Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-07-14
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srAINrON CONVENTION

..,jins to previous notice, on the lib inst. Dec-
.,,.s from eighteen counties were in attendance
rbc staunton Spectator remarks" The Con
....o,ion is not as full expected. Not all the
.,,,nte, even which known to have elected
.,olccates nre represented. Blu, il is Llrgr enough,
:. bonr to effect our ohject-an union Of HE elc-
.,.nts Of opposition to Naa Buren,, aal the oyer
,.brlminp defeat Of the Arch-Maelcian.'
Col. james Crawford, a delegate from tlr coou-
-. Of Augusta and Nicholas, WI, chosen Press
don, of the Conycnton Nm. IL. Gray, Esq Of
londoun, lst Vice Presidents; Charles L. Fran
lisco Esd of Bath. 2d Vice President Robert
e Cutler, Esq of Nelson, l>t Secretary; and
z. W. Newton, Esq OF Ohio, p Secretary.
A variety ofbnsnesS was transacted, which
will be more particularly noticed hereafter
The Convention nominated Gen VIM. II. IIar-
ri,ou of Ohio, as President, and JOHN Y Ter, Of
,ircjnia, as Vice President; and adopted the
same Ticket of Electors which framed by
the friends of judge White, in Richmond, last
winter
4 committee consisting Of Mcs,rs. Stuart Of
Berkeley, LaidIey of kanaWha, Gray of Rocking
ham, Stephenson Of Jefferson, and Newton Of O.
hio was appointed to prepare address to the
People of Virginia. This Address, with the other
proceedings Of the Convention, shall appear as
soon as We receive them.
a violent cnor, will now be made by the Van
Buren, presses, to excite the leaousies of the
friends of White and Harrison against each othcr
and against this uncxceptionabe mode of proceed
ing-and the" douJle shoHed iiclctn will be rune
in the cars of the public as if, in truth, there
were something but little short oftcason in the sup
port of single ticket, by the friends oftwo il iyd-
oas, ali of whom, however hcy may differ in their
preferences, are mled in determined opposition
to a third. But we would ask, is not the Van
Buren, Electoral Ticket, itself framed upon hi,
principle Of compromise? VIII it be pretended
mat Van buren, Is the first ch9ice Of every man
who will give that ticket his support? Are there
not thousands who will vote for il, not because
they prefer Van to all Others but because tacy
prefer him 10 any individual who IS before the
people TN, will not be denied. " bat differ
eucc is there, dlan, between t3cis ticl>at auI oug
own, except tlr' those with w2m YIN Baron isau
alternative rather DIAN a choice, nave held no
Convention 10 determine upon their course, but
have been content to wheel into the ranks in o5a-
diencc to the orders Of the President, conveyed
to them through bis subacrns ia Baltimore? The
truth IS, while saw 10 necessity fer tn assent
bagc Of the Harrison Convention, believing, as we
have always donc that the opposition to Martin
yam Haren in this State would give il, vote either
10 thai gentleman or to Judge White, should its
Ticket be elected, in accordance with the viii Of
majority of It's suppofters,-or still father,
that, if by giving its Vote TO either OF those
gentlemen they could avert the great calamity, as
some persons pretend to regard it, of an t.
lection by the House, that the College Of
Electors would have done SO, by the universal ac-
quescencc ofthe voters by whom it had been cho-
sen, although the individual voted lor might not
have received majority of the vote Given for
that tcket-we say, while, entertaining these
views, we no necessity for the asScnbage Of
the Staunton Convention, yet it seems to us TO be
the height of arrogant presumption and imperti-
nencc in the Van Bureni,cs TO object to it. All
who vote for this ticket, will do 50 with full I'M
Outstanding, that, if ii be elected, the College will
give its vote 10 either one Of two men by whose
friends ii is mutually supported. Gen. Jackson
himself proiited by this mode OF procedure in the
great contest of 1924, when he obtained the vote
OF North Carolina, against Mr.. Crawford, by CO.
0ttion between his friends and those Of Mr.. Adj
ans, while, at the same moment, his friends
trlumphcd in New jersey by coalition with the
CrawfordicS against Mr. Adams No complaint
OF uniairness was then made, although the Sneu-
lar spectacle was exhibited of Crawford men in the
North aiding jackson to PROSTATE Adams, while
Adams men in the South were assisting linn to
prostratc Crawford And why Because there
IS, in truth, nothing unfair or Objectionable in the
scheme II, with a considerable number otprr-
sons, a is the fifSt choice and b the second, and
with an equal number b is the first and the Sc
cond choice, all of whom entertain mortal aver
SION TO c. and if the friends ofthc two former are
satisfied that, by running both of them the object OF
their common antipa,hy must be elected we ask,
In the name of common sense, what moral turpl-
'ude IS there in the combination of the TWO
10 defeat their mutual enemy If there be
the slightest shadow of improperly in it, we
confess we cannot detect it. 1t is useless, how
ever, to defend our position. Our friends need
no argument to convince them that there IS
nothing improper in the " doube-shotted tick
e. while these opposed to are determn-