Southern planter., 1832-11-17

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70 Me Editor oftie Nississippian.

To me Editor of hic MississippiaH.
sm;-As the refusal ofiho Convention 10 sub
nit The Constitution as revised TO tho people for
their approval or rejection bus produced 5omo lule
excitement, beg, thai YOU will insert the list Of
The Ayes and Nayes on that subject. which give
below, IN order that the people of the State may
know who were willing 10 trust them, aud who
were not First, however, will explain as well a.
possible the manner in which the sonse OF the Con
ycntion was tested. On the day before the final
adjournment Of The Convention, Mr. Quitman
moved 10 strike nut the whole of the fiflh section
of the schedule aud 10 insert clause 10 the follow
ing effect viz: That an election should be held on
the first Monday Ia Match next TO ratify or reject
the Constitution as revised, at which election the
people should vote directly for or against the same
liza mniort, ofthe qualified electors Of the State,
should vote for Il, then the Governor should forth
with announce IL by his proclamation to the peo-
pie "a bc their Constitution, and Il should 60 imme
dintcly into oprfatiou as such fhowevcr, ma
iory slnuld vote against il, then the old Conatitu
I on shuods and, subject however 10 he following
aieratnn. VIZ. The old mode Of revising tho
/ Constitution should be stricken out and the one
Inserted which is at present IN the amended, Il beg
pardon--r6uiscd moi dncHdcoi) Constitution Tho
arguments advanced In favor Of the proposition
woro such Ms the good sense of every member of
be comn0nity must Immediately suggest TO him
Thatathe Constitution being, not Ikea law sub
iccl 10 continual change and alteration, but some
thing which is expected TO be permanent and las
ting. should be well considered before it became
binding upon The people, and first receive their free
and Unbiased sanction at the polls. That II was
true there were some points upon which the people
had declared their will in the election Of their del
egalosi andhOd the Convention gone no farther Thar
these, the reasons for submitting would not hay,
been so strong but the Convention had made man,
changes and alterations which the people had ne
yer anticipated OF thought Of, nor even thoy hem
selves, until thoy were assembled That at an,
rate there could not possibly be any harm in il sine,
the Convention certainly would not wish to fore,
down Constitution upon the people which thcl
would not approye. Ia answer 10 this it was urg
ed that they had been in session a much onge
time than was expected, had consequently spent
great dealof the public money--ifthe Constitution
was rejected It would be so much wasted. Tha
= ihoy elected by their constituents 10 revise In
y Consiirion--thcy had done so; aud now the
n would not 90 home and tell them they were afrai
, they had not been honest, upright and faithful i
the duties allotted them--and other arguments ,
the same kind, all based upon two positions -,
Thaistho people Of The State would be certain I
> reject the Constitution II submittcd-and 2n,
u That tho Convention ought not TO admit that the
:. were lalbe aud Subject 10 the common fruiliiG
.e oil human nature. NOW IN my humble opinion Ill
possibility Of the peoples rejecting the Consiiil
y ton ought 10 have bocn the strongest reason I,
IS submitting II To them and had been a member ,
that body should have felt proud to say 10 my col
suenls, II have made the Constitution as near
ID your wshesas could but acknowledge nyselfl
lr able toerror and may have mistaken your will-he
is the Constitution accept orrejeci il. do not Wi
10 force il upon you contrary I, your willn SUE
, course would ceuunly have shown n confiden
u in their own rcciiitude ofnenton, aud in The goo
u ness ofiheir Constitution, which am sorry 10 81
their votes have subjected to deserved suspico
To return however to tie question, division
as the question was called for and The vote was TAX
he on striking out tho OH section; when the W
er stood as lollowss--
AYrs-Messrs. Black. Dickson. Duncan. Falconer r
land Gale Gfayson, Greenleaf, Jefferson Kennedy Kn
Morris, M'Hae, Pendeton Quiiman, Scott Seaman "
II lams, Mliamson-l9
at NAys.-Messrs. Pray [Prest1 Austin, Bacot, Ca
Parish, Floyd Cranberry, Hicks, Higgason Hurst. Jo
sou, Jones Of jones' Keegan, Lowe, Lynch, Mdgee,
faughlin, MeMian, Pope, Reed, Rose, Runnels, St'
N, art, Trotter, wright-2l.
81, In furnishing the above sketch Of the proposii
= and list of votes have done no more than Tue
qucni inquiries Of my fellow citizens seemed 10
nand aud have no other object IN view than
u" the people should DO put in possession Of the Fl
va that they might make such decision os = " !,
may seem PROPER CIVIs