Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-01-12

lluNrINGroS, VT, Jan. !, 1855.
Mr. LDiroR.-l have a few remarks to ofTor touch
ing 'omo Of the positions assumed or implied in
articles in the Free Press on the above subject
shall conhnc myself to the two following heads -
Ist the mode Of clcctng Council Of Cers,rs, and
members of tho Convention, H. the Constitution
gives and leaves it with the people to o,rrv out -
aud ID, to examine the argumcn: against the
present mode Of elccting delegates and Representa-
tre' by towns. First then, Of the mode Of occting
Council Of Ccnsors. It is true that the Council
Is not, by the language Of tho Constitutions ns.ign
ca by any apportoEmcnt Of its members to the diff
lcrcnt geographical divisions Of tho State and that
Tor nuBht it says to the contrary, all the thirteen
VINO compose it might be taken from one ccrnty and
even ono town, True, say but What Il that -
Tho Trainers Of the Vermont Constitution, knew
better, and they certainly mus. have had a better
opinion Of the good sense and Intelligence of the
people whose interest they meant to consult than 20
, suppose for moment that they, OF those whom
they entrusted to do it for them would be 90 narrow
and unfair ms to take advantage OF any technical
omission Of the kind pointed out to allow any one
county or district to mouopolizc the whole bevy Of
thirteen Censors. They knew that their good sense
and spirit of accommodation, would suggest the
propricty Of assigning the different members as
equally as practicable, to the several counties in the
state. And what, VIC may ask is more proper and
reasonable in the absence of express authority for
mode Of distribution, than dividing them, (ns far n.
the number Of counties will go) one to each county
distribution Of which there can be no just ground
/ Of com laiHt The like remark will apply, with
tho difference only Of numbers to be more infinitely.
! aPpnrtioncd) to the members Of Il Constitutional
| Convention. On this point | think the very fact
| that the Constitution says nothing t, how this
Convention is to be elected, is prcsumpti,c proof.
that the trainers of the Constitution expected and
meant that tho delegates composing it should be
elected in the same way the representatives., in
the House Of the Legislature, that is by the people
Of each organized town. Indeed what can be more
natural after having previously prescribed the man
ncr in which the Legislature should be chosen, than
that they should the delegates to a special con-
vcntion to be chosen in the same way The matter
I think is plain enough to any one capable Of view
ing it in common sense point Of light, vague md
SILENT though the Constitution may be, "a to any
express provisions on that head.
One remark more, and am done. and wa Mt ali
your rcaicls should consider well what | am ,oin.
to say. Your correspondent rather makes finl
at our mode Of representation by towns as some
thing unreasonable, and giving small towns cqua
weight in the State Council with large ones Nov
| want to ask, if Bolton, for instance, with onl.
some 20 so voters, is not much of town in it
Organization, to all legal ntcnts and purposes a
: Burlington with its 200 voters Andi it is, VIII
is it not justly entitled to voice in the lcgisa
ture Would your correspondent exclude Rhod
Island and Delaware from voice in the Unite
States senate, the ground that their popula,io
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