Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-04-15
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-: r,;o,e has adopted this systern-let us look a.
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~ an6 noney-this thing 50 admirably oescloeo w
s.r J,v by the gentleman from Frederick or: ptSu!
~ u,us ndturn with one black leg ana one God
- .t ma learn from these gentlemen VINO stanu
sstbera TO this hybrid something OF its faculties anu "a
naNI;t;es want reason for it. when return "
nv constituents shall be inquired OF with glea.
cst-if YOU should put this mixed oas's utou "
only where it came FROM out NAT 10 wv osI bava
- .antadI Whv we adopted one that IL Is saiu' rs
fnd in the South Carolina constltution-at nen anu
half money. Well but some OF my CONSTITUENTS .,
inou;re in the simplicity of thor neares' ,uo. auP
this mixed bass at ALI hrs Of this mixture Of equal
uo;et;.ai WHY half population and halt taxes why
ssvcntv-hfth part of the ono and every seventy
fftb mart OF the other Is there any chemical analysis
by which you have ascertaned the que aunIA'uie VI
these Ingredients Is there any political arithmetic py
which it is asceraned what relation mon shall nave 10
money and money to menl Does old Adam Smith, CT
Ricardo or Say any Of the writers on political econo
nv, give you rules for weighing men aud money aua
putting them in half and halfl Why do you not put
them in one-third to two-thirds 'nequarter to ee
ousrtersl Why take half aud balf-equal moleties-
one-ser enty fifth of eachl Why did you do why
gentlemen shall be compelled to inform them that
heard no other given for 1t, under heayen eh
cept that YOU found it i'll the constitution OF Soutn Oaf
na and that it was found necessary after proper coll
to nut it also into the constitution Of the STATE
of Virgina that shape, IN order to secure 10 the
country living east Of the Blue Ridge majority IN the
legislature Of nineteen joint ballot 1t taxes TINS
combination of half men and half money to secure 70
our friends of eastern Virginia this majority 4 lesS
proportion of money could not effect that object haVe
no other reason to give you my constituents Inc rep
resentatiyes Of the eastern people furnished me
they have never told me. to this hour why ana "nsfo
fore it is half and half any more than another huio't
or combination ~,
do not know but that Of my friends on the
other side may be subjected to similar inquiries even
among their constituents do not know but In" ny
friend from Loudoun MIR JASSET) may be inquired OF
when he goes homo. do not mean that he will be IL
ouirei IF by those twothirds who white basis men
in Loudoun merely, but the other third also We have
right to count two-thrds for ourselves al Ill events
Mr. JANNEY. There ia not that many there.
Mr. SUMMERS. Not that many therel
Mr. JASNEY No. sir.
Mr. SUMMERS. Well, I was only proceeding OF
your own principle. You told last night, in your
argument the Convention that we had no right IT, say
that We of the west represent ortv of the people oil
Virginia; that all the majority minority you can take
cognizance Of is By the action of the people, that east
ern Virginia has sent seventysix menbers TO this Con
vention while the west sends ouly tynine, and that
you can only know maorites OF the people BY mal"ties
of representatives. And, taking your ownrule iider
stand that there are two white basis upon this floor
from the county of Loudoun and mixed basis man.
That is the ground which take it that wothirds of
the people are for the white basis. Laughter
Nj JANNEY. Will my friend allow me to ask him
q question
Mr. SUMMERS Certainly.
Dir. JANNEY. Gould not member upon this floor
get here by the vote of onothrd Of his constituents
Mr. SUMMERS Why, sir, that may, or may not be-
am replying to my friend, By stating his own ground
am pro kae ieeplacing myself upon the argument OF
the gentleman from Loudoun. l can know no man
after the flesh" only knc them AZ representatives.
here: and there are two white basis in this body
from the gentlemans district, and only mixed basis
man was about to say to my friend from Lotdoun
that he himself may possibly be inquired Of when he
goes home by some of his mixed basis constituents about
this sdnixture-half and half should rot be surprised
if the inquiries should be put to him. Did you md 1t
necessary to adopt half and hail. On the principle OF
alkal and acid in order to neuraze each other How
many members has eastern Virginia got in house OF
delegates of hundred and fifty She has got eighty
two in houss of hundred and fifty. Well, how DO
thew stand How many upon the white leg and how
many upon the black Fortyeight of the eighty-two
stand upon taxation and thrtyfour upon population
that il the way you get eightv-two members 1t would
not be hard to mague that large portion OF the good
people of this commonwealth east of the mountains
would not be extremely we'll satisfied to adopt this half
and half admixture standing upon such principles as
th.se-if we can discover any principle about it-and
producing such results scheme which gives to East
ern Virginia fourteen members to property than 10
persons
that the committee rise.