Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1829-11-11


alone. / consider as wholly insufficient;
the larger number of the delegates in the
other House will always, in the course of
Two or three years, prevail Carrying any
object they have at heart: they always o
,erwhelm the Senate in the end. shall
,ot advert to the other guarantees that
have been proposed: for am unwilling
LONGER to detain the Committee. feel
regret at having already been compelled
10 trespass ON their 6me.-lmportant facts
we're what | wished principally to present
To them, aud those have stated are in my
Judgment entitled to great weight in the
mlnd ofeyery rejecting man.
No gentleman Offering to reply to Judge
Green, Judge Upsher moved That the Com
mlttee rise. The motion was negatved
Judge Upsher then addressed the Com
mittee at great length in vrndication of the
amendment. He gave way for a motion
for the Committee to rise. The Commit
lee rose and the Convention then adjourn
ed.
WEDNESDAY, October %.
The Convention met ln Committee ofthe
Whole. Judge Upsher concluded his argu-
meut and was followed by MIR, DoddrIdge.
Mr.. DoDDMDGE said, that although ne
had not intended to participate ia the dis
cussion 10 day, he ieltIreslsubly invoked
TO make a few remarks in answer to the
gentleman from Northam ton and the gen.
tIeman from CulpepPer.-FAe remarks
If the gentleman from Northampton, yes
ierday, were of general character, and.
AZ appeared 10 hum, had little claim TO close
a critical examination. He had carried
us back 90 the original state Of man, and
ihence dedured the elements Of social life.
This morning, the gentleman had for the
f st time, touched Virginia ground and
Virginia history, aud to the researches Of
lhls morning, he should chiefly direct the
attention of the Committee. He had no.
ted down several of the postulates OF the
gentleman from Northampton andtbe gen
tlaman from Culpeppey, IN the order IN
which they were made. He felt himself
relieved of very considerable embarFas-
ment by the Iaudable character whlrh mar
ked the tone of the gentlemen on the other
side; g. he had listened with more than or
binary pleasure, m consequence otthe am
entity exhibited by these gentlemen to those
whomust differ with them, candoOr which
had displayed itself with peculiar strength.
The first ground where he could meet
the gentleman from Northampton. was
when he touched the Constitution. II man
ever existed 10 that savage state IN which
he wss under no control Of Government,
We must 60 back to fnd him there, before
the Bible To our wilderness, We find no
such savage condition. Although our bar
bar,u- tribes ahsy na written code. they
have their uuwritten laws TO which they
Yield submission, which they not only per-
NIT to exist, but assist TO enforce. As was
said by Ashurst, and with still more effect
by the gentleman from Northampton. there
is little knowledge to be drawn from for
ced state, of society, except on the sub
ject OF the feeling Of property which existed
lu Il, and which We are told induced men
to leave that state and impose on them
selves the restraints of social government
He would now begin to take up the ar
gument of the gentleman from Northamp-
ton. The gentleman had laid it down that
our Constitution Is compact made by all
and for the De eft Of all: that ifthere was
a right 10 the majority to control society, it
must be derived either from the law of ma.
ure, or from "a Conventional source; and
Iflrom the latter, that we must look for it
90 our written Constitution.
The Convention which formed the pre-
sent Constitution was, It Is well known,
got up 10 time of difficulty and danger
and the Constitution which was formed
was considered rather az an expedIent to
answer the purpose of the time, than as an
instrument which would meet the wants,
and uutIIve the test of other ages. So far
from being made by all the people, none
we're permitted to participate in its con-
structlon, none were consulted but the free
holders. and those of a certain description.
h,ldng % acres Of cultivated. or 100 a.
crss OF uucuIuvated land, instead Of %
cultivate and 90 of uncuItIyated as now
When the last House of Burgesses was
dissolved by legal authority they we're con-
Su'uuonsIlv reduced to l3l private gen.
tIemen. Ye, possessing the confidence Of
the ireeholders oftheir country. Although
stripped OF all official character under the
colonial government, they met 10 the month
Of March no, and calling themselves "a
convention, they assumed the exercise of
all the power of government Although
an N,rcb tb.,, had re.ol,-od that III tbe,r