Richmond Enquirer

DOMESTIC.

Charlestown, [Jeff Cy.] Aug. 28.

STAUNTON CONVENTION.

Letter to the Editor of the Repository.

Wheatland, Aug. 27, 1816.

Having this moment returned from Staunton, and appreciating the public solicitude in regard to the late Convention, I hasten to forward to you the enclosed address,* in order that it may receive that prompt & general circulation, which may be afforded it through the medium of your paper.

Time will not admit at present of my giving a detailed account of the proceedings of the Conventional Body: it may tend in some measure, however. to relieve the public suspense by briefly observing that an appeal will, in the first instance, be made to the General Assembly for such aid as that body can afford towards effecting the call of a General Convention to revise and amend the Constitution: but in case the Legislature should be indisposed, or think itself incompetent to act, an ulterior measure has been devised, and will be submitted to the people, calculated to effect the object of such a Convention.

This plan is recommended by its moderation, and will give full time to the community for mature and cautious deliberation upon a subject deeply interesting to their rights & happiness—that it may meet the approbation of the good people of the commonwealth, and eventuate in the establishment of the public prosperity upon a firm and lasting basis, is a consummation by none more sincerely and ardently wished than

Your humble servant,
H. S. TURNER.

* The Memorial, drafted by the Convention.