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RESIGNATION OF THE WING
MEMBERS OF THE OHIO
LEGISLATURE &c.
All syes will be turned 10 the address

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Die and most conclusive address We re
fer our readers for the reasons whieI
induced a majority Of the Wing Sena.
tors and Representatives 10 resign thei
seats in the General Assembly of Ohio
In the lew remarks which we have L
submit in regard 10 this extraordinary
but most justifable movement, it wi.
mot be necessary 10 review the entiFs
proceedings Of the Loco(oco majority
in the late Legislature, connected with
their atte mpts 10 district, or, more prop
erIy, TO @distribute The State" among The
leaders Of the party. That duty is per
formed in the address OF the Wing nom.
bers. To some part Of those proceed
ings, howe yer, we will ask the special
ATTENTION Of our readers.
AT the commencement Of the extra
session, the Locofoco majority in both
branches Of the Legislature by resoIu'
ton, declared the aPportionmeut act
Npassed by Congress- unconstitutional,
ruIl and void" Nevertheless, under
that act, unconstitutional null u void"
as they had declared it TO be, they went
to work 10 "GiStribute the STATE" A joint
committee Of twenty one members was
appointed to reporta bill for that ipur-
pose More than twoWeeks Of the ses
siou passed away, and the committee,
composed chiefly Of Locofoco members,
was unable 10 agree upon a bill. AT
length, the committee finding it utterly
impossible to discharge its duty, caused
an informal report to be made TO the
Senate, by which the whole subieCrwas
bought Immediately before that body,
and the committee discharged. After
much anxious debate, for several days,
the bill, (known as SpangIer's bill, pas
sed the Senate-Ayes 10, Nays l6-Mr.
SpangIer, Of Fairfield, and Mr.. Hostel.
ter, Of Stalk, (both Loco(ocos) voting
with the Wings By that bill the fol
lowing was the arrangement Of the Con-
gressionaI districts:
l-HamiIton.
2-Warren. CIermopt and Brown,
3--Adams, Pike, Jackson, Highland &
Ross.
4%-CIin!on, Greene, Favette, Madison
and Franklin.
Montgomery, Miami, Clark and
Shelby.
6-Butler, Probe, Darke and Mercer.
7-Champaign, Logan, Union, Della.
ware, Marion and Hardin.
CYAN Vert, PauIding, Williams Lu.
cas-, Henry, Putnam, Allen, Hancock,
Wood, Sandusky Oltowa.
9-Seneca, Crawford and Richland.
IO-Knox, Holmes, aad Coshocton.
Il-sciOto, Lawrence GOlIlu, Maigs g.
Athens.
l2-Perry, Morgan and Washington.
l2-Licking and MuskingUm.
44-Guernsey. Monroe and Belmont,
l5-FaitfeId, Pickaway and Hooking.
I6-Tuscarswas, Carroll and Harrison ,
l7-ColumbianO and jefferson,
IS-Wayne and Stark.
l0-Erie, Huron, Lorain and Cuyahoga
go eaugat Portage, Summit and Me-
dina
E2l-Trumbull Ashtabula aud Lake.
In the House, this, Mr.. Spangler's,
bill was rejected on its first reading, by
a vote Of 36 to IS Mr.. M'CIung, loco,
voting with the Wings against the mo.
ton to reject. Thus it is demonstrR-
ted that the Wing members Of both
Houses were willing to adopt a bill for
the dlslricling OF The Stale, which, while
it gave the Locofocos a manifest advan
lago, secured lhe majority ofthe people
Of Ohio frontier years absolute outrage.
But the leading Locoroco members Of
the House, B~yinglon, M'Nulty, 'Spalding
81 Co were not specially provided for by
that bill; and, before it had reached the
branch TO which they belonged, the par.
ty forces were in perfect drill for Its
defeat, ina manner unusual, and with q
precipilancy almost unparalleled, in Lo'
gisIative proceedings, To accommodate
these desperate aspirants with seats il
Congress, and 10 harmonic the dlscor
danI materials OF Locolocoism in the
House, the "bill Of abOminAlions,' Sc
forth in the address OF the Wing mem
bers, was concocted and every Loco(ocC
member pledged to Ego IL blind" Ii
open violation Of the constitulion-anc
10 palpable disregard of the law; The
majority in solid PhaIanx wOs Fastening
reckIessly inward 10 the passage Of Iht
+! bill, by which a majority Of the voters
Of Ohio were to b. literally disfrunchI
sed to secure the probable ascendency o
|, LocotocOism 10. fourteen out Of twenty
one Congressional districts. Agains
this outrage the Wing members remon
strated 10 vain, The decree of the IA
pan had gone forth aud the majority ha'
resolved TO carry il into effect.