New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-17

ClutC iCiapcCN hNAb JNui AA-f' iuly bI'
hands Of the regulars, but the two lower
Districts finally elected Messrs. Tuck and
Wilson (Whig and independently to Con-
gress by small mejorities and they were
in ike manner reelected in 1910.
The regulars Of course saw this with
little complacency, They had resisted and
nullifed the act of Congress requiring the
choice of Members from each State to be
made by Single Districts, fearing that they
could not divide the State so as to secure
the whole. But the Districting had been
effected, was popular, and could not we'll
be repealed, since every State had by this
time conformed to the Districting requisi
ton. But they resolved to alter he Dis
tricts, so that they could carry them all
The thing was easy enough on paper.
Messrs. Tuck and Wilson had been elected
and reelected by some three hundred ma
iority each in their several Districts. Sew
eral Of the strongest holds Of the regulars
lay temptingly convenient to the lines OF
their Districts, though on the wrong side.
1t was only necessary to add on to each of
the lower Districts towns giving FIVE or six
hundred majority for the regulars, and the
Job was done. The leaders decreed, and
the Legislature registered the edict.
In ehecting this party object, no terms
were kept with Principle, no regard had
for appearances, even. 1t would naturally
be expected that Legislature attempting
TO remodel Districts out Of season would
study to render them more equal in pOpu-
lation, or at least not glaringly less so. But
in this case, while County lines before re-
spected) were cut across, the population Of
the several Districts was rendered far more
UNEQUAL than it had been. Some thousands
ofinhabitants were distracted from the two
Districts having the less and added to those
having the greater number of inhabitants
Gen. Wilson soon resigned his seat, and
Special Election for the vacancy was or
dered. Gov. Dinsmoor directed that it
should be filed, not by the District which
elected Gen. w bat by that which the Lee
gislature had since formed Thus a num-
Der Of towns already presented by Mem
Der whom they had shared in electlng, were
invited to participate in choosing another
Member of the same House, to sit beside
him they had already chosen And the
machinery thus adjusted performed its pre-
destined work. Jared Perkins free Soil
Whig) was chosen by the old District, but
the added towns overbore this choice and
returned Geo. w. Morrison, regular. Mr..
Perkins appealed to the House; but, by
substantially a party vote, 1t was decided
that Mr.. Morrison should keep the seat.
1t now seemed obvious that the object Of
the Gerrymendering would be effected and
four rcguIers returned 70 rho ne~U ConSroes'
But the Atwood development here ihter-
vened to upset the incest calculations.
Our readers have been kept advised of its
progress, and do not need g recapitulation.
Suffice it that Rev. John Atwood of New
Boston, who had been a serviceable party
hack in former years, and had been re-
warded therefor by a respectable office I'M
der the State Government, was regularly
nominated as the Democratic candidate
for Governor, and was supported as such
by the party and its journals throughout
the State. Bat in January a letter from
his pen appeared in a paper of suspicious
orthodoxy, indicating hostility to the Fu-
eitive Slave Law. Mr.. A. was forthwith
summoned TO a conclave Of the party man
ayers and compelled to sign a recantation
Of the views contained in that letter. But
he had hardly passed out Of their sight
when he recanted his recantation, and thus
has ever since remained an open contemner
Of the Slave catching law. Hereupon the
Convention which nominated him was re-
called, and Mr.. Atwood deprived OF his
nomination by a vote of 2O4 to 3. To
give the act all due emphasis, clergyman
of his own sect (Baptist was chosen to
move his reputation. From this judg-
ment, Mr.. A. appealed to the People, and
lively canvass sprung up. The result IS
q virtual and effective condemnation Of the
nartv wire-workers. Mr.. Atwood has lost
the Governorship by speaking his mind Of
the Fugitive Slave Law, but the vote
proves that a majority of the People are
with him on that subiect-the Wing candi-
date and Mr.. \. having some $500 major
itv over Mr.. Dinsmoor, the present Gov
eruor and Hunker nominee for reelection,