The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-01-20
THE NORTH AND SOUTH IN I,eo

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THE NORTH AND SOUTH IL I,tu
We find the following article in an cxcbapr.
copied from a Washington CORE spondert Of
the New York Times 1t will be- seen that IN.
writer concludes that, under the apporionmrnt
of representation which will be based ON M.
census of 1860, the North will only lack ON. #
having double the number of the south w..
think his calculation is founded upon Yer. IN.
sufficient data and that the result is much ,.,.
aggerated. The writer says
This subject Of the census and the ra,...,
be established under it for representation f.
Congress, is already becoming "a matter of .r...
ulatOn among politicians generally. and d.
special alarm to Southern men. The pr..,r.
House of Representatives is thus divided. Sod.
tionaly:
Northern or free States -IA
Southern OF slave States 90
"What shall be the relative power of tb, r,,,,
sections after 1860? 1t is not dinicult To- arrive
at an estimate which shall approximate ,rr,
near to accuracy. Let us take as a ba,i, fir
the calculation Of the population of the several
this and adontin,L tb, saroo r.t;n ~. M "'."-
last census. We arrive at the nctuaj ne,
stronortL IN tho rrao Statos Iii. H.. =.
,.oory '-i'
w cannot y,ol1 o,,,l,. III, ,,I,,, ,c.,...
alton to the slave States. because the u,...r,.r.
ment, which enters so largely into their repre-.
sentauon, cannot he estimated with any degree
Of accuracy. Enough NAV be- gathered ltum
r;l,, ,,r,It Id tLo G.a, ..','' ''.
at least two-thirIs if not thrce.lotrlLs ,r ,E.
members Of the lower House of Congress.
We give the foot-lines of the table
Number of votes polcd in the free
States at the last election &,ooLgo5
- U ,b, ynt o'''0 '''.'''' az % P''!'' ~
Number of Member, Of Couore,s at
the present rate Of $4,000 l-a
Present number ia
Gam 20
Minnesota It's It Is estimated vii! have three
a, ST. ~ a "l nov i''.'lils YET 'o''
in the above list. If tberrore nnd.r ,G. , NV"
census, the ratio of Representation is fixed t ,v
10000, instead Of $4,000. lin round numbcrs.l
as at present, SO as 10 keep the number Of Rep,
go ,S,.o 10, ~; i''e iiouIe OIL Representa-
REPRESENTATIVES Of ft.a Stat.s ~,
Representatives of slave States y
Showinga gain OF members To the former. and
" loss of i TO the latter.
Il Ihufh more legitimate way OF calculating
'iie i"'ur9 rel""'e population and political
power oi 'he Two sections Is To take the ratio OF
past progress ~ 'it Fu'r' Inc popular vote IS
very merriam ana Huc'ua'inE; ami 1t hazard
GUS guessing 10 hN 'he relative proportion, Of
voters 10 population. And IN addition To this,
1t VIII be seen that the writer omits to apply his
principles 10 The Southern vote which would
also eNhipt large increase OF population.
taxing me rate oil progress m past decades
as the criterion we may safely count upon 4
large relative increase oil the free. States. but
nor TO the extent supposed by the writer in the
I'@'e5'
:" ~, 'le oou'h hau W Representatives
anu , ,,, No''" i-''--Slo"lhs difference OF
%, ne Nor'hern "4'"''| was therefore
- '"' 90 o"g-'''',u o' ,i'e southern representa-
NO." .,''' ,'' I''''''' proportions were
wv :" - '''' ->o''n'r'l MAJORITY being con-
S''''''''y ''.o'' INA" =" ''i'Fu OIL The southern
''''''' :" - w. '"' oou'h had - h'l'
'''',,' 'N' anu '' ->".'" ''', Inc '''''r'"''
''''S n" y. ''.ee more man h''Ii the southern
S'e"s'"' III IN'"' 'he Norm had III Repre-
ern majority was therefore 81. ornine more than
half the Southern representation. If the APP
portionment had remained the sam, under the
last as under the preceding census. the North
ern majority in the present Congress would hay,
been u, in a House composed Of 80. member,
showing a gain of p This would add fity.
three per cent. 10 the Northern majority a, IL
existed under the census of 1910.
The present Northern majority is ) t. and i'
We add fity-three per cent to it. We shall find
for the majority, under the census of I~6U, the
number -, or. allowing for a large fraction. -
But, IN the mean time, the Southern represents
uon Will have increased considerably, and tlr
Northern representation will fall considerably
short OF doubling 1t,
II the Federal population Of the South in
creaseS during present decade in the same ratio
as IN the last, that section would gain with the
old apportonment, nearly or quite thirty mem.
bers; and 1t is, hence, evident that, while the
free-State representation is rapidly approxima
ting the duplication Of that of the slave States.
1t will not reach that point by 1850
TO - '''' unreal oil ".'
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:. S'''" among H'P,'
means "l'''' h'S ''ous" oo"h "p"" TIRE