Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1845-01-25
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1s45.
DISTRICTING.

a world of trouble in dstricing the State.
Some thirty or forty, of the dominant
party, are actually looking to seats in Con-
gress, and each one has sort of district
of his own. cut and dried 10 elect himself. |
Every hobby has been ridden down,-is
poor and scrawncy, with a sore back,-yet
each one has four or five riders, all Crap
ping for the saddle. The Usage river,
we learn, has been successfully navigatedl
by several boats of large class--North
Grand River has been well cleared of all
Observation-Disclosures from New Orleans
have already assembled Current and White
rivers--the road from Hannibal TO Glas-
Cow is in state of great advancement
and some fifteen or eighteen thousand
wolves have been actually put TO death in
the sheep pens Of our honest and indus
trious frontier farmers. These ponies, it
will be seen. will be thin elements in
Congressional election, and the sooner the
100000 acre grant is given away, no mat
ter for what purpose, and direct appro-
priation of money to the wolf scalp coun-
ties, or exemption from taxation, to prevent
fraud and perjury, the better it will be for
the State at large.
No loco-foco demagogue is willing to
trust himself in district with less than
ten or twelve hundred majority, for fear of
the growing strength of wing men and
measures, and to effect this the most ras-
cally gerrymandering is resorted to. Some,
too, are opposed to districting, entirely,
although pledged in its favor, and will labor
throughout, TO defeat the principle, by op-
posing every plan introduced This band
of scoundrels are well organized, and
strange as it may seem, are becoming more
and more sanguine of success. But we
warn all such, and each member of the
legislature, to beware of an impending
hurricane of public opinion, which, like
an avalanche, or land slide, will soon over
whem the present General Assembly.
The black clouds are visible in the dis
tance,-the mutlering thunder is rurnbling in
the ear-and we pity those who, uncov-
cred and naked, will have to bear the pelt-
ing of the storm.
Nothing, emphatically nothing, has yet
been done. The Senate, so far as we can
perceive, have been engaged in listening
to Fort and Monroe, or the propriety of
printing bills; and even this much cannot
be said for the House of Representatives.
4 The land stealing law is not get repealed
the revision is at a stand--the conditional
capias has not been resto ~ed--the rascally
court law of the last session is still in
force-and, in fact, districting appears TO
be the prize question, and even that is
dragging out dull and sleepy existence.
The duty of the legislature, in this be-
half, is plain and alpable. The State has
to be laid off into five equal districts, of
contiguous territory, and geography and
population are the only elements to be con-
sidered. In making this arrangement, he
who runs may read. st. Louis, and suffi-
cient number of adjacent southern coun-
lies should form the first district; the cen
tIal southern counties the second; the up
per southern counties, with the deficiency
from their northern neighbors, the third;
and the remainder of the north side the
fourth and fifth. This is q natural and
equitable division, and we marvel that some
member has not proposed it.
The population of the State is near
$4,000, which divided by five, fixes the
ratio at near 100000. To divide the State
into five districts of this size, is a simple
and plain business, and 1873 honest and
sincere men could DO the work in four
hours. See the following:
First district--St. Louis, Jefferson, Ste.
Genevieve, Perry, Cape Grardeau, Scott,
New Madrid, Stoddard Ripley, Wayne,
Shannon, ST. Francois, and Madison. This
district contains population of 100000,
and democratic majority of 1900, which
would secure the election of any loco-foco
oafer, who could swinde himself through
a caucus; but Messrs. Bowlin, and English,
and some ten or twelve "Tontiue" loafcrs
in St. Louis, want district with dem.
ocratic majority of fifteen hundred, and no
rival aspirant We have heard of no other
objection to this proposition.
Second district--Franklin, Gasconade.
Pulaski, Usage, Crawford, Camden, Ben