Col. Scott's Letter

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Excerpt from Col. Scott's Letter: To Judge Nevius, Mr. Lupp, and Mr. Wood, of New Brunswick, on the Constitutional Organization of the Legislative Council of New Jersey, October, 1841 Gentlemen, - The communication referred to in your note of yesterday, was designed by Col. Scott, as he informed me, for publication in the "Somerset Whig, " that his own constituents might be advised of the position taken by him, as a member of Council, at their first sitting, and the reasons by which he was governed. The paper, however, has been extended to such a length as to make it inconvenient to be published in a single number of that paper, he has therefore consented that we should comply with your request, and accordingly send you a copy of his communication. Yours truly, To Messrs. Cassedy, Lilly, Wall, and Potts. January, 1842. Col. Scott's Letter. New Brunswick, December 11, 1841. Gentlemen, - I cannot refuse to comply with the request contained in your note of the 8th instant. You desire that I shall state to you, in familiar narrative, the material events which recently occurred in Council, together with my views and opinions upon those questions, which you are pleased to observe have excited so much attention. It was well known, prior to the meeting of the legislature, that we should be equally divided in Council. Some publications had appeared in the newspapers, intimating a doubt whether that portion of our house, who assume to themselves the name of democratic, would assemble with us, and whether, therefore, a Council could lawfully be organized - and it was, in peremptory terms, asserted, that we had full authority to organize without them, that, by the letter of the constitution of 1776, seven members were declared to be a quorum, that the governor was the constant president of the Council, and that he could officiate in organizing seven into a quorum on the day designated in the constitution for our assembling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.