Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1851-02-12

one Executive term OF iour yeais ou' no iiore---Mr
Leake went for neglbiy III m 's would MAKE
the Governor wholly ineligible Iof me
i MONDAY FEB o.-AIr. Bots responded to The argu
uems of Mr. Meredith aud o.neIs, aud urged a. engLl
The rp-pigibIniy If the Governor without limitation
There da ger IN officer when stfiPpeu VI pow
en- He was ppps TO GuDeniauflal canVdss's, '"' u
was To be done b. Governor person over me looco'"
lies of The State aud It's "a 90 square miles, he wouiu
Tor The elective power Remaining where II now Isl II
was in favor the ELIGIBILITY OF snenis, and tins OIL
iered from the member from Accomac. lie wanted re
sponsiby to the people, and went Tor holding every maj
nm TO his rood behavior. Ii YOU make the Governor IN
eI,uibe yuu will not have the fidelity in office a.
if YOU hold up to him The reward Of reelection. The PEG
e had never had before the chance Of eecng their Gov
etuor and now that they had why let them do IT, instead
If the boticians The prlncl lie had never beer
appruyed bv any considerable body OF the people tie
went for giving The people their own Legitimate rights
| the right of selection well as eecllon.-Mr. Leakt
obtained The floor, and the Convention adjourned
TuEsDAY-The Convention, continued the discussion
of the question Of Gnbernatura eligibility. The debate
al times took quite large range, and parlook decdedy
more of the political al than have been ex
nected in such body-Nlr. Leake responded to MIR
Bolts and proceeded length to contend that he was much
more The friend Of The people IN the position which ne DC
cupied ON The question than The membrr from Henric0
-Mr Garlic advocated the e-eglblliy OF The Gnvern
ur-Mr Riyes oppUsed II, and made one OF his pecu-
liar speeches against the deceIons OF Politicians and ~
his tcuar and rapid manner, which, al mes CONFUSED
the whole auditory with laughter.
WEpYEsDAY.-'Ihs body, (says the Richmond lis
nalchl day or wu ago. said question before it, viz
the re eligibility of The Governor an reDoT or un' we
meet again. and launched into dscusslon de-
cdedly political In lis character than sued 10 Inc
deliberations Of a Convention Yesterday, by way of
varying the entertainment and adding 10 the attention Of
spectaors in the galleries, personal controversy was
zone inn, III which Mtssrs " se, Bolts and Davis took
AIR Turnbull opened the discussion speech in
! oppuson to the e.eglblly OF the GoveTnor--Mr.
Davis followed in remarks which he defended himself
against nsnuaIiUns and rdIcule, wnich ne lholgh mao
been attempted Ia he upon HIM by one OIL coeagnes
MIR Bols) and was particularly spicy on that member
MIR Bolts reioned 10 kind, and denied any purpose
10 rdicule the gentleman give him any cause OF "ence
He had merely attempted expose what he thought was
The fImsness of his argument. He had meant nothing
unkind in abiding to The publication in German OF the
| gentleman's address,
and ad vocaed the re-egbiy o'he overno ln speech
of considerable length in which he read largely rom the
debates of the Convention OF lo3O.-Mr Chiffon, Of
Fauquer followed in Speech which, MOI marked by
uency in its cOnmencement was Dssessed of much close
ness Of reasoning before conclusion He was in favor Of
conservatism Of holding every Thing that was good in
the old Constitution, and of altering only what was found
to he Objectionable He oppsed this doctrine of speed,
speed might do the mechanical but not in the political
world The winged lightning was hardly swift enough
for sumo whu cried Oht fur progress The course Ut other
States had been cited in this particular but he would not
give Vfgnia even she was with her laws and her peo
ple. fr them alI.--Mr. Lrake explained previous re-
marks and then the Convention adjourned.
FRDAY.-Mr. Tredway urged re eligibility OF The Gov
snor He not for restricting the power Of the people,
but of the office huders Gentlemen in favor of the
restriction as the aye of 30 wears, which five hun
dred times greater than that as to re eligibility lie was
for an intervening term.
Mr. IrIgg did not cUnciir with any OF the pending prop
osons lie commended that all Republican Govern
mens based upon the three great principles ut all
sovereignty in The people, responsibility OF public officers
and rotation office He regarded four years as too long
for an Executive lcer remain in for one He
went for dividing it, and letting them be eligible for
term of two years and then accordance with the Bill OF
Rights let hun, IN prevent that oppression which Is there
referred to- return the hsom Of the peope-T The de-
bas % PS Nest sa tS GhH 4 M sda The
Legislature epUrted for the first Of which several snbsIi-
lutps were uffered.-rhe discussion The eligibility
of the Executive resumed. Mrssrs. Eoge. of Mont
gomery and Conway, Spottsy spoke in favor and
| Mr.. Scott, of Caroline, against.
TIE RICHEST Man IN TlserSrA.-A correspondent
of the Richmond Wing, who signs himself Cusnupoe,"
writes to the editors Of that paper as follows:
have thought, for some time, would write 10 your
paper something in relation TO the richest man IN Virginia,
and The largest stakeholder in the Union, and perhaps in
the world unless the sers Of Russia be considered slaves
and The wish in your paper days ago. know whom
il was SD wealthy in Virginia, induces 10 write this
now Samuel Halrson OF Pltsy lvana, is The gentleman
hen was his section year two ago. he was the
owner of between sixteen and hundred slaves
in his own right having but little while before taken
census He also has prospective right tn about one thou
sand slaves more, which owned by his mother in law,
Mrs Ruth HARRISON, he having married her only child
| He now has the management N Mem which makes the
number of his slaves reach three thousand. They
increase the of Thousand every year, and
he has purchase large plantation every year TO se'te
them on large number ut his plantations are IN Henry
and Patrick counties, Virginia He has large estates in
North Carolina His landed property in Stokes alone, is
assessed at six hundred thousand dollars Ills wealth is
differently estimated at from three tn five millions, and
should think il nearer the latter You think he has hard
lot bu, assure you MIR. aIrson manages all his matters
as easy INST persons would an estate OF Sl0OOO tie
has overseers who compelled u give hun written
statement of what is made and spent each plantation,
and his neernes are all corhed and fed from his do
mestic manufacture and raising leaving his Tobacco CROP
which is immensely large as 81 much clear gam every
year. besides his IN negroes, which fortune Of
itself
And now Gr his residence have travelled over fifteen
States of this Cniun and seen any thing
parable to his yard and garden, except Of them IN the
Mississippi deIa-and none of Them equal IT, Mrs Hairs
ton has been beaulyng it for years-and good old Min
sle in preaching the place, and describing Paradise,
said, ell was as hrauul as W. riatrSDns Oras felo
who had visited Washington cy for the first time, remark
ed that .rhe public grounds nearly handsome az
Samuel Hairsion's" Mr. Harstnn is plain unassumlng
gentleman and has made any noise in The world.
though he can vie with the Bruces. the McDinoghs and
the Asors and it is strange. that while their wealth Is
coeylensive with the Unun he is not known lUO miles
from home believe he is the weallhies man in The
Union as VIM b AS0r is only worth about Sl,OOO.U0U,
and the estates of city people vastly overraed while
Mr. Harslon can show the property that will bring the
cash at ally moment.
Mr. Hairsrun raised in few miles of where he now
lives in Henry county He has several hrolhers who are
nrettu well 10 do in the world One Of Them. Marshall
Ha,rston of Henry owns than 700 negres. Rober,
Harston. who now lives in Mississippi. near 900; and
Hardin Hairson who has also moved TO Mississippi about
600 slaves George Hairson of Henry. has given most
aE of his property his children reservng only about 5C