Freeman's champion., 1857-08-13


menting upon this apportionment,
shows up the base fraudulency of it
so we'll and so lucidly, that we can
do no better than to copy its com
ments -
l. That it is so arranged that eUcry
member Of tie Council except one is to DO
Voted for 10 a portion Of Kansas BoR-
OERrNa ON Missouri Leavenworth
is o border county, and has three
Councilmen. Atchison, another bor-
der county forms the second district,
and has one. The third and fourth
districts are combined and have three
Councilmen. This associates Doni-
! phan, a border county with "Brown,
Nemaha, Marshall, Pottawattomie,
Riley, and all of that part of the
Territory of Kanzas which lies west
of Marshall, Riley and Davis coun-
ties" lying in the interior. Johnson,
a border county, is Joined with Doug
las, lying directly west oft and forms
the 9th district having three Council
men. The 7th, 9th, and 9th districts
are combined and have two Council
men. This joins Bourbon and Nc
Gee, both border counties, with some
sixteen interior counties. The tenth
and final district has one Council
man, and is composed of Lykins and
Linn counties, both border counties,
associated with large extent of in
terror Territory. The object of this
arrangement is apparent at glance.
1t is to give Missouri the best facili-
ties imaginable for controlling the elec-
tion. All that she has to do is to
repeat her game and pour over invad-
ing hordes into the border counties,
and the work is done. For instance
this county, Douglas, having pre-
ponderance of Free State men ten to
one, is joined to johnson county ly-
ing on the border, The two counties
together form q district; and the
district, not the separate counties, has
three Councilmen. Now, to carry
this district, it is only necessary that
MiSsourians enough should come
over into Johnson county to over
balance the vote cast by Douglas
county, and the work is done.
So take Doniphan, Brown, Nema-
ha, Marshall, Pottawattomie, Riley
counties, &C., having together 2
Councilmen and, here again, it is
only necessary that enough invaders
cross the river and vote in Doniphan
county to overbalance tho rest, and
thus carry that district, And in a
similar manner II out of the 10
members of the Council, may DO car
ried by the Missourians without in
vading any but the border countless
1t will be much more convenient for
them than it was in the election oil
March, 1855. They need not visit
the interior at all. 1t can oil be done
on the border. That such was the
intention of those who made this
infamous districting is clearly ap-
parent.
II. It should be especially noted
that % counties, or the whole Of
Kanzas lying south of the Kaw river,
excepting only Douglas and johnson
counties, have apportioned to them
only three members of tho Council l.
These counties, embrace such over
whelming Free State strongholds as
Topeka, the whole Of the Neosho val
ley, Anderson county, &C.; indeed
the Free State sentiment, as every
one knows, is well nigh unanimous
in this whole southern section OF
Kanzas. Of course, it would not dc
to give them any fair representation
Accordingly, they are disfranchised
or what amounts to the same thing
Some Of these counties have over q
thousand votes and, in fact, accord
ing to the census just completed
nearly ono half Of all tho inhabitants
Of Kanzas live in this portion, which
is summarily cut off with but 8
members Of the Council.
We venture to say that o similar
act Of injustice and fraud, il practic.
ed in any ono of the States, would
cause o revolution within it's borders
in less than two months. But the
people Of Kanzas are expected &c
endure everything without q muir
muir. Tyranny, IL only labelled
democratic" is to DO submitted tC
withouts word
The rule of wise monarch would
bo infinitely preferable to this har-
assing dospotism forced upon us al
the point Of the bayonet, and exult-
ing to call itself "Democracyl"
But, we turn from the apportiop'
mont for tho Council TO that for the
House Of Representatives. Ant