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Letter to Editor
August 30, 1825
The Intelligencer, & Petersburg Commercial Advertiser
Petersburg, Virginia
What is this article about?
A citizen of Brunswick County, Virginia, calls on residents to oppose the Staunton convention's push for constitutional changes by signing a memorial, highlighting the need to affirm loyalty to the existing constitution and counter the innovators' efforts.
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National Intelligencer.
PETERSBURG.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30, 1825.
FOR THE INTELLIGENCER.
CONVENTION.
To the Citizens of Brunswick County, Va.
You are not uninformed that the advocates of a Convention, in Virginia, have used much diligence in promoting their plans of innovation. One hundred and ten persons have recently met at Staunton, styling themselves "a meeting of Delegates from sundry counties of the Commonwealth." They have concealed from the public the number of their constituents—they endeavored to assume the form of a regular organized body—they have prepared memorials to be submitted to the next Legislature—and they have adopted other measures, in their opinion, calculated to advance their schemes, and increase the number of their adherents. In this posture of affairs, the continued silence of the contented portion of the community, might perhaps be construed into acquiescence in the views of the dissatisfied. Will the steady friends of the Constitution permit their adversaries to avail themselves of the advantage of such an inference? Do they seriously and ardently desire to preserve that system of Government framed by the venerated fathers of Liberty, under which they have, for many years, lived tranquil, happy and prosperous? Should they not arouse from their apathy, distinctly declare their unaltered attachment to the Constitution, and at once and effectually counteract the efforts of the discontented? Our sister County of Chesterfield has set the example. Your solemn attention is invited to this subject. A memorial, in opposition to the Staunton scheme, will be submitted to your serious consideration. In a matter of such momentous importance, it is not expected, it is not wished, that you should act with precipitancy; but it is necessary, and it is hoped, that there may be elicited a fair and full expression of the voice of the County. Arrangements will be made to circulate the memorial among you; thus giving to every citizen an opportunity to examine and sign it for himself, if, after mature deliberation, he should approve it.
A Citizen of Brunswick.
August 27th, 1825.
PETERSBURG.
TUESDAY, AUG. 30, 1825.
FOR THE INTELLIGENCER.
CONVENTION.
To the Citizens of Brunswick County, Va.
You are not uninformed that the advocates of a Convention, in Virginia, have used much diligence in promoting their plans of innovation. One hundred and ten persons have recently met at Staunton, styling themselves "a meeting of Delegates from sundry counties of the Commonwealth." They have concealed from the public the number of their constituents—they endeavored to assume the form of a regular organized body—they have prepared memorials to be submitted to the next Legislature—and they have adopted other measures, in their opinion, calculated to advance their schemes, and increase the number of their adherents. In this posture of affairs, the continued silence of the contented portion of the community, might perhaps be construed into acquiescence in the views of the dissatisfied. Will the steady friends of the Constitution permit their adversaries to avail themselves of the advantage of such an inference? Do they seriously and ardently desire to preserve that system of Government framed by the venerated fathers of Liberty, under which they have, for many years, lived tranquil, happy and prosperous? Should they not arouse from their apathy, distinctly declare their unaltered attachment to the Constitution, and at once and effectually counteract the efforts of the discontented? Our sister County of Chesterfield has set the example. Your solemn attention is invited to this subject. A memorial, in opposition to the Staunton scheme, will be submitted to your serious consideration. In a matter of such momentous importance, it is not expected, it is not wished, that you should act with precipitancy; but it is necessary, and it is hoped, that there may be elicited a fair and full expression of the voice of the County. Arrangements will be made to circulate the memorial among you; thus giving to every citizen an opportunity to examine and sign it for himself, if, after mature deliberation, he should approve it.
A Citizen of Brunswick.
August 27th, 1825.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Political
What themes does it cover?
Constitutional Rights
Politics
What keywords are associated?
Convention Opposition
Virginia Constitution
Staunton Meeting
Brunswick County
Constitutional Preservation
What entities or persons were involved?
A Citizen Of Brunswick.
To The Citizens Of Brunswick County, Va.
Letter to Editor Details
Author
A Citizen Of Brunswick.
Recipient
To The Citizens Of Brunswick County, Va.
Main Argument
citizens should arouse from apathy, declare attachment to the existing constitution, and sign a memorial opposing the staunton convention's plans for innovation to prevent acquiescence in the views of the dissatisfied.
Notable Details
References Staunton Meeting Of 110 Delegates From Sundry Counties
Mentions Chesterfield County Setting An Example
Memorial To Be Circulated For Signatures After Deliberation