The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-12-01
VI1HsNIAN.
L~yNCnBURG. DEC.1. 1925.
CONGRESS AND TIE LEGISLATURES.

respective places Of meeting.
To the deliberations of the former, we look
with more interest than we should otherwise
have done. in Consequence Of the heat ne may
expect to see displayed by the South Carolina
members on the Tariff question. Viewing il, as
we verify believe they do, through the distorted
medium of their exaggerated preiudices, rather
than Judging it by the facts which the opera.
ton Of the law has developed, and leaving home |
with their passions freshly excited by their re.
cent meetings and their late controversy, we
may reasonably anticipate some desperate eff
for's IN their part 10 procure a modification or
repeal ofsome of the provisions which are most
obnoxious TO their constituents. We hope that
every attempt Of this sort will bn coolly and
firmly resisted, at least until I he oneraiions o
these provisions shall have had a fair opportuni-
" to illustrate their effects. The mere dictum
of any set Of nen. VINO evidently seized hold on
this law 10 rsnder n particular administration
obnoxious. or the specious theories Of Pc litical
Economists, which experience has fnIIv refu ted.
should not be suffered to outweigh, with practi
cal men, the beneficial consequences which
have already been derived from an adherence TO
the American System. Let US feel the evils
which some men fear from il, before we rashly
abandon il. At all events, let us wait until the
new administration, which viii be composed en-
tireIy Of new men, and until the new Congress,
which Will be measurably also made up Of new
materials, shall be Installed into office. The eS.
isiing administration should not he thwarted in
It's favorite policy. The evil Of such a course.
| { il be evil, should rest on oiher heads, TO whom,
also, should belong the credit Of the net. If il
| should prove beneficial. We NAV, Al all events,
he permitted to hope, that, now every man
! kuoms who is the setting and who is the rising
| Sun. nothing will be said or done from the sheer
malignity If party spirit, which may have been
| neither deadened by defeat nor satisfied by sue
cess ; or that il there be, it will he AT once dis
| countenauced, aud he who attempts it frowned
| into silence. There is no further need of Chill.
tons resolutions, or any other such popularity
catching measure, to defeat one party or procure
| victory for the other The sole object of the
next session, which will be necessarily short,
should be to redeem the errors of the past, by
aba mere party measures and attending
directly to The great and substantial interests of
the country.
The next session Of the Virginia Legislature
will be one Of no little Importance. One Of the
FIRST acts Of Interest which W. expect from it.
will be the election of a Governor. For this of
fee. the present incumbent will DO Of course a
candidate for reelection, unless, indeed he shall
be admonished alike BY his friends, and his own
sense of his iucompetency to retire from a sta.
ton which he has degraded by his undlgnlfed
pruriency for political warfare in the papers,
and hv his recent unaccountable manifestation
ofa waning memory or n hlighted intellect.
Besides. the interests of the State require his re-
moval, and no man who has those interests Sc
riously at heart, in our opinion, can vote for
him. He holds the reins with TOO unsteady n
hand. II requires more youth aud F'sor IN
the incumbent to guide the chariot nfthe state.
But, with as deep interest as we regard the
conteet for the Governors chair, We look with
much more anxiety 10 the course which tho lie
sisiature may take in relation TO the tonventIon
question. The people nave iecaarei, hs an m
mepse majority, that the Constitution Of The
State requires amendment-and bV the same
voice, the Legislature has heen instructed to at.
ford proper means for carrying II INTO effect
Yet, we should NOT be a5ionistcd if some OF lis
opponents should be so regardless Of the public
will as To attempt to defeat it. These men. re-
presenting small counties. viii SAY, that they are
the representatives immeiia'rlg Of these conn-
ties. aud that they arr bound to obey Their Will
rather than that eli the St,ic-tbus reiut'ng one
Of The most nsenious Arguments OF Nr. Is w.
Leigh, in his celebrated I" substitute IN which he
relied upon the su2positinn thai every member,
when a question of State interest was 10 be deci.
ded. would regard himself as the constituent of
the Slate, and not Of his oVB county, to dlsprove
the idea that evils might Row from, our uneqnal
state of representation !, II they do moi, ho"ev-
er, succeed in defeating the bill itself, they will
attempt IN do that which will tc as bad. They
will endeavor 20 have the i SIS of rr9resenta-
tim in the Convention the same as IT IS N the
Legislature-that *, an equal number OF mem
bers given to Warwick with hnr 30 ireeholders,
as TO Bedford with her 1900. Bat, We hope, that
the fritids Of the measure will vote down the
bill. If they cannot obtain one based on e~qpatre-
presentation. II they cannot, il will then be-
cone the peo,lc Dho will have been 'nsnlted by
their servants. to take the measure into IN cir owl
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