The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1844-02-08

viii ne priariples, uk,rh haze ever raij,
ed ny rueiis condncl Myebirrtioas a.
indispensable. AZ Il aust he cons ilnlsd
4 = rep8gnsnl 10 Al the principles. q
which. 40 my oppiniou. such = eonsen.
lioa shosld brfarms& nLai those pFia,
eipirs are, ! sknll non proceed briray 4
state.
i hold. illen. with vou. thsi he Con.
Eeniinn should be 50 rnessiiuied, ns 10 u
Ger fully and clearly thu voice u the rec.
pie. and ne shat af pol.iiesl managers. o.
ONCE holders and eflirr srskers; and 90
lhal lgEpose. | hsld il Indispensable. thai
the Delsgalessheald be appointed direclly
BY the peoll lie. or 10 use the lsngRage d
Gen. Jackson, should be . fresh from lhe
people" | alsD hold that tlle only pos
sible mode 10 effect This. is faf DE peO-
pie 10 choose The Delegales nv Districts.
and that they should vote per capifa.
Every other mode Of appoinling would be
controlled BY political machinery, and
plare the appointments in lbe hanis Of
the Few. who work il.
object then, IN The proposed conven-
ZION, b-eanse il will not be CONSTITUTED in
conformity With This fundsmen Al article
.fthe Republican creed. The Delegates
10 il viii be appointed from snme Of the
States, moi By the people in Districts. but,
q has been stated, By State Conventions
en- masse, composed of Delegates sp-
pointed in az cases. a. am informed, by
County or District Conventions. and in
some cases. Il mt misinformsd. these
again composed Of delegates appointed
BY still smaller divisions, or a Few interest,"
edindividuals. Instead then ofheing direct.
ly. or fresh flom the people, the Delegates
10 the Baltimore Convention will be The
Delegates Of Delegates. and Of course re-
moved, IN all cases, AZ least three, if not
four degrees from the people. AZ each
successive remsve. the voice the people
will become less full and distinct, until
atlast il will be so faint and imperfect,
as not TO be audible. To drop metaphor.
| hold il impossible 10 form scheme more
perfectly calculated 10 annihiIaie the con-
troll Of the people over The Presidential
election. and vest j: in those who make
politics trade, and who live, or expect 10
live On the Government.
In this connection. object not less
strongly 10 The mode in which Virginia
has resolved her Delegates shall vote.
With all due respect. must say, can
Imagine nothing more directly in conflict
with our federal system Of government,
or TO use broader expression, the princi-
pies on which all confedersied communi-
tics hsve ever been united. hazard
nothing in saying, that there is not an in.
stance in our political history, from the
meeting Of the first Revolutionary Con-
gress To the present day. oflhe Delegates
Of any Stale Rniipg voting by majority,
an instance Of The Kind can be found in
the history of any .cusGedera,cd commu-
nifty. There i, indeed. something mon.
strous in The id a of giving the majority
the right Of nlpressins the vote OF the
minority into its service, and counting |
lhcm as its own. The plain rnle-ihat
which has ever prevailed. and which con-
forms TO the diistes Of common sense, is |
that where Stae votes as Stale, BY = |
majority of its delegates. the votes count
one, be they few or many, or the state large |
or small. On the contrary. where the votes
Of all the Delegate are counted, they vote
lndi, iJually and Independently, each for |
himself counting onr. And it is To he no
led. that wherever this lausr mode OF vot-
ing exists among confederaiej States, is
IN all cases founded on compact. to which
Tie consent Of each Stale is required. In
The absence Of compact, the inyariable
mode of v, Ting IN such STATES is, in all ca
ses, by The majority, their vote counting
one. The course which Virginia has re-
solved to take Is in violation nf this plain
and fundamental rule, and If il should be- t
,one settled prariice, would he desiruc-
i've Of the foundation IN which the Who'll.
Of the State Right doctrine is
reared.
hold il, in the next place, to be an in
!Ispensahle principle, tha, the ConveR-
ION shoall be so constituted. as TO give
o each Stale, in the nomination of a can
ll,laIe, the same relative wei. hit, which
ne Constitution secures 10 il in the elec-
ion Of the President, making due allow
nee for lis relative party strength. By
he election, mean the whele--the e
entnal choice when it goes into the
iouse Of Representatives, as well as the
Urinary vote in the ,iectoral college. The =
ne is IS much part Of The erectian as
he other. The two make the whole. Z,
he adoption Of the one, in the t'enven-
on which framed the Constitution, de- 4
ended on the adoption of the other. Nei- 1
ier could possibly be adopted alone. ID
he two were tke result Of compromise +
etween the larger and smaller States, ar. n
y a long and doubtful struggle. which $
lreatfned The loss IF the Constitution /,
self. The object Of giving 10 The small b
States an equality with the larger, in a
Ie eventual choice by the House, was e
roan.erpoise The preponderance Of lie Il