Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-08-14

Governor shall make the apportionment
but if he fails to do so, the duty devolyes
upon the Speaker Aforesaid 1t would be
too much to expect that Nr. Buchauan's
Pacihcator should stain his hands with such
patent and notorious injustice as was ne
cessary to secure even a chance Of n Pro
Slavery triumph in the next Legislature.-
That would be bringing the responsibility
too near the President, whose creature the
Governor is hence he adroitly transfers
the execution of the task to those, who.
while they have no reputation to be injured
by any atrocity, are void enough Of con
science to stop at nothing which promises
an extension of the tenure Of their ill-got-
ten power. Below give you the items Of
their work, by which the readers of the
Tribune can judge how faithfully the bid
ding of the National Democrats-a nick
name with which the Border Ruffians and
Pro-Slavery men generally have dubbed
themselves-has been done. Our Council
consists Of 10, and the House Of Represeu-
tatives OF 80 members. They are nppor-
toned as follows -
FOR THE COUNCIL.
Council Dist. No. memher.,
l.-Leavenworth county,
2-AtchisOn county,
3-Doniphan cOunty,
4-Brown. Nemaha, Marshall, Potawatomie
and Riley, and all that part Of the Territory
in Kansas which lies West Of Marshall, Ri.
ley and Davis counties,
5-Jefferson and Calhoun,
G. Douglas and johnson,
Shawnee, Richardson, Davis, Wise, Breckeu.
ridge and
s-Bourbon, Godfrey Wilson Dorm and NoG.o
9-Buler, Hunter, Greenwood, Madison, Well.
er, Cofey, Woodson and Allen counties
lO-Anderson, Lykins, Linn and Franklin, and
all that part of the Territory of Kansas
which lies West of Wise, Butler and Hunter
counties,
Whole number, Is
WIN. q. MATTHIAS, Speaker of tho
House of Representatives at session
in 1857. TH0S JOHNSON,
President Of the Council
FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Dist. No. membsr,
l-Leavenworth county, 5
2-Atchison county,
3-Doniphan county, 5
4-Brown and
5-Nemaha counties,
6-Marshall county,
I-Jeferson county, 2
o-CalhOun county,
9-Potawatome and Riley counties, ,
lO-Dougas and Johnson counties, and all that
part Of the Territory of Kansas lying West
Of the counties of Wise, Butler and Hunt
er. :
1l-Shawnee county,
l2-Richardson, Davis, Wise and Breckenridge,
and
l3-Weler, Madison, Butler, Hunter and Green
wood, and
l4-BourbOu, Godfrey, Wilson, Dorm and McGe.
and
l5-wo ,dson, Coffey and Allen, amp
l6-Anderson and Franklin counties.
linn county,
io-LyAin' county,
wbo,o ,,ho -
wv a u,rrD,,s
House Of Rsnrss.ntatira. 80 SpeAnS'i;
THos, JOHNSON.
President Of the Coun.il.
To understand the full sween;nc inior,-
tv of this sannortionnsnt II i NIL n oas
sary to notice that ont Of tbe wb6Ia NM
ber of Renresen,ativss f3o f,,r,aa-,
counties have tbirtv.six and n;natsen corn-
ties three; and that these nineteen conn,;ns
with only one-twelfth oftbe renrasens,tinn
embrace the whole Territorv sauth ns tbs
Kaw River. excent five conntias. and sill
further, that two-tbirds of the Free State
emipration of the nrasant seosor bara r,o,,o
in To the dislranchised re;gon In his torri
torv are tho loprisbin, E. ST. ,n,rr -,
Wauhoosa 0gdon Noosb0 - -,
Falls. Emporia Ottumwn- Uam1den Ia.
row, HYATT. Dread. Pottawatomie Rn--
linpton Nanieton. Ohio Citv Centr,nolis
and know not how MANY mora new se,.
Elements. which are here lumned ,nto n
renresentation a little moro than ona.boI,
that of the sinple county of Dominican
while containing six times the nonnIa,ion
p,..to.; ,
sham n1, - NV ai,, .;,In% I I nGo "1t Ha.
.an.,au,an, b ona Observation-Disclosures -
Shawnee county contains the towns of To.
peka, Tecumseh. Washington, Big SPRINGS
Brownyille, Burlincame, Carbondale and
Heberling's, and is closely settled through
out. Marshall county Is up in the Nortt.
west corner of the Territory. and contains
only the Marvsvile station on the Fort
Laramie road. and a half. starved fragment
of b Iford's thieves who recently murdered
and plundered detachment of Col Sum
ner's Cheyenne Expedition, The entire
county does not contain two hundred in
habltants. Calhoun county two-thrds OF
which is in the Pottawatomie Reserve and
the other third Just opened for settlement
by the Delaware Land Sales, is on par
with shawnee ana emitted 10 another rep
IN the southeast, OH tne missouri ooruer
and IN convenient proximity 10 Littie santa
feand West Point from whlch helu army
proceeded to the devastation oil osaWAto-
ME last summer-these convenient coun-
ties are entitled to two representatives
each. 10 sum up the ira ua IN Xrand
total ot"Nationai psmoeratiT .,;o; ss sw'nIIing'
hye counties on the missouri oIruer, pohl,
phan' Atchison' LeaVenWor'n' l'yA'ns upu
Lynn control ooM 0r'"'"eS o. 's A's''''
t"e'
Perhaps the innocent readers of the Chica-
90 Tribune imagine that we have now reach
ed the end of this chapter in Kansas history.
Not 50. The Free State men could easily
carry the hve counties designated ABOVE,
and the whole balance oi lne territory, s . ou'
poruer sagaci.y ,tHaar,oS asa,a ,n, Pp ISiT Tbs