Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1842-06-02
licuaoNp May -, 1912

TO Col Cluirlts Pcru,r Col james Di,Grd, Sc
GnsrLrM.N Your letter and the Resolutions adopted IN
by respectable meeting ol the people ot Nelson
at their Apfl curt. have been received. have
with great interest your letter aud the Resolutions and
whilst agree with llst-"t is not for any sIipitI
al cause that the Legislature should be convoned
III ses1n but only when great evil presses upon
the community, aud when1egislatiye aid promises beno
fetal results yet, differ with YOU to The prproty
u eqnyeaing the Legislature for the objects Indicated Il,
your letter and oIth IN the Resolutions OF the meet
Ing YOU say, The question then arises IL great evil
now expressing large portion o The people. and eau
ogsaton relieve ,heni' YOU then proceed 10 arswc CT
the s, part 81 your proposition aud say''thai the reo-
pie large, il leh that all kinds VI property
are very low Sc. These things werr all known u
the mcmb,ts o the Legislature whilst they here
regular SESSION. aud lhey then had under consideration
the pfoproty fdomg what the people of Ae.son now
desire to convene them 10 do. The proprioy OF thu
passage Of Stay Law or executions and deeds in trust
and to allow the tunlsa longer time 10 THAI
that fixed by law, was sulemnly argued and DELFT
em,ly considered by that body more than and .
iernlucd that II improper do either Has any
owl arisen snccl Are the people more in debt Il an
they then, their debts pressing them
now than tortsccn then, and told they would2
presume that lar from any new tsil having arisen
the adjournment OF the Legislature. in consequences
of the Indebtedness Of the people, that much Ut the in
dcbtodnoss which Then existed has been discharged
that the argument, based upon the Indebtedness
OF the people. less strong than at tina
suppose was accedo to the request oftle people II
NeAon aud convene tbs Legislature for the pufltsts St
firth IN thcir resoluons;--tnc same persons who wera
together as momhrrs last winter woud coiae again
should have brought them from their IL mes nj hsy
season OF the wear at pnat personal incon,tnen 10
MANY Of them and pxpensc 10 the State merely TO ~
visa and reconsider their former acts should have NJ,
thing new to communicate 10 them Al that lcoud IL,
would be To tell them exactly hat they knew when
assembled bctr That the people were greatly crisr-
rassed by then inIebi,dt, SIS and that son IL hem d.
sired II q pnssape Of Say law aud law GLOWING
LONGER no 10 tle Banks to resume than that new 6lea
/ ll law To which think the members would fcspopJ
AS ey did at their REGULAR session 10 the petitions OF tho
pcoplc;-tlat they would pass neither. w at then.
OUGHT TO do-C ontinue To all them opethc9 Itso,ms
Il, me tha, II could do noihlno less And vet. tbinl
such course wond be utterly destructive of uur ipst
tutuns Ny oninioo ig th, the trainers If onr co,s,l
tuition never intended that the Executive Should in any
manner interfere 10 control the action Of the iegisla,ure
They oaye hin no mower 10 veto law Nor is The assent
of the Executive at all necessary To the enscfinp law
And vet if he has the RIGHT to convene the Legislature
10 revise and reconsider their acts he pses,s ruht
which if exercised might be mucl, ftote potent tiau
the Veto POWER suppose the Executive wished to
have law passed upon any subject, or one repealed
which had teen PASSED; all that he woha have To do.
would be to saw int he thought the law he desired
ed would be highly beneficial 10 the people or the ono
he wished repealed would be pejuditial to them if ,e
members differed and refused to COMPLY with his sur
rcstops the instant tbsy ads urntd csnycpe ihe,n Ia
pass OF repeal the law which they had refused to pass or