Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1845-04-04

Meigs, ll,452 Aihers, 10. lOg
Athens, ie.lo9 Hooking, s,74I
Total, 64,935 Total, 1854
. The county of Wyandott was formed
chiefly out Of the territory OF Cnwford and
Richland. It's population is estimated at
six thousand.
A portion of the Locofoco members of
the late Legislature and Of the presg of the
same party in this State, have affected to
consider the amendment of the District
Law an unprecedented thing, subversive
of law and order, and destructive Of the
very ends Of government. They cry out
"diSOrgPnizaiiOn," and "caudalisn,," at the
top Of their voices. For the benefit of
such we introduce L precedent. We con.
found their idle clamor, by evidence drawn
from their own mouths. This evidence is
full, complete, triumphant. It meets the
case, In all its hearings. 1t will I've readily
understood that we allude to the case Of
New Jsrsey,-where a LoCofoco Legisla-
tnre in l843, deliberately re-modeed the
law OF previous session, for dividing the
State into Congressional Districts. We
quote from the record as kept bv the .Neto-
York horning NeUs, a leading Locofoco
paper. II will he seen that the alteration
there extended 10 four out of the five dis
trlcts Of the State. 1t was not even nre-
tended in the case Of New Jersey. that the
Wings had disregarded the law Of Con-
gress. They had kept carefully in view
contguity of territory, and had preserved
the proper ratio of population as nearly as
it could well be done. There is this wide
difference between the two rases, and that
difference all against our opponents; yer
the "NeUs" gave to the act Of the Loco
foco Legislature of New Jersey, its full
prompt and unqualified approIation.-
There is not syllable of reprohaton-nor
word about " disorganization, vandal.
ism" treason" &c. Hear the ".NfOs.
Especially do we recommend the following
quotation to the Locofoco press Of th'
State;
From the New York Morning News flo
cofoco,) Oct. 90, 1914.
! New JERsEY.-A Subscriber requests u
to answer through the columns Of the .Nptc
the following inquiries:
"Did the last Legislature of the State {
New Jersey alter the Congressional Dstric,
in that State from what they were when
was first districted, or not!
: Have they the power to do so until anc
ther apportionment by Congress, or not!"
r The answer to both questions is in III
affirmative. In regard to the second,
may be added that it is a power whlc
ought not, we think, to he exercised with
out good and strong reasons-such as tn
clear rightand duty of rectifying fagran
case Of "gerrymandering" hv precedin
Legislature. Such was, indeed, the cas-
in the present instance. The Wings ha
so distributed the districts as to throw a
The three main Democratic stronghods in
to one district, the Fourth-namely, Hun
terdon, Sussex and Warren counties; an
so as 10 secure to themselves, as they sup
posed, four districts out of five whicI
might well he the case, even when til
Democrats might have clear majority Q
a couple of thousand in the State. TIL
unpopuIarity of so gross gerymander
as this contributed much to their disap
pointmentat at the last Congressional election
when the Democrats carried all the district
but one, the Fifth.
The following exhibits a comparativ
view of the Districts as they now stand
and as they were under the Wing "gerry
mander." The Legislature by which tn
alteration was made last winter was Demo
cratic;