Wheeling compiler. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [i.e. W. Va.]) 1829-1831, 1830-03-03

/ IN tine air, with ttlS hIsOt P''SN NF a.
"Bv his voa conquer" was not more en-
caciois upon the courage OF his troops
than this word Compromise was upon 'tie
drooninp spirits of our political antago-
nists. Mr.. Monroe being known TO fe-
nresen, a republican district gave sane
ton 10 the pleadings of the East IN 'he
leves fthe most republican districts anu
lemboldened the freeholIers who had III
some districts voted for a Convention 10
sion Instructions to their representatives
who had vowed, some of them most sol
Iemnly vowed, to support republican PFin'
ciples. e.r;oo bronol,
;rto his country by a single importation
lC-o1, rndon or Paris, like the change IN
tory O,. introduced by Mr.. PInkney after
l6,s rsturp from the Court of 81. James;
dc or,t,ons in Convention from this
soeecb assumed a new tone. Scarce a
raraprsph. episode, or DEPRESSION, IN which
/ he SeannfuI word Compromise was not
\ heard: and the phrase "lean mg0r1fy
ro,,n5ed off many period. Mean time
Inc leayen. the old leaven OF aristocracy'
was working out of doors, and in a few
DAYS after this compromising speech was
road the fermentation was ripened. This
snoecb was the first dawnmg Of hope to
our antagonists, and It was the trst dark
4s0BzS ga ailr h>.-i@ea.
The next i'll omen occurred a few days
Afterwards. Mr.. Fitzhugh OF Fairfax
than wbom a more consistent republican,
a moreinAexble friend of reform was not
il our ranks, nor was there man IN the
house whose pleadings for the white
basis WIS more honorable TO himself,
more umquiyocally sincere, than were
the pleadngs of William II. FIzhugh
Esq. WIN though the proprietor OF some
FIVE or SIX hundred slaves was the con
slant bob and able advocate of the he
publican lasis of representation. Tins.
rentlemanmade a motion for the Com
mlitee of he whole to rise and report
progress. AID then go into Convention tor
the PURPOSE of taking a final vote on the
question which had been decided IN Com
miitee of he whole by the vote OF 49 to
la. According to the rules which the.
house hal adopted al the commence
ment of The session, whenever question.
was once decided bya majority Of tho
lConventio, il was final. At that moment
we had hin our power to have usen' gone
Into Convention. and taken final vote
Iupon the basis of representation IN the
ower house. Then the question might
have been settled forever. After some
Ioabate in which 1t was as evident to me
"a the qht of noon that the great actors
or the drama in the opposition were more
dsccrdant than at any period no the "ho'e
c.ula,gq;-I say after debate long
orough for both sides Of the house to I'M
derst nd the bearings of the plan IN con
ltemslatlon, when the question was about
lfo be pat-our friend from Augusta,
Chairman Johnson Esq. of Richmond
arose IN his place g. said he would vote a
from Fairfax. Then the CLEAN of JOY
which | saw in the countenance OF some
our opponents was to me another sig
nal If defeat. Twas then or never,
tbo't !. for instructions from some Of the
districts were beginning to come IN. On
what slender thread often hang the tates
of states and nations! | will always think
that had the friends of reform acted with
concert at this crisis, the foundation of a
rood. a prosperous government might have
been laid. When Mr.. Johnson refused to
vote for the resolution of Mr. Ftzhugh
the Convention was then equally divided
and Of course the resolution failed.
i The era of com2romi sea was drawing
oioh To narrate all the incidents OF th's
era would be tedious and Improbable.
The fedenl senate first suggested by Gov
lPleasants. & afterwards warmly espoused
by the "mcompromising friend IT re-
f6rBlD fran the Valley, MIR. Cook OF
Frederick and the still more memorable
compromise of Gen. Gordon, would all
require 3me Development to unfold
, ham md uig we were defeated. SO also
. " oil ] DC Upshur's compromise con.
ltannu feeral numbers in broken doses
Tia both louscs. We shall only add n
& g presit oumber, that Just in proper
ION as compromising disposition began
to- exhibnitself IN our ranks, IN the same
oropo-tlah did the opposition rise IN theu
demands For every inch conceded, ar
ell was demanded. But when two or three
members we're compromised away to oul
opponents and they had obtained a MAORI
~. we heard no more Of compromises
oor Of lean maiorities. The cabalistic
Iimport Of these words, and there magic
y mnasuce was gone when The East had ne
need !ol them.
A. CAMPBELL.
Bethany, Va. Feb d, 1880.
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