Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1817-03-24
To the Editor of the Leesburs wash
ingtonian.
Richmond, Feb. 2snd. 1917.

Richmond, Feb. 2snd. 1917.
Dear Sir,
7 obtained leave OF absence from the
service of the house of Delegates week
ago, intending to hasten NY return to a
home, which III health aud my pubic
duties have prevented me from seeing,
for more than eight and forty hours IN
the last six months, A very important
bill however, relative to the public ed =.
cation, which had the hsnor OF intro
lducing into the house Of Delegates, for
babe my departure until is tate should
be sealed. l had the happiness to wit
ness its passage through the house of de-
|legates, on tuesday last, by a very
large majority, and the extreme north
cation and regret Of beholding its rslec'
ton. BY an equal division of the Senate,
the day before yesterday.
On its rejection being known IN the
House of Delegates, a motion unal'i-
mousIy prevailed to print 5000 copies
| of the bill, which will be distributed
throughout the commonwealth, and
afford you an opportunity OF eXamln-
ing its numerous provisions, and the
people, that Of Judging. for themselves
of its merits. Should il msetthe pub
lie appreciation, as it did that OF the
House of Delegates. the hope may be
INDUCED that it will experience bet,
tier fate, at the next session OF the Ge-
neral Assembly.
Aitho' the proceedings of the last
Assembly bear no proportion. either
in number or Importance, to the time
which they have consumed, they are
Notwithstanding, Of very interesting
character to our section nf the state.
lSympathising. in almost all general
measures, with the inhabitants of the
country beyond the Blue Ridge, the
lcounty of Loudoun has great reason
| to exult in the new arrangement OF the
Senatorial districts Ii not only aug
ments her own weight in that branch
OF the Legislature. but, by taking five
senators from the lower, and adding
THAT number to the representation OF
the upper country, it ensures, hereat-
ter, the vredominance in that body
Of policy adapted 10 our circumstan-
ccs and views. Justice, moreover.
which always COMFORTS NTH public
good. in the largest estimate OF "
| liberal mind, will be found to Sa"ction
a measure, by which very large Sec
ton of the commonwealth has been
admitted to the enjoymcntof those po-
iticaI rights, which had been, SO long
and 50 injuriousy, withheld. IhIs
enjoyment might have been rendered
more complete. by a convention au-
thorized to elualize the representation
i'm both houses of the General Assem-
IDLY /; and to an act, designed to as
lcertain the sense of The people In Ia
or of such a measure, | gave my cor
dial support. The preronderance o!
The lowiaHd interest, III the Senate
occasioned this act to be lost IN that
body, at its second reading
To a similar cause. LAY be tracer
the failure Of Uili watch Sase an i'll.
dependent bank to the county oil Lou
doun. As the bank TO be established
at Winchester, is authorised to locate
a branch either IN FaaqWtr or Lou
doun, it is trobabI, however, that
the wishes OF my constituents may yet
be gratiiied. by asking OF the house
of delegates, a bank for both Lees
burg and Waterford, earnestly en-
'deaytrvd as l had done, OH ioim, r
occ aston, to provide for the wants and
the wishes of both. When failed IN
this effort, justice seemed TO me To re-
quirc, that /, at least, should not DIS
terminate between the gust claims oi
those, whose interests were alike con-
ided to my protection. and a proNi-
sion was made, with the appreciation
of the house OF delegates in the oriSi-
nal bill which went 10 tic senate. that
left it to the directors oi the L0udoun
Bank, to locate the seat OF its opera.
tons either at Leesburg or Waterford.
As the smallest capital required Tor
each OF the proposed banks, was limit
cd to a sum of no little magnitude, anu
1.-The bonus demanded for its charter,
vas as much as lift en- per cent. on
that amount, | thought that the COM
petition which might arise, as to the
location OF the bank, would prove All
uscfUb il not a necessary auxiliary to
| the Subscription Of its stock. Whate-
yer may have been the WishOm OF this
-. n my constituents will, trust