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The Contest In Virginia

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
August
Year
1842
Copyright
Public Domain
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Thcre nppcars to bo qni'c a contest going on beween Eastern and Western Virginia. Accordinsr to a slatement wc published yesterclny. Eiist ern Virginia sends doublé ihc nunibcr ot' members to Congres?, thiit Western Virginia does. and vet its pupulation is less - that is, jj whiw population. The s'.itvc vote mak.es live diiForence. the Eastern partof ilio state having Uirgq nvestrnentsjn that kind of stock, whilo the Wcsiern is conipnrativeJy destimto ofit. The cmscqueive is, thnt Wéètfern Virginia is getting largely dissrttisfied, and see;ns deteimincd ti throw off tno shacWea imposod upon her liy the slavc pov,-er of her Eastern lialf. She conlcnds, thnt her propoity is as fairly cntitlei loa represetation in Congress, ;;s is the properly of the Eastern part of the State. And is ehe not right? What reason on earth can beassigned, why a inan in Fastern Virginia, should bo allowed to deposite in the ballot box fihy or a hundred votes. While a resient of Weslcrn Virginia, with an eqtml arr.ount of property. is nllownd lo deposite only a single voto? Is it the kind of properly tint maUcs the difference? But why should one kind of property bc allowed pre-emi'ience above anoth er in this regard? Is this kind of property which is so highly disiinguished, so far superior to all ather kmd3, that it is allowed the privilege of de positing its vote? No such thing. It is as dumb as the damben piece of chattel that ever aspired to the dignity of property, and as lar frorn any bapability of caaiino; its vot. With cqunl renson might a man contend, thatho should be nllowcd :i vore for evory givon nuinber of mules which hupossessed. whilo :i!l oiher kinds oí property hIiouI d be pot under tlio ban. Surely the rruile hos aa iniicli inteiesl inbis rnastcr's r..?poiity and com-.

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News