Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-03-20
Friday EUcRtass. .EyNs'cE, 1G.

me CAUCUS.-Tho Caucus met, pursuant
TO adjournment, last night and again continued in
session until near midnight without completing its
business. 1t meets again this evening Mt five.
MIR. Miller's Resolution and Mr. Browns substi-
tute' were debated at great length, by Mr.. Goode,
Mr.. Gholson, and Mr. Miller, in advocacy of Mr..
Barbours nomination, and by Mcssrs. Brown,
DrSmgooc, and Dade, against it, and in favor of
leaving the Electors untrammelled. Mr.. Williams
addressed the meeting also, in equal reprobation
OF Barbour and Van Buren,, convulsing the audi
ence by the hnmor and ccccntricity of his obsorya
lions. Mr. Richie, having obtained leave, also
addressed the Assembly, i'll explanation of certain
allegations of Messrs. Goodc and Gholson. Refer
encc having been made to q vote of Mr. Cabell of
Nelson, in 1924, by Mr.. Dromgoole, that gentle
man, who has the misfortune to be opposed to Jack
son, though attending the Caucus in obedience to
the will of his constituents addressed the Caucus
in Speech admirable for its spirit, and in every
sentence planting dagger in the vtals of Jackson
ism. So energetic the Speaker; so Just did
every man feel his indignant circumstances to be.
and SO remarkable were the sentiments in tone
and spirit for that place, and under those crcun,-
stances, that the Galleries testified their approba
lion by loud and sustained applause
We hope to publish the whole Debate.
The question was taken at last on Mr. Browns
amendment, which proposes to leave the Vice
president undcsignatod, and carried in the afirma
tyc-aycs 81, noes 34M.
We need not apprisc the reader of the import of
this vote-that it is virtual rejection of Mr. Bar
bour and nomination of Mr.. Van Buren,: for AL
though, it was discaimed that tho evasion of the
nomination of a Vice President by the Caucus. was
designed for Mr.. Van Buren's benefit. no man cop
really doubt, that the project was conceived in that
spirit, and that it can have no other termination
We mean to question gentleman's sincerty-
much less the gentlcman's from Petersburg.
whom we have long been proud to reckon n
friend, and who individually, meant no more than
he expressed--but cannot shut our eyes to
what is plain the sun. If there had been
doubt before, the proposition made by Mr.. Droom-
goole, to send Delegates to the Baltimore Con-
venton, and which will no doubt this evening be de-
cided in the affirmative, removes that doubt. Only
Van Burens friends will be there & even if the Viz
ginia Delegation objected, they will be outnumber
ed, and must, i'll honor, sustain the nomination. af
ter acquiescing i'll the mode of making it. But
the matter is too clear to be argued; and although
for good reasons, his may not be quartcrcd
on the ticket, it may nevertheless, be asserted that
the Caucus has for all practical purposes nominated
Martin Van Buren, Vice President
result, but not for the majority which effected it,!
Philip p. Barbour, Virginia's favorite State Right
Champion, beaten three to OH his own dung
hill, by Martin Van Buren,, the advocate of the
Tariff Of '2S, and Tariff man! acknowledged by
Mr. Brown of Peersburg) Mr.. Barbour thus tire.
mendousy handled, in the teeth of his own letter
wherein he gives consent Professionally, (if it did
not injure Jackson - that his name may DO
brought forward! Is it thus Virginia rewards his
inimitablc talent at hair spli,tng7 Verify, mar
wells will never Such event was far be-
You'd the range of human foresight So well did
the machinery work; handsomely had the
screws been applied that Mr.. Barbour's own repre-
sentatives in the Legislature voted against him
his whole Congressional District in fact, except
Spottsylvania. All hands indeed, made warm
professions of esteem, admiration, and all that
sort of thing-but they yoted against him, and in
Caucus elsewhere, the proof Of the pudding is
in the eating.
Van Buren's N. York machinery, newly brought
TO Virginia upon trial. works spendidly. But there
is redeeming circumstances. Virginia will
soon become Tariff State.