Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-20

Commonwealth You will have inleeHie
there, constantly growing warmer dsas,ro, than
may produce consequences hio' 10y
we can now ioreseo :; 49,
And now, sir, would ask tho east, 10 mere any
thing in what YOU clamis there anything IN the rea.
sons you assign for your cams .";le any Il.
can for the evils nseparable from the fact
that ouehalf Of the community aye SIT, more than
one.balf of the whole community, is living in state
of discontent with feeling that they are degraded BY
hose who should be their brothers, and next to them
selves most tenacious of their rights How great the
compensation that can reconcile them to such state
of things should be, gentlemen can imagine for them
selves.
would add, Mr. Charman-candor compes me 10
add, and do it not ouly in spirit Of frankness, but
because conceive it to be my duty to both divisions Ct
the Commonwealth-a remark that has indeed been al
ready made The necessity that is assigned the
reason for deprving the west OF her fair representa-
,ionhe only present for the deep and somewhat
excited feeling Of which have spoken-this necessity
grows eu of the fact of the prcpondcrance of slavery
IN this section Of the State Sir this feeling and ths
cause for il, are alike dangerous What must be tn,
Necessary eHecti lfyour western iellow-ctzens Learn
that the true reason why they are still denied i right
% cherished and SO dear to them, is simply the exist
nce OF slavery to greater extent upon the one side
81 the mountains than upon the other, and that cal
ony be adequately protected BY deprivng them OF rep
atiou, what, gentlemen OF the east think yot
v. be the inevitable result If an institution o!
ibis kind is made the pretence for deprivng ant
Investing the western people Of rights which they hav'
.rer believed inherent, and which the tuthers o.
their country have told them inherent and inaliena
lie, gentlemen may imagine with what feelings tina
,topIe will to regard it. 1t Is no light mat
Ter 10 contemplate and cmphatically and condcntl,
lay that the responsibility for the consequences vii
rest with the east and not with the west, and We OF
the west so regard it. We place ourselves upon the
lrm foundation Of right while you place yoursevc
on tie shifting and weak foundation Of an exp"dency
II unfortunate consequences shall result from ths-il
wills worse than dare picture TO my own mind' sh''
grow out OF it, upon whom will the consequences rest
Hll they rest upon those who would not yield right OF
sill they upon those who would not yield an e%
,edencv: vet hope that this Convention VIII yiei
is what is so Individually our right and although gen
iemen NAV be instructed by their constituents to ths
contrary, they should remember lha .ieiT sresi eHI
ar upon the floor Of the last Convention Judge Cpsni
limse announced that in matter which Affected lfe
interests of the Commonwealth at large, nc was no
he representative of any district, but OF the whoh
.omninilv And if what concerns the happy, and per-
!as the continued existence of this State as one CON
aunity, is matter that rises superior to any ct
ecoua or local consideration, there can be no sucl
! hing as a common interest. And yet for the short
ired power of dozen years, at most, for the sake o.
| .ecplg their western brethren from ''plundcring'
hem, as they term it, from unduly taxing their pro
,crly during that short period, gentlemen are wn:
o all these risks. and even to incur all these cr
| will conclude with a few lines from distinguished
Del, who speaks of those who - had been friend,
|
! cling us that
TO be wroth with one we love,
| Doth work like madness in the BRAIN
! e adds in language, the application Of which 10 ti'
ubjcct before us will be readily perceived:
g Each spake words Of high dsdain
And insult to his heart best brother,
They parted, neer to meet again.
But never either found another
To free the hollow heart from paning.
They stood alooi, the remaining,
Like cliffs that have been rent asunder.
| 4 dreary sea now flows between;
But neither heat nor frost, nor thunder,
| Shall wholly do away, ween,
The marks of that which once hath been
Nav not such be the case with us; We may be parte'
thout governmental partition. Antagonistlc feel
ngs NAV be engendered, and such feelings are barrier
lore impossible and separate more widely than you
ighest mountains Those who should be most dear L
| ach other, will be estranged and unworthy feeling
i'll take the place of kind and tender sentiments: am
though the obstacle that for time separated Us il
! Election, may be at length removed: although tn
rights of the west may in the end. be both practically
ii theoretically conceded as the result of conviction
:hch such state uf things will force upon ala!
rough we may at last be admitted to an equal repre-
.utation in the councils OF State-still, re
,ember that there is nothing, no matter how power.
| al i, NAV be. which will be able 10 do away
The marks OF that which once hath been"
am obliged 10 the committee for their kind atien'