Richmond Enquirer

VOICE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Boston, January 24.--At a meeting of the Republican Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, convened in the U. S. Court Room, on Friday evening, 23d instant, the following Preamble and Resolutions were reported by a committee chosen at a primary meeting, and were unanimously adopted:

PREAMBLE.
As the people of the United States will have to discharge an highly important and responsible duty, in making a selection of a wise, experienced, and patriotic individual, to supply the place which will become vacant by the retirement of the virtuous and venerated James Monroe, from the first official station in this country; and as the people of Massachusetts feel, in common with their brethren in the other States, a deep interest in this interesting subject: and as an opportunity now presents itself, for collecting the sentiments of the people at large, through the Republican Member of the Legislature now assembled in the City of Boston: those members cannot permit the opportunity to be lost, without making a temperate expression of their views in relation to some individual, who may be the most suitable, in their opinion, to succeed their present excellent Chief Magistrate. In expressing these views, however, they have reason to congratulate each other, and the nation at large, that so many men of purity, capacity and patriotism, are presented to the Republic, competent to be placed at the head of the federal government. And happy is it for us, that in performing a duty which may be due to the American nation, we can express a preference for one among several distinguished citizens, without the fear of suggesting invidious comparisons.
The Republicans of Massachusetts in expressing a preference for one individual, hold, at the same time, the virtues and services of others in the highest esteem; and they indulge the hope of seeing them long continued to be the objects of popular affection, and the recipients of the most distinguished honors of the nation.
Actuated by sentiments like these, the Republican members of the Legislature feel confident, that a promulgation of their present views cannot lead to any dangerous or unhappy results; and especially, as every disposition is cherished by them, to acquiesce in the decision which a majority of the Republicans of the Union may hereafter make, in relation to the great question before them. And while the Republicans of this Commonwealth, await this decision with a solicitude naturally excited by the importance of the determination to be made, they trust, that the opinions now-expressed, will continue to be the subject of constant examination; and if the convictions of truth shall, at any time hereafter, urge a relinquishment of existing partialities, the candor by which they profess to be influenced, will always induce them to yield to every suggestion calculated to produce on the part of their country, an honorable and correct result, upon the great question which is about to be submitted to the nation, therefore,

Resolved, That the ability, experience, integrity and patriotism of JOHN QUINCY ADAMS; his manly efforts to defend the principles of that Government, under which in God's Providence, we hope to live and die: his unshaken fortitude and resolution in all political exigencies; his long, faithful and valuable services under the patronage of all the Presidents of the United States; present him to the people of this nation, as a man eminently qualified to subserve the best interests of his country, and as a Statesman without reproach.

Resolved, That a man who has given such continued and indubitable pledges of his patriotism and capacity, may be safely placed at the head of this nation every impulse of his heart, and every dictate of his mind, must unite promptly in the support of the interests, the honour, and the liberty of his country.

Resolved, That JOHN QUINCY ADAMS is hereby recommended by us, to the people of the United States, as the most suitable candidate for the office of President, at the approaching election.

JAIRUS WARE, Chairman.

Attest, JAMES K. FROTHINGHAM, Secretary.