Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-01-16


who recommended for the Presidency of tire U.
States 10 be preserved for it is due 10 the people
representing and those shall address, that they shall
be furnished with our names
Mr. Anderson called for the ayes and noes.
Mr. Rves said, he regretted the ulterance Of remarks
like those just made by the gentleman from Orange hlr
Woolfolk.) They came forth in bad temper, and were
not warranted by facts nor presumptlons No tricks
were necessary-no ashing was called for-no "bind
ing against ones will was intended! That was the fourth
meeting Of the kind he had attended since he had been
member of the Legislature, and he before heard
an objection raised TO the old and uniform mode Of pro-
cedure lie agreed with gentlemen, that one individual
would in all probability, get the undecided vote OF the
meeting; and if that he so. could any member jet to
recording his for that individual, after Voluntarily
entering the Convention for The purpose OF making no.
minatlon?
Mr. Chairman, concur most heartily in the support
of the great Statesman who has been brought to tho no.
tce of this Convention by my old friend from Gloucester
(Mr Page) do not take him rs the least of evils,
but rs nv first choice all other in this Union
He is Northern with Southern principles and hence
he shall have my support Yes with his opinions OF the
powers and policy of the General Governmcnt-wlth
his capacity for business and great moral WORTH pre-
fer him. because he is .Norihcrn man, from nonSlarc
holding State! Sir, it has been his lo n consequence
of It's being by more ambitious and less honest and
generous men than himself that he stood between them
and the Presidency to he called iariguer and 'MaS
can and to have other vile rpilhrts inflicted him, tor
the purpose OF creating udlcc against him in the South
They succeeded for time but the intelligence OF the
people peYaeds over such slang and he was put INTO Inc
Vice Presidency Of the u States. Finding that he was
still gaining the confidence of the American People,
and fast approaching 10 the Presidency, the Wing party
knowing they did there little apprehension
in the South that the North might interfere with their
slaves they declared him to be the abolition Candidate
for the Presidency and made many Of the ignorant
portion ofhe community think in the OF the last
spring aud SUMMER that they could continue TO possess
their slaves, only by the defeat of .artn Yam Buren-
But unfortunately for the Wing party investigation
of the matter it is found that Mr. Van Buren, not only
denies that Congress has constitutional right to inter
tere with savesbut the Fanatics themselves say,
that it has right to disturb on that subject,
than disturb the relation between master and slave in
the French West India Islands," Yes, MIR. Chairman,
the discontinue and dsmay ofthe party, whose only
chance OF success is by the imposition Of false alarm on
the people Mr.. Van Buren, is opposed 10 disturbing sa-
very in the District Of Columbia-Mr Van Buren, not
only opposed to it. bat his friends in Congress from the
North opposed to the Petitions that have been pre-
scented that subject And this is not all, sir-The
people generally ofthe North opposed to the Adolf
lion Of Slavery in the District of Columbia; Indeed
said Mr. Rives, if Mr. Van Buren, was against Southern
principles in any one particular he not apprsed of
It. He. Mr.. Riyes was friend to the Union. and he