Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-01-06

To ALLEN WILSON, Esq, Delegate from Cumberland
SIR-As Chairman of the Committee of Instructions
herewith present to you thirty three copies of the Let
ter of Instructions from Cumberland, containing three
hundred and itty-two subscribers with the ioIlowin
statement of the proceedings of the Committee viz:
On Monday, Path Nov, the Committee appointed for
Instructions TO Allen Wilson, according 10 adjourn
ment received copies with two hundred and eighty
names, and adjourned to the 22d December On the next
morning, (2oth) the Chairman and some of the menu
bcrs and others, according to appointments met at the
Clerks Office attended by the Clerk and the two She
nils of the upper and lower bailiwicks, who examined
the Commissioners book, and tax ~books and ascertain
ed the number OF qualified voters who might by posi-
bility, vote in the county There appeared to be six
hundred and twenty nine, notwithstanding that last
Spring, when the contest most interesting and ami
maed and the greatest number of poled that was
ever known in the county, there but four hundred
and eightytwo given The letters s,,bscri TO
then exhibited and examined and twcntv-three
were crossed account of alleged defect of onalca
tion leaving two hundred and fty-seventbot ,ycrc r
nounccd qualified voters.-See Enquirer. End Dec
few days afterwards the Chairman addressed letters
to the Sherifis requesting them to furnish list of
the names OF the qualified voters in his bailwick as
guide to the members of the Committee appointed to re-
ceive subscriptions These lists were promptly furnish
ed and the number increased from six hundred and TWEEN
tynine TO six hundred and fifty nine, viz. upper BALI
wick 2S9, lower do $40 mistake discovered in lower
baiwick OF one and the number kept up and
one young man named qualified voter who was Xxi
Gus To sign instructions, but said he not of are re-
duccs the number to six hundred and ffty-seven
further mistake made in three names that were cross
cd and afterwards discovered be qualified and placed
ON the list of the Sheriffs, which the number of
good in the report to two hundred and
leaving twenty crossed, which examined by the
Committee at their meeting, and some of them
found to be qualified On the 22d Dec the Committee
met again according to adjournment and went into la
POROUS examination of the twenty that had been
crossed by the Sheriff in the Office the Court before
as well as seventytwo subscribers on new lists add-
ona to those which had been put into the hands of the
Chairman for safe keeping the previous Court amount
ing both together to nncty-hve and found among them
sevcnty-fivc which they considered good-the greater
part of which, believed by them be majority were
found ON the Sher.s lists. They thcreupon made the
following report-That upon an examination of all tbc
Letters of Instruction. they find thereon three hundred
and hity two Names of which seventeen are thought
doubtful leaving balance of duly qualified voters
amounting to three hundred and thirty five who instruct
Alien Wilson to vote against B. w Leigh IL being a
majority OF the whole number of voters PRESIDENT and
NONRESIDENT agreeably to the list furnished by the She
rift IN the upper and lower bawicks with the aid of the
Commissioners book and adjourned near sunset sine
die.
This report, however, although believe substantially
correct as to the number of good votes out not
TO be literally MS to their being all found the Sher
list This may be in part accounted for by the fact
that surprising the two hundred and sixty votes be-
Toned, examined and passed by the Shcrifs
would be found their lists they were not sought for
whereas, 1T turns out that them are mol found
there In order to test its in particular
have taken each ON the subscription list search
cd for it the Shers lists and when found referred 70
II by number the list In some instances the middle
ieer Is eit out and IN some the spct exactly
alike: But these circumstances reparded | in
tended to go on and state far could the grounds
upon which the good votes among these found were
decided to be so by the Committee but for a CONVEX
sation with you, in which you told me that it would
be unnecessary-since you acquainted with
howe To
remark, that those which passed the Committee by
my testimony furnish conclusive evidence that the
Sheriii list cannot be entirely relied upon Rich
ard Hackney votes on two hundred and five acres
OF land which he holds in right of his wife who was
the widow of Thomas Norrss, whom he married many
years ago. for which land he receives $50 rent per ann
from Edward Stcgar you will perceive by his cert-
cate, furnished hcrewth. Edward Baugh votes ON his
wiie portion of her fathers peter Montagues dec d.
and whom he married many years ago: yet these votes
are not found the shcriffs lists The case of Sas
bryan, referred to above, (anxons to sign but of
ageD accidentally discovered the lists of the lower
paillwlck goes to strengthen this conclusion i will
mere remark, that each member in committee testified TO
tne votes IN his own ncghborhood, which not oil
he hsts, put yet declared by him to be good will
further remark that these lists were not examined bv
the committee, because in truth they could not 90 into
inc labor, on account of the immense increase Of diff
Guilty, produced by the extension of suffrage And
uhs produces proportonate uncertainty with the
sheriifs lin ascertaining the qualified voersA who bov
70 uVe INTO othcr counties, perhaps States ferret
out the names, age, &c. of those who might vote If
by possibility they could be got to the polls The
seri oil the lower bawick, when he delivered his list
remarked, that he believed nearly hundred of these Iy
ca outot the county q might with propety say if all
OF em ved at all for 1T is impossible they be GER
tam OF his proper to state, that he afterwards told
me he was mistaken in the number He did not think
there were near so is hardly necessary pre-
sumo TO say that in all these remarks the slightest
insinuation is intended that either of them would design
eddy mircPrescn They both considered incapable
OF Intentional Misrepresentation Nine of the voters
not found on the list were found on the polls where
you Will recollect every doubtful that was offered
was strictly scrutinzedb by the sheriff, and admitted
unless he deemed il good Since ] came down / have
received two further lists No "a with one name found
on sheriff list and No 80 with names also found on
sheriff sst; that the total is as follows viz:
Found on the sheriff. list All
round on the polls, where they were scruti-
tInized, but not on sheTiffs list q
Ascertancd by the Committee to be good,
but OIL neither lists polls 10
$3.50
Leaving bad and doubtful rs
Total number Of signcrs 355
put II TO your candour TO say. whether YOU do
believe that if counter instructions had been gotten p
there could by any effort the part Of the Opposition