The Weekly register., 1843-09-16
FoR VICE PRESIDENT.
JOHN DAVIS, of fMaSSachuSetts.
VIcKsBURG, 28th Aug. l8i3.
+. A. TYLER, ESQ:

know, without consulting me-without
my knowledge or consent. You have
appealed to the Wing press to know if
the course will be supported. For this
fiauering notice Of me | can but thank
you. trust, that under proper circum-
stances, | should never be unwilling to
serve my fellow citizens, in any station,
TO which they may see fit to call me,
provided can do SO without serious pre-
judice to my domestic obligations and
duties, but must respectfully insist that
nv name have no further connetion
with your proposition. My reasons are
few and plain, and will, hope, be salts
factory to you and my friends general
ly.
In the Wing Convention, which set at
Jackson in June last, | was delegate
from the county Of Warren. In that
Convention MAJ. Davis of Ponola, bro't
forward proposition to nominate Con-
gressional candidates, which opposed;
In my opposition l used the following
arguments: That by the Constitution Of
the United States Congress had power
TO regulate the election of members TO
Congress-ihat in the exercise Of that
power Congress had passed an act re-
quiring the States to be districted, and
one member only to be elected for each
district, that our Governor had conven-
ed the Legislature by his proclamation
and that it would be the daty of the Le-
gisIature to district the State. That it
would be the privilege Of the several
districts to nominate their respective
candidates, and that it would be usurpa-
tion on the part Of the State Convention
to nominate for them. | also said, that
under all the circumstances, | believed
an election by general ticket would be il
legal. and the members elect not entitled
TO seats. That as the wing party pro-
fessed to be an order loving and law-abi
ding party, it should not countenance a
breach Of the law, by running candidates
in an illegal manner. That it would
be trihing with the elective franchise TO
run candidates, who would not clam
,heir seats if chosen-such trif1ing as
would insure their defeat.
These propositions Of mine were in
geniously combatted by Maj. Davis and
Judge Shattuck. was supported by
Mr.. Chiffon; no other speakers. The
Convention came to a vote by which
Maj. Davis proposition was negatived-
the majority against it very large. The
Maj then moved that the decision be con-
sidered as unanimous, which was accor-
dinghy ordered by the Convention. So
you perceive the improperly Of my be-
ing considered candidate for Congress.
fl had no other objection, the incon-
sistency it would involve me in would be
sufficient.
.-Your friend,
P. w. TOMPKINS.
We'll, our friend Tompkins and Gen.
Bradford have both declined running
That is their business, and we have no
right TO word against it. But, for our
self, we take different ground, and will
not be driven from it. Before we re-
fected on this subject, we were with the
Convention in opinion, and we suppose
with the main body of the Wings. But
we have changed that opinion, as we
think, on ample grounds. Some of our
friends in the larger towns seem to talk
as though they must do all the thinking
and talking too. Living in the back
woods where there is not much intellect
to rub against, is apt to make fellow
vain. And that we suppose must be the
way with US, for we have positively come
10 the conclusion that we were wrong
yesterday, when we thought with ma
jority Of the whig party, and that we are
right to-day, when we think on our own
hook almost to ourself, except what lit
tie will leak out now and then. We
have come to the conclusion, first, that
the State is legally entitled to be rep-
resented at the next session Of Congress,
and second, that it is erpedient to avail