Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-03-16
TREPuBLIsuEp BY REQUEST
From the Charlottesville .7droeate
TO THE PEOPLE OF ALDEMARLE.

TO THE PEOPLE OF ALDEMARLE.
FsLLowCIrIzESs: After repeated inetiectue! efforts
for seven days, 10 elect U. 5. Senator, the General
Assembly have length postponed the subject rde-
nitey. The course which your immediate represent
atives, have pursued on this occasion, renders II
proper that should submit 10 you bret but candid
statement Of facts. The postponement OF this interest
ing and important election was caused by The utter I'M
possibility Of uniting majority OF the General Assem-
bly, on any candidate 1t 10 result very different
from what desired expected; but the change which
political parties seem have undergone since the last
election rendered it inevitable. We find our own am
pie justification (w,hout desiring or intending TO CEN
sure ohers in the fact that we have implicitly adhered
throughout TO the which you expected us 10 Pur
sue when you elected us We have voted for every
Wing whose name was before us, and we have voted
for none but Wings We have refused 10 permit others
TO make issue for US here, which you refused last
Spring. We conceived that it was the duty o' rePse
sen,ayes to meet and maintain the issues which the
people who elected them decided at the polls, and that
il was delicate it not dangerous responsibility for the
representatives Of the people TO foresIall public sen
ment BY abandoning old creating new party distInc
lions in advance Of The popular will.
One of u.s. you will recollec, in announcing himself
a candidate dec AIRED, last Spring, through The pubic
prints (and SUCH at the time was understood to he the
opinion of the olher) that ii elected, unless otherwise
instructed by to the vote to be given IN this cleo
tiun he would for individual who, from his
present and past political course should be most likely
10 maintain and carry out those principles which, for The
last several years. had openly avowed and Tor which,
as you KNOW, we heo as openly suuSBeu. II H's 'ee"
your pleasure decline 10 exercise, what we acknow-
ledge 10 be your right the power of instruction upon
the subject; but ha We left give such vote ss our
own condolences, regard Tor consistency, and our
sense of duty you and To the Stale, seemed alike to
dictate.
II was believed after the elections last SPRING that
parties in the present General Assembly STOOD Wings ST.
Administration Is, Conservatives IL The Wings want.
ing only three on foil vote, Of majority both the
other parties combined. 1t became apparent however,
soon after the Of session, that some
Wings preferred the election Of Conservative 10 that Of
any Wing The effort made al an early period through
the press TO induce party elect MI Rves either
choice alternative. With one-hilh OF the Wing
party Mr.. choice; with tlree-fhs he was an al
tentative We among that remnant of the party who
ste adasty refused TO allow own or any other party to
compel US to issue uncertain in itself embarrassing
TO all and involving, we humbly total dPar
ture from those high professions of dsnerested principle,
by which the Wings of Virginia have claimed The pub
lie confidence 1t is certain that if the zeal of the Wing
party in the General Assembly had equaed its numbers
and strength such issue could ever have been forced
upon them The responsibility Of making or defeating
election, between the great parties OF the Common
wealth. but for The detection in our own ranks would have