Mobile daily commercial register and patriot., 1841-07-21

ool thai there public men, who like certain birds of gandy pumage, are incapable of realizing their true size and dimensions, mlil lher ttils are cut oii Promising in good G,th Is de,oe a future honr to lhls production, proceed 10 inquire inio the effect ol the General Ticket law upon the right of suffrage. According the District system ol elect ing members of Congress each qualified voter in ihe State IS entitled Ia for member of lhe louse of Reptesrniayes in Congress anl no mare.
 Under the General Ticket law, each qualified voter in the State is entitled to vote for live members of the House of Representatives in Congress, and will continue To he entitled to vote for the whole number to which the people of t'e State according to their numbers, entitled. This k the simple, direct and inevitable effect of the Two systems iJly stated. One gives to each voter in tle States the right 10 vote for Representative and tIie other gNes lo each voter in the State the rgh for lfe Representatives. And strange relate the ynN eyed sagacily of modern whggery, has found out that the system which increases the rights of the precisely m the ratio of five 10 one, dsfianchises a portion Of the peoplel Does the General Ticket law deprive any one of the right to vole, who had rghl VI any one of the right vote just has he plrases II not, let no one who understands the meaning of the most ordinary terms in the English language, talk any more about disranclsemenl, lest they should prove themselves as ignorant of their mother tongue as they are oi the principles of the constitution. But | the General Ticket system not only increases the right of suffrage in the ratio of five to one, but il | cun anI in, tl.
 fundamental principle which lies at the bottom of our free institutions, thai the will of majority of the people shall govern. One of the arguments urged a. gainst the General Ticket system, is that il de- pryes the people of the advantage they enjoyed under the District System of voting for man they know.
 This argument when examined, will be found ut- ery iallacions, and to nothing than that because the 'eope of particular district have been in the habit either from necessity from choice of voting for particular individual, they continue to do so, however ignorant they may be of any good he ever has done, hopeless they may be of any, he is likely 10 do n the Congress of the United States, unless it be flood the mails and tax their constituents with the labors of other men. But ad- mil that there is benefit resulting to the people III lneH To NOe Tor a man whom they know. Is that right taken away by the General Ticket law! So far from it, that the people only have the right of voting for one man in the district, but they have the additional righ ir common with their fellow citizens thronghtout the State of voting for four others into the bargain Thi. IS what some of the Whg commentators call dIsfran chising the people,
 In the views have hitberto submitted in defence of the General Ticket Law, nave purposely ab- stained from considering the effects of il as party measure. have endeavored to place il on the more slevated ground of principle, conforming strictly to the constitution, and tending greatly to enlarge the elective franchise. In subsequent communication purpose to shew the beneficial effects of this mea. sure upon the people oI Alabama, and upon certain prominent measures in which we have deep and n- | calculabe interest
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