Daily Richmond Whig

FOR THE WHIG.

When the Constitution of 1776 was adopted, Accomack and Northampton composed a Senatorial District, and the first Senator was from Northampton, the next from Accomack, and thus alternately, (for 40 years,) during the whole time they formed a separate district, (Accomack having four votes to Northampton's one.) This arrangement was considered so binding, that no man could have ever broken it, and was never attempted except in one instance When Northampton was to have her turn, a citizen of Accomack did venture to offer, and Accomack gave the Northampton candidate a large majority. When Gloucester, Mathews and Middlesex, were added to the district, an arrangement might have been made, to support alternate candidates, from the eastern and western parts of the district. The district being enlarged, the first Senator was from Northampton, Mr. Parker; the second from Matthews, Mr. Patterson; the third from Middlesex, Mr. Braxton; the fourth from Gloucester, Mr. Jones; and Accomack never, of her own accord, offered an opposing candidate, but on the 5th election, when every county had a turn, she offered one, and an opposition was got up on the western shore and failed. When the new constitution was formed, it is believed that an arrangement would have been acceptable to the people of Accomack, whereby the citizens of the western shore might have had their turn of Senator according to their population; about one for the western shore, and then two for the eastern shore: by which the western portion of the district would have been benefitted.

Messrs Editors, I have some knowledge of the people in this Senatorial District, and I believe it would be to the interest of that part of the district west of the Chesapeake, not to continue their opposition to every candidate from Accomack. If they unite with Northampton against Accomack, they never can separate Northampton from Accomack; they may promote the interest of some few citizens of Northampton, but will not promote the interest of any of their own. There are too many citizens in Northampton, of high standing in the community, who do remember their native place, and where their prosperity first commenced, although some few have forgotten these considerations,

AN OLD VOTER.