Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-05-28
DAILY WING.
A State Conrention TO amend and reform the Con-
~sfiiution Of Virginia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY ss. is.s.


We are the known advocates Of this measure,
which, invincible upon its own merits, is about to
receive a powerful momentum from the condition
in which Western Virginia is left by the action o
her domestic Legislature-witheut roads, or ca
mails, or the power Of getting to market. unless at
n cost, which absorbs the whole profit Of him who
digs and delves, and is, or ought to be, the class
in the community whose interests should be most
cherished and promoted, as eventually thsy feed
all, and create the whole stock OF national wealth.
Western Virginia is entitled to a better fate,
and to more liberal Legislation than she has re-
ceived But whom will she blame Whom
ought she TO blame Who are the authors of her
sufferingsl L, it the Whigs' No. That party
is, and ever has been, liberal, expansive, open.
handed and unsectional. They wish to see Vir.
giuia improved-every portion Of 1t enabled TO
reach a good market for its productions, by good
roads or navigation, and all to rejoice in the pros
perity, which is the legitimate and designed con-
sequence of hardy labor and honorable Industry
Who is 1t that have thus far, marred by their op.
position this most desirable conclusion ? not most
certainly the Wings as a party not most certain
ly the Wings of the Centre and of James River
they have been ever disposed to be liberal, as well
IN y JUST ~ Wists II 10 fEtiiutt every iaT sCuciic
of State Improvement, originate where it might,
or benefit whom it might.
The true enemies-ihe stedfast and unrelaxing
enemies, ofa liberal scheme of improvement, have
been three distinct and widely separated Virginia
Cdihounism in Mecklenburg, Halifax,
and the South side generally, governed by pecu.
liar opinions in Political Economy-the South.
West. Linie Tennessee, very willing to receive
what may he going, but just as unwilling TO let any
others receive any thing-and the Tenth Legion,
which, ever under the influence Of party manage
ment, and wanting little itself, is prepared always
10 keep time to party orders.
These are the interests which, in truth, have
swayed the State for 30 years. All these inter-
ests are Loco-Foco of the strictest cast. No ee-
ments can be more dissimilar in character than
the aristocrat of Halifax and Mecklenburg and the
hunter of the South West, and the Franz" and
"Hans" OF the Dutch Region Of the Valley! Yet
in Politics they have been coincident for 10 years,
and they are the true governors of Virginia and
controllers OF her destiny. What the policy of the
State has been they must answer for-the Hall
fax and Mccklenburg and Brunswick and Char
lotte Shareholders and magnates-the Little Ten
nessee hunters and northumberland the Dutch
farmers of Rockingham, Shenandoah and Page
Zine fellows, who own the finest country in Nir-
GINA, and can outyote the world, the Parish of
P~laquemiues, in Louisiana, excepted
We say to Western, Trans Alleghaney Vir-
ginia, that these are the People and not the
Wings, who have for political and local conside.
rations, impeded the march of improvement in
their country. The Wings, with an occasional
individual exception, have been disposed not only
to be Just but liberal-and TO extend from the
common fund 10 every part of the State, The as
~sistance which that part required to bring her to
market and to reward her industry. The records
will avouch all we say 1t will still be found that
for twenty-five years past, HaIJfdI, hecktenburg,
and Observation-Disclosures Shenandoah, and
Page Washington, Russell, Td.ereH, and Gray.
son, the most un~compromising Loco Foco Counties
in the Safeguarding il, indeed, completely
Disconnected geographically-haying nointerestin
ommon-unknown 10 each other-separated by
hundreds of miles-not the same people in origin
and quite unhornogeneous-have yet under the
magical sway OF Jacksonism, except for one or
two sessions, completely controlled the Legisla-
ton and fortunes of Virginia. The Wings have
had little else to do but to soften measures
| "tANh NV SNHa' - ~ afN''' ch'AS a's ~ oeO-
nit to that Law of the majority, which, whether
the majority be right or wrong, wise or foolish,
sanitary or destructive, Is still equally obligatory
until the case arises for an appeal TO the ultima
ratio Regum--to force.
We, then, say TO the Parkersburg Republican,
to the Lewisburg ObscrvcI--to all Western Vir.
ginia-BLAME NOT THE WHIGSl Blame
your own Jackson infatuation which has still kept
Virginia chained, by your assistance, to Shsnaa-
doah, TO Haiifdr, and to Lille Tennessee. The
Wings of Eastern Virginia in the mass, have ever
been, and now are, friendly TO improvements and
to your interests Have you stood by :heml Have
you combatted by their side the common foe No
You have truckled 10 Jaeksonism, and the fede-
raj ascendent for the tine being
But, let by cones be by cones. Let the West
now do her duty, and Richmond, completely iden.
tilted with her, and the James River Country,
identified with both, will unite together and COM
pei a more liberal policy.
Fox A STATE CONVENTION, without Limitation,
unshackled and broad cast, we go in, heart and
hand, convinced that we may be benefited, know.
ing that we cannot be worsted. Such we. believe
is the inclination Of even Eastern Virginia Such
we know must and will be the result, and that
through the will Of the People expressed by the
next Legislature. What is Inevitable il is folly
to oppose, even if 1t were wrong in itself. vir.
GINA requires AN Infusion Of energy-a gaIyaniz-
ing Of her almost sapless corpse-a reJuyenes.
ceDce, the pouring into her veins after the Mira.
beau fashion Of new blood. The special dangers
which a Convention might entail upon Eastern
Virginia, we do now regard, and have ever regard.
ed, as imaginary. There is and can be in a Re.
public but one ruie-the will Of tho majority. u
traD.alPins Virginia has this majority Of lawfully
constituted white voters, she lie entitled to pro.
dominance in the councils Of the State. Her
claim cannot be resisted on Republican principles
and TO resist it by any other is to entail upon the
Commonwealth, strife, dissention, civil war and
anarchy. We Of The East must yield 10 that
which we have no moral or political right or ply.
steal force to prevent; and in our humble opinion
we have nothing 20 lose and much to gain, by
Yielding promptly, afcctionately, with a gooc