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O TEMPOR \ ! O MORES!
I |,,n at the degeeer ucv of that
Ih speaking, in refere
ft ic present period, as it regards the d -jeueracy
11'the philosophers of nnriquitv
world, and «ee tne state of mor
ft rod vouth; if they then should he told that
d of their own vague, tmeertun religion, the |
r. it of poetical imagination—that instead of a
f i Kind (Jods, all subject to human passions, we
>nd tlie true, all-wise, II-powerful (rod—
? had deignert to reveal to us his trill, and a
! > ined moral code, w Inch it w o sir duty :
It, liappinc-s ; think ve, they would beln-ve a
■ I of all thi«f Would thev nog at once ask.
■ is the ■ \ 1 ■ ’ W•{• t ■. •. t
‘ ' .i u ‘ »'■ ' • ■'' '* ■ ; -iv r- .« • t ■ • X j
“O temporal Omores!”
In some of the arts and sciences, there have
h'rcfi m their writing*, and from the specimens
tin at At I tens, ;*nd dug
the long buried cities «>f Pompeii
paths, h
»ral d'Uies. And after i
I nee? In
s best- f ah without works, or works
fttV.if fdih? Perhaps there may be too great a
ith vvith
\\ ho c i l*e|i. ve tbero is
I th* ancient repuh’a t motion to the morals
py «•'moderation. They
msidered it the bus is on which their gjovcrnim'U. i
: their liber ics w ere to icst. Morals with them
I science. They were.
ij .t ov their phi • >p .e < in their colleges,
oven, and Athefiteums. They often h id their j
t»iis*ir»ntors of moral,; per i*ns wh“ were set
^rt. whose duty it was to attend particularly to
«• preservation of the mortis of youth. Bet uflei
i tins care, we leant from histoiy that in the lat
rt d os of these republics, when morals were ne
■Tted, their governtmnu fell a prey to the vile
mobs of men, and v here they once stood. ,
ne>, nrmcipalittet and powers’ have 1 ns
si vptres over an ignorant and servile
If attention to the morals of the rising gen
r it on was then thought necessary to h ipuiness.
i:l preservative of Republics and Republican ui
titutiuo*. why are they so mac h neglw led .mong
>. v* ho f f, s„ u> be no lesv je 1 ate of our Ubef
if s ami Republican right'* We i ave seen the
:u- Orecian and Roman states; and let u>
In these davs- the morals of our youth seems
careelv to l*e thought of. Ai a 'pecitnen of the
tejlect both of our moral and r«/|gwwa duties, look
1 '-lie children and youth in our streets.
p. rugged, dirtv, urtpudeut and prophantx look
t heir manners and morals; hear them daily and
Jtlv blaspheme their .Maker—-Are these the
* -ii ot'a professed Christian land? Are their pa
’ th.' neglect, almost da 'v and nig'.t
hvse children the sous af civil and religious
• '•eenv. n, raising to be the future supports and pd*
fiac best government that has ev«r been cott
!! upon earth* Who would suppc'?th” pa
Jcls and heatbeusl It w ould appear that
• a expected to mount to the ladder at one step;
to ris# from baseness to i* peetabdity without the
interim*’, tat.- grades: from sinner to saint without
a day of probation; from the vilest inoral degrada
* » ?o perfection, without < -deal or penance.—
♦ us perhaps is the re. 'on whv we often see base
morals, intrigue, low- cunning, ignorance and so
plii'try succeed, where hones* v. hoe our, learning
md sound philosophy cannot. This perbap. is the
reason why vve see so many hy pocrvtes in religion
and so many demagogue' in polities. When men
11' -Itar of their CJod, Hk»w can thev. a! once,
‘go the habit* whu h have been firmed fr< ,n
• u youth? Il the habit ot lying h s become »u
• :ed that they have scarcely moral perception e
«* u,’i to distinguish truth from falsehood, bow
c m they be expected to sneak truth without a
co n,a of rigid discipline? Habit becomes i sec
o.al nature. Faith is good; faitn is necessary to
*v.Tfcio». bat wgrks tr. n>t accompany it.
PAcincu?
**« COMPILER.
Mes-rs. Editors—
In passing through the flourishing borougl
f\\ 1 ling, my attention, as is usual with strati
gor- generally was attracted to your Public Mar
s-I was (’leased to find it supplied with tin
luxinie- is m ! us the necessaries of life in abun
danc<-; hut was surprised to find the convenience
of the Market so badly provided. The weathe
was gl. >n»y and the streets and foot-wavs, parti
! rularlv surrounding the Market House, intolerubh
tnuddy. It is natural t« >r strangers, m funning <u
■ opinion ol a town and sun nn ling country to tefe
to tint Markets. That portion of the tinrough we!
t tramp'd won d, in niy humble estimation, adi
importance an ■ resjtectubiiir y t the place I vouh
respectfully > iggest to the Corporation, and thi
utizens of this b rough who feci an interest in tin
r .pid progress of \\ heeling, with regard to it:
trad- *tt-1 otn r advantages, and more probably K
tin immense importance it may attain to. by beint
to’ininatioii of the Haitiior!' & O
ti i R m. o.u>, t» apply all their resources to Jo
!c.di:n ... , commencing with their M.ok:"
* "t" ~ ' hi i could lie conveniently and profftt
- « - it ’ aing on l xio.x, nm kina
t. if stones high. The second sirs
o—efl loom. & occwiiionaBy
■ rented to some religious deiiomiiMtion for pub*. ■
worship, i o bet > ulenco of .\n am / we, t--[.
i- provi bud; and there is no doubt but tint scdli
e.eut c'.smd fv Id he had from him for that pur
pose on hber terms. Such nn mipfovemeut
u on attraet tile attention of st- angers passing
thrniig i ih . gre ,t thoroughf .re? ami establish n
ir ir ni ot • the town of Wheeling, hv t!i ■ •
p >rts i irave lei ns would add to its importance
and con-oquo itiy increase its wealth by encoura
- aig emigrauoo Y\ i.h morn enterprnsc anil i n
■ gy, uu tb:-of emigrants passing through, might
b«- induct d to setil . I ai mere .ngtride ould
induce capitalists to locate themselves; and the ex*
nscs i, eudt g t! e < onvmpi ted improvements
would eveii’unlly prove unimportant.
\ Th WELLER
N v*>?nher 93d. 1-90
nzi&c£ii.x,A srsotr s.
'tantmople t* the kev to a vast rommerce,
«o it could scarcely h ive fallen into worse
keeping than that ofthe Grand Turk. A
i’ o> g many hail governments which pro
se t themselves, a* if in a kind of competi
tion even where, his enjoys the !»r**-emin
ence of hei g die worst. It is clearly Asi
atic. and o ght never to have found a foot,
mg in Europe. Ender tb;s inauspicious
influence, arts disappear, rioting is un
known. agriculture droops and trade is em
barrassed. i he genius of some European
governments mu-t be bad enough when
thev can afford to the cynics or the wits
an occns n t" compare them for a mo
merit to tlu< chunsv policy, whose whole
weight seems for some time to have been
expended in crushing its own subjects
If the (V r had not entirely put an end to
the rule of the Sultan in Europe, we hear
tilv hope he may do it soon.
The Journals are naturally and judi.
ciouslv occupied with discussing the new
asja'ct which the opening of the Hla'-k Sea
will give to commercial relations — -'his
vast inland water, which, including the sen
of Azof, is tititv miles long &332 broad,
which is bordered by ttie territory of some
of she most important states of antiquity,
and into which so many rivers of great
leng'h disembogue, has hut a single outlet,
and that outlet, as we have remarked above
has been under die most barbarous andea
pricious government in Europe. Them
Purest of Russia is in this particular, the
interest of the world; and the war which
h is just i-ecmed an outlet for the com
merce of her Southern dominions,' has. it
would ap ear, secured an i 'gress for tit t
of all other nations. It is to be presumed
that this nautical and commercial nation
•i. i i . 1 - _I _ .1
Will iftrgtMjr piirmipau; iif tiuo ^ciiriui nv *
vantage, and that the flag of the United
States will find its way to Redout-Kale,
and »he commodities of its commerce to
Tufflis and Mount Ararat, as soon as those
of anv other people Mr. Sicaid, a Rus
sian Councillor of Commerce, resident at
Odessa, has published a paper on this
subject m the journal of that place, some
particulars i'mm which, and from other
sources of information, may not be with
out their interest at this moment.
I he Black Sea employs at present from
1,200 to 1.500 of European shipping, the
annual freight of which amounts to 19 or j
20 millions of francs. There is an annu- j
al interchange of imports and exports to
the extent of m-;c than 21 millions of ru
bles. The rapid increase of navigation
and industry exhibited there within a few
vears. and the regular immigration from
the W\ -t of Europe to the South of Russia
shows, savs this writer, that the views of
profit must he great, and t!»e impulse of re
ciproca! wants powerful, which bring such
distant countries into contact. In fact,
the ports of the Mediterranean having now
no communication with India, and the
whole of the Archipelago aHfd the Levant
being in poverty and confusion, the Black
Soi will oiler so much the greater advan
tages. as it will not only present the trade
nt the southern provinces of Russia, but
\m !1 open the way into the heart of middle
A>: i, of Tartary and Siberia. Georgi..
.|v offers a wide field for commercial
enterprise. We have already mentioned
in this journal the trade which is carried on
between Tifflis. in that country and Leip
* Tho Georgia merchants lay out at
(j... f,.-ipsic fairs several millions for man
ufactii' ed goods, which have been hereto
-b"c transported over land to Odessa, where
(j)eV nre shipjred for the Redout-Kale, on
«’,e eastern coast of the Black Sea, and
; thence conveyed up the Thasis and Tifflis.
From this place they are distributer! to va
rious parts of Asia. Even Champaign*
wine has taken this long journey. If this
trade will pay, with tins enormous lane
carriage, what benefits may be expected to
result from a free navigation. According*
5 ly the Georgia merchants are now making
. arrangements fora direct intercourse with
London and Marseilles, and two cargoes,
■ purchased personally by Georgians in the
latter port, arc now at Constantinople, on
their way to Redout-Kale. Russia sympa
thetically fosters this trade.
The great evil under w hich the com
| merce of the Black Sea bv uayofCon
I stantinople lias hitherto labored, was the
I capricious policy of the Porte in granting
permissions. As it might take at pleasure
any part of the cargo, fixing its own price,
and seldom paying that, the effect on the
trade of paralyzing.—Engagements were
necessarily broken, and the funds transmit
t d to Constantinople di ivon out of circula
I non and lost. The writer of the article
which we quote, complains of this niische
ous oppression of the Porte, as having
taken place repeatedly during the last wv
* n years. Besides those indiv idunl losses
t • Russian subjects, all Southern Russia
u.is “placed in a state of sequestrition,”
s to it* muratime trade with the rest of
Europe, and the progress of civilisation re*
t 1 '<•«!. .Since the commencement of the
1 te w r, about 300 sail of Austrain ships
have f>een i-ml up in the harbor of Trieste,
■;nd LM English, and 100 Genoese ships
** >iiso excluded from the trade of the >
Pluck Nia. Could supplies havehewn oh
■’ ined last winter from that sea, Russian
corn, which was purchased in the Baltic
for 32 ruble* the chetvert, might h ivc been
had tbr 12 on the Black 8ea. Tallow
j w hich sold at 10 or 11, might have been
. had for 7 or 8.
Baltimore American.
Cure of Hydrophobia —■The following!
| article from a late number of the Loudon
Courier is presented in such a shape ns to'
entitle it to the attention of the medical fac*!
ulty.
From the Ijondon Courier.
Ccres of Hydrophobia —The follow
* ing remarks may not. perhaps,he unaccep j
table to the readers of the Courier, in the
columns of which we are frequently fa
vored with valuable hints in the different
departments of science. Nearly five years*
•go the writer of this communicnt’on was)
culled upon to see a stout young man in j
the second day of his attack of the Hydro- i
phobia, and being the first case he had ev
er seen (though he had enjoyed extensive
•practice as s physician for several years,),
he was jruuch shucked at the horid scene j
which presented itself. The young man
had been bitten by his own dog about 1!
w eeks previous to the attack of the hydro-1
phobia He died the following day.
Two other persons had been bitten at
the same time by the same dog; they were I
much alarmed at witnessing (he above
mentioned case, and they accordingly con
sulted the writer He first allayed, as well j
as heeuuld, their fears and apprehensions,,
and promised to do oil he could for then1.
Reflecting that the canine species never!
shew anv sensible perspiration, but in lieu, j(
when heated from whatever cause, they |
have uniformly a copious flow ofsalivia—j
reflecting that the haven of this horid dis- 1
ease has its origin in all instance?, from
the bite oi a rabid or dying animal, which
h is been tortured at its death, the writer,
holding these facts in view, adopted the
following plan:—The bitten, or rather ul
cerated parts from the bites, were kept
open by means of ung. Sabina*. The sys
tem w;is kept free by means of aperients.
( he PtiultE Hydrargyri of five grains,
were given to the extent of from ten to fif
teen grains per diem, in order that those
glands which in the canine species shew'
the peculiarity of their system, might be
for some time affected. This plun was
continued in both cases, for four or five
weeks, and about the end of that time the
ulcers healed very kindly, though the ung.
Sabi use h id been used the whole of the
time.
These individuals nave continued to en
joy good health. Not long after tins the
writer wus called to visit a remarkably
fine young woman, of 17 or \S years ol
ane. She had recently been bitton by a
mad dog, which was unknown to her.—
While she was feeding two young pigs, the
dog, in passing, bit them both, and tliev
both became mad and were killed accord
ingly by the proprietor. The writer cultn
1 ed her fears—requested a burgeon to in*
j cise the bitten part, and bleed her freely at
Ithe arm, whether once or twice the writer,
does not remember. Aperients weregiv*
• t*n for two days, and the same plan was
i followed as in the above detailed cases.— ’
: [’he voting female has been in good health
| ever since.
It is indispensable that the greatest pub
' Ucity should be given to every circum
1 stance connected w ith this disease, as it
I tms been liereiofore been tiie opprobrium
medicoruin; and from theso hints it is hop
ed bv tiie writer, that others may be indue-1
ed to canvass tiie subject in the columns
of your valued Journal.
From every thing the writer has obscrv*
1 fj, he is strongly impressed that tiie vitia
ted salivia ofthe rabid annimal is carried
into the blood ofthe unfortunates by means
ofthe lymphatics, not by means of the red
veins in a direct manner, as in some other
it.stances: for we observe in those persons
who have been bitten very extensively up
on the face, that the disease does not make,
its appearance sooner, crieruf jparihas,
than in ordinary; but when the disease
makes it-; appearance it is generally more
intensely severe in its leading symptoms,
and in the writer’s belief, the termination
the suffering of the patient is more rapid.
The writer in this case communicates ins
ideas utrnntc calamo, and aims not at el
egance of language, resting his claim for
insertion on the value of the information
contained in his communication only.
Ejects of the Tariff.—Welsh Plains
(coarse cloths for negro wear) which, says
the Savannah Mercury, sold IS months
ago for 63 cents yer yard, were recently
sold in his city at JS and 39cents, the va
I Inc having declined since the Tariff of >2S,
j about 3(fpcr cent. Negro cloths from the
i New Fa gland states, of a quality equal t
'the Welsh plains, sold at ft ora 19 to 32
cents, .Mr. Me Duffy’s predictions to the
contrary, notwithstanding.
Prince Abduhl Rahaman, died at Mon
rovia on the 5th of July. A letter from
that place as Into as the 21th of August re
presents the colony as being in a healthy
state.
There are near four millions of people in
Ireland, who -peak none other than the 1
rish language.
The London Magazine, fir September,
st ites, thit a poor boy was sentenced to
death for dealing a piece of gooseberry pie. !
At the sane time two persons for attempt
mg to dow n a third* were sentenced to 9
months imprisonment.
The Mditia.—The Legislature of Ver- j
mout hasa abolished all Militia Trainings, j
except one in each year, for enrollment
and inspiction of arms,
'Phis i a good beginning—but it is on
ly n begning—tor such militia, without
any sort of knowledge or experience on
the part <f either officers or men, would
be for anv sudden emergency, useless if
not mischievous. It lo ibis abolition ot’
trainings Vermont had added a provision
requiringthe commissioned and non-com
missioned officers to be r gularlv drilled
and instructed m by sclmoi of the soldier
uid of the buttuHion. and compensating
fhern tor the time employed, by propor
tionate j»ay. and .t reduced term of service j
—.site would have made a step in regard ,
to the true economy of i ouhti.i force, that i
tier sister states would soon, we think, be
tempted to follow.— V Y. American.
Chamberxburg. Pa. A<Jt\ IT.
The Court of Quarter Sessions ot this
county, were occupied I) tween three and
tour days last week trying an indictment
ignmst sundry Journeymen Shoemaker?
>f this borough, for a conspiracy to raise
hpir wages, and prejudice such as were
iot members of their association. The
.'r tten Constitution and By Laws of tn<*
Society were in general of a benevolent
diameter, providing for the support and
;omfort of its sick and disabled members,
rhe prosecution was in the maul sustain
ed by proof of other rules that w’ere un
written but acknowledged and practiced by
he society. The Jury after being out from
Friday evening till Saturday afternoon,
'mind the society guilty of conspiring to
•aise their wages.— ind on the afternoon
>f that day the Court sentenced the prin
cipal of the Society to pay a fine of? 10— 1
hree others named in the indictment, each ;
i fine of five dollars, and cost of prosecn-!
Hon.
MR. DODDRIDGE’S SPEECH,
In Convention, Saturday, JVov. *21.
On extending the right of Suffrage, to citi
zens 21 years of age, who have paid
taxes, or who are house holders.
Mr. DODDRIDGE rose to add a very
few remarks to what had fallen from Ins
colleagues. It was unnecessary to say
much, ns his constituents had already been
well defended, lie desired to do nothing
more than to bring the question before the !
Committee. The decision on the proposi
lion of the gentleman from Monongalia,
[Mr. Wilson,] had much narrpwed the
ground lor discussion. Alter that, the re
jection of the proposition of the gentleman
from Brooke, [Mr. Campbell.) followed
as a matter of course, and aiso that of his
other colleague from Monongalia, [Mr j
Morgan,] which looked to further object,!
a system of general education The pro- j
position of each of those gentlemen was !
to extend the right of suffrage to all free
white males of the ago ot 21 years, requi-!
ring a certain residence. That of the gen* j
tleman trom Mooongiha, although it ex
tended the right to such as were not as
sessed tor any tax. required that if assess
ment was made, the tax should be paid.—
I he decision of the Committee on these
propositions had settled this |>oinT, that no
one should have the rigtit ot suffrage un
less he was taxed in some w y, and the de
cision went no farther — Hie amendment
which he proposed to offer did not go to
the extent of those of his col lea trues, which
had been rejected. He stated that he had
been a great deal of his time away from
home during the last the years, and con
sequently was not so well acquainted with
tlie opinions of his dictrict as his colleagu
es were; but taking them for hi? guides,
he had framed bis amendment ?o as to c\
trii.l the r 'got ■. Sjiflragt to .til fat* white
males of the age 0f *1 years, who had re
sided two tears in the t'hate. and one year
m the county v here he desired to vote, and
who during that years residence should
have paid a revenue or county tax, legally
assessed. It any gentleman should ob
ject to tee extension to those who merely
pay a county tax, ho may strike out the
words, so as : make the qualification the
payment ot a leveuue tax. Tins jaropo
sitioa, therefore, is not so extensive as
those which 1: .vq been rejected. It is to
give the power to those who are called on
to support th«. expenditures of the govern
ment.
The amendment offered by the gentleman
j from Chesterfield, contains, fie admitted,
a Iren fiel d • .cu&mn of the right of suf
! tinge. It exUn** iue right, although it
1 still con tines it to the sod, and'ttius ».\
cltidcy a great number of individuals who
com/daiii of their exclusion. Hut it in
cludes tirincrs, who holding under leases
I r(viewable on payment ot a fine, are in ef
fect freeholders, and are so considered by
the gentleman from Chesterfield. Hut if
that class, und no others were lobe udir.it
cd, it was scarcely worth while to call t,it*
Convention. This was not that extension
of the right which was asked and expcc (d
and they who had struggled for the Con
vention would not be satisfied. It is not
that extension of die right which was tlio’i
of in 1*K> and 17: it was what no one of
these thought of when the voice of the
|>eople in 1*317, demanded the Conven
vention.
A lew remarks on lius head would show
that tiiiextension contemplated by the gen
tleman from Chesterfield, did not go so
far as was wished: and would further show
that tiie freeholders had not been cheated
out of the votes which they gave for the
Convention. While on this point he wish
ed to get rid of a difficulty, which seemed
to have always used in this debate, and
to explain what he meant by the terms ar
istocracy and oligarchy, in that sense
in which lie understood the terms and
in which the. term aristocratic had hewn
applied to himself He never intended,
in using these words, to apply them in
such a manner as to give personal ofience.
Hut to come at the subject and place it in
its proper light. The proposition of the
gentleman from Chesterfield did not go to
the extent which tiio people wish, and fur
which they have steadily called. There
rsr** pot'.nj however; utt ngici;,
and it matters not what road wo reach
them. Ii is of little importance whether
we go back to the days of Adam, or to
those of the shepherds, there are points
where notional rights have a beginning;
and if wo strip the subject of abstractions,
we shall agree on the main points. WV
are ail agreed as to the propriety of ex
cluding females, yet wo all know thatthei
: xercise an influence over thuso who have
I lie power. We also ugree in the exelu
sion of those who are under the age of 21. j
not that they may not bo qualified to vote,
but that the human mind does not roach
its maturity lieinre that |Kjrn»d. Thus we
exclude many who are well qualified, ami
who would he safe depositories of political
pnwer. Hut there is no rule wo can fix
which is not liable to exception. In deter*!
mining that none shall he admitted to vote1
until the age of 21, wo act on the estab
lished principle of legal adjudication. He ;
admitted that tho rule had its inconvenien
ces. Want of mind excludes the idiot and j
the lunatic: and such as have committed j
infamous crimes, all will agree ought to be j
excluded. Thus vour scheme and ours :
ate exactly the -nine; and you have arriv
ed at your conclusions by the same course
of reading, and the same knowledge of
society. We have then, by common con
sent, excluded females, minors, idiots and (
lunatics, und those who have been gmltv
of infamous offences. Who then are lefi'
.Men who are free citizens, who are ubove
the age of twenty one, who have commit
ted no crimes, and win. according to law,
arc entitled to the ordinary rights of cifi-'
zens. {1 f-rr is the dc|io*ilwj of C'erv |
scintilla of power. Who of these shall
he excluded from the exercise of tins pow.
ur? They who act with (he gentleman
from Chesterfield say—all who have not
a portion in the soil. They who are op
posed, arc as strongly possessed of the
importance of personal attachment to the
State and its institutions, yet contend that
the sufficient evidence of |>ertnanent com
mon interest and attachment, which the
Bill of Rights and prudence look to, may
be found without reference to the interest
in the soil which other gentlemen deem to
be indispensiblc. This expressed what he
intended by aristocracy; not the govern-'
men? of a very few—because, as the g<?n .
tlcman from Chesterfield had told us. few i
and many are relative terms—but the £ov*.
eminent of the minority over tiie majority, i
Hence would be seen the tendency of ’he
measuresot gentlemen on the other side;
lo establish an aristocracy; and this is the |
aristocracy which prevailed under the mo
narchy, and such as had remained lirom
that time. Thus, when he used the terms
anstorracy and oligarchy, he begg -d to
I be acquitted of any intention to app*/ Jbem
Iso as to gne personal offence.
| The gentleman from Chesterfield obaefc
ved significantly, that he knew it had been
asserted that the non-freeholders area ma
jority, and that the freeholders are a mi
i noritv; be did not know to whom the gen
#
I tlemnn referred as having made the n-*er
| tioti. He. however, would now affirm
j that the non freeholders hi the West are
u: the proportion of three to two. He
had been told that a Census had recently
l>een taken in I* redenck, under oath, and
that the proportions were as three to two,
and 2,000 or 2.5(k) persons m that county
were debarred the right of suffrage. He
iffirmod that the non-freeholders of this
community are a majority, and that the
| freeholders are a minority. Here we have
a measure proposed which is to give pow
| er to the minority. This, then, came up
j to his idea of aristocracy This was wh.it
j ho meant—political powei confined to
wealth, and distributed with a patronising
I spirit. lie contended that the gentlemen
who on ihia floor, weie eng »p»-tl.ui so tam
ing that principle. are a nanui t, of a mi
nority. Il« had tllllS tar iruVvHcd of
his way to notice the principle on w^iC||
the ratio of representation had been if is.
cussed.
He had said that the principle of the ex
tension of the right of suffrage I ad been
held in view for many years, and hud been
discussed year after year iu the general as
sembly, as may he seen bv reference to the
Journals. The gentleman compliments
the judgment of the minority of the com
munity but poorly, when he se t s that the
freeholders were imposed on, and cheutcd
out of their votes on the subject of the
Convention. He knew not how it could
be pretended that they were not perfectly
cognizant of the purposes for which the
Convention was required. The proceed
ings throughout the country, and m the
Legisl.itne, were antlieiently known to ev
ery one. In I'sOti Jfiere was a resolution
offered for taking the vote for culling a
Convention. At that tune it was supposed
that the question had not bfeen generally
agitated in the enu trv, and a motion was
made to postpone the resolution, it waa
considered unwise to take the opinions of
the people at the polls, unless there was
more evidence that it was the public wish,
us the only efleet would lx* to increase tho
public dissatisfai-tiou. f'he people wore
then so divided, that prudence thought it
would not he proper to meet together in
Convention, Such was |i;> oWii opin
ion at the the time, and h saw another
member of the Convention who w.is ol
the same opinion. Hie subject wu» a nor
wards brought before the Legislature, a: d
a bill was introduced into ino House of
OvKg-rttw, *tte pioaiiitrte of *rtueti w,,S
subsequently modified, with groat proprie
ty, becuiisa it went too far The hill mere
ly provided for the taking or me sense of
people on tho subject of calling » Conven
tion. The hill was rejectod in tho House
by usinall majority, i'hey who voted Jbr
it represented a inajorty of tho (•tale, j jus
i; appears that at that time the disposition
to call n Convention went so titr, that a
bill to take the sense of the people was re
ported in the Houso of Delegates, (bunded
on the petitions received from the people,
and in which the disfranchisement of num
bers was recited as a grievance to he re
dressed. The grievances sjt ibrth in the
petitions were recited in the preamble, but
were stricken out, lest (hen insertion might
have an injurious effect abroad.
By rcferrencc to the Journals of 1^16.
p. 1*^0. it would be seen that t i« Staunton
memorial was received and referred to a
a committee, together with the petitions
from other parts of tho Commonwealth,
and a report was made specilying tho
grievances which were Sid fori It by the jh o
ple, winch underwent a long and labored
discussion m the House of Delegates.—
The report was adopted, and, a hill wes
ordered to be brought hi. Afer the
preamble, tins lull recited the objects for
winch the Convention was to tie called,
viz; to equalize representation, to equalize
taxation, and to extend the right ot snflr.igc
to all who had a perinanentcommon in'cr*
est in, and attachment to the Common
wealth.
Thus in 181G the objects of the propcs*
vd Convention were fully known; "n<l *l
must tnerelore be manifest that ihe amend
ment proposed by the gentleman Irom
Chc.-terfield, was not of a character to
satisfy the demand* and die wishes of the
people. Until the present *e* mu, he sta
ted that he had never heard of the dcncrip
tion of tenures named m the profit,on
of the gentleman from t. Iwsterheld, and
which he regarded u* one of bis most un
p ,tUnt^j^ eXpjana|j0nt 9aKj ji,at |rt
regarded tins as the most trivial of his ob
,ect». His great object was to ektend the
freehold qualification to Iresbolders who ure
not now qualified.
Mr. Doddridge said that there was no
such object contemplated in the Staunton
memorial, if© had himself never heard
of buch tenures as tb© gentleman describ
ed till now. His position w»8, that the
extension proposed by the gentleman from
Chesterfield was not the extension of the
right of suffrage which was thought of and
asked iu 1816. He admitted that it was
a valuable extension, but it fills very far
short of the object for winch t!»e Conven
tion was called. He had no recollection
of this sort of freehold. What was re
quired by tii© Staunton Convention was an
iequalization of taxation, an equalization
* of repress itation, and an ©xteusiouof tiie
' right of suffrage to all who have 4 norma
| uent common interest, tec. Here Mr. D.
recapitulated the facts i»© had oomnawdea