The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-03-23
Observation-Disclosures RascaLty

Observation-Disclosures RascaN'y.
The Committee on Apportionment Il
the Convention on Saturday made report
the purpose Of which is to throw this Stat
entirely into the hands of the negroes.
The committee base representation upo'
The registration prior 10 the cscctton o. me"
6crs to tie Convention, knowing that large
number of whites did not register. I'M
knowledge induced them to depart iron
the universal basis Of representation
q,0,,tlntion-which is the only true one
But that would not have subserved their
purpose of appropriating Virginia to Rudl-
calism by trick and fraud. The failures
to register were very numerous IN thc
parts of the State chiefly populated by
whites, while the negroes en- maSse were
registered, and their strength much IN
creased beyond their real numbers by
frauds. That registration, as the basis, In
evitably gives the advantage to the Radl-
Gals.
Yet this is not enough; for they proceed
TO make the result still more certain by
their apportionment Of delegates to voters.
They provide delegate for every eighteen
hundred voters; but where there are nine
hundred votes over that number IN q
county, they give two delegates; and
counties that have only nine hundrcd UoteS
are entitled to one delegate. All Of which
throws strength into the scale of the small
negro predominatiDg counties of Eastern
Virginia.
We have not thought proper to publish
this report, as it is yet to be debated. We
only now call attention to its infamous
character, and the rascally device BY
which renegade and scallawag white men
combined with negroes are seeking to bow
the neck of this noble old State to negro
rule.
The reader may form some idea Of the
nciarious character OF this criminal pro-
position by scanning the following state
ment of the apportionment Of senators in
some Of the more populous and well-known
counties:
Pittsylyania, Halifax, Bedford, Mecklen-
burg, and Campbell, have each one senator.
The following counties are grouped into
districts; and We find great counties, such
as Augusta, attached to one or more
others, and granted the representation that
single counties in East Virginia inferior in
population are to have:
Richmond city and Henrico, one senator
rage, Warren, and Rockingham, one senator
kockbridse, Bath and Allegheny, one sei,.
tor; highland and Augusta, one sent a .oi
alexandria, Fairfax, and Loudoun, TWO semi
tors: Fauquier, Rappahannock, ana rfine .'
William, one senator; Culpeper, orange, ano
Madison, one senator; STAFFORD, Slo,s ynari,a
and Louisa, one senator; FREDERICK Si'i N.
Roanoke Craig and Giles, one senator
Montgomery, Floyd, Patrick, and Carroll, on'
senator.
The apportionment gives l3S delegate'
and AZ senators. Richmond is awarded
six delegates Henrico, two !; and Henrlc'
and Richmond together, three senators.
The unprincipled exotics and ignoran
negroes are making beautiful Constitu
ton for Virginia-a State whose renowl
surpasses that of any other in the nation
Of course such work as these wretches
are carving out for Virginians cannot stand
1t twill be Indignantly rejected, and spurned
as the abominable deed of dishonest and
loathed men.