This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... the refusal to consider the plan for reapportionment, or for a convention. The protest declared that there was a fixed determination on the part of the East to ignore the West and not to equalize representation at all. (Enquirer, Feb. 17, March 10, 29, and April 1, 1842.) 3 Enquirer, July 12, 1842. -Ibid. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... the refusal to consider the plan for reapportionment, or for a convention. The protest declared that there was a fixed determination on the part of the East to ignore the West and not to equalize representation at all. (Enquirer, Feb. 17, March 10, 29, and April 1, 1842.) 3 Enquirer, July 12, 1842. -Ibid. justice. The people of Western Virginia were asked to send delegates to a convention at Lewisburg to consider representation.1 Accordingly, a convention met in Lewisburg, August 1, 1842. Twenty counties were represented by some fifty or sixty delegates.2 Resolutions were adopted asking the Legislature to pass a bill, submitting to the vote of the people the question of a constitutional convention to equalize representation on the white basis.3 At the next three sessions of the General Assembly, efforts were made to pass a bill for a constitutional convention, but all in vain.4 In 1845, the state of representation was warmly discussed. The Enquirer came out in forcible terms against the existing system of representation, and said it was folly for the East to try to keep the system unchanged, since it engendered discord, and produced such a strong local and sectional feeling.5 To 2 The counties were Harrison, Monongalia, Ohio, Montgomery, Cabell, Mercer, Kanawha, Logan, Greenbrier, Monroe, Alleghany, Fayette, Randolph, Wood, Wythe, Mason, Jackson, Page, Augusta and Wayne. (Enquirer, Aug. 18, 1842.) 3 Enquirer, Aug. 19, 1842. 4 At the session of 1842-43 the proceedings of the Lewisburg Convention were presented, and petitions from Scott, Harrison, Monongalia, Randolph, Marion, Lewis and Greenbrier counties, asking for a convention. Western members worked hard, but the convention bill was defeated in the House of Delegates by a vote of 66 to...
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