Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-11-20

ma manifested The sincerity wnhwhch ne entertain
cd tt.se opinions, and although he had her,toso,,
been discouraged by the wan, Gf succ,ss he 60. "
disposed To cease from renewal of them U ,hou ~
h was ms much the duty of III majority es Of tho mi
norfy to think seriously bcfnc they 6nnll,, ,a:L \
whether il would not be- better TO ndon, ;h ,..
winch nc INTENDED tn propose before he sat ,ou,n
wch was ." pass orer iais resolution for lie prcs MT
ana take up The next subject. The gentleman fiom
augusta pad gwen somewhat different me annn N
TIE terms OF he resolution from what had been ba
lore re- .ed and It possible that some peptIe
men who had oppused the resolution I'm its ori,nal
form would be willing TO take il with tho rno6ifca
non which that gentleman had suggested He VOL la
wish To look INTO the character Of that Modification
ana to understand its limits. He voul,l tba,.fa-a
move thht the Convention pass his resolution
una proceed Z" the consideration of he next subject,
Mr. MERCER said that the object of the 90 ,a,n, N
from Fauquer would be obi aimed without INV ,nn
'i"n. 1t was usual when no further propositions of
amendment w.re offered, 20 pass over Tho suh;cc,
winch mad been under consideration. He should be
sorry we're such course to be taken under thu.
ochc that tic ;esoln ion should be again tuken uD ut
alu.ure da', for the purpoc of again moving amend
ns to IT. AZ We have already been enca red on this
single resolution more than three weeks. As Z, tho
majority, what security had they, wfat could tLev
nave, even any Compromise were proposed, that II
would meet the wishes Of maiori,v, Divinatior
would only enable The gentleman TO foretaI tho 20
suit. AS far as he could Judge from what he had
already seen, compromise, which could By Offered
would be ah'e to commend the ncquiesc-uce OF
majority.
The gentleman from Fauquier had referred To tic
snaliness OF the majority lie referred that nenrlcan
10 the SInaliesS OF the majority III Congress by which
the declaration of was adopted. For some time
1t was believed that there would be no majority M
ALL aud n some gcniemen who had ENTERTAIN ned scrr-
pies mao not surrendered them, and changed their
course there would have been no majority AS il
vas thee was majority OF only two. On the aues-
ton of the renewal Of the Charter of the Bank of
the U States, at time when it was deemed ut the
nghcs' Importance to restore specie payments, the
Sent" refused tn renew the charter by only the ca
ing vote OF the Vice President himself NOT a morpbe,
OF the Senate, but presiding in his official character
tie + derIl Convention, adopted by @ majority
Vi only nine lie igit refer TO o. her instances in
which icstc!.s OF great import had been settled
by small mGJoritics. !lc reminded the committee
That they were now only engaged on incipient maa-
sures, the purpos' Of preparing convention vhch
was 10 be submitted to the !. nplc il was therefore of
sec nlary importance what was the majority here,
There are measures 10 be taken up in their order
which are III come degree depen6an, on this--,he
CONSTRUCTION OF the Senate. the power of the Courts
the election and tenure of the Judges He did not
see how the minority could be charged as uncompro-
missing. wien they know not what compromise Gcn- /!
tcmen the other side were disposed to offer; and
know more the other side what cotnuronisn conld
be offered, which could carry with il majority |
Other propositions tobe made 81 perhaps they who
are the maloTity may be less fortunate hereafter
he had never been l"ng III a minority. He express
sell the hope that We should not pass this subject
with an understanding that IL should be- kept open
although he knew that it would be open. /, was
his wish that the Committee should PISS on 20 the
next resolution Unless proposition was made 10 D.
mend this II any amendment was desired, he he
ped gentlemen would propose IL. II must be known
To many gentlemen here that il is the practice to
take the vote in Committee on the original propo-
sitIon. The cause is It no amendments are agreed
TO, To- rise mad report The snbcs, without amendment
The Whole merits then brou Iht before the House
Mr.. DoDDRIpGE said he wished 10 notice re-
n'rk which ieii from the gentleman from lJaunnier
Mr.. Scott in reference to n resolution of the GEN
teman from Augusta (Mr. G. Johnson). The gen
eInnn from augusta had been understood 20 say that
his own intention, whatever the words of the reso-
.,ion reported by the Select Committee m;rLt he
supposed to import, 10 move modification OF
the phrase white population, so as to confne il 70
what he termed quilted rOterS 1t further said
that the gentleman from Augusta had ntUated his
belief that such the intention of the mover Vt
the original proposition in the Legislative Commit
tee. MIR. ID. said he was the mover of the resou-
q III N the Select Committee aud such was not sure
" ms intention and if such was the intention OF tho
Select COMMITTEE, he could only say that it was en-
trey unknown 10 him. He was for the basis of
white population the element of representation;
after that was disposed Of another question would
orsc as to the right of suffrage and then as to the
persons To which the constitution should be sub
mtted for approval.
Tie gentleman from Fauquer had asked whether
81 small majority would e.deavor to cocrce
trout the minority. He knew The maj ity here was
small, but he had said, IN earlier stage of the de-
bute,. what was the majority in the Country which
would h. represented by this majority and the result
hcIc. II represents large majority Of the people.
lie had objection TO leave donr open for compro-
MISE by proceeding to the next subject before the
Commiltcc.
WI S~nrT explained lie did not intend TO
~" omsing disposition to the majority.
Ills remark was not OPP such cons r,Iction The
gentleman from Loudon. h-,'''' 10, - O ~ u0
could not listen to compromise, beGa sa'u 'nat ne
only could enable any ono TO say what comPP8s.!!"h
would be agreed to by majority. As no man is gif-
ted with the powers of devinatun, such opinion
must ever be fatal to Of compromise, ii
compromise not TO be- listened to, lest IL should
not be agreeable to majority
MIR. McRcER said hn understood the gentleman
as charging the majority with OH unconpromising
sp rit.
MIR. Scorr said lac had no such purpose. The gem
tuInan was avcrsc To- giving an opportunity TO com
PROMISE, not from incorporating spirit, but be-
cause lac had not the power of divnation. In that
case. thc c never could be compromise. because no
mortal possesses the power Of dlynaIon, therefore
at no time can he be certain, lie had another re-
mark 20 make TO the gentleman from Brooke. He
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