Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-15

jority ,asked no favors ofthe treasury. He
spoke. therefore, disinterestedly-- he
would say that North western Visinia,and
he believed Southwestern Virginia. also,
would go for the general interest Of the
whole State-fdr a connection, not with
Underwater merely, but with the tide itself
on the Chesapeake. Mr.. w. proceeded to
denounce proportion A, as n degradation
on humanity. In Kentucky and Tennes-
see, the free citizens Of the non-slayeholding
portions, have the same rights as those in
the slaveholding portions. Hcshould vote
for Mr.. Claiborne's proposition, because
wealth is power-and the more you concen-
trate it, the more dangerous II becomes
He wished to dia'use this power. He APP
pealcd to gentlemen to pause. before they
inflicted this great wrong, to degrade his
constituents.
Mr.. Letcher had announced that, if the
mixed basis principle be adopted, he should
60 for carrying it out fairly. He should,
therefore, vote for Mr.. Bolts proposition,
and against Mr.. Claiborne's.
Mr.. Galley desired that the friends Of the
mixed basis should carry out their princi-
pie in the strongest form. If his people
are to be degraded, he wanted the dollar
to be their king and God in Virginia-he
wanted the tyranny to be concentrated,t the
more readily to excite its overthrow. He
would satisfy the greedy avarice for pow
erinthe city Of Richmond land should, there
fore, vote for Mr.. Bolts proposition.
Mr.. Straughan fnther explained his rea-
sons for sustaining the restriction on cities.
The question being ON Mr. Bots amend
mcnt, it was lost ayes 90, noes 50, as fol-
lows;
AYEs-Messrs. Anderson, Camden, Ca
pertoh, ID. Carter, j. A. Carter, Conway,
Davis, Fisher, Fulkerson. Gally, Hunter,
Jacob, Knote. Letcher, Lucas, McCamas,
Meredith, Pendleton, Price, Seymour,
Snodgrass, Snowden, Stanard, STROLLER,
Summers, Tngg, Van Wrinkle, White and
Wingfeld.-29.
NoEs-Messrs. Mason, President Arm
strong, Arthur, Banks, Barbour, Beale,
Bland, Blue, Bowles, Braxton, Burgess,
Richard E. Byrd, Garlic, Chambers, Cham
bliss, Chapman, Chiffon Claiborne, Cox,
Edmunds, Edwards, Ferguson, Finney,
Flood, Floyd, Fultz, Fuqua, Garland, M =.
r. H. Garnett, Muscoe Garnet, Goode,
Hall, Hays, Hill, Hopkins, Janney, Jas
per, Johnson, Kenney, Kilgore, Leake,Li-
gon, Lynch, Lyons, William Martin. Mil
Ter, Moore, Morris, Murphy, Neeson, New
man, Randolph, Riley, Rives, Saunders,
Scoggin, F. w. Scott, Robert E. Scott, r.
G. Scott, Shell, Sloan, A. r. Smith, b. II.
Smith, James Smith, Joseph Smith, w.
Smith, Southall, Stephenson, J. Z. Stewart,
Straughan, A. Stuart, Tate, Taylor. Tired
way, Tunis, Turnbull, Wallace, Samuel
Watts, White, Wiley, s. c. Williams,
Wise, and Woolfolk-S2
Mr.. Scott of f., said he should vote now
to give representation to cities, according
to the basis that shall be adopted-he should
at another time vote to provide restrictions
for future cases which may arise.
The proposition of Mr.. Claiborne was
then rejected, ayes Sc, noes rs, as follows
AYEs-Mcssrs. Armstrong. Bland, Blue,
r. E. Byrd, Camden, Garlic, Chapman,
Claiborne, Ferguson, Floyd, Fultz, NJ.
Garnett, Hall, Hays, Hoge, Hopkins, John
son, Kenney, Kilgorc, McCamant, VIM.
Martin, Miller, Moore, Murphy, Neeson,
Newman, Sloan, VIM. Smith, Stephenson,
Jas. E. Stewart, Straughan, A. Stewart,
Tate, Wiley, S. c. Williams, Wise-36.
NoEs-Messrs. Mason (President,) An
derson, Arthur, Banks, Barbour, Bea1e,
Bowlcs, Braxton, Burgess, Caperton, d.
Carter, j. A. Garter, Chambers, Chambliss,
Chiffon, Conway, Cox, Davis, Douglas.
Edmunds, Edwards, Finney Fisher, Flood,
Fulkerson, Fuqua, Galley. Garland, NJ. r.
H. Garnett, Goode, Hill, Hunter, Janney,
Jasper, Knote, Leake, Letcher, Lyon, Luz
cas-, Lynch, Lyons, McCamas, Meredith,
Morris, Pendlcton, Price, Randolph, Rid
ley, Rives, Saunders, Scoggin, L. w.
Scott, r. E. Scott, II. G. Scott, Seymour,
Shell, B. H. Smith, Joseph Smith, Snod-
grass, Southall, Stanard, STROLLER, Summers,
Taylor, Tredway, Trigg, Tums, Turnbull,
Van Wrinkle, Wallace, S. Watts, White,
White, Wingfeld, Woolfolk.-75.
Mr. Claiborne, then moved that the COM
mlttee rise, to enable him tomorrow to
move an amendment to proposition A.
The committee rose and the Convention
adjourned.