The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-04-18
From the Chillicothe Advertiser.
Whig GerrYmandcring.

NvhHs UCHHy yAhASethuCEkHBs
The acts of the late whig Legislature Of
Ohio have excelled in atrocity any thing
heretofore recorded in the annals okhe coun-
try. Not only have they repealed all the
safeguards which former Legislatures, had
thrown around the banking institutions, Of
the country for the protection Of the people,
but they have substituted bank government,
whereby few individuals in Columbus can
monopolize the business of the State, and
levy their tribute on every county in Ohio.
And further than this, to reward few parti-
sans, they have been guilty of an outrage
without precedent in the United States.--
The constitution and laws of the United
States require that each State shall be divi-
ded into Congressional districts once in ten
years, in order that the representation of the
several States may correspond with the Con-
grcssional Appertionment law, which is made
in accordance with the returns of the census.
Two elections have already been held since
the last census under the new Congressional
district law, and three more elections remain
to be held before the next Congressional Ap-
portionment; yet, for mere partisan purposes,
the late whg Legislature of Ohio have not
only altered these districts by taking counties
from certain districts and attaching them to
others, but they have even violated all con-
stitutional safeguards, by detaching Townships
from some of the counties, and tacking them
on to others, against the will of the people
of such counties, and without giving the
notice which is required in such cases. We
call particular attention 10 the following arti-
Gle on the subject, which we find in the
Athenian Of the 18th inst, a whig paper
published at Athens, in this State.
HOMER AND MARION TOWNSHIPS ATTACHED
TO MoRGAN-UNPREcEDENTED ACTION OF
THE LEGISLATURE.
COZ Save the subject of Annexation,
during the past winter no one act either Of
Congress or of our own Legislature of Ohio,
has caused within us more astonshmcnt and
chagrin than did the news on last evening
from Columbus that the county of Athens
had been shorn of two Of her most valuable
townships (Homer and Marion) for the pur-
pose of attaching them 10 the county of
Morgan. And we doubt much if any act Of
a local nature could we'll have been adopted
by the Legislature to cause deeper dsap-
pointment in the minds of that portion Of
the people of the county who claim to have
majority in that body representing their
interests.
alt is unpleasant for us at all times to
dcnounce and condemn the acts and measures
Of our political friends, and especially when
sense Of duty requires the manifestation
of the condemnation in public manner.
Such things, however, will occasionally
occur; and matters TO which the. caption of
this article refers, form one of those duties
of which we speak. And ,Ce intend, before
hauing done wih this matter entirely, to let
the arhig members Of the Legislature acho
rOtcd for the measure knoar, that neither par
ty predictions nor our desire to conform in
sentiment with all measures of the ,rhig party,
,riU induce as silently to SIT dorn and submit
to such gross acts of injustice being risited
upon the rights Of The people, come from shat
The act is clearly and manicStly a FRAUD
upon the rights Of the citizens Of this country
an act that will ADMIT OF NO pALLIATIoN
OR JUSTIFICATION NwHATEvER-an act not only
ancalIed for but passed in DIRECT VIOLA
TIoN OF THE WILL OF A MAJORITY OF THOSE
MOST DEEPLY CONCERNED, AS WELL AS
IN VIOLATION OF EXPRESS PRO-
VISIONS OF LONG ESTABLISHED
LAW. 1t is a FRAUD upon the rights of the
people, because by it, without LEGAL and
due notice, they nave had wrested from them
that which should not in Justice be without
their consent. 1t is in violation of the ex-
press will of the people, not only manifested
through remonstrances, (of which over 500
were presented within the two days previous
TO its final passage,) but in its opposition by
those persons representing the two counties
concerned; and it is clearly palpable viola
ton of the well-known provision of the sta
tute of the State requiring thirty days notice
to be given in the county dismembered,
No SUCH LEGAL NOTICE WAS GIVEN.
awe have much to say on this subject,
but must refrain for the present. The ques-
ton excited much interest, and more anma-
ted discussion than any local question that
has come before the Legislature during the
session."