New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-07

NEwHAMPsHIRE The Wing State Committee
have issued an Address to the Wings of New
Hampshire on the Importance of the next election
in the choice Of State Officers, Congressman and
members Of the Legislature, and exposing the
Jerymandering operations Of the Opposition in
the last Legislature and the Constitutional Con-
vention. The Committee says;
" In one Of the Congressional Districts an
election has taken place which resulted as they
desired, though by very mallmajority. Whether
they shall succeed again in that, or in the first
District, depends upon the action Of the Wings
in those Districts They have the power to pre-
vent it
1.-THE outrageous wrong they have inflicted pom
freemen to accomplish this result, cannot be too
often nor too fOrcibly urged upon the people, and
we call yoar attention to the annexed state nent
oftbe population of the Districts as now cOnsti-
tuted:
No 1, contains 1874 No contains ..... ss4is
No 2, ........ 1854 Mo- CELLO
ave call your attention to the fact, that the
population in No l exceeds that OF No. 4, by
1904 that No. exceeds No. 4, by 25.339 and
that No has not population enough to enttle it
to a Representative Mt all under the present ap-
pOrtiOnment law These facts require no com
ment. They indicate the desperate character OF
the men against whom whom we have tc contend,
and should awaken every one to determined
1.-The election Of members Of the Legislature
also claims our attention If the people shall ap'
prove Of the amended Constitution, it will devolve
upon the next Legislature TO enact the laws re-
qured by it's provisions-a work of very great N
portance, which should be kept out OF the hands
of partizans as far as possible. If the amendment
in relation to the Senate is adopted, the work OF
dstrictiDg the State will devolve upon IT, and the
abors Of the Democratic party, in arranging the
Congressional Districts should admonish US to do
all in our power to prevent the repetition OF SO
base an act for so base purpose.
with regard to the action OF Wings upon GER
tain amendments of the Constitution, which are
to be separately submitted to the people-all par
ties going for Homestead Exemption no objection
is made TO il we have no hesitation in urging 1t
upon political grounds. Measures which were
introduced upon political grounds, and carried
upon political grounds, by our opponents, may
we'll receive political action at our hands. Such
measures are the Basis of Representation, and
the dividing the State into fifteen Districts, each
to elect two Senators, instead OF the plan hrst
adopted, oftwenty- four single Districts. The basis
of representation, as is perfectly apparent, IS
designed to deprive the Wings OF their due In
Huence in the Legislature, by taking from the
large towns their Just representation While 1t
allows to every little town in Coos County, where
the Democratic strength lies, the privilege OF
sending a Representative the first year and alter
ward as often as theirratabe polls added together
yearly, shall number one hundred ana seventy
five it makes no provision at all for the represen'
tation of the fractions in the larger towns where
the Wing strength lies. Thus In town oil seven
hundred and seventy -four ratabe polls, only one
Representative can be chosen at all, leaving the
large fraction of five hundred and ninety mine, en-
tirely unrepresented. In large towns thisfraction
may reach as high as nine hundred and ninety
nine and though the fraction remain as large, can
never have an additional Representative. The
ipjustice of this is too manifest to be dwet upon
at much length. Even admitting the justice of
allowing one hundred and seventy-ve rstable
polls in one town, equal representation with a
thousand in another, and then we have lett the
sIaring Injustice of giving a fraction of only a
dozen polls its full representation, in one town,
while all representation is denied to fraction Of
nine hundred and ninety nine, in another. We
trust no Whig will give his sanction to measure
somanestly unjust to the great mass OF the popu-
lation Of the large lows