Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-04-23

that did not protect the property OF the rich man SUI
hcienty from he poor one.
Mr. S. spoke but the language Of history, when he
said that that people who once gave up the power oil
taxation, has nothing else 10 give What member on
that floor, as had been previously said by Randolsh
would not consider it good bargain 10 give away all
the properly which he had provided he could have guar
auted TO him the right to that property afterwards
TO what ever amount he chose and spend the money
wherever he chose
He argued 10 show that dd patore,n taxation must
work inequality and injustice to the East which in the
matter OF property had S6 900 600 and in slave proper
y Sl04O00,Q00. n ow for every dollar paid by the
West there would be paid by the East on landed
property, aud then the East in addition would have
10 pay her per cenium on its excess of 0i 600 600
The East was asked to surrender 10 delegates to the
Trans Allegheny, but our psople lGhored under the
PLANE aud simple delusion that they manag G
their affairs best Mr. S. described the celebrated
speech OF John Randolph aud passed a high euogium
on the men of 29 so; whose fame and whose argu.
ments in the Convention o30 he said will stand when
this Convention and everything connected with shall
have faded from the records OF the past
ia Committee OF the Whole, 10 the Convention of
'29 the principle the Mixed Basis failed by OF
49 TO 47-and there is no evidence to show that Mr.
Madison was among them-and it was not until the
force o argument, then addueed acted upon the pub
lie mind that the proposition OF Gen. Henderson sup
ported by Nj. Cooke was passed.
The laen the West had not degenerated-,he abb
lily which their delegates had shown in the course Of
the debate had shown the fact. He trusted that the
might be said Of Eastern delegates 10 this extent
that they had come to the Convention in decided ma
Joriy, and that they had the power retain po ton
otthe slrengta with which the people had invested
them. In the Convention OF '29 the West had fifteen
allies among the sixty delegates from the East In
1921 she has tour out otseveutysx end yet the East
was told that the Mixed Basis had lost ground and
should he abandoned When The Convention met here
IN October, the West insisted on its being adjourned
until January the ground that The census returns
would snow that it had majority of some 10000 Of
the while population OF the State. The East opposed
this adjournment and commended that by reference TO
the tlheabes as had been proven on previous
occasions sufficient approximation could be made
TO The actual population would answer all practical
purpose But now the census returns have come, and
1t IS found that the West has not by some thousands
as large an amount OF population the East had been
willing TO accord 10 her.
He wished that he had the elouueuce to draw the
counterpart OF the picture Of the gentleman from Ka-
nav ha, Mir. Summers and show how he could 90
back to bis people after having voted Tor the White
BASIS, either it substance or for two Constitu
Hons belag Submitted TO the people. He would vote
the w he Basis right out before he would take any
proposition OF this kind H. had been sent to the Con-
Nehton by enc chart, and by that he determined
TO stick l. was argument that the West
would REJECT Mixed Basis Constitution In the last
Convention lis acknowledged champion and leader
a leader OF winch any party might well be proud
ihlnp Doddrdg declared that any Constitution con-
tanning such feature ought to be rejected should be
rejected aud would be rejected That was the predic-
ton; but mark the ratification. The West voted for
IL Mr > read from the returns to show the large ma
III NUMBER ot w eStern
- nolee. How did MIR. Doddrdges county vote7)
Mr.: 3 said against it: but they only showed that
whist gentlemen might speak for their particular
conntes they had right to speak tor al the West
Every one would remember that the bill calling the
present Convention, was denounced by Western gen
tiemen from Dan TO Bersheba, and it was stated that
fne west would never approve it, yet the Yves, voted
or It and 1t was adoptet by $4,000 majority Hehad
no doubt they would do the same again
lie Closed with an exhortation to every member to
MAKE ne best Constitution for all Virginia, and then
cave the result OF their labors to to the people.