Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-02-21

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and assisted. and by their votes and influence
contributed to its formation, and therefore we
reject it upon principle7" ~
Messrs. Benson & GRrEs-
Gentlemen--Your correspondent, "San.
CO, " is mistaken. He makes The thing concoct
ed by the Delegates to the Convention even bet
ter than it really is. He says--"any comfy ha
wing two.thirds Of the ratio is to be entitled 10
representative. Call the ratio 1000. A coun.
ty then having 4667 free white inhabitants is to
have one representative, and county with II,
666 is 10 have but one representative" Now,
the affair to be proposed to the people Of this
State for their approval or rejection, provides
that leach county having three yfths Of said ratio,
shall be entitled 10 one representative 80 that
three ffhs Of 1000 being 1900, any county ba
wing this number sends one representative as well
as ons having 1866, or nearly three times as
many. That is TO say, 4.200 in one county is
equal to II ,666 in another. Monstrous! And
those folks were sent to equalize representation.
The people never will accept such mess of
pouage for their birth rght-self government.
FUDGE!
IF the New Constitution be adopted,
there is special apportionment made for
the tDo first sessions of the Legislature un-
der its operations: the members of the Legis-
lature elected under this special apportion-
ment, in ls4s. are to make the first emu.
meration Of the inhabitants of the State,
and the Legislature elected in 1850, is to
apportion the representatives under this
enumeration; and every four years after
that. new enumeration and apportion.
ment is to be made. The apportionment for
The first four years is 10 be made under the
three ffths rule; after that. t,Do-thi,ds is to
be substituted for hree.ftths, and TO re-
main permanent. "SANco" passed over
the three-fifihs affair and took up the two.
thirds, which is to be the permanent rule.
and which he considered bad enough
without touching the other. The sugges.
ton OF "FuDoe," however, is opporiune,
and shows the reluctance with which the
Convention was brought to give The people
justice. or approximate near it. If the
t,oo.thirds principle had been adopted, to
take effect from and after the ratification Of
the Constitution, and each and every coun.
ty in the State, before il should be entitled
10 representative, had been required to
have its quota Of inhabitants, then, we be.
lieve. there would have been much less Cd.
position to that portion of the Revised
Constitution. But we are first to submit,
four years to the operations of the three.
JDths rule latter it goes into operation) the
outrageous injustice of which is fully shown
above, TO say nothing of the counties
which fall belo,c the ratio, and not lying con.
tiguous to like counties, nevertheless are tc
have representative before we even ge,
to work under the operation of the t,oo
thirds principle. For instance
The Legislature which is TO make the
first superintendent meets in 1850. The
apportionment il makes is TO stand -four
years--until 1854: the Legislature of this
year is TO make the second apportionment
which is to be made upon the t,oo-thirds
principle, and the Legislature elected nndel
this apportionment, meets in ls56-Ter
Years after the sitting of the Convention
Truly this is approaching justice with 9
tardy tep!-too tardy. we think, to sui
the notions of the people, taken, as it has to
be, with SO much other obnoxious matter.
The Washington correspondent of the