Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-08-17
THE DAILY TIMES.
STATE CONVENTION.

| THE DAILY TIMES.
STATE CONVENTION.
| To the Uoters Of williamsburg, James Citv Gouees.
| ter. Wartoick, York, and Elizabeth Cify
There being no district nominations for the Conven
ton before you, declare myself candidate for your
suages and offer for your consideration some of INV
views in relation to REFORM
Representation should be based upon the republic an
principle of iohite population having guaranty as to
slaves, constitution framed upon any other terms
would be oly as would certainly be rejected by the
people at the polls. Eastern should consider this
and not throw convent onal labours away In Sept
1880 when canyassed for seat in the first Senate to
be held under the present constitution said in my public
printed address, MISREPRESENTATION ought to be based
| on JDhite population alone"
There should be per centage tax on all kinds Of
property and no tax should be laid without two-hirds
OF each house shall vote in favor thereof
Every sane white man, resident for twelve months
and twenty one years of age, should be voter
| There should be House of Delegates, composed OF
not more than one hundred members each thirty years
OF age and they should be elected annually by the
pie.
There should be Senate, composed of not more
than one hundred members, each thirtyfve years of
age and they should be elected every second year by
the people.
property qualification, consisting of land and ne
groes should be required to Senators and Delegates
and their daily pay should not exceed two dollars
prefer service without any pay.
Practising attorneys should not be members of the le
gisature, nor OF the approaching convention They
are paris OF lne uolcary and strange to say, although
IN 10 our Dill otrghts, they are allowed
| to have Exclusive emoluments and privileges" They
are interpreters Of the laws, too and therefore should
no1 1e makers OF them. Besides, the anmosilies i'm
Dlbed by them In heated party legislative debates dis
ualIy them from acting with impartiaty when they
| reacn their ultimate station, the bench.
Inc extensive and long continued influence of this
privileged class OF citizens upon our national and State
he nt
we s@nef; ana tne Tune mas come when we should make
an enon 70 put working men in the place of talking
ong ~ u almost an our legislative bodies.
lnere should be annual sessions OF the Assembly,
not exceeding hive or six weeks in duration, the end
Of which time, and not before, the members should
penss 's'S 'sus'a '0'''0n' Q @e'' 0'0n e1-
The Senate and House should vote concurrenty in
all cases. law should operate unless passed BY ma
jorty Of the members in each bodv and they should
have the power 10 appoint their own officers. as well
as to fill vacancies ia the offices Of Judges three fihs
concurrng, auditors, and Others OF like import.
When State debts are created specific taxes should
be laid pay the interest thereon and ultimately by
sinking fund, to discharge the principal
One great line of internal improvement with or with
the aid Of the general government, should be es-
ablished, connecting our eastern witt, our western wa
ters -
The State should hold no PARTNERSHIPS with banks or
wi. Amt stock companies: and banks should be-
W stop business when thew refuse to paw spe-
h ISL ss ~ sofes
y sr to be thirty-Gye years of age. with 4
! 4houssnd dollars. to be- ALWAYS At his most
.ss ss Il led every second wear by The people. ane
XII Ss IA for FIVE years In the recess oil the Ieoisla
I'm ssS sacnncet hammer IN the Offices of Jndues
s id others Of Ike import, he should have now.
Eli them temporariv A leutenant Governor
I, ~ thirty five years Of age with salary of one
and dollars 10 be ex-offcio president Of the Sc
" should be elected every second wear by the neo
~ There should be no Council of State.
dees should be thirty five years Of age elected TO
NV years, and be re-eligibe They should be- choser
9eage of fifty electors forty wears of ACE eT
a 3f themselves. ofmembers OF The jeosature and
sss 1cing attorneys to hold its sessions at Stanton
End, and selected every seventh wear Nv the neo
gewo electors TO be sent from each SENATORIAL dis
i trics a majority Of three-fiftha Of the whole mum
| bertsnoufd be required in every appointment
The Judges in office should remain therein unit
others appointed, and none Of them should be mem
bersof the approaching Convention.
There should be but one Court of Appeals to consist
of five Judges, with salaries of five thousand dollars
sch, which should hold its sessions every day, bus
ess required it. The pfeadngs of Counsel therein
ald be printed, and copies thereof delivered the
udfes without oral argument, except in special cases
and Zen by leave Of the Court.
TszA Chancery and the law Jurisdiction should be
kepf parate and the present Circuit Superior Courts
OF M S sincery 6houd be abolished.
4 III ID be but one Court of chancery for the
Stat b all the chancery cases now depending
in Courts except the parties choose tc
Il trs sss II County Courts, should be removed
TT art should be composed of three members
wit @S Of five thousand dollars each, and il
!s sessions every day, i business requires
time, W chancelors should relieve each Other
weekly. as decisions il such a court would soon
perhaps approach to similarity fewer appeals would be
taken the cases would be tried in they became
ready; there would be no vacation causes; and the
delays, now common, amounting, in many instances tc
denial Of justice, as too nell kno,p, would bt
avoided. speak feelingly this subject as hay.
had woetul experience in the last thirty years have
myself thousands and tens ofthousands by delays
alone IN chancery Courts. With Jurists Of ability
and industry, like one chancellor that know, who
in less than year after his appointment was calling
on his Bar for business, the docket however lengthy
would soon be mastered And therei at least one 9th
Ter individual, within stones throw Of him. of requ
site qualifications, think, in the metropolitan city.
tablished and twenty, or more judges, with salaries
three thousand dollars EACH appointed to hold them
Two Judges, in rotation, should preside in these courts
once or twice in every wear Able counsel from man,