Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-08-25
From The Richmond Compiler.
The Lewisburg Convention.

action of the Convention OF the western
delegates, at the Lewisburg Convention.
He also forwards the paper adopted BY
the Convention, setting forth the grievance
complained Of by the West and the rem
edy they proposed. II will be seen by
this paper that the Convention favor the
immediate call of State Convention to
amend the Constitution, on the ground
that they have no hope of any modifica-
ton Of the basis Of representation by the
legislature, more favorable to Western
rights. Farther, they urge the taking Of
the vote on the question Of calling this
Convention on the white basis principle.
substitute was Offered for this paper,
which recommended the petitioning of the
Legislature for re-appotilonment Of re-
presentation on the white basis, and that
~ case Of failure to comply with this, n
further petition be submitted to that body
for law TO take the sense Of the people
on the question of calling Convention.
The Spectators correspondent says the
valley delegation were disposed TO go no
further Than the substitute. "They did
not think a sufficient appeal had yet been
made TO their Eastern brethren, upon the
subject and they were unwilling 20 incur
the excitement aud dangers Of another
Convention until it was made paIpable
that no other means would avail TO rcdr
the injustice under which their trans AL.
leghany brethren suffered" Tine substi-
tnte was sustained in debate by Thos. J.
Niche, Esq, Of Stanton, and William
Smith, of Greenbrier. The Spectator
correspondent says that Mr.. Nj. made two
very able and eloquent speeches, which
elected high compliment.
The report Of the Committee was sus.
tuned by Messrs. Preston, {the author Of
the report. and an able debater,) Chap
man, OF Monroe, Smith, Of Harrison, b.
NJ. Smith, Of Kanawha, Price, oil Green
buer, McComss, Of Wythe, Lee, of Ilar.
r,son and Camden. The Report was a.
dop,ed by large majority.
Tine Spectators correspondent says -
I" was truly gratfied to find genuine
Virginia spirit animating, with scarcely
an exception, the entire BODY of the Con.
veution. While, as might well be sup.
posed, our traus- A lIeghany brethren feel
deeply the wrong under which they suffer
still nothing like violence, such as has
recently dlsgraced a sister State--nothing
like ACKNOWLEDGMENT oil the good old Com
monweallh in any contingencies al-
lowed to enter their thoughts, or receive
the least countenance from them. And
we were assured that all idea Of such fol-
" aud madness is Indignantly frowned
upon by the people in every part of the
West. Surely the manifestation OF such
spirit of fraternal kindness and forbear-
auce under grevous injustice, cannot be
without its moral effect upon our Eastern
brethren They have but to know the
Western people better to be satisfied that
there is no ground for the jealousy and
iis,rust they entertain towards them.
The b III is thus set in motion, and
Agitation Agitation suppose, will
now become the order of the day. do
not think, however, there is much chance
of getting Convention at this time. The
Yves, itself is not united on the question
but assurrdly il will soon become go il the
Legislature persists in refusing e.nppor.
uonment Of representation upon fair and
just principles. :"
REPORT
Of the Select Committee, adopted By The
Lewisburg Contention.
The Committee appointed under the re-
solution to prepare and report such sub.
,ecls for the consideration Of this Couvrn.
ton as they might think proper for lis
action, beg leave respectfully to report:
That the shor, time allowed them by
the Convention, renders it impossible to
enter Mt large into on examination Of those
grievances under which the people of Vir.
ylnia labor from the unequal, arbitrary,
and geographical basis upon which the re.
presentation of the State is founded. -
This Convention is too familiar with the
formation of the present Constitution oil
Virginia, TO require minute or detailed
history thereof 1t is fresh IN the recollec-
ton of all. All OF us remember the long,
painful and protracted struggle which
gave it birth, and we all remember the
stern opposition with which it was met in
many portions of our Commonwealth upon
the question of its adoption by the people.
Your Committee do not propose TO awaken
one feeling or one recollection, calculated
- divert your judgment from calm and
deliberate consideration Of the questions
TO which your committee have thought
proper to chill your attention.
The great and leading object of our as
sembing at this time is, to take into con.
sderation and to suggest such remedy as
is Just and proper for that inequality Of re-
presentation which exists IN different sec
tons Of the State in the General Assem-.
bly, and to attain, by all those constltu-
,ional means in our power, that equality
10 the councils of our State, to which our
rights as men, our loyalty as Virgrnians,
and our principles of devotion to republ.
can government, entitle US. We do not,
10 the prosecution Of these objects, propose
any invasion of the rights of others, or
resort to any but those weapons OF truth
and Justice which have at all times, and
under all circumstances, proved victorious
m those contests in which a majority Of
the people, laborng under manifest wrongs
aud INJUSTICE, have with steadlness, una.
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