New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-31
Ohio constitutional Convention.
Corespondence OF Inc IHOuhe'
COLUMNS, Friday, N

.o,snf Il, It's organization, must in great meas
,,,s be performed in the Committee-room For
,,s p.rposc tie entire body has been divided into
r.,n,,,,fees. TO whose sessions one-iralf OF the
,,oykine hours Of the day have been assigned The
sut Of the deliberations col these subsidiary 0oaies
oneere 10 the public IN tne f0rm ci reports, made
fpdoen Convention AID printed for the use OF me
members These reports ia IN 80 % the Com =
zoo of the Whole Convention and are discussed,
.sc.iop lv section. and provision by provlson-
Other sut iects Of discgss'on may come Up on the
presentation of resoUtOns 10y members OF the Con
1en.iou These resolutions are either sueatly re-
s,rs3 Ia the appropriate slb Committees or iorn
he subject OF discussion IN Convention Or n Com
ri,tee of the Whole SIcA is the general Outline
A the mode in which business Is transacted. iho
Convention opens each morning with prayer
Then memorials and petitions are received anl
referred, reports of Committees presented and
other business OF like character transacted hss-
buttons are then in order, aud may be discussed,
or the Convention may 90 into Committee Vi tie
Whole
The only Committee which in the Transaction
u the defies apperlanns q its departn s-i, mas
presented its entire plan B tbs Legislative. 4ns
frcieot has been before tle Convention .r several
DAVIS. and has been The subject OF discussol 10
Committee Of the Whole ijr tgO several n)rrnss
YESTERDAY, 10 wit ana to-day. The general lea
lures Of the plan are;
Two Houses-biennial sessions-the printing to
be done by contract with the lowest bidder-money
bills 10 originate in the H1use-Sessions to com
mence on the first Monday 10 January-publc de-
iaulters incapable Of holding oiice-no Legislative
dyorces-no appointing power in the General As
sembly-a Board of Select Men in each county, to
legislate for local purposes.
Present appearances indicate land the Commit
tee has only reached the third section of the Re.
port that the subjects of single Legislative AS
sembly aad of biennial sessions Of the law making
power are TO be warmly debated and perhaps ex
cite ardent and excited controversies upon
these subjects the session Of this day has developed
A warmth of feeling and tenacity OF opinion that
has made its appearance upon no other, not ex-
oeptng the question of ve.O the reception of negro
suifrage petitions or the much-vexed topics OF
banking and currency.
The discussions of tits body have developed the
fact that there is large amount OF independence
If opinion among its members. Tnere nus nos
been n vote taken upon any question that has
horne strong indications OF a party character /
-eier TO votes upon questions of principle, and not
N those of patronage merey-as the election OF
officers and the distribution OF patronage. Upon
almost every moOted point, advocates ana oPpo'
neDts have been found upon beth sides, and they
not arrsyed upon any defiuite line OF opinion, bat
exhibiting every variety and shade The Demo
cratic side of the Convention especially, being In
numerical majority exhibits the most decidedly
the effects of these dyers.ties of sentiment All
attempts TO draw party lines have been failures,
upon any issue as yes 10 re IOTCscchi tu5y VII
continue 10 be So For mere party efficiency their
position is unfortunate. With a large number Of
men ofrespectabe talents, acq lre.nents ant char
acter capable of thinking independently and vii.
ling to act for themselves there is no one so exalt-
ed in intellect or elevated in station as TO be recOg
niZed as q leader
Banking and Currency, Biennial Sessions and a
single Legislative Assembly appear to be destined
to be the subjects of warm debate during the com
ing week. The fate of the first 1t is difficult ct
present to predict According TO present appear
ances am disposed to believe that II the new
Constitution is to contain anything IN relation 70 1t,
twill be a grant Of power to the General Assem-
bly, to enact general law regulating the business
Of banking and prohibition OF all special bank
charters The doctrine of single legislative body
is too recently preached to find many supporters,
but its advocates as many as there are jealous
and determined, and will make themselves heard.
In regard to Biennial Sessions the plan has many
advocates and seems likely TO be adopted.
The members Of the Convention now begin
ming to get view OF the labors which they have
before them Were the parties well marshaled
and organized each upon its single line Of well
defined policy, the difficulties would be small in
comparison with what they are at present. The
majority would rule-would cOdiiy its own princi-
pies into the organic law, and the session would
BE nj an end But such is the state of divisOn--so
completely are parties fused upon every moOted
point that not one can now be said 10 be settled,
or TO be ip the way OF settlement under the opera
ton of any universally acknowledged rule of party
action Each subject is and must be discussed and
settled almost without regard to party allegiance,
and in the midst OF very great diversity OF H.
dividual opinion.
The subject of Appointment has formed the
staple material Of argument during the week pas,
upon which, as upon every other, no two speakers
seemed precisely to agree. Several plans were
proposed, all OF which appeared to possess great
excelencies in the light in which they were vie wed
by their several authors, and but little in any other
do not see how any future apportionment Of the
State is 20 be made without the assistance OF n
General Assembly. and am constrained 10 say that,
when the Legislature of Ohio becomes so corrupt
as to be unworthy 10 be trusted with the construc
ton of apportonment law, twill have become
too corrupt to sit under any apportionment whether
selfacting or legislative.
Negro Suffrage has not been discussed, but IL IS
not difficult to predict its fate. With projects for
the admission Of females to hold offices and exer-
else the electoral franchise, it will be forced 10
abide a more advanced state Of public opinion.
Perhaps one step will be secured towards its ulti-
mate adoption by provision in the Constitution
making the entire population OF the State the basis
for representative purposes. This will ut least be
constitutional admission that they have right u
be represented, and ifadopted, which think il will
be- will 20 far 20 put end to the inhumsn plans
Of tsning them out of the State and prohibiting /
their return, which 10 mark the precise state
Of civilization 10 which OF the reormers Of the
nineteenth century have arrived. We may just rs /
well begin any other time to admit that the 1
negroes lat least the yellow ones) are part of the
same human family 70 which we belong.
Truly yours, New-ENGL MD.
pencR Couaress ng Ernukforf