Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-05-14

Fitzhugh. l6S
Powell los
There is another voting place in the county,
but i, is supposed that no difference in the re-
sui will take place.
Loudoun will, therefore, unless our adjoin-
ing county (Fairfax) uuies and acts with
promptitude, send the whole Of the Delegates
10 the Conyention--thus excluding the smaller
county from any representative at all. To ei
fec, this, Mr.. Fi'zhugh's views with regard to
the Convention were misrepresened, and manr
of the voters OF Loudoun made TO believe :ha'
he was opposed TO free white population aei'g
considered the basis Of representation. lc ri
ply 20 a writer in The Leesbure Genius OF Lis
brrty, Mr.. Fl zhugh published the following
Address, which we copy for the b. neh, of the
voters Of Fairfax, who, on ne., Monday, will
be called on to vote for four Delegates to the
Convention, one Of whom they have i, IN their
power to elect:
To THE PEOPLE OF LOUDoUN.
FyIlow. CIrlzrNs: The attack on me in the
H. at 100 late period, to admit 81 reply
through tie same channel through watch II
has been made. Justice TO my own County,
however, requires, that she should not be de-
p;i,ed of her fair share Of representation in
the proposed convention, by any misapprehen
sion of nv views; and | accordingly take the
only mode left me Of warding of The effects
Of an attack which however il may have been
:.,s sc Lei, haS
thelrss done me the crosses, I'M Justice, 10 my
letter TO the Loudon Committee have declar'
ed myself decidedly ard unequvocally in
favor Of rqualizing representation agreeao'y TO
the white population OF the state" The ob-
,sct of the writer in the Genius Of Liberty, is
10 show FROM my course in the last LegisIl-
tsrr, and by one or two partial extracts from
nv convention speech, that such was not nv
opinion few months since. |, has been very
Sorcibly said BY great orator, that by we'll
arranged quotations "e,en the Bible may be
made to speak the languages Of atheism" and
the force Of the remark was never mere fully
exempli6ed than on the present &C, asirn Had
the writer in question extended his hrsl quo
ta,ion but single sentence farther, be would
al once have furnished you the means OF cor
rectly understanding what he had already
quoted; and you would have seen tina, my frs.
proposition, 10 base representation III the con-
yen!ion. on the Senatorial districts {! 1917,
was offered, not as containing al that thought
Nigh, be fairv claimed by The wes;, but IA The
sprrl Of compromise md With the hope OF bring
ing ,oee her on some middle ground, the two
exaspera,ed parties, into which the Legislature
was di,,tlea. The sent nee to which rtfsr
and which beg you will read in connection
with the &,ract in the Genius Of Liberty, Is as
follows, 2ut il mus De obvious to ali, who
have aIten,iyeiy ~ crved the progress Of events,
both witain and beyoId these walls, that no
proposition based IN a spirit OF compromise,
and looking 20 a cancellation ot parties, could
now obtain an attentive hearing III this house.
II the limits Of hsnGbill would permit il,
could very readily show you by other e1Ii acts,
that in agreeing to take ne Senatorial districts
of 1917, as convention districts, did so, only
in the spirit of compromise, and never Tor mo.
ment abandoned The principle, that the people
OF the upper country had a fair claim to rep
resentstion, propcrtIoneG 10 their white pop
pla,ion in 1920. For the present however, l
must eonfine myself to the following short quo-
tations :" In doing so (voting for my Piopo-
stion TO give 20 The west the full repre- sen auon
they claimed they violate no principle OF JUS,
rice. They uniy abandon the c0ncihdl0ry ground
they would have preferred to occupy" Again
Taking the white population as the only e-
giiimais basis Of representation, i, proposes such
an organization OF the Convention, as VIII sc.
cure TO the representatives Of majority oil
the people, q decided control over every ques>
ton Of reform tha, may be agiated. This,
sir, hold TO be in accordance with The princi-
piles Of our contribution, and inseparable from
those great and fundamental principles of re-
publican government which We all profess to
love andsenera,e."
The following facts, however, for the cor
RICHNESS of which appeal 10 your Senator,
Joshua Osborn, and your late representatives.,
VIM Eizey and Cu,hbert Powell. leave no
room for any candid man TO doubt my SEMI
msS,s on this subject. Al the frs: mseting OF
the Con, erlion committee, / submitted series
l. e szhieh conaaiued aErlS,.