Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-02-12

hausted your patience, would respectfully ask your
attention. will premise that am fully aware that
it is an unpopular view, and that it will tell you
truths, if they truths, which you will be gener-
ally predisposed to reject, with some Indignation,
perchance, against him who is bold enough to tell /
them But how will you ever learn the truth OH
subjects of this nature, the public to whom
you have specially committed the duty of searching
out after laboriouslv performing that duty, have
not courage to tell you what they believe to be the
truth because they know that it opposed to all your
preconceived notions! Popular or unpopular, here
it Isl
We have been accustomed to consider our trans
Allegheny fellow citizens as natural allies. in
conradsiinction from fellow citizens Of the mid
die country, In that unhappy war of sectional inter
ests which the unequal distribution of power made
BY the old constitution compelled us to wage l ask
you gravely to consider whether this was not IN cr-
ror in point of fact admit that trans Allegha-
ny brethren aided us IN bringing about convention
and that, III that respect, they were our political
friends. Bat as 10 the reality of any supposed iden-
tity OF interests, IN regard to the results of the con-
yen'ion. have looked in vain for the proofs oft
have on the contrary, supposed il to be undenably
true, that however friendly their temper and feelings
may have been, they went into the convention with
interests hostile 10 ours on the principal question
which was there to be settled They went into the
convention, having 50 representatives in house Of
delegates of Ga, and being entitled even on the
white basis, to but al according 10 the census of
1890. We went into the convention with 90 repre-
sentatives (of the vaey,) being entitled to a. ac-
cording to the census We then were priey-
ously under-represented they were over-represen-
ted. We went into the Convention, 10 obtain from
them: and from the Underwater people, such part of
their excess OF representation would place us ON
fair and equal grounds. They went into the couyen
ton, interested in retaining what they had on the
score OF representation, and obtaining What they
could, IN respect to other matters.
And, however true and faithful thew NAV have
becn IN feeling and in fact, TO the white basis and
to our interests, at the commencement of the ses-
SON. 1T cannot be denied that, when the white basis
naa received It's dea'hoow, they pretty clearly ndi
Gated that they neither ignorant nor regardless
| ot the advantages which they enjovcd, under the
old constitution, on the score of Representations
DO not know that we have any right to ceuslre them
iof o9ng what men nave IN all ages, been prone to
do mean, for taking Of themselves and lea
wing us to take care of ourselves. But it cannot be
denied that they did, in fact, pursue this old and
beaten road will not say that they deserted u.s.
But after fighting by sides, during the greater
part of the session, they certainly made PROPOSE
ton, towards the close of it, which, had it proved
successful, wonld have kept us, and perhaps our
chidren after us, IN state of political vassalage
allude to proposition made by Judge Summers q
promsent trans Allegheny delegate on the 9Th of
Januaros to leave the distribution of power amopr
the people of Virginia it stands, with the eycep
tion OF some TRIVIAL notifications which the resol-
ton itself will Show This resolution on the very
face OF 1t, was proposition made by the extreme
west, having SO MEMBERS to the extreme east hay-
ing IS, to untte. in the future government of the
commonwealth, against the midland and valley dis
!
| OF the state, and having, both together but 86
members 1t was proposition to perpetuate this
mequailty:-a proposltian, tempting to the eastern
people, but odious and hateful to us of the valley
and equay SO to our neighbors at the eastern foot
OF the Rdge.-But the people oc the east were
either too just to accede to proposition SO fatal TO
our Just Preensons or too abise adopt course of
policy, which would have convulsed the state rom
the falls OF the rivers to the base of the AIleebany
Inc proposition though sustained by plausible and
ingenious argument, was therefore reJected.-Yoa
cannot IAN TO perceive in this memorable fact alone
abundant evidence that Oh the great and pr;nc;n.i
question of new distribution of political power the
Ipeope OF the middle country were our natural allies
But the war OF political interests is happily at an
END ana Is ior one, ain heartily disposed to forget
this little political t4r pas of our trans Allegheny
feIow-cizens, and to greet them as friends and
brethren. They will not, however have any right
TO complain If we, of the valley draw an inference
OF practical wisdom from the transaction alluded to-
AND 1t is this; that in making our calculations in
future, as to the probability of obtaining assistance
IN the prosecution of our views, from this or that
quarter or the state, we should never forget to in
cure ua'ch section IS likely to haze the greatest infer
ESQ IN PfomofeRg them. proper application of this
n1aSiin may throw sore light the inquiry at which
F! nave already glanced, who are likely to be our
lanhchcs' friends and supporters in the legislative
ooeiss Oh tnoSe particular questions of internal i'm
ProVernent in which We shall be most immediately
| and deeply interested
we are separated from trans Allegheny
brethren by wide extent of sterile and mountainous
f. " w hot 'ldue WIN theIn we do not pass
through their country to our Market and, rice ueysr
they do not pass through our country to theirs
fhere is, therefore, and il is much to be Iamented
i'tts identity Of interest between u.s. The contrary
is the fact in all these particulars in regard to our
eastern ne1ghbors, inhabng the region between the
isis OF the rivers and the Blue Ridge of mountains
They are connected With us by proximity by family
aIhances, by constant trade and intercourse, by
great common want, the of good roads to mar
het-H'er road to the seaboard being ours. The
| rivers winch gush from our mountains wind their
way through the hills of that region, which have
ventured on the authority of one of its talented
sons to call Piedmont, 1.-The country at the foot of
tne mountain. They point out the of trade
and are the gaments that connect us with the eas
IT be true then, that the middle region is more
intimately connected with u.s. in interest, than that
beyond the Allegheny, why should we in estirna-
lng the power which we acquire under the new
constitution, count delegation with that of the
Aeghany region, and say that "the west" has
THIS or that number of VOTES in TIC hnnse of Ill