Dear Representative and Senator:

The information in this letter will prove that an amendment to the Constitution was killed due to a conspiracy by a handful of people at both Federal and State levels.

I will be happy to meet with anyone and present the evidence in support of this claim.

Once validated, Congress will have only one of three choices.

Specifically;

1. Completely ignore the issue and face the wrath of the American public.

2. Accept Virginia's publication and declaration of the amendment as "ADOPTED" on March 12, 1819, as a lawful accent to the proposal and conclusive evidence that it was ratified by three-quarters of the states on that date.

3. Resubmit the amendment to the states for ratification.

SECTION ONE:

On December 10, 1812, the amendment needed only one vote to be adopted as a lawful part of the Constitution. Over the course of the ratification process, only one state's legislative actions were in question. That state was Virginia.

On February 2, 1811, the Virginia House of Delegates passed the amendment and sent it to the Senate for their concurrence.

On February 14, 1811, the last day of the session, the Senate allegedly disagreed. Yet, despite a flurry of communications from the Senate to the House on that day, the Senate's position on the amendment was not communicated back to the House.

At the 1811/12 session nothing was communicated from the Senate to the House or from the Virginia General Assembly to the Governor.

CONCLUSION:

1. The Senate would not disagree without expressing why it felt the amendment should not be adopted.

2. The Senate would not fail to communicate its position back to the House as a matter of normal legislative procedures.

3. The General Assembly would not have failed to communicate its proceeding to the Governor of Virginia.

In the 1811/12 Journal, pages 49, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54 are missing. A period of 7 days of legislative activity can not be accounted for.

We are also left with the question of why the handwritten manuscripts of the 1810/11 and 1811/12 sessions were sent to the Library of the British Museum with no other copies of these manuscripts made available to the American public anywhere else on earth.

SECTION TWO:

On June 12, 1812, Governor Plumber of New Hampshire passes down letters from 5 states on amendments to the Constitution that he had received from the Secretary. These states were Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Vermont.

The contents of all the letters with the exception of Virginia can be found in the "Documentary History of the Constitution" dated 1894. They were all letters from the Governors of those respective states ratifying the Titles of Nobility amendment.

The letter from the Governor of Virginia, which should have been mailed out in December of 1811 or January of 1812 can not be found in any federal or state archive.

The letters in question were also received by the US Senate and passed down to the Secretary of State.

Why are the contents of the other letters recorded in the Department of State, but not that of Virginia?

CONCLUSION:

1. It was a letter of ratification of the Titles of Nobility amendment.

Virginia Governor George William Smith died in a fire on the evening of December 26, 1811. This could explain why only one or two letters got mailed out.

An 1816 letter from Secretary of State James Monroe seems to suggest the he was not in favor of this amendment being adopted. The records are very clear that many documents were repeatedly lost during his tenure in office.

One in point, is the rejection of the amendment by Connecticut in early 1813, read on the floor of the House of Representatives, but not recorded in the records of the Department of State.

The evidence of this loss can be found in a circular letter written by James Monroe in March of 1813 to the Governors of South Carolina, Connecticut and Virginia telling them that he had nothing in his department from those states on the amendment.

Was Monroe trying to effect the amendment process?

At first, most people would say this was a stretch, but, as we will learn, maybe not.

SECTION THREE:

On January 25, 1814, Virginia Governor James Barbour passed down a resolution from Tennessee proposing an amendment to the Constitution along with the 1813 circular letter from the Secretary of State to the Virginia House of Delegates.

The record shows that the proposed amendment and letter from the Secretary of State made it into a Committee of the Whole House, but it was felt proper not to make a decision on the amendment from Tennessee due to so many members of the House being on leave at that time. So, it was postponed until the next session. No action with regard to the Titles of Nobility amendment was recorded in the Journal.

The record also shows that the information was never passed down or communicated to the Virginia Senate at that time.

At the 1814/15 session the record shows that the amendment and letter passed down by the Governor was lost. It simply fell off of the face of the earth. The record also shows that no copies of the Tennessee amendment and letter from the secretary of State could be found anywhere in any office.

CONCLUSION:

1. I have examined the House Journals from 1810 to 1820. No mention of other records getting lost like this could be found.

Nothing with regard to the request from the Secretary of State was ever passed down to the Senate virtually guaranteeing no response or action by the Senate.

These records were not lost, they were made to disappear. I believe the next section will prove this.

SECTION FOUR:

Finally, in January of 1818, the new Secretary of State again sends out a circular to Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia asking for their respective position on TONA.

South Carolina and Connecticut respond in approximately 30 days, but nothing is heard from Virginia. The record shows that the circular from the Secretary of State never made it to the Governor of Virginia and the information contained in the circular was never passed down to the Virginia General Assembly, virtually guaranteeing no response from Virginia.

CONCLUSION:

1. The circular sent out by John Quincy Adams was made to disappear.

One highly important fact is that the son-in-law of President James Monroe was elected as a member of the Virginia General Assembly in 1818.

I'm a reasonable man. I could understand a few blips on the radar from time to time, but what I know about Virginia from that time, and what is recorded in the Virginia Journal's leaves no doubt, that fowl play was involved in killing this amendment.

Therefore;

Whereas, the amendment process was clearly interfered with and Virginia was not allowed an equal footing with the other states. And,

Whereas, a federal communication to the state of Virginia was never delivered. And,

Whereas; the fate of the amendment was never truly known because of illegal Federal and State interference.

We the people of the United States ask that the United States Congress resolve the matter in accord with Article V of the Constitution and the Federal ratification process.

Stanley Ivan Evans
A citizen of the United States

The evidence of interference in Virginia’s legislative proceedings and the lose/destruction of key records is overwhelming and conclusive.

Without access to the handwritten manuscripts of the 1810/11 and 1811/12 Virginia Senate & House Journals, the truth of Virginia’s position during that period of time will remain in question.

After 28 years of collective research by David Dodge, Tom Dunn, Brian March, Richard Green, Suzanne and Alan Nevling, Dick Marple, Bob Hardison, Helen Tansey and myself, we can finally prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a conspiracy to kill an amendment to the Federal Constitution took place between the years of 1810 to 1818.

The Titles of Nobility amendment will hereafter be referred to as “TONA”.

On February 2, 1811, the Virginia House of Delegates ratified TONA and sent it to the Senate for concurrence.

On February 14, 1811, the last day of the session, the Senate allegedly disagreed. Yet, despite a flurry of communications from the Senate to the House on that day, the Senate’s position on the amendment was not communicated back to the House.

At the 1811/12 session nothing was communicated from the Senate to the House or from the General Assembly to the Governor.

I find this to be problematic as all other legislative business was proceeding normally to include addressing amendments proposed to the Constitution by other states.

In the 1917 “Bibliography of Virginia” it is listed that only the 1810/11 Senate Journal was sent to the Library of the British Museum and the Library of Congress on Microfiche. No other Journals from 1810 forward are listed as having this distinction. Yes, they are all on Microfiche, but were not sent to the Library of the British Museum.

Allegedly, based on information provided by the Virginia State Library to David Dodge and Brian March in the 1990's, the handwritten manuscripts of the 1810/11 senate journal was sent to the Library of the British Museum making it impossible for most average Americans to access.

I also found pages missing from the 1811/12 session of the House of Delegates missing. All together, seven days of legislative activity gone.

This leads me to believe that someone is hiding something.

I find the legislative failures of the Senate and Virginia General Assembly from the 1810/11 and 1811/12 sessions highly unusual and suspect. Irrespective of its position, it had no reason not follow through with normal legislative communications.

On June 12, 1812, Governor Plumber of New Hampshire passes down letters from 5 states on amendments to the Constitution that he had received from the Secretary. These states were Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Vermont.

The contents of all the letters with the exception of Virginia can be found in the “Documentary History of the Constitution” dated 1894. They were all letters from the Governors of those respective states ratifying TONA.

The letter from the Governor of Virginia which should have been mailed out in December of 1811 or January of 1812 can not be found in any federal or state archive. I find this missing letter to be highly unusual and suspect.

It leads me to believe that someone was trying to hide something.

It appears that all of these letters were also received by the US Senate and passed down to the Secretary of State.

The record seems to indicate that everything was lost except for what was recorded in the Department of State Records with regard to the letters. No record of Virginia’s letter can be found.

One fact that is recorded in the History of Congress is that the rejection from Connecticut was read on the floor of the US House in early 1813. But its clear that it was lost and nothing recorded in the Department of State records as the Secretary of State sent out a circular in March of 1813 stating that he had nothing in his department from those states on TONA.

Were these records lost or made to disappear?

On January 25, 1814, Governor James Barbour passed down a resolution from Tennessee proposing an amendment to the Constitution along with the 1813 circular letter from the Secretary of State to the Virginia House of Delegates.

The record shows that the proposed amendment and letter from the Secretary of State made it into a Committee of the Whole House, but it was felt proper not to make a decision on the amendment from Tennessee due to so many members of the House being on leave at that time. So, it was postponed until the next session. No action with regard to TONA was recorded in the Journal.

If so many members of the House were on leave, how and why were they passing other laws and resolutions?

The record also shows that the information was never passed down or communicated to the Virginia Senate at that time.

At the 1814/15 session the record shows that the amendment and letter passed down by the Governor was lost. It simply fell off of the face of the earth. The record also shows that no copies of the Tennessee amendment and letter from the secretary of State could be found anywhere in any office.

Nothing with regard to the request from the Secretary of State was ever passed down to the Senate virtually guaranteeing no response or action by the Senate.

Again, was this letter lost or made to disappear?

I have examined in great detail the House Journals from 1810 to 1820 and find this occurrence highly unusual and suspect.

Finally, in January of 1818, the new Secretary of State again sends out a circular to Connecticut, South Carolina and Virginia asking for their respective position on TONA.

South Carolina and Connecticut respond in approximately 30 days, but nothing is heard from Virginia. The record shows that the circular from the Secretary of State never made it to the Governor of Virginia and the information contained in the circular was never passed down to the Virginia General Assembly, virtually guaranteeing no response from Virginia.

Again, was this letter lost or made to disappear?

Given the fact that in every other respect Virginia’s legislative processes were operating just fine over this 8-year period of time, I can come to only one conclusion.

A handful of people in Virginia and in the federal Government did not want this amendment ratified and set out to kill it by interfering with Virginia’s legislative processes and causing key evidence to disappear.

The evidence indicates that it was known by late 1812 or early 1813 that Virginia "could" be the pivotal state for the adoption of the amendment.

The fact that James Monroe did not want the amendment ratified is found in an 1816 letter from him to General Winder of Maryland.

Along with the evidence presented, we are still left with the glaring reality that Virginia had no reason to remain silent on the issue. Except to stop the amendment from becoming a lawful part of the Constitution.

Further, its silence on this issue is grossly out of character for Virginia. Another little known fact is that the Virginia General Assembly passed a law in 1812 imposing a “lose of citizenship” penalty on some of its own officials for various crimes. Leading me to believe they would have been in favor of TONA.

Given what I know about Virginia’s history from that time, there is no way that they would not have ratified TONA.

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