Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1851-06-17

ITODs aHus amer Ill, II quite CONCLUSIVE
that thetyranny and oppression ere nos inseiera-
BILE,
Fifteen gears is long breathing space for Virgin
in, with her twenty millions Of debt. In that pc
rioa, much of the debt viii he falling due. The
improvements viii have, probably, trasersed the
Valley, and, thus, acknowledgements to extravaganza
viii have been removed from that influential sec
tion of the State IL win be thrown more with the
East las the Piedmont District formerly identi.
fed with the West, has in the progress Of Improve
mcnts, changed its front and arrayed itself with
the East The Valley may; to considerable cx-
the West ITSELF in fifteen or twenty years viii have
much at stake in the matter Of taxation Increas-
ing in wealth and population, and especially I'M
der the influence of the Improvements, begun and
authorized, and Of such further aid, may be ju-
dciously extended to it, it will moreover then be
entitled to the power, in all probability, upon the
Mixed Basis principle NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pro-
lection being insisted upon only 'until the prop
erty of the West should justify its withdrawal
Then, too the immense resources Of the entire
State will better enable it to bear the burthen OF
appropriations to perfect an enlightened system OF
Internal Improvements
In the mean time the majority Of ten Eastern
members in the Senate will render it more difficult
manfestly, to effect those combinations of differ
ent Improvement interests, which have degraded
the Legislature in many instances, than at present
with the majority of sir
II any thing were needed to reconcile, to the
scheme of adjustment, these MISUNDERSTANDING
with the Juror of their advocacy of equal rights
and writing under the degradation, to which they
are now subiected---it is now administered in the
fact crcditable to the State and to those who are
about to perpetuate that Body. that the Senate is
a CIPHER. True, it is an independent Branch OF
the Legislature No Bill can become law, if re-
jected by it. 1t is composed of individuals in no re-
spect required to possess inferior legal or nteec-
tual or moral qualifications than The members ofthe
House of Delegates perhaps only little older in
wisdom or folly The Senate has, however. in
times past quite promptly, for the most part sane
toned the legislation of the House in appropria-
lions to improvements but does any one imagine,
that it has done so, because the House had passed
the Bils---that it was obedent to, or under the
influence of the House? The combinations. referred
to, furnish the satisfactory explanation When
the Senate was carried by them, and powerless to
prevent them--the House was carried by them and
hke,cise po9eriess Both were under the same in
fuenees. Now, it is to be hoped, majority of ten
Eastern members in the Senate---oven if it should
not be found practicable to add restrictions in the
Constitution upon the amount of the appropria-
tions--will exert most decided and healthful re-
straint upon the spirit of reckless expenditure in
the West, which, uncontrolled, would bankrupt the
State
In word, the arrangement which was approved
year ago by one party among US and is now it
appears approved by the other, not as a Compro-
mise but as a triumph, having been adopted, it is
immaterial to us to discuss whether IL be partial
or entire wreck of the Mixed Basis--or whether.
indeed, it be wreck at all. fit be. it is enough
to know, that the ships freight is prcservcd--that
some of the crew, who have not gone down, Selling
spar have outrdlcn the storm and borne the
cargo, upon the angry waters of sectional strife,
safely 10 land p.
June II 1851