Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-26
ALEXANDRIA, I'd. c.
SATURDAY MORNING. My 20, 1882.

baltimore C0nUentlon.-We have but a few
words to say with regard to the late JacksonV
Buren, Convention held in Baltimore.
How it was composed is we'll known. In ma
ny places meetings were held, consisting of not
more than ten or dozen, and these meetings
sent two or three delegates. The great body Of
the people do not appear to have mored in the
matter. In the next place. its peculiar personal
object is well known. AS soon as the rejection
of Mr.. Van Buren, had been proclaimed. an edict
went forth that the same gentleman should be run
as the party Vice President, and this. too, no.
lens uoiens. The Convention but registered the
decree. In the next place, the farce played by
the delegates from Virginia and Kentucky is well
understood: for who does not know that it was
the understanding, throughout these States, that
the Baltimore Delegates were Van Buren, men.
The whole affair, when calmly considered, is
Of very little consequence. one way or the olher.
except that it identifies Gen. Jackson with Mr..
Van Buren,, and unites them even more closely
than they have been for the last two three years
past. That this will not operate seriously against
the President is question worth considering. -
That twill not at once detach large and respect
able body of voters from the Jackson ranks, is not
certain. That it will not, at the South. split the
jackson ticket, is yet to be seen. What
man wavering in his support Of the President,
and there are many such, CAN go for Jackson and
Van Buren,
We have given full reports Of the proceedings
Of the Convention. and of their general charac-
ter our readers can judge for themselves.
We have copied, this morning, an extract from
the new novel 'Swaiow Barn. which has re
ceved high praise from those who have read it.
Messrs. ]. p Van Ness, Thomson F. Mason,
Francis S. Key. and Fl. NJ. Mofit. have been
appointed the Jackson General Corresponding
Committee for the District Of Columbia.
Captain Fish, of the ship Splendid, at New
York from Bremen, (which place she left On the
10Th April whose arrival was mentioned yes
terday, states that vessel arrived on the eve of
his sailing from England, with the important
news that the Reform Bill ras lost in the House
Of Lords. on the second reading of the Bill, on
the 18th April. Capt. F. brought no later Lon
don and Paris papers than the 18th. but this was
the verbal intelligence Of the day aud believed.
The following communication, signed 'Roane,'
appears in the Norfolk Herald. We copy it not
doubling that it will attract attention, and per-
haps be acted upon. The political elements in
the Old Dominion are in great commotion:
Honesty requires neither Caucus nor Committee to
attain its ends II is believed that the people Of this
State have been deprived Of free expression of their
opinions, by the interested conIectures of ambitious
partisans; and particularly by the calculations
of M orities"-of the Editors of Newspapers-m0st
particularly &C Hr Thomas Richie tie calculates
that this or that indvidusl will be the choice of the
iori,y; and tits lsmensbie but tre that, owing the
fear of being IN minority and the belief that he has
the best opportunities OF knowing public opinion,
majority is really created to act upon principles and
vote for individuals, in opposition to their nclnations
and convictions.
g. ing determined to vote for whom prefer,
under the penalty Of defeat, rather than be compelled
to aid i'm the election those whose views opposed
to mine or not to exercise the privilege at all, have
prepared an Electoral Ticket for those who WILL be-
eve, best support the true dignity and principles of
the Republic:
JOIN c. CALHOUN, for Presden. U S.
PnIIP BARBOUR for Vice President.
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