Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-09
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ene purpose among others, OF framing an Electoral
ticket Tor tho support of Clay and Sergeant.
crowd IN upon us 80 FAST that oppressed as we are
by great variety and volume of interesting mat.
ter, Congress and Foreign News Fourth July Pro.
ceedings and Communications, we arc under the
necessity OF abridging such have not yet been
published We subjoin summary.
BERKELEY
meeting of National Republicans was hold NJ
Juno. Col. Edward Colston, ON motion Of MI r p
Hunter, being called TO the Chair and Seamans
Garard, appointed Secretary
Dr: Thomas Davis offered an energetic Preamble
the competency of Gen. Jackson, and cordiallv re-
commencing Messrs Clay and Sergeant To- the
People of Virginia, as President and Vice President
of tho u. States.
gates to the Convention at Staunton, viz Messrs.
Alex Stephens, Charles James Faulkner Edmund
r. Hunter, Washington Evans, and Thomas Da
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Tho National Republican Young Mon of this
county, met in the town of Portsmouth, on Tues
day. the Sd July and organized by the appointment
OF 'ohh "A. Chandier, Esq. as Chairman, and John
L. Hill, Esq. Secretary. Committee WINS detail.
ed TO prepare an address and resolutions which are
couched IN terms strongly depicting the gloomy
of crisis involving the existence of the Govern.
ment' and calling upon the People to meet it, bv
placing at the head of its councils citizen of ia
Tents and character, adequate to the exigency.-
cat such time, (says the address,) the safe.
ty OF the country requires eminent civil abil;-
ties in its Chief Magistrate. Shall we for
moment hope to find these IN the present
incumbenti TO what measure of his Admin
ministration-to what action of his life-to what
idea expressed either by his tongue or his pen
shall we turn to console ourselves even with hone
ter the future7 There is such measure--no
such action-no such idea indicative of mind
There is an image only to which alteration may
be paid in the measure which interest, passion or
misguided zeal may dictate.
Happy would be our lot nation if the pic
ture were to close even here! But no! the man.
whom neither friend nor foe could once suspect of
genius, has been found possessed of passions and
facilities utterly incompatible with elevated views
OF ofhce Need we rec cunt the ills that flow from
these unhappy qualities? The prescription of of.
hce and the consequent open triumphs of envy
that before appeared to meet only with general e1
ecration? The steps ofunbushing ambition, shield
ed by Executive smiles, and in the face of the ma
ton clearing new and easy path to the highest
Office within their gIft2 Need we paint the odium
which must ensue when these measures in their
true light are published abroad? The humiliation
OF the American character-the diminished lustre
OF American fame, once perfect now furnished by
tho empty PROFESSIONS OF him who should be its
guardian? To whatever part of his character we
may turn, we are compelled to consider the present
Chief Magistrate as utterly anft for his office.
Messss. james H. Langhorne, Dempsey Nash
Tho. 3. King, John L. Hill, Harvey N. King, Ed.
Blamire, George Tarrant, James Carr, and James
E. Wilssp, were deputed as Delegates to the Con-
vention at Stanton.
NELSON
A meeting of the citizens of Nelson, friends of
Henry Clay, was convened in the town OF Loving
ston on the 25th June, DIR. Ro. I. Kipcaid in the
Chair, and Pizarro Edmunds, Secretary The OBJ
Ject OF the meeting was explained in an animated
manner by Col. Charles Perrow, and Committee
consisting ,. Of Col. Perrow; Geo; W. Cabel.
Patrick Hickock, James ii. Rhodes, and DIR.
Charles Williams detailed, who reported Preamble
and Resolutions illustrating the inconsistency of
Vrgi and certain of her arbiters of public opin-
ion in supporting Gen. Jackson, ridicuing his fit
ness for tho highest Office and urging the high ia
Tents and qualifications of Henry Clay.
The following gentlemen were appointed
Committee of Correspondence and Vigilance viz:
:, Thomas Massie, George G. Wright, Will
Cobbs, Cent. d. Harris Col. James Montgomery,
Capt Nathl. Harlow, Capt Ellis G. Wright Will
liam Brown, Charles c. Patteson, Nicholas, l.. Mar
tin, William Fitzpatrick James Lobban, James Y.
Rodcs, VIM. Harlow, John B. Spiece, VIM. ID
Harris, Capt. John III. Mosby, John Digges Esqr.
Samuel Harris, VIM. II. Harris, Teiisha Turner,
Capt John Harris, VIM Faber, Henry Bbb, Lee
Harris. ' john ' % Masb1 a.rd John po
Patrick I'll. Hickok, Winston ]. Liiley, James Ma,
gan, Spotswood Garland, Capt. Thos F.. For
tune, c. t. Estes, Hiram w. Dawson, Alex.
McAlexander, Danl. Higginbotham, Joseph G..
Cabell, Thomas S. McClelland, sr. N. L. Cabell,
Mayo Cabell, DIR. John Fitzpatrick, James S. Penn,
breckenridge Fitzpatrick and Samuel Woods jr.
And the following gentlemen selected as Dele
gates to the Convention at Staunton: Col. Charles
Perrow, DIR. Arthur Hopkins, Seaton III. Loving,
James IL Rhodes, Pizarro Edmunds, Thomas S.
McCelland, jr. James Woods, jr. VIM M. Woods,
DIR. Charles Williams and George w. Cabell.
meeting of the National Republican Young
Men convened at the courthouse in Liberty on the
25th Juno-John f. Sale, Esq. Chairman, and Jo-
seph Wilson, Secretary.
The Chairman having explained the object of
the meeting, Messrs. Ro. G.. Mitchell, VIM. l..
Goggin, John Crenshaw, Pleasant Preston, John
+. Sale and Joseph Wilson were appointed Com
mttee to draft Preamble and Resolutions. These
strongly and sarcascally develope the sins ofJack
SoDism, and the neffable and inimitable summer
sets of our neighbor of the Enquirer. Ho is re-
quested (by the way) to publish the address. Won
der if he will? We quote an extract from tho
Preamble, which turns very handsomely upon an
Gent denunciation and modern subserviency.
"Whereas to secure the enjoyment Of rights to
which we are entitled as citizens Of free govern
mont it is necessary to guard against their abase
whether it proceeds from individuals or from those
who are appointed to rule over us, and whom the
laws and constitution Of the country have cIofbed
with the forms of authority; as it is our privilege TO
note the conduct and observe the manner in which
all public officers shall DISCHARGE the duties ronuir
ed of them by the people, and which they havo
pledged themselves TO perform; we cannot fail to
observe, nor feel indifferent to the course which
now is and has been hitherto pursued bv the pre-
sent Chot Magistrate of the u. States His cleo
ton, though it had been deprecated as curse up
on the county," was looked to with confidence