Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-03-25

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Leaving ofthose paying State taxes, and no
/ TO be entitled TO suffrage 25,94l
| Add TO these those paying lsyiess
4 sc. but not State taxes 1900
/
4394t
| Thus we find that there will remain IS. AZ
free white men, paying taxes, and abou
| $4,000 others paying levies, Sc. who viii re
main excluded, should ele new constitution
be adopted
1 While / admit the new constitution
| contains amendments which, IL het too
dearly purchased, would BE Of considera
! bic value in themselves, / will proceed TO De
tect to injustice that instrument offers us, ant
to prove that tie price demanded for tht
| sinai! concessions before enaIoesased, is tn,
1 unconditional surrender OF ourselves and oul
postefityto political yassalage, under the yoke
o. that Eastern oligarchy which we have Sc
! hong been entieavearing' to sha*Se OF.
The proposed apportioment In future Gen
eral Assemblies is as follows: In the House
of Deaegatef,
West of the Allegheny 81 Members.
Between the Allegheny and
Blue Ridge, IS
Giving to the whole West So
Between the BueRldge s. tide ~
Below the head of tide SO
Giving TO the whole East rs
And majority over the whole West of %
votesin the House of Delegates.
la the Senateslt, offers the whole East 10
members, aid theuphoic West 49, Giving
the Easl majority OF 6 in that body
1.-THE Auditor was right in his estimate, Of
white popuiaaonin S2s, ; The superintendent
should have been the following:
The whole West would have 50 members,
and the East II and fraction, making The
majority in the House OF Dele gates
between &l0 ,mstead of22 Il his ma joritY our
friends East Of the Ridge are numerous
enough to turn in favor of liberal PRINCIPLES
and just legislation. This the votes in Con
yention had put beyond doubt. and it was 10
prevent this shat the state Of population in
1920, instead of 1929, was resogted TO for the
purposes of superintendent In the Senate
il reliance be placed Or the ALeitor's state
ment, the whole West would be entitled near
ly TO f6 ;Rsteati OF is members
East of the Blue Ridge every 4 $50 white
persons spiii elect one Delegate, while ,AVest
of that Ridge it win require sos. But as
Stunning an equality between a white man
East, and ene West Of the Ridge, there arc
to be left unrepressnted at the present mo-
ment 80, ll6 white souls, with all their excess
OF increase over Eastern increase Of popula-
ton forever. For MIR. FAiadisons plan for
future appointments of representation. no
apport,onment win ever be made, nor is it
expected that one ever shall be. This whole
loss falls on the West.
The Injustice proposed in the scheme for
distributing power falls too heavily on the
West TO be submitted TO, but it falls most
heavily Oh the country beyond the Allegheny
because, at present, the greatest portion of
those unrepresented reside there, and be
cause tits there that there has been, and must
be, the must rapid increase of population -
To enable you tomato your own calcula-
tions, permit rae to furnish yon with the fol-
lowing data:
In the District West of the Allegheny. the
white population, IN 1870, was but 1884;
and in 1899 it was f8i ,394 In 1870 the
Valley had $3.50; ana in 1899, 81, i32.-
The thrd district, between the Ridge and
tide, had IN 1890, -i64 ,744; and in 1923.
1877 ,222. And the district on tide water had
in 1890, 4 ,719, and in 1899, l65 ,529. In
80 years the whole East has increased its
white population only is ,S22! While that
Of the whole West mas increased 1911, 922: of
which Increase there belongs TO the country
West of the Allegheny 49,, 552!
BY these data you will be-able to calculate
the enormous sacrifices to which we are
called to submit by GorClon's plan ,of present
appolhonment, followed ap by the measures
Of Mr. Cooke and MIR. Madison According
to that of Mr.. Cooke, no possible change in
population will entitle the West to more than
80 Delegates in House of ia; nor tornere
than l3 Senators in a Senate of 32.menbers
West of the Aileghany, though our increase
hereafter should equal The past, we are new
er to have more than 81 Delegates. BY MIR.
Madison's provision, there aeVer will be
new appOrtionment throughout the State
For this pros ision there Is neither excuse nor
precedent. 1he new Constitution contains
no provision for future amendment. In such
provisions therequirement OF large majo
ty is not unusual Thisproyision only relates
TO a new superintendent of representation
under Constitution. Why Ghould this re
qulre the concurrence of two thirds of both
branches? The Journal of the 18th Decem-
Der will furnish the answer Che vote on
our last proposition was AZ TO As, and of
course IL Eastern gentlemen agreed with the
West. 1hls showed the danger that mere