Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1851-07-29
RICHMOND, va.
The Basis for the last time

previously given notice, to reconsider the vote bv
which the provisions called the Compromise were
adopted He proceeded to give narration If
his course on the subject, and endeavoured to
throw the responsibility for the defeat of the
mixed basis upon those who, on certain
memorable Saturday, sustained motion to ad.
journ for the purpose, of consultation about
Compromise. Had the vote been taken that Sat-
urday morning, proposition A, the original mixed
basis report, would, he said have been carried.
Mr.. Taylor, of Norfolk opposed the reconsider
alton of any matter at this late dayof the ses.
sion, and argued that Mr.. Randolph was wrong to
propose it, for that gentleman had all along known
as well as now the wishes of his constituents. If
the basis was reconsidered every thing else must
be, and he was unwilling to enter uponit. Two at
least of his colleagues, Mr.. T. said, would act with
him. He moved to lay the motion of Mr.. Randolph
on the table, but withdrew it to allow Mr.. Conway
to address the floor.
Mr. Conway denied that the adjournment on
the Saturday referred to BY Mr.. Randolph was
sustained BY Eastern members in order to adopt
compromise. For himself he stated that his OBJ
ect was to secure the success of the mixed basis,
which he believed would be defeated if put to the
vote that day. .
A running debate followed, in which Mr.. Chill
ton proclaimed his determination to stand by the
Compromise, come what might and so did Mr..
Claiborne Notwithstanding his former declaration
that he belonged to the iron side Baptsts, who did
not believe in falling from grace.)
Mr. Scott, of Fauquier, confirmed Mr. Con-
ways statement OF the manner in which the adj
journmentw was carried on the memorable Saturday,
and bore very hard upon Mr.. Randolph who had
at that time voted against the mixed basis propos.
ed in the Substitute, alleging as reason that it
was not the mixed basis as he understood it to
have been understood by the Convention of $780,
He referred to the declaration Mr.. Randolph made
that very Saturday morning, after the ADJOURN
ment, in the Eastern caucus, that he would thence
forth 60 with his Eastern friends. Mr. Randolph
here made some qualification Of the declaration, IL
hitting it to pledge to support proposition A. Mr..
Scott, with terrible emphasis, repeated and called
upon forty men now on the floor to bear witness
that Mr.. R. said he aoould hereafter giue his Eas-
tern trends no further trouble, but acould pote aoih
Them and Joow his leaders, and the declaration was
received with rounds of applause on these desks.
MIR. Randolph tried to make some little diver.
sion by sneering at Mr. Scott as desiring to be the
Magnus Apollo of the East on the basis question,
and, in closing, made some reference to suspicion
that the object of Mr.. Scott in offering his COM
promise was merely to defeat all others.
This Mr.. Scott pronounced foul calumny,
and Mr.. Randolph explained that he did not make
the mputaton HIMSELF and had only alluded to it
in order to give Mr.. Scott an opportunity to set
himself right.
Some further passages occurred between the
wo gentlemen. Mr.. Chiffon made few re-
marks about his own course; DR.. Saunders
about his; Mr.. Wise entered upon the Supple.
ment reports, a flourish of triumph over the final
extinction of the odious mixed basis; and Mr..
Bolts avowed his readiness to take upon his
shoulders the undivided responsibility of passing
the Compromise in preference to proposition A.
The question being finally taken on the motion to
lay on the table Mr.. Randolphs motion to reconsider,
it was carried by the following vote:
AyEs-Messrs: Anderson, Armstrong, Bird of She
OF
srck, Camden, Garlic, Carter Of RUSSELL Carter Of
Loudoun, Chapman Chiffon Claiborne, Faulkner Fer
gusou Finney, Fisher, Floyd, Fulkeson Fuz, Gally,
Hays, Hoge, Hunter, Jacob. Johnson, Kenney. Xii
McComas, Martin of Marshall, Martin Of Henry,
Miller, Moore, Murphy, Neeson, Newman, Pendeton,
a retty Seymour, shehey, Sloan, Smith Of Kanawha,
Stephenson, Stewart OF Morgan, Stuart OF Patrick,
Summers, Tate, Taylor, Trigg, Tunis Van Wrinkle,
Watts Of Roanoke, White, Williams Of Shenandoah, |
Wise, and Wysor-66.
:, NoEs-Messrs Mason, (President,) Arthur, Banks,
Barbouf Beale, Bocock, Bolts, Bowles, Braxon Bur-
CESS. Chambers, Chambliss Cooke, Conway, Cox, |
Davis, Douglas, Edwards, Flood, Fuqua, Garland, Nj
per, Jones, Leake, Ligon, Lynch, McCandlish, Me-
redilh, Morris, Purkins, Randolph, Ridley, Rives
Saunders, sceggin, Scott Of Caroline, Scott OF Eau
County, Smith of King & Queen, snowden, Southal
Stanard, Sraughan, Strother Turnbull, Wallace.
Watts Of Norfolk County White, Williams Of Fair.
lax, Wnghei ID, Voolfolk, and Worsham-59.
The Secretary announced the vote to be, ayes 81.
noes 90; but we think We are correct. The members
who did not vote, had all paired off, They we've, of
tho East: Messrs. Edmunds Hall, Janney, Tredway,
and Lyons of the West, Messrs Caperton, Cook, De-
neae, Price, and Wiley. Ofthese gentlemen Messrs
Lyons, Caperton, and Price, were present.
And thus the wretched contrlvance, dubbed a
Compromise, has been fastened upon the State
The history of the scheme proves that it has no
title to the name of Compromise; for Compro.
MISE IS an arrangement between two opposing
'artles or at least between respectable portions
't them. But this measure was forced through
~ one party acting in body and aided by a few
Who were willing to abandon their own side. Mr..
tandolph's motion to reconsider, at the close of
he session, was no more than a ridiculous farce
I was evident to us long ago sthat he did not
mean to give efficient vote for the mixed basis
and upon him more than any other man rests the
responsibility of its failure.
Mr.. Bots Letter.
The peculiar interest of this address to our
nearest readers gives it precedence to other ele-