Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-01-19

Millions our representation On this aoor
omitted OF IS members. When our po-
,,Iaf;on was near tour millions, our num-
Der Of representatives here was 100, D., and
q continued until .he'preisut day. When
nur population, FIR, appears to be hve
millions, il,all we cail for $50, IN direct
violation Of the principles heretofore ell
,ablished, initead of l4l, which will be
the number afforded by the di,'lor g
900, and which is the number ~
ak for. re
/ repeat it, fir, We mutt rsa eXso:a
Ne cannot long proceed at th!S bn 70
rate Of increafe in direct pro2Is mare
our population. And it agsaa,,v to
rea'onab!e, more polite, 0 ua,;, wc
lea:n Cur proportional ipltAiss.! until Il. We We
arrive by moderate fsogIee:,on;; "a; as an q"
ultima.um, than to proceed IN 'u.l Ca e.,
1 n,s, and WIN an incorporate yea, iof
incre.ie and ,hrs Freiently 90 ''o.enss
to the haFs aDd expectations s. S =; ~,
country, "a f'''de'' AND ''''P' '
T wol therefore, fir, prefer even
lar,er rio than $1,000, TO 5000 on.
this noy appearing dei'rao!e e az, ia, ra,'
e. ,t. fbsli adhere t97baf NUM-
b bsr ,'s sish appears TO me % proper aa ana
conifen,, Of any that = ossn u n:s
conGsera'ion. As l he before is'd'
f du' re;pet, the leelip and isn''n men;
Of the pool,c upon eyy 0ss ahs =. pa' ~.
eularly upon the yt'e't' whe" : we ,ha ale
thar any o,k object o. OF ieg:'la'le''
Trey are geoaIIy right, fir, taxing ne ne.
ccas,;lv Iong interea in public at
fire a., having beloved due de-
l;her,,;I and rejection upon Tub.
i,.t. hey arrive at tine truth. This
serr.,k ;appIies, Sir, to an enlighten.
ed country, country like our own. !
conGder their opinions as unequivocai!y
exprened in the frlt in!tance by our
Contribution, which directs that the
number of representatives fhall not ex-
ceed one for every 10000, even at the
period of its formation, when our popu-
lation was 70 muci, inferior to the pre-
fent, clearly implying that even in tbnt
tate of our population this ratio was full
low enough, and Of courle that as the
population advanced the ratio or divi-
FOR oush, co he increafed: BY the law
of Congrefs pal,sd very foon afterwards,
and after the taking Of the frR Genius,
which puriuing this principle RATED the
ratio to $4,000, by the Recommended.
ton OF Cu,sres tive thirds OF both
houles concurrlug1 Of an article, by way
OF amendment TO the contribution, regu-
lating, in effect, tine ratio by the popu.
lation. Here, indeel, iome gentlemen
triumphantly cxclaim, +" but that re
commended article was rejected. 1
was not adopted by three fourths Of tn
tates.'' Thofe gentlemen, however
ir, hould recoiiett that it was not re-
jeeed on account OF its principle. L
contained, probably through the mad
vertance of iss trainers, propoiitlol
which was inconfitent and contradictory
in itlef. By the terms OF IT., after tns
number of representatives houd have
amounted to two hundred the proper.
ton was to have been 70 regulated tina
there were not to be LET'S than two hun
dred members, nor more than l tor every
$4,000; whereas it might have happen
ID from the llate Of pspa ration, that TAX
ing the ratio (she LEAH pciibie according
TO the propcfed a,ticle) the number G
menbers would have fallen lhort ct 200
Here, then, fir, in the fame breath il
was propoied that tie number OF mem.
bers ihould not be le!s, ard that it nigh
be lefs than 200. 10 this intriniic de.
feet in the form, and not to the radica
| principle out of which it had grown, tn
| propelled amendment, owed its rejettion.-
notwithstanding all this 'mperfettio.
of form, and perhaps lubaancc, in whicl
i, was fubmitted, a number Of ftates
though not indeed three-fourths aiente'
| to it and the concurrent evidence OF tn