Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-06-10

IN ohr -, ,nvernuiInt was 10 be Organized on !Ec
nv, 10th houses were 10 be based on pncP''' ana m.
M tch. worS-:.o device 10 GIVE POKER t's' ~
- without regard 10 principle, was l" he isso'i !" ~
,, nronr;yson Of eitner-ani when sncn Ci;2''.'e"
hrd have continued in operation 70. Ten or ",i'e !t
and should have fulfilled Tic great purposes I" Us III
in nrecling the rights and promoting The interests u an
h con undertake say that the people would nave peen
,rarrJ 10 change lit Who undertake ~ a'!irin 'li
,;n even of the people of the Wes:, especially OF TIE
oonc Of the Valley and the Southwest whose interests are
hccning day by day, and year b? year, more AMI NOR i'e
,;Gcd win o their Eastern brethren satisfied with NC
econnon Of their fnvorr principle in one branch ct tho LIE
s,rr content with the practical working of the Govern,
under which they lived would not be opposed to let well
enough alone rather than introduce fresh changes ana che
anain upon and untried experiments In such s's
of things one, appehend, not endowed win Inc snt
of prophecy. could undertake To predict WHAT %ouu oe nc
decision the people the issue that would have oGch
presented nnl2 But in lieu OF that issue, THIS fscrn
committee appointed by Western votes has brought in nnh
that too in the Of Compr0mse,) scheme hy "h!ch
the West Is 10 have the popular branch anu nal,
upon joint ballot and il G5 you 10 submit to me Pee
for the first time the question whether they VIII nave 'e
Legislature organised the mi xed basis i'a Is 10 s'y
wIethcr they will have both branches OF the tseSiuS u
gansed upon principle which up 10 that moment ,'.
been applied TO either and Of the practical working ana c
ration OF which they know and know nothing "n'tSo
ever For be il observed that by this Compromise sc'e.
Won do moi apply the mixed basis TO either branch u
LEGISLATURE The suIlfage basis, or something ur!o"" wv
suffrage basis is applied in one branch and nm arolly
cpe in the other branch and under this scheme
the question is not whether the people snail aGhet
nrncnle that had been tried and found 10 Work ~c Dut
whether they SHALL n 1865 adopt for the st tiHe pm.
cpIe till then unknown and nncd Ihat SUI - anu and
ton submitted in 1865 by your Compromises scheme an"
TINT man be sanguine indeed who under such c'c"
stances can look forward any other result man INC cs
tablshment OF the suffrage basis in both Houses Just Us Ger
,nnly ms if you had made il man in the constitution
Sir the gentleman from Accomac may dismiss ~, tFp,n
tensions this Under the propositions lauc " M
West we did stand chance; under the COMPROMISE y"
have name By that scheme the advocates OF me suffrage
basis have indeed made INSURANCE aouoly Sue' "" ~
a bond Of fate. ,,, va.
This them was one of the propositions made by the west
ern conmcc-but the only by another Pr"nos
lion they offered Ia give both houses on w hiAtu ~
ill 1862 with mandatory appotonmen' then OF, ''e SUI
frage basisand leave 10 any candid man. WIN INC acl
before him. say whether either ol these pFoF"s'ons - m
decidedly better Tor the East Than this thing nScaien COM
pomsc Sir nm glad that these matters nave oeen ah'r
led TO and that connected with them have been brought
ont and have gone the country wish the people 10 see
and IN know these things and invoke their Judgment upon
them rejoice that opportunity has been hioae" me To
meet the issue gentlemen have ventured 70 make on ms
uor mud leave it III the cou.try To say whether upon an
exhibition of these various propositions az c"ntrastro WIZ!
This called Cumprumsc am moi fully borne ont IN the
declaration that far from s being true that Eastern men
voted for the Compromise can shield themselves uhoe,
the action of conference ne part "
the East the record (Iye in the very record IN which they
themselves have nppeale) shows that they have gone he
yond what offered by the committee ct conference IN
the part the West and have fixed upon their own const''
uens and the whole Of Eastern Virginia about the very worst
sy stem thai could well have been devised.
Why s Won talk about this scenlt as protection ~
property do 60 into discussion upon this
subject have had occasion another time IL make some
r.ma on the constitution Of this Senate ard do
tend 10 repeat Them here will only observe that wtha
white basis House Of Delegates and white basis Executive
Senate with arbitrary majority of ten, IT, be reduced
may be- by arbitrary Anporonneni which sli'Il give
white basis districts East oi Tie IIHG
Ridgc-to six less than sSjwnui Seem likely 10 All d
but slender protection 10 property or anything else hHc
surprising the East 10 get the iul nlIf!iy 81 th
would require change ri out X votes IT, Teach any result;
and is change of SIX difficult mncr! Let HE
experience Of this Convention that question Sir
started in this body with majority ." niue, ana "fcr"
now But, rs slid do not mean Ia go INTO any
discussion oi this qnesIi"n-my sole object at TINS time I"
beg the attention Of the Convention, for few ,mrntS
while bring 10 their notice The Opinions upon TINS very
subject whose political sagacly an will question
refer the opinions Of John Randolph under similar c-
cum.ranccs when similar nruposun 10 this was under
consideration in the Convention "t ~ 3U II was uie
proposed organise The House o Delegates upon The white
population and The Senate federal hutnocrs NAT sche
say proposed that lime II 0ncO the last pro-
positions Of Compromise offered by Western gentlemen III
The Convention Of 29. And how was ttat PROPOSITION,
which certainly far better for the East than THIS report
Of the Committee u Eight can be pretended I" be-how
saw that proposition met by that man VINO stood comics
sedly in the front rank ot those who IN that Convention
regarded the special champions o HE principle vi
protection prnpcrty}
will tell ynu h"w- met hy him with the d+ciar',
ton That should prefer The re basis in both Hones dhc
should r9e for it, Here hc assigned Ia" his
commend them The special attention o those
gentlemen who talk about this Senate asa protection l" pro
perty: .
Ic would add word said Mr. Rand"2) as TO the iii
NAHUM for which the gentleman cunirnded VIZ The basis vi
white populations exclusively in branch ~ the L"rsi-
Federal number in the other lie declared with
sincerity which his would be found 10 ruuc Tor thai
the should succeed imposing on tiein
hard and stern condition OF submitting In 81 inoraae
yoke in the lower House he wonld yield to him the same
principle other and let both branches be based on The
white population alone He should do 90 by preference He
would prefer having Doth branches the white basis 4" the
Manchuean plan f eond and an evil principle in which,
as in the Manichoean system, the evil principle te
stronger and was always in the end II prevail To
adopt such plan could he doing nothing hut sowing the
seeds of intrnnabia uscurd, which must lead t" consc
auences that all could see. He would with the gentle
he should have ranqushcd them He would
then for the whole OF what he commended for by prefer
ence He would throw himself upon the generosity
might almost say the charity OF The West Than take aa-
cOus sccurty-nOt the Bakan-buta mound Of sand-sue
thing with which 10 cheat his constituents crying 10 ie
peace peace when there no peace and never could be
any, H. =, ,-,,o,o ~, IN, d,v NJ sucb govern.
men had been heard Oft was monster Two branch
of the Legislature representing the same people, elected
by the voters manage The same interests To oc PIT
ted against each other like cocHs 10 tear ana
wound each till the other should he forced 10
submit that the government proposed Tor Nglha '"r
all time To come.-A government OF numbers IN "posit"n
property, Jacobinsm rank Jac'blns he vas ao"u
pure JacUbnsmbu nothing pure, nothing feicchtcu
could belong the thing Ii IN be an lrraylng " num-
bcrs against property and then they would soon hear The
old cry ''peacc to ;ne cottage 1.-THE paace and when
The Convention should have established this Jacoblncal p'n
cpe il was not few despised noo!cs-not lew mated
pestsodious once for their hypocrisy and their rapacy
il the body of ceodcrS, the substantial yeomanry
OF the Commonwealth, into whose mouth they were 10 pn'
that bride, and into whose ey would put that hooH
But they never could do III by his friends they new
should do it they ought nuthey could not consent 10
IT, And he had said before 10 make The attempt
would only be sound the trumpet Of civil war II might
at first be weaponlcss warfare, war OF WORDS ou' II
would pour into the cup OF existence an anin0sy so deep
and deadly il would FIX in the b0soms OF the injured wound
so ranking and remcdc- that nothing short OF me rsnl-
power of the Federal Government would be able 10 Keep
Virginia together"
haze read this exrac, the especial benefit OF Eosc
gentlemen who talk about this Senate ms Profession 10 pro-
perty and for the purpose of bringing 10 the notice OF me
Convention and the country in the peculiar ana sHiSh
language OF that remarkable the ves entertained ana
expressed by him than twenty years ago. WI" respect
10 scheme which differs from that under consideration:
in those particulars and in those particulars only, IN wnlc
il was favorable the East. On another nccasl"h
Mr. Randolph speaking of representation IN Inc Rouse Oh
Delegates thus expresses himself:
1--WE will not give up this question for the cealn? ana
far less for the hope that the evil will be rectel IN inc ohe
branch Of The Legislature We KNOW, every body KNOWS,
that is Impossible. Why sir the British House oil Peers,
which contains four hundred members holding vast Pr-
pery, much more il is true, than when Chaha snn
they were hut rs drop in the compared WIN me
wealth oi the Commons if they holding their sea or ne
and receiving and transmitting them by hereditary descent
have never been able 10 resist the House e Commons III
any measure which that house choose to insist DO you
believe that twenty gentlemen stairs can resist one
hundred and twenty below especially when the one nun
drcd districts. ~