The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-12-28

So 'ehStny' as we mad been led to be-
lieye. ] send you copy herewith, which
which will furnish more acceptable read
ing than long letter from Columbus.
Our Christmas promises to be ioyous.
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Worse and VNOTse----The LOcOGOcOs
Declaring what kind Ofan ApnOr.
tiOnment Law is Fair.
And we may as well here state, that II IA. mar.
haps, unfortunate for the wing party, that their
votes are concentrated in two or three localities
in those localities so piled up upon one another
as to render their votes ofsma avail, for legislu.
tive or congressional purposes, under fair and
impartial apportionment- he tremendous whie
maiorities Of the Western Reserve, in the Mus.
kingum, SciUto and Miami Valleys, though often
securng whg majority in the popular vote of
the State, are moi fully available in Legislative
districts, when the regard to equality in mum.
bers and contiguous territory is observed. Hence.
the Democrats. who have majority Of the ooun
ties and tlnse democratic counties scattered over
the state, hnve always had fair and Legitimate.
and natural advantage in npportioning the State,
and consequently in fair contest the Legislature
would naturally be democratic, even with whig
majority OF 5000 in the State.-Statesman.
Here. then, is their notion of what is
fair. The apporionment law should he
so made that the ocefocos will have the
Legislature. unless the wings have more
than 5000 majority in the State. We
supposed a fur apportionment would
cause the will ofthe people to be repre-
sented, respected, and carried out. But
such is not locofoco doctrine. What do
they mean. then. when they talk about
the will of the people2 If the Legisla-
ture is not to represent the wishes Of the
people, pray what should it represent
We have seen, last year and this, with
the two parties, about equal in the popu-
lar vote, that they lost as nearly as posi-
Bile, equal numbers of representatives un-
der the whig apportionment law. Ifthe
law had been carried out. the popular ma
iority for Governor would have been rep
resented by bare majority of the Legis-
lature. Throwing aside the law as to
one district, it gave bare majority in the
Lower House to that party which was in
the minority on the popular vote.
So far as the law was respected the
popularvote was represented. So far as
the law was violated the popular vote
Of the State was msrepresented. The
law itself produced the nearest possible
correspondence between the popular
vote aud the representation in the Gen.
eral Assembly. 1t is past the power of
man to gainsay that. Now, according to
whig notions. the Legislature ought to bo'
elected by the people and represent their
will. But we now see acknowledged
what we have all along supposed to be
true, that the equality Of tho law and its
adherance to that idea is what is COM
planned of. They claim. that with five
thousand majority in the State against
them, the law should be SO framed as to
give them the Legislature. and majority
of the members of Congress! This is
their respect foi popular will! This is
what they call fair! This is what they
mean when they say the people have sus-
tanned theml They are sustained when
not beaten over FIVE THOUSAND
votes This is what they want to repeal
the present apportioument law for! This
is the kind oftairneSs they propose if they
get chance to remodel it. If they can
break hole in i, by the repeal Of any
part, they will fight for the whole. They
want a convention 30 form neW cOnsti-
tuition. elected on that plan! Aud to pro-
vide an the constitution for keeping up
that plan. Well, we shall see. We say
to the wings, one and all, circulate tie
dOcumentsl We say to the people gen.
orally, if you wish the popular will to
make your laws, you must put down that
faction once and forever! IHcir avowals
are before yOU.
There is no perverson here. Mark the
language! They say they have natural
advantages in aPportion,ng tie State, and
consequently in q fair contest the Leg
islature would naturally be democratic,
even with whig majority Of .fue thou
sand in the State" Then in speaking
of the present law they say:
But to secure majority in the Legislature they
(the whigs) found it necessary to so divide the
State into senatorial and representative districts
as to give them an improper aud unnatural advan-
tage in the Legislature
The law is "unnataral." 1t don't give
them the natural advantage" Of ma
jority ofthe Legislature when there is
majority of FIVE thousand votes against
them in the State. If they can fix their
way and get this natural advantage in
the convention to make new constitu-
ton, we leave it for all people to say
whether they will not try to make an in
strument 10 secure that natural Advantage
in fair contest. CIRCULATE THE
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