Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-10-01

tiae Win the government OF the United States I'M
til we shall withdraw armies from her territory
and our fleets from her coasts This report is abso
iutely destitute of foundation. The government Of
that republic has determined to refer the Presidents
overture to open negotiations for peace, to the con-
stItuent Congress of Mexico, which will assemble in
the beginning Of December, Eve believe the 6th')
Our neIghbor of the Democrat seems to have
gotten completely in the fog and lost its reckoning
at least of the sense of its readers the Conven
ton queston.-But this is not TO be wondered at
The excitement having died away, and reason in
stead of passion having become the umpire between
us, 1t is not strange that, sorely pressed as it has
been, 1t should begin to show the bewiderment
and confusion, as well as the desperation, incident
to weak and indefensibe cause
In our last paper we published an extract from
one Of its own political friends, the Rockingham
Register, strongly condemniug the course insisted
upon by the SO called friends of Reform in Augusta
in demanding Convention on the white basis, and
fully concurring in the position heretofore taken by
us, that such course. if persisted in must forever
defeat the call Of peaceable and regular Conven-
ton. And how does the Democrat meet it Pin
the face of the Legislative records--in the face of
the action here last Spring--it has the hardihood
to deny the facts, and says the basis question was
"mfroduced by the East, IN OPPOSITION TO THE
WISHES OF THE WEsr"-that "the East insisted
that the basis should be first ascertaned, before the
question was submitted to the people'' Now
what does the Journal Of the House Of Delegates
say on the subject Mr.. Leftwich, of Wythe.
offered a resolution ''that Select Committee he
appointed to bring in bill providing for the call of
Convention to amend the Constitution of the
State" On the motion Of Mr.. Scott, of Fauquier,
the said resolution was amended by adding at the
end thereof the following: ''And also the passage
OF provisional law regulating the organization and
other matters incident to such Convention. should
1t be the will of majority of the people to require
one" This amendment was accepted by the mover
OF the original resolution, Mr.. Leftwch, and it
does not appear that any vote was taken upon it,
The question being then put upon the adoption of
the said resolution as amended, was determined in
the aiiirmative.-Ayes 10, noes 5l-the members
from the West going for it in body, and the op
ponents Of Contention from the East uotine a.
gainst 1t.
30 much, then, for the statement of the Demo
crat that the question 'forced upon us by East
ern Uotes."
But this is not all of the absurdity of its present
the proposition to 90 into the
question OF organization was accepted by the West.
ana Dill In accordance with that acceptance
brought into the House, what was there to hinder
the East from forcing it upon us, if they had been
SO disposed? Had they not an overwhelming ma
jorlty, and did they not agree to its indefinite post
ponement at the request of the West? Where.
then, Is the truth or justice, of the Democrats re-
presentations?
Again--It says ''The West thought it woud
be more oXpedent first to ascertain whether the
people wished Convention, and then for the Lee
gIsature to say on what basis it should be organ
lzed." And here again the Democrat draws upon
It's imagination for its facts Just such bill ,rns
introduced, after the indefinite postponement of the
Dill providing Tor Convention on the basis of the
House OF Delegates, and defeated by Wester,
uotcs!i
Now, what does the Democrat mean by this
course OF Misrepresentation Does it expect to
pass unexposed and unrebuked IF it does. it GER
'any must calculate very largely upon the forbear-
ance OF those, whom it, and its coadjutors, are la
boring so industrously to injure
In regard to other portions of the Democrats ar
'cles we confess that they are rather too much be-
logged for their bearing and import to be accurately
perceived by us. For instance, it says-sIf our
differences are not to be settled by rule of rio hit but
'y compromise, let it be a fair ones &c. This
would indicate that it is not no,e wholly averse to
compromise of the question. If so, where then
Its ground tor censurng us for seeing the inevita
Die necessity Tor the same thing, long ago? But
he log again intervenes, and renders us doubtful
wen Of that view. The Harrsonburc Republican
SKIS it the question whether the "Reformers' of
augusta still adhere to the position taken by them
asst Spring "that it would be but a mockery of JUS
ice to go into Convention upon anv other nrinci-
le than an organization upon the White Basis q,
and the Democrat answers emphatically that
THEY DO!
What, then, are we to make Of our neiphbor p
surely acc are not in fault, if it cannot tell itself
0G~The dwelling house Of Mr.. GEORGE Whit |
Dck, in the house draft, was DESTROYED by fire
n Sunday night last.-Thc sufferer is an aged |
nan, and the case is one which appeals to public |
ympathy.