Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-14
ALEXANDRIA:
TUESDAY MORNING, JAN. IA, 1884.
PUBLIC MEETINGS IN VIRGINIA.

pI1RI .IC MEETINGS IN VIRGINIA
The npbc meetings that have been held IN
VIRGINIA on the subject of the Removal OF the
Denosites. it is agreed on all hands, nave eA-
ceeded in numbers, in responsibility, ana III
e.rnestness. any that have assembled IN the
State for long period of time Inc names u
the gentlemen taking prominent part III .io'1 :
meetings, show something OF the moterae' u
which they were omposed.-ChapmanJ Johnson
and Watkins Leigh at Richmond; Coionei F" III
free and William Robertson at Petersburg;
Judge Coulter and Judge Lomax at Frederlcks-
hnrp. General Baldwin and Robert S. Brooke
at staunton; Littleton Waller Tazewel at Nor
folk, &C. &C. These are the men who are mead
ing the Constitutional party in Virginia, IN no
bly resisting Executive encroachments, and en-
deayoring to maintain the cause of the People
and the Republican Institutions of the country.
We are sorry we have not room, at present,
for the publication of the preamble and resolu-
tons adopted by the Fredericksburg meeting,
especially as we have been requested to give
them place. The conclusion to which the
meeting arrived, is however, summed up in the
resolution,
mat Tie TculUVdl3 ILACSuliFC ooliiOii
ty. ofthe deposites ofthe public money from the
Bank ofthe United States to the State Banks has
deranged most injuriousy, the sound and
wholesome currency of the country; has been
destructive to the trade and commerce and pros
perity of the StateS was a violation OF nahonal
faith; was Illegal unconstitutional, arbitrary,
and unWdrranted."
The meeting at Staunton denounced in un-
qualified terms, the removal ofthe Deposites, as
an act unwise, illegal, and unconstitutional; and
the resolutions adopted at Petersburg were to
the same effect-Mr. Robertson remarking,
among other things that, so far as an assump-
ton oftne means Of political power may be re-
garded, no monarch on earth possessed omni-
potence in higher degree than the man to
whose elevation as Chief Magistrate of this Re-
public his vote had twice contributed.
The observation of Mr.. Robertson cannot fail
to strike the reader also, as showing that these
meetings, or many of Them, were composed OF
General Jackson's former friends-men who
have stood by him until the last daring attack
upon the liberty of the country, and then indg-
nantly quilted his cause to rank with those con-
tending for principle and virtue.
1t is probable that this week and the next we
shall have accounts from Leesburg, and other
places where meetings have been called, and
where it is expected they will be equally numer-
Gus and respectable as those which have taken
place in other parts fthe Commonwealth. We
sincerely hope that these exhibitions of public
sentiment-these voluntary and warm express
sions Of public feeling the part of the citizens
of the Old Dominion-will have their proper eff
feet every where, and especially upon their Sc
majors and Representatives in Congress and in
the Legislature. As yet throughout the whole
State, we have seen no Inconvenience the
slightest-to sustain the President; and even the
Richmond Enquirer! doubts the propriety of the
Executive course, both as to time and manner