Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1803-04-08
othe Ctiseas Of Berkeley, Jt6erson g
Hampfhire Counties.
CENT? EMEN,:/- - -=-.: T.
..- Tiswell known to you
: :. = - that Mr.. Snrinnr and

4. =. - udl NAEs oPIiHH anu
myself are Candidates for your SURFACES
at the ensuing election, and perhaps it
was supposed that the respect due to you
would have restrained us from every ap-
Pearanee OF personal alteration. How.
ever, A am reluctantly compelled to make
this appeal in consequence Of two publica-
tons OF Mr.. Spriggs, indirectly charging
myself, and accusing my friends. 1t is
not my design, however, to criminate
that Gentleman's friends in return-they
may'not think proper to honor me with
their confidence, but this would neither
Justify my reproaehes, nor, prove them
my enemies. 4 w. : -
You are informed by Mr.. Sprigg that
l voted for the sale of the Governors
House, and for applying the money ari-
sing from the sale with an additional an
preparation Of 5000 dollars to erect more
elegant house for his excellency. Ivoted
for the sale ofthe Governors house Be.
cause | knew il TO be not only inconveni-
ent but out of repair, and because. sup.
posed the money arising from the sale
woutd'b be sufficient to erect another
This was the opinion Of the Committee.
wh2 reported on the subject-ro these
CONSIDERATIONS another was added, the
great expense OF repairing the present:
building Tor several years past. 1t is ire.
qlently much Dstter to substitute new
building, particularly when a good sale
can DC had Tor the old one, and more es,
Pecially when il will not answer the Dur.
pose without continued and expensive re-
pairs. As to all ideal expenses which
Mr. Sprigg suppos4s might possibly be
the consequence of the measure, Haacy
th=y are to be attributed rather to the
play OF Imagination than to any weakness
OF mind or serious alarm. In the same
manner he tells YOU Evoted for the appro.
Prlation Of 5000 dollars for the purpose
OF erecting Lunatic Hospital, which by
the way was to have been erected on this
side efthe Blue Ridge voted for this
measure in preference to an appropriation
for the enlargement of the lunatic hospi-
tai in Williamsburg Humanity, leaving
out of view the expense, suggested that
the unhappy objects sentfrom this side Of
the ridge, to the distance of WILLIAMSBURG;
could sci dom or ever receive any aasanss
tage or attention from their friends, and
therefore that it was much betterfo build
a new hospita! here (Which 5000 dollars
would have been suth: iently adequate toy
than.to be at the expense Of enlarging the
old one at that place. Il -. - -
While Mr.. Sprigg was dwelling upon
a comparison intended for his own adj
vantage, he might have here added ano-
Their instance in which to borrow his own
language, he = presumed to vote against
me-" It was thought that the salary Of
the superintendent of the Manufactor1
of Arms was compensation more than
adequate to the services, being 5 1000,
accordingly a proposition was made to
reduce it 70 $500, Mr.. Sprigg voted
against tn. reduction, and | in my turn,
presumed TO exercise my own opinion,
consequently voted in favor oft. =. With
respect to the senatorial bill, ] am indeed
ready to confess that I voted against it in
opposition to Mr.. Sprigs.--l did=nos
like what the gentleman calls Negro re-
presentation, bY this bill three-6fths of
the negroes would have been represented,
a principle, that in my opinion, is neither
republican nor just, consequently gave it
my hearty negative, but had the law pas
sed, its operation stood suspended until
the day Of March, eighteen hun
dred and sir Upon the introductioa Of
this bill irto the house, a gentleman mo-
we'd that i should lay upon che table until
he could have anopPortunity Of introdu-
cling an amendment,. in this the gentle
man was INDUCED, and a few days after
wards proposed the following Resoluti-
on: :. :. Resolved that the bill entitled an
act, for regulating the election for Sena-
tors to the General Assembly, be recon-
mitted to the Committee who brought it ]
in, and that it b an instruction to said
committee to arrange the state into TWEEN
ty-four Districts, SO that there may be rs