Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-11-24
Tho Legislature of Virginia.

lGEAaAaASA4AS
This body met ON yesterday and will have much
important business before it. Whether II VIII go
N wyork and perform what the constituent bodyex-
pects atits hands and what is needed by the ext
gences of the State remains .obe seen. As usual
we expect to see about half the session consumed
in vain debate upon Federal relations and an emp
ty ali. windy set of proftless resolutions may as
usual be adopted. Notthat we meanto deny the
right or the propriety of State Legislature discuss
ing and acting upon important questions affecting
the ries of the people OF the State, or the State
in its sovereign capacity, for there may be many
cases in which State and its people may, with
propriety, speak through its Legislature. But we
allude to that sort of resolve which means moth
ing and does nothing and which its authors do not
mean to adhere to when they pass them. Such
resolutions are waste paper, cucumber the statute
book. and bring the State and its Legislature into
disrepute. Resolutions on Federal politics should
be adopted, when necessary, with great caution,
but with the determination of maintaining the po-
sitions therein assumed to the last extremity.
The Legislature has wide fell before it for
efficient action, and the people expect and demand
at its hands vigorous and active discharge Of the
duties devolyed upon it. The wheel-work of our
new Constitution is but imperfectly arranged, the
crying demands of our INDECENT citizens for an en-
laIEed and effective system of common school edu-
cation, whereby all the INDECENT children of the
State will, at least, be Instructed in the elements
of the English language; the imposing demands of
the great Internal Improvement interests of the
State for well timed iudciouS, and effective sys-
tenn whereby the State will be developed and i'm
proved, and an easy, speedy, and cheap convey
anee be afforded to market for all the products of
the country.
Then but little has been done 10 carry out the
various provisions of the Constitution. The reg
ist1y acts, for the prevention OF illegal voting and
for providing for more efficient and equal system
of taxation, thus aording certaintyin the various
departments of voting and taxation. The judicia-
ny acts are far from complete, and in many re-
speOisEary imperfect and may be vastly improved
and simp1ised, and then the great fund, for ac-
comprising all that Virginia can desire, and for
carrying her up to the point of development,
which she shOald attain 10, is yet locked up in
the Federal Government, kept out ofthe hands of
the true owners and squandered by the Federal
Government on stOck-iobbing Corporations, gotten
mp for the purpose of beneHtting few of the new
States, while the old States, to whom animportant
pa1tof this great fund belongs, are wholly depri-
S4u OF LlLS --C0Uh0Ou lOI Inc common dement,
ofnIl the States Virginia inclusive)" Here then
ina great field fur the efficient action of the Legis-
1ature, and it remains to be seen whether it will
prove itself adequate to the mission, with which it
is iutTusted. Besides this there are other ques-
ions Of Importance to the State, and particularly
4oOurRortion of the State. We are flooded with
ahemal notes of other States, issued by banks Of
ten irresponsible, large portion of them Spuri-
Gus, and such is theImperiouS necessity caused by
1he demands of trade and commerce with the citi-
gems of other States, and by the additional want
OF small circulating medium felt all over the State
and caused by the comparatively small quantity of
silver in circulation and yet forced as we are to
have small notes, we are declared the right offs
suing our own notes, based upon solid foundation
simply because, somehow other it is anti Demv-
cratic to have notes of smaller denomination than
4He dollars. Why note for four dollars and nine
4ysline cents is anti Democratic and one of FIVE
dollars is not we Cannot conceive, but it is,
andWe are leltyear after year to suffer from the
ineurable evils to which presentin though
necessary, is incident, rather than let our own
hanks afford US safe and BENEFICIAL currency, free
from all the evils to which our foreign circulation
issRbiect. There is penal statute against pass
ing notes Of less denomination than five dollars,
and it must ever be dead letter, thus establishing
the nonsense of the statute and the short-sghted-
that legislation which refuses to pelmitthnt
by law, which the people have, and must have of
necessity. We hope then that the Legislature of
this session will take firm and deciled stand for
the welfare, the advancement and the develope-
ment of all portions of the State, and, disregard
ing party names and absolete views, lookIto the
wants of the people and legislate accordingly.