Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-04-25
soUTHwEsTERN VIRGINIA ON THE BASIS
reIn.y MoRNING, APRIL 20, 1851.

T nblic sentiment in Southwestern
l-,., ,e make an extract from The Wythevle hepuoh-
:, rho same time discaming any endorsement Oh ''e
,,nanao % employed The Republican says:
a. 3y;ca TO the Convention iset the points oil areu.
The basis question be presented in bevty and sent
az h for future use decide the question for the
and 90 into the practical reforms embrace them IN e
organic law go home If this last is well aons
names NAV ouve the stencil of the Universalst Chufch
and the foies and tedium of the basis discussion. ~
By the bye that there some madcapS ia SUM
gentry among members in Richmond VINO alu Games
threaten division of the Snte When tnat ,he1
the people of the Southwest countess we @ al "wheTe
pc - 7,, Ne ona,xcr that question at once our ous
ness our interest trade our sar6es are WIN h ae
Danvile Richmond and M from Virginia
oners eoiaa nor subscribe 10 the STUPID sutes
that have been read in Convention elmer oy ira
Was,a, snrfes that monies expended on internal
leading through Piedmont section OF Inc Sae
han snent for the benefit of that section only we cain
hot tbnt conep has spent in part Tor U.S. ana we
h, r. has been spen, mainly revivy the Tideaer re-
zion and build her Cities and forest with musts cb caIcu
harbors The western man that INDUCES or he is deal
lions is ignorant of the interests OF the The eastern
no falsely with his hearers a-d the e. the nrod nf
man that has done hasa or area, State as is rotten
hce OF framing ms for the stomach. We detes the
oyster IN ne fouy and for purposes 50 preadea
hsures tna of the State. Figures SO deracVe 10
10 the pest proper enlightenment OF her citizens as TO
truth, ruth an asa2rinteress.
ME same paper the Wy,heville Republican, believes the
white basis he proper basis for this Commonwealth at this
lime; and with present sparseness Of population
"But (says the Republican, cannot doubt that the time
will when there must be branch of the Legislature
based somewhat upon the principle OF the mixed BASIS we
are not it would not be best to engra s4ch lea
ture upon the Senate branch of the Legislature From the
notice Of the Advocate Col Floyd seems to nave CONSIDER
ed this wrong against the many by The usupauons OF the
e the Of the excuses OF the people IN e fee
Revolution This we have doubt is true And the error
in the government there the failure to concede one
legislative branch TO the people, the achote oeeE
successful revolution bego the excuses which drenched
France In much Of Ter own best blood LIE, the people have
one House .n Sna give pfOps is Se re sa,Ge
ave conscentiousy believe there can De no proecuon u
property in dense community (all free but me
least dirided reign between the many that is the labor
inc classes and the few that is the property hoders-ths
too in the porer Of lac making.
GAS said in former number, we love the hoqgn we ove
mnch the people the source Of all power But although
this is our hearts honest love still cannot but remember
that license unless there are checks ana
embracing the guarding community against 'ei own
Under present appearances the Convention, we appre
bend the white basis cannot be fully had we suggest
il not the Convention TO divide The
on this to of this day rather heoreuc question: anu pro-
coed at once to the practical reforms needed demanded o
the people and the State for their good and rgh ana lot
her advancement.
On the other hand the Abingdon Democrat in the same
region of country assas this theory an-repubcan and
as;ocrac We think it questionable whether ten men
in the county of Wyhe subscribe to such doctrine as IS
laid down by the Editor If COL Floyd enteains any such
theory as is here advanced by the Editor of the Republican,
we regret it. and of his constituents declare that we
would infinitely prefer the mixed basis in both houses
than in only one for that case the evil would be more
apparent and more easily remeded in future So far as the
people of Washington concerned we venture the predc
,on that no such combination is suggested by the Editor
of the Repubica an receive their sanction have no
doubt that SO out of every 100 least for the white ba
sis out and out"
The Abingdon Democrat also emphacay declares that
the man who will acquece in the nction OF 80 great
an outrage as the mixed basis, for the establishment oil
= - ~ .-her reforms So euhject TO make
slave OF.
"Uncompromising hostility to the mixed basis rule
and dominion Of the wealthy and astocratic D who hap
pen TO the Negroes is the duty of every western
man Never yield the point The men Of l176 contend
against the principle Of taxation o representation, and
entered into successful revolution to resist H. and il would
be to the everlasting disgrace and shame of every western
man who would far degrade himself now, TO consent
10 the establishment in Virginia of this very principle against
which fathers rebeled The whole State is taxed by the
Legislature and if the West deprived by the Constitution
of her just representative weight and influence she is so far
fared ioio,n being represented Against such principle
shall bs found warring and supposed counteba
ancing reforms induce us TO sustain IT,