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

DOSed OF ldAdioh oliN y 80,
ID me of the poetic monster described oy
iVirgil-"Monsrum horrondum lngenes3'
;of1Tme. cui lumen a dentum."" But II
, euloglzed as the image which fell down
from Jupiter. .:.h
But as twas apprehended that, notwlth,
standing the Reformists had been crippled
and manned by law, as aforesaid, there was
= majority in favour Of the Resolution as
reported by the Legislative Committee,
something must be done cut Of doors 10 et-
feet counter revolution. In the House
nothing could be done. The logic of the
FsstaTd their rhetoric too, though ola very
fine polish, were wholly unayailing. To
change the representatives Of any district
# was necessary to change the people.
This was the grand, and to Us, the fatal
device. To prejudice those districts East
oftbe Ridge, who were republicans in their
views and feelings, against the claims OF
their republican brethren in the West, was
tbe only means which could promise sue
cess. To do this with effect, it was neces-
s.rv 10 alarm them. Hence il came TO
mass hat the western people were represen-
ted as being governed by the most sordid
motives in urging their plea for reform
Hinder The mass OF hcpuUUCdH uUCtTTrV97
ibev we're like harpies coming TO plumber
tbs pubEc treasury, claiming political
rights, for 10 other purpose than to seize
the nurse Of the Commonwealth, and to
carry the capital and treasury upon their
shoulders over the Blue Ridge, and then to
Ilav the slaves m tie East most exhorbi-
family 10 raise funds to improve the west
ern country. Mountains were to be level
ed. vallies exalted, acqueducts and appIan
WAYS. canals 81 rail roads were to be made
from village to village, and from house to
house over the western country. Some
representations, quite as hyperbollc as
these. were made fer effect upon tho-e dis
tricts which had many slaves, and were,
Notwithstanding republican, and with US IN
calling for a Convention. Runners noun
ted ON swift horses, secured those districts
which bordered on the mountains, which
from their proximity to the West aud from
The ouritv oftheir atmosphere, were nspT-
ed with more regard for equal rights than
their brethren who lived on the sands and
inhaled the foas If the Atlantic. Petitions,
remonstrances and expostulatlons, nAan-
aforv speeches and addresses were flying
like kites over the hills, and the pane
struck farmers, alarmed for their negroes
and their estates. were invoked and provo
ked 10 sion instructions to their represcn-
natives TO 90 over to the East, and to AID
them against the Barbarian and NaudaI
hibes ofthe West, who were coming over
HE mountains 10 plumber them of then
vealh and to snatch the scePtre from old
Virginia.
4 Thus excited and aroused the indignant
huebandmen IN the utmost CONSERVATION
signed instructions first by the foot and
tan0NCu by INC yaru' anu injury "y VIZ
perc, enioinlng their representatives TO
Ifakecare of their negroes, and never to
mindthe clamours ofthe ''peasantyy ofthe
WcsO Thus was Il counter revolution
Infinitely effected, which neither the logic
nor Ae rhetoric ofall The pleaders could eff
feet n the House.-I'hose who plead the
lEnglsh politics, and the English govern
ment without an hereditary ki'g. might
have pleaded TO doom's day, without max
inc 2 convert, had it not been for th az
peal to the pockets Of the slave-hoIderS;
for after one Of the most eloquent and ac-
complished men of the East, one OF the
most enlightened and energetic retormers
that graccd our ranks, was instructed on
ofhis seat, rather than to commit moral
treason against his own conscience or mis-
reoresent his constituents; say, after
/ five weeks debating, two IN Select Com
mittees, and three in Committee Of the
/ Wh0e after the resignation of Gen. Taylor
of Norfolk, when the vote was taken OF
the resolution of the Select Committee, thC
amendment of Judge Green to the contra
nv Notwithstanding, the White Basis no tn,
/ House of Delegates was carried by yot,
Iof49 to Il.
must in Justice TO all, here remark tha
!, the alarms produced out Of doors 10 som'
districts were, perhaps, more increased b,
one Of the speeches Of President Monroe
than the most lnhamatory of the speeche.
pronounced by the advocates for taxation
land population combined. This venera
Idle gentleman, who wore on his body th
scars of the battles of the Revolution, wh,
had filled the highest Office on earth, Win
0ad Cor eight years sat 10 chair NOR,
august aud honorable than the throne OF
winch Caesar sat. The most VENERABLE
and the most patriotic Of patriarchs of tn
band. representing, too, one Of the mos
republican districts in the Commonwealth
having an immense influence through th
State, impaired indeed IN body. and con
sequsntly in mind also, was somewhat eX
cited by the vehemence aud warmth c
those who appeared determined to hold tn
power or 20 divide the State.