Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-05

non was on inserting tho substitute OF Mr.
Scot which the main body ofthc East had
agreed to take il lieu ofprcposition A; but
when tho vote was taken, strange TO say,
the measure was defeated by majority
Of osc--the vote being yeas GO, nays 6l,
all the White Basis men and Dy. Sasn-
ders with Mcssrs. Bolts. Bowdcn, Chiffon,
aud Randolph voting against il, whilst al
the other mixed basis members voted fcr
u. Thus il Is seen that, had DR.. Saunders
united with The East, Ais rofc would have
carried the question, but as i is, his vote
defeated it. On the same day he iutro-
duccd his scheme, but on tho next with
drew it, when he is again found voting ip
solid phalanx with the White Basis, und
six Eastern, members. against the main
body Of the East. Again on OH May ltc
is found voting with the White Basis men
and four Eastern members against the
proposition Of Mr.. Bcalc which was tho
mixed basis substitute Of Mr.. Scott wiiha
slightalteration, and which is the mixed ba-
sis report. Thusit win be seen that DIR. s.
was cooperating mainly with the white ba-
sis party, and in opposition to every scheme
the Eastproposcd. Andall.his toe, bc il no
mcmbcrcd. was before the two meetings OF
the Eastern and Western members had been
held with view of elfccting settlement
ofthc question and il is legitimate in
f,rcrce that,he impracticablc course ofDr.
Saunders had much to do in inducing the
Eastern members to consent to go into any
such meeting. Could they have looked
upon him as reliable, they might have
beeneneouraged to resist all overturcs from
the West.
We pass over tho intervening time,
ill 18th May when the committee Of eight
had been appointed and already reported
the plan which is now before tho Conven-
ton. On that day, Mr.. Wise moved to
strike out proposlion A. the original mixed
basis report, which ill then had been re-
tanned and the motion which had prcvi.
ously been unsuccessful, this tinc pre-
vailed by majority Of one. Tho vote
was, yeas 81 nays So, DIR. Saunders again
voting to strike it out. Thus again we
find him voting against the mixed basis,
and with tho white basis party. But what
is the use Of pursuing this history far,herl
Has it not already been shown thar hc
failed 10 net with the Eastern majority in
every trying emergency and that on two
several occasions his vote had itbecn given
as his constituents had right to expect.
would have secured tho triumph Of the
East! To escape this just responsibility,
he now undertakes to say that the Eas-
tern members were ultraists, and he, OF
necessity, the real conservative! Was
eyer arrogance moro ungraccfully nssum-
ed or more prepostcrously vauntcd! 1t
will not do for Dr. Saunders to say that
his proposition was intended as compro-
mise, for he never tried TO secure either Of
the other plans; and if he preferred his
own as an original plan he ought to have
introduced it as competing proposition
along with the others, that members might
havcan opportunity of examining its merits,
if merit it had Now, can il be said that
he has reflected the will Of his constituents
by cordially cooperating with the mixed
basis party, when in truth ho has mainly
operated against them? No body denies
that Mr.. Lynch has faithfully reflected tho
sentiments of the people, and IL he has
done so, how can it be that DR.. Saunders
has likewise represented ilciryicws, when
he has gone Numerically opposite to tho
course Of his colleague!
Here we might well BIZ content to rest
the ease, if indeed die vchcmcncc Of tic
attack be nct itself the best refututon Of
It, and yet we are tempted 10 notice still
further tlris pcdantfc c1'usion of our anti
quarian hero. lis not only pcdantic, but
excessively stupid; nor stupid only, but is
written in wrctched bad taste and in much
worse English, and yet the auihor affects
the critic!-another proof that "a little
learning is dangerous thing" The
schoolmastcr," we are sure, "wns MT n
broad" before our hero embarked in the
war of 1912! Thongh dcfying, himself,
the rules of photography. Of syntax, and of
sense, be not inaplly typifcs ono Of those
interesting "cascs" who,
/ - could not orc
| Ills mouth, ban out there flew tropc:
| And when he plras "A IL, aho,'t liz a,r.cit