Palladium Of Virginia And The Pacific Monitor

PRESIDENTIAL MEETING.

At a meeting of the citizens of Greenbrier County friendly to the Election of JOHN Q. ADAMS, held at the Court House on the 24th of August, 1824, pursuant to the adjournment of a similar meeting held on the 3d of July, for the purpose of naming an Elector for the District composed of the Counties of Bath, Greenbrier &c.

Col. Thomas Beard, being called to the chair, and John A. North appointed Secretary, the following resolutions were submitted and adopted;

Resolved, That PETER B. WETHERED, Esq. be recommended to the people of this State, as a suitable person to be placed upon the Electoral Ticket for this district.

Resolved, That Col. Thomas Beard, James McMillan, Col. Curtis Alderson, Dr. Richard Wingfield, Andrew Hamilton, Joseph Alderson, Col. James Kincaid, Wm. Lewis, Capt. Robert Stevens, George Alderson, Samuel McClung, Wm. Renick, Henry Erskine, Wm. Morrow, and Capt. John Bowyer, and Aron Burr, Esq's. be appointed a County Committee for the distribution of tickets, and the adoption of such other measures as are best calculated to ensure the election of J. Q. ADAMS.

Resolved, That any three of the County Committee, prepare an address to the people of this district, and that it be published in Palladium, together with the proceedings of this meeting.

THOMAS BEARD, Chairman.

John A. North, Secretary.

ADDRESS.

Fellow Citizens:

In recommending to you PETER B. WETHERED as an Elector for President and V. P., we deem it unnecessary to make any remarks upon his character or standing, to many of you he is personally known; with regard to his views on the subject of a choice of the two highest offices in the government, we will only observe, that J. Q. ADAMS will receive his warmest support.
Support for the Presidency. For the Vice Presidency, he like many other citizens, is willing to support any person named for that office, whose former services to his Country, integrity, and talents qualify him for the office. It is scarcely necessary for us to tell you that in no event will he vote for Albert Gallatin.

The selection of the fit persons to fill the two highest offices in the Great American Republic, is one of the most important duties that a free and enlightened people can be called upon to discharge; nor can the people be too particular in their choice. Without attempting to draw any invidious comparisons between the several candidates before the people, we will content ourselves with giving some of the considerations that have induced us to declare our preference for JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. For thirty years he has filled with honour to himself, and credit to his Country, many offices of high trust and responsibility; the able manner in which he has discharged the duties of those offices, are too well known to require any illustration, and are the best evidence of his integrity and talents.

We probably cannot give a better view of the abilities of Mr. ADAMS, and of the estimation in which he is held by those best acquainted with him, than by the following extract from the very able address of a meeting held in Westmoreland County.

"Mr. Adams began his diplomatic career as secretary to Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Lee, in their embassy to France, to procure the recognition of our independence in 1778. He acted in the same capacity in Holland and in Prussia; and afterwards as secretary and interpreter to Mr. Dana, for the same purpose in Russia. He was secretary also to our ministers in negotiating the treaty of peace, which closed the war of the revolution, and remained with our commissioners negotiating commercial treaties with all the European powers, until 1785, when he returned to prepare himself for the bar of his native state, at which he practised from 1790 to 1794. Gen. Washington then appointed him minister to the Hague in 1795, special minister to London, and in 1796, minister to Lisbon. Under his father's administration, he was continued minister resident at Berlin, and under Mr. Jefferson he served in the Senate of the United States with distinguished honour, and on resigning his seat, refused to divide the republican party of Massachusetts, some of whom were for Mr. Lincoln, (by suffering) himself to be nominated as governor. Immediately after Mr. Madison's inauguration, he was appointed minister to St. Petersburg--afterwards by him, a judge of the Supreme Court of the United States--next, chief minister to negotiate a treaty with England, under the mediation of the emperor of Russia, and afterwards commissioner to Ghent, where he rendered such eminent service in concluding the treaty of peace in 1814; that Mr. Madison immediately appointed him our minister to St. James to negotiate a commercial treaty with Great Britain. He was Mr. Monroe's first choice as Secretary of State, and returned home to take charge of a department, for which his great rival, Gen. Jackson, declared him better qualified than any other man, and the duties of which he has now discharged for near eight years to the entire satisfaction of the government and the nation."