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hive cons,i,utionai Convention, aad we await
with aeep anxiety the shape IN which The proposi-
ton wil receive the sanction Of the Legislature
We hope. and yet we fear, with regard 10 The Onet
da OF Regency project of pr-clpltsting the whole
matter. The People want time TO consider the va
riouz reforms needed in the several departments OF
the Government they want time Tor elocidation.
for comparison of views, and for arriving at the
beat possible decision. Convention to be decided
On. elected and convened. NIL within the present
susarncr, caanot be expected TO perfect half so ma
nv or 40 valuable Reforms as il ample time were
allowed. We have litile hope that the Convention
will eiiec. more good than the People shall have
previously indicated, and we are therefore ANXIOUS
that the Longest period be allowed Tor popular con-
.deraiioa and discussion.


The Assembly on Monday imposed oae very
wrong reshc,ioa on the People, in requiring thai,
each County should elect none other than It's own
cislsean to the Convention The opposite rule pre-
vailed ia 1871. in consequence Of which able men
were chosen from other Counties than those IN
which they lived Now suppose Saratoga, being a
Wing County, shall refuse TO send Samuel Young
to tlrs Coegen,ion, on what sound Pr,neiplc s Sui
folk or Rockland deharred from eleciins hun So
Of Ambrose Spencer, A. II. Tracy, Henry t. Sci
den, Joshua A. Spencer, John c. Spencer, Samuel
!. Wilkin, &c. &c We are all wrong at best IN
requiring that County shall choose as It's Repre-
aeaia,iyes in any capacity men so old, so tall, so
rich, 20 ft living in such locality, or any thing OF
the sort. II the People do not know how TO choose
proper agents TO do their business without ibo help
Of 90 many constitutional guide-boards, they are
no, fl 10 choose at sll. Bat in the case OF Con-
ycnt,on, where il IL Of the highest Importance to
every portion of the State that its best talent, lie
prrcst patriotism, and its rlpest experience, shall be
seleeied without regard TO location, and where no
local interests are at stake, the restriction is most
insansIy wrong and we trust ii will YET be aban-
doncd.