Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-05-11
SYCAMORE ISLANDS, BUcK,NeHAM,
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Gentlemen: Y our letter, informing me ti,acI
tho Wing Convention had nominated me as al
| candidate TO represent this District in Congress-
was wholly unexpected. The position is one
never sought aud do desire; and if there were
sufficient time for concert mud the selection Of al
more efficient champion of our cause I should.
| without hesitation, decline. But as such is nc E
the case, and as conceive tito be the duty cs|
every good Wing aud lover of his country, to be
at all times ready to make any personal sacrifice
for the public good, accept the nomination
Of course, it will be physically Impossible for
me, in the short time preceding the election, to
visit every portion of the district-whch stretch
es from the vicinity of the Potomac to the head-
waters of the Roanoke. To traverse it as the
crow flies. would require weeks time and the
celebrity Of Cesar. Our adversares seemed, in
framing the District, not more DESTROYS of pro-
scribipg the opinions of the minority than OF
rendering the free Interchange of opinion be-
tween candidates and people impossible must,
therefore. rely upon those who concur with me
in sentiment, and who abhor the tyranny at
tempted by the dominant faction, to exert them
selves. each in his own locality. 1t is ther
cause US much as mine. 1t is the cause of every
man, who loves liberty and chershes our RepuI-
lican institL tions The bill districting the State
-cOncocted by party caucus at the dead hour
of the night, in Richmond, and in direct viola
ton OF an OATH which each member of the Le-
gislature had taken to support the Constitution,
is the most fagrant outrage upon the represent
tative principle, which has been perpetrated in
country. 1t was deliberate and designed
CONFERENCE.-The disavowed nor disguised, and ia
the teeth of an express provision of the constitn-
tion requiring the Districts to be compact, to ex-
cude sixty thousand voters in the State from any
representation in Congress. Those sixty thou
sand voters bear their portion of the burdens Of
Government, and on every principle of justice
I'll ~ f,,s~ Sc Il,
They love the Republic much, and would as
cheerfully peril life and fortune to support it, az
those who seek to prescribe aud Cypress them.
Unless the spirit OF liberty and sense of Justice
be extinct in the bosoms of our adversaries, many
of them must feel rs keenly we do this out
rage upon the great principle, which lies at tho
base of all free government. Eogland denied us
re presentation in the Imperial Parliament; but
she never descended to the CALLING and degrading
tyranny of interfering with the representation of
our counties, and the free choice of Burgesses
to the Colonial Assembly.
I do not deem it necessary to give you any
extended account of my political opinions. 1
am known, wherever am known at all, te be q
Wing and Republican, Democratic Wing,
ifyou choos for the sovere gnty of the ,peo.
pie ia the cornerstone of my political creed, aud
it is my devotion to that which inspires
with SO much adherence of that Locotocosns
which seeks to subject the country, its Govern
ment, its laws and its people to faGtio,t
controlled by set of selfish and desi gning poit
clans. am not conscious that / ever supported
principle measure at war with tho widest;
liberty and the true welfare of my country.
love freedom myself and do not begrudge its en-
joyments to any portion of my Citizens.
am so old fash toned as never to have heen NJ,
offce>sesker and have great partiality 70,
those who are [ should never trail tho popuIsc
sovereignty at t heels of the Executive
As the Peoples Representative, should feel
that was the superior, the legitimate supervi.
sor of their Executive servant, not his tool anil
minion
With respect to the existing Federal Adminisi
tration. have but little confidence in it. lulav
simplicity, l should never have dreamed OF goin
to the Old Federal State of New Hampshire fo
a disinterested patriot and pure Republican,
Gen. Perce's antecedents were not prepossessin
and his acts in Office have not been of re~assn-
ring character. | distrust his surroundings
The Free soil Leutenants OF Martin Van Buren,
(the candidate of the Abolitionists in '4S) appeal
occupy the first place in his affections, as they
certainly do the most prominent posts in ths
government. His premier's political reputation
is quite as threadbare his inexpressibIes.--
One of the most noisy and malignant of the FREQ
soil Faction (Dixl has just been appointed on ths
important mission TO France. Public feeling i.