b. Lewis, under the auspices OF Mai.
Eaton and Gen. Coffee. 1t will be re-
collected our statement relative to this
matter was denounced as a SANDER. The
proof now is conclusive-So much so,
that the boldest partisans of Gen. Jack
son, who were on the committee, were
compelled to admit the truth and sub
scribe TO the report. Itnow appears that
Maj. Lewis used the influence which
his intimacy with Gen. Jackson, one of
the commissioners, gave him, to obtain
lease of the Indians, for 1919 years, of
tract Of 10, 600 acres of land, supposed to
contain valuable salt spring; that it was
carefully concealed from the public that
when that subject came before the SEN
ate, MIR. Williams, Of Tennessee, propos-
ed that the reservation should be obtain
ed for use of The state that Mai. Eaton,
then senator, used his influence to pre-
vent the proposition that a question
having arisen as to the power of the In
dams to lease the land before the con.
firmation of the treaty, LewiS obtained a
ne'0 tease fire days after The ratification
Of the treaty.; that the land reverted to
the United States, by the express terms
OF the treaty? and lastly, that Eaton and
Coffee, as the agents of the United States,
lent their sanction to an attempt on the
part OF Lewis and Currin, Lewis's part
ner to defraud the United States of the
land. These refrcts, fully proved. and
not capable of being controverted. But
we ask the reader to examine for himself
the report of the committee, and also to
bear in mind that Mr.. Clay of Alabama,
the immediate representative of Gen
Coffee, whose disposition to screen him
Will not be doubted has been compelled
to acqulesce in the report We say, let
the reader examine for himself, and he
VIII ind that this branch of the fraud is
fully sustained; that the truth ofthe state
ment for which the Telegraph has been
DENOUNCED, is fully proved. So much of
that statement as relates to the rations.
which we are told by the Globe has been
denounced by the president himself as a
SANDER worse than MURDER" will also
be most fully sustained ! Verify
"Irmh IS mighty and will preraH."-U
s. Telegraph.