Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-04-16

WING STATE CONVENTION. ,,.,uos
The Convention met a, eight o'clock, p M'' on :
day at the African Church. ,,ssen,np the
The Committee of Is made their Iepo'' ,s;.ero rs
names Of the following gentlemen d
the Convention:
EoR PaEsipss :~I,v Wichsr; p syme; 3, Jno
OH Bo,ts Alex Rives O. Saemey Lacy; TO-
Mn9,n,oes: ii, Hill Carter; r. Thos Sweeney IS \
co dso "a Cunningham Is, Alex Buer ;,
Psarshn1n ln,ellissncer; Baldwin of the Republicans
Spaldng of The Wing; Tyree Maupin OF he
kRepublcan. ,r
ed an address.
Mr. Scott of F., offered the following resolutions:
l. Resolved That committee Of Fifteen 10 be SELECTED oy
the President be appointed recommend 10 thls
ton rules of order proper TO be observed or Tue
ment of its deliberations. ;,d :,
report resolutions proper adopted by the
expressive of the leading principles OF me nne 1
defining ire position relative the measures OF reoeia e
ei.atoo Commonly known as the Compromise, and that
such committee consist OF ono delegate from eacn
siono district be chosen respectively oy the
Resolved That the several delegations from the SAID
districts recommend to the Convention SUM
BILE for electors and assistant electors In their spec
tive districts and for assistant electors in the counes COM
prsng the same; and that they further recommend TWO ae
epa,es and aernates from each district 10 represent me
Wigs of this State in the Wing National Convention.
The lst and I'd resolutions unanimously udopted ire
Sd resolution gave rise to debate and was finally laid upon
the table.
On motion the Convention then adjourned till Thursday,
IL O'Clock.
The Wing Convention continued Its sessions yesterday
AS said the night before by Mr. Jackson OF "ooo IN
the warm discussion with Mr. Turner of Fauquier as to the
number of delegates be TO the National
there are Wing party "Od Fogies and progressive
Young America" This fact developed yesterday
Mr. Scott of Fauquer had moved resolution for the ap
pontment of said delegates by the Convention ITSELF after
they shall have been reported by the various delegations
Mr. mcfarland moved to amend as to send that matter
the people, who in District Conventions, shall appoint
said deegates Quite Jealous discussion and was
continued for nearly hours by Messrs mcfarland of
this city, Maupin Of Rockiugha Scott Of Powhaan and
Patrick of Kanawha in favor Of the district system and by
Messrs Imboden of Augusta, Scott OF Fauquier Hill Car
Ter of Charles City, and Wtcher Of Psyvania in favor Of
the appointment of the delegates by the central power in
this Convention BY the speakers the side OF the dis
tc,s strongly contended that under the old system OF
central appointment the Wings had always been beaten in
Virginia. and they should profit in this regard by the
policy the Democrats-tha many OF the counties OF the
State were not represented and that in the appointment Of
the Delegates by this Convention the wishes OF the people
could not be carried out with any thing like the fairness
as by appointment by the people in district Conventions
the assembling which bodies would enthusiasm
Mr.. Maupn spoke quite plainly TO the point lie Is Inc
editor of Wing paper in Rockingham which has read our
friend Sempe of the Fredericksburg News out of the Wing
church. on account of his antiScott declarations. Mr.. NJ
Also we believe the sole in Convention, of
the great Democratic counties of Rockingham Shenandoah
and Page He talks eA and is said that if sontradiced
every half hour he will talk necessarily for twenty four
hours In his speech yesterday he showed very plainly that
he is very hostile the "Od Foges" of the Wing party,
under whose central machinery Whggey has always failed
Virginia. He gave hard hit a, the old humbug practi
his party when he said that not by grand pro-
cessions and resolutions by central body like the present.
that the people be operated uponbut that 1t must
be by hard labor and by stirring up the people TO take
an interest in the and bringing them together 10
for themselves. The Democracy had under their system,
always prevailed Virginia. and he for taking lesson
from them 10 this respect
The speakers in favor Of Mr. Ro. E. Scotts central ap
pontmen of delegates by the Convention here argued
uousy that the good old Wing habit should be departed
from-that would be impossible to get the people out TO
District Conventions this Convention had clearly the
power and their duty appon, said decgaes-and
that otherwise the Of Virginia in the Wing Convention
might divided her moral force destroyed and the voice OF
the majority suppressed. They principally relied upon the
ad cap.anum argument that the district system Demo
cratic and therefore should be utterly secuted out of Wing
Convention This po,rs5f view seemed to have great
weight with the faithful" Wings, who, in ls4S. no
party and in 1851 not Wings, but "Unon" men,
Some of the speakers this side Nj, r. E. Scott parcu
lary undertook TO and rdicule the Baltimore DEM
ocrac PLATFORM being constructed TO admit persons
of the dlscordant elements Aboitoniss and Southern
Democrats, &C.. &C., standing the same planks Mr. $
forgot 10 remind his hearers that in 1913 the Wings had no
PLATFORM and that thereby the Aboitioniss had full sway
He should also have stated that in the mex; National Wing
Convention tho Seward Free Soil Wings of the North will
hp
allowed the privilege Of echong the commands of their Sc
ward allies.
AT 2, P NJ, left the Convention, just it COM
menced the tedious process of scaling the by countless
&C.. according their In the House Of Deegates
upon Mr.. Macfarand's proposition we have no
doubt lost and tho old mode OF appointing tho dele
gates by tho central body here, readoped The district
system is the only fair and proper mode Of ascertaning the
popular will and Mr. Mcfarland said il assina'es W
self the workings of our whole system OF government
but true their notions of rehabilitation afraid Of the
ton of the people, and above all utterly hostile 10 any
thing that is Democratic, the "Od Fogies of the Wing
party carried day There was Also fact developed
in the debate which had influence in the vote II was
evident that the motion for District Conventions Scott
movement-the friends OF this military Chieftan, who
seemed TO muster moro strongly than we had suspected,
were we'll aware that the Convention were, BY large
jorty favor of Mr. Fillmore that the delegates which
should appoint, would the whole Of Virginia for
Fillmore They, doubtless base their only hope of getting
any from Virginia in favor Of Gen. Scott the
ton OF people In District Conventions Indeed OF
the speakers sad that the only pacca question before
the Convention whether the delegates to the Wing Ma
tonal Convention should be instructed go Fillmore
and body ese whether they should go untranmeled by
Instructions.
This Wing Convention it will BIO seen, has been far from
Harmonious" as the Wing carpes the Democratic
Convention would have desired The body yesterday
at SKIES and sevens, upon the appointment of delegates
and from the remark yesterday by the spokesman of the
Caroline district delegation that they could not &c: suita
Bile to the posts of delegates electors until
they knew what resolutions and platform this Convention
would adopt We infer that when the test comes up the
resolutions, there will be something like storm.
Ii one OF the tames bodies OF tho kind that have
They look as they conscious of the mere
that they playing out They have none of that en-
,husiasm ensendered by devotion TO prneiples, which
marked the proceedings of the Democratic Convention and
which called forth the quaint and good humored rcmor