The Hillsborough Recorder

In perhaps a majority of the counties and towns in the state of Virginia there has been taken, informally, at the election for delegates in the present month, a poll for deciding the question of Convention or no Convention; and in every instance that we have seen spoken of, there is a decided majority in favor of a Convention, excepting only the city of Richmond. In that city, soon after the poll was opened, there took place an eloquent discussion, of five hours, on the merits of the convention question, in which some of the ablest men of the state took part. Mr. Harvie was re-elected the delegate for the city, without opposition, after declaring himself opposed to a convention, but determined to vote upon the question as he might be instructed by his constituents. The vote of the city, on the first day, stood thus: 112 freeholders (none others vote at elections) for a convention—107 against it. The poll, however, was kept open for one or two days longer.

There appears to be no doubt but that a convention will be called. The main objection to it seems not to proceed from the absence of occasion for a revision of the constitution, but the apprehension that some of its fundamental principles will be torn down, by the establishment of universal suffrage, &c.