Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1836-04-29
EQUAL RIGHTS.

IN general.
. EQUAL RIGHTS.
From the Ohio Patriot
A writer 10 the "CGrroU Free Press"
dated March 25, 1896, over the sigma
ture of"EquaI Rights" furnishes the pub
lie with an article which IS intended as a
severe castrgation for tho Representa-.
lives FROM the county Of Coumbiana, If
that writer had been governed BY truth it
would have saved him the labor of writing
the article. | would not he so under.
stood as charging that writer with wilfl
iaIsehood M, NEVER; but only with a
want OF capacity to slate matters and
things rs they are; having attained such
. DEGREE from his long practice Of miSta
king that he cannot now state facts,
should lie make anattempt. Haviog the
official return before me, from which |
fad that the county Of CoIumbilua con
tains 692O inhabitants above the age Of
twenty one, aud The county Of Carroll
3 SO, The ratio for one Senator and
two Representatives, was $3.50; for half
Il Senator and one Representative, 3275.
By the present arrangement, the county
'l Carroll has the same com non interest
with the county Of Colnmbiana, in the
Senator and one Representative Al
Iotting haIfthe Senator 10 Carroll, that
county would be minus l06; and aIlot-
ting half the Senaiorto Columbiana, and
three Representatives, that county would
have a surplus Of 80, The advantage
Of the arrangement heing IN fHvor of the
county Of Carroll, as her deficiency was
made up front CoIumbiana county, and no
thing returned nor expected by her; but
good will from the honest yeomanry of
Carroll county Columbiana county hav
ing noIhingto gain from the connexinn,
being complete Senatorial district by
herself, but heiIg unwilling that the
coanty of Carroll shouId be kept without
any, TO connect with her, the members
from Cnlumbiana consented to the ar
rangcmeat. The bill, as first reported
by the committee, (ug which one Of the
members from ColumEidna was mem
ber, } met the appropriation of the deIega-
tim from Columblana better than The pre-
sent arrangement; but circumstances re
quired that change should he made,
and the delegation submitted. That the
county Of CArplI, by borrowing LOG from
the county of CoIumbiana, would have
been titled to nMov Cb: two years,
and one Representative all the time,
could such an arrangement as this have
been constItutionuiIy madp--it would
have met The views Of the delegation from
CuIum6laUa. But as no arrangement
could be made by which any county, how
ever small would be deprived Of her just
Representation IN each branch of the LIE
gisIature, all the fine hence the necessl
ty of connecting tie county Of Carroll
with some G'her, for electing a Senator
Whether the present conneXion is judi
cious one, lime will prove.
One thing is certain, that If the citi
zens of the county of Carroll can be
operated on by the statements Of such
writer's as the pretended friend TO
Equal Rights" and by them be
brought to believe that they have
been SOLD, and deprived ftheir Just
rights, by the arrangement oflh del
egatiOn from CoIumbana county,
(from whom they expected better
lhings,) in order that they might Sc.
cure 10 themselves seats in the next
Legislature. The most un(riendIy
feelings must be had to men who
would simply permit the county Of
Corroll to be connected with the coun
Iy Of Columbian, in elecluga Sena
'or. and then claiming the Just due
for Columbisna codnty, in the other
branch, which she lost in The Senate;
for this is all the crime these men
have been guilty cf-and for which
This writer has been pleased 10 charge
them with ''one Of the most daring
oursges against political rightsevar
attempted in any country in any age
oil the world"-lor which they are
called "pedlars, traitors, Catalines,"
Re-, &c, Should unfounded jeaIousies
be created by such writers, at the com
menCemen, Of our political connection,
and be promoted by Ststements abso-
Iutely FALSE, then there is some rea
son to fear that the union of two coun
lies for political purposes, which haye