Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-12-09

Efforts 10 abolish this tax, and had assist
ed in many attempts to make roads, and 10
adoDt systems Of measures which would
7 be agreeable to the West. He adyerteG
TO HE arduous duties imposed upon the
people by requiring them TO work upon the
roads. This is a peculiarly grlevous tax,
ON ham who has 10 employ white labor. In
some parts the people are compelled to ira
sci many miles with mattocks on their
shoulders towogk on the road. In this la
Dor. from ten to twenty days are cOnsum-
ed every year. aud he who engages a Ia
borer has to pay a larger sum for his ser
vices TO cover to him his lost time.
I He complained that the ght of suffrage
would be contracted 50 much as to exclude
I 10000 persons if the extension were to be
limited by the proposition of the gentle
man; and that ihts, If done, would be done
by O minority Of the heeholders, who are
themselves a minority of the qualified men
I He deprecated such an attempt TO EXCLUDE
so great q number, by the minority OF a
minority I'm reply to the references made
by the gentleman from Chesterfield 10
\ England. he admitted that to that couh-
Itry we are Indebted for many OF our pest
\ privileges. From Englandwe have draws ,V,
much, and we shall vet draw more. We
had profted by the enlightened views Of
B her Statesmen, and no man was more rea-
Idy to- accord this. than himself We are
indebted TO that country for the trial ny iu-
4 ry--the habeas corpus aud other valuable
\ privileges. The presidents Ofthe genie
Imam were looked for 10, and brought from
\ England for every occasion. But IN than
country whenever a reform was required,
no matter by whom, tho Ministers have al
ways been prepared with an apology for
refusing IL. At one time, the Christian
religion was in jeopardy, Church and State
we're In danger, and at another time 1t was
answered ave are at war with France
That must be terminated before the proper
time will arrive" The proper time never
has arrived. If we go back to tho time
f. of the great charter, In the 18th century
. who extorted that charter from the Soy.
ereign. which is now m effect to this day!
+, The Barons. They extorted it-They were
, the ireeholders, and the rest Of the nation
b were non-freeholders like the majority o
. |tbe people of this State-Henry the 81
3 .had conferred these liberties before John,
I for when the Barons made the demand, anC
were asked by John what were the liberties
they desredl-the answer was-"Ihost
. which yonr father gave US" The demand
. was then reduced 10 writing, and the gram
was regularly signed, sealed and deliver
!. ed. This grant is still preserved IN ITS o
ririnal form, 10 the tower of London. We
. know what sort of feelings the Barons hac
D. They had arms IN their hands, When
3 they required the Kings consent to then
; demand. lie yielded, but afterwards aP'
: pealed TO the Pope. promised TO undertake
/, a crusade 20 the Holy Land, and made a
3 giti Of his Kingdom to the Pope and ~
Peter. This was the way by which he en-
deavored to evade hiss obligation. But St
D. Peter did not interfere in behalf Of the
. King, and he found himself IN a minority
The ball, as the gentleman from Chester
field SAID, was put Ia motion. 1t was co
/ ug down hil with great velocity: and l
/ was impossible to give 1t a contrary mo-
uon.
-sHoc opus, hic labor est He had
not traced all the arguments Of the gen
/ uemen on the other SIDE.
This was one civil revolution, by which
/. i the people gained, and DO which the evil
predictions OF ITS opposers had not been
verified, and of the same character was
that which obtained the lesser charter, ard
another which extended the artoula ruPer
cEartaS. Another, and "a more important
zone, was the revolution of 1858, by which
1.-The clause "QuQmiiU baie Sc .5aceret, was
inserted 10 the Judges commission, in ex-
n change for a settlement of the succession
to the Crown, upon the heirs OF the Priu-
| cess Sophia of Hanover settlement
/ desired by the Monarch who was brought
TO the throne, by that revolution. This
| gave to England an independent judiciary,
y and he prayed 20 God that TO the remOtest
/ ages, they may never part with this sheet
anchor of free State. Unhapply for the
people of Scotland and Ireland, ia their
I several articles of union with England, no
Iprovision was made to secure the ndepen-
I dence of their Judges, the consequence OF
which has been m our own days, that for
the same charges, Catholics 10 Ireland.
tried by dependent Judges, and Protestant
IJures, suffered death; ia Scotland, trans
i portahon; while in England, when tried b}
an Independent Judiciary, and MIddleseX
Jury, they are honorably acquitted
The threats which are thrown OUT here.
/ that we are so strongly divided within, ano
| without these walls, as 20 place in danger
Iilc Permanency OF our union, and the Sc
curty Of our property, he regarded as IDLE
land visionary. lie mad received a reproot
from the last SURVIVING member of Gen.