New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-31
THE "WORLDo AND THE All
PORTIONMENT.

Gus article oil mucn over TWO COLUMNS; pro-
fessedly in reply to our last upon the Appor-
tionment, and opens with a complaint that we
do not reprint all its wise utterances in bulk
We plead guilty, but must really be allowed to
treat our readers with some humanity. We
gave all the important points of The Worlds
argument, except upon the question OF an IN
crease since 1860, which, as we did not dispute
the fact, was quite irrelevant. How little The
World has to boast Of in respect of the greater
magnanimity which it claims may be judged oil
by the fact that it does not dare to give any INK
ling of the argument by which we showed,
beyond all possibility Of dispute, that the en-
rollment of last year indicated population OF
only 63O, 900. SO we will 60 over that ground
again. and The World may be magnanlmous
enough to print it, Hitherto, it has reprinted
nothing of ours except certain figures, which
were so much more accurate than Its own anu
contained so much more useful iniormatlon'
that as q mere matter Of news it was obliged to
give them TO its readers But to return. we
assert:
| i. Indt Tie VI i'''
l3s, 900 men in this city, between the ages OF ~
and A..
9. That this enrolment included both the able
bodied and the disabled, for the reason that the
enrolling officers had no power TO determine the
question of ability. II they had taken the word
of the people of whom they inquired, New.fork
would have returned no ablebodied men.
3. That Tile WORTH at the time declared this
enrolment to be outrageously excessive.
4. That Judge Advocate Waterbury demon
strated the same thing-to the satisfaction OF
Tile Uorld-in letters many columns long, full
of learned calculations.
;. That the census of 1860, as well as that OF
ESQ. showed the males Of 20 10 40 years oil age
to number % per cent. of the entire population.
&. That the census of 1860 showed over
III, 900 males between 90 and A. in this City;
, whereas the enrolment of 1864 showed only
-, 900, and yet was according to The World, a
gross exaggeration.
|. :. That, upon this basis, the total population
of this city in lo6i did not exceed $4,000.
:. That. allowing for the return o. the brave
soldiers from the war; and Of The Uorlds friends
from Canada, it would he liberal to reckon the
population of this city at 100000.
The frivolous attempt to show flaw IN our
table of apportionment Oh the basis OF the vote
is renewed. 1t would cause rs astonishmcnt
that such absurd arguments should be advanced
if The World had not already established its ig-
norance beyond controversy. 1t began with
showing that while to New-York and Kings,
containing l56, 1868 voters, We allowed only q
members, we allowed the same number OF mem-
beers to ii Republican counties, giving only I29,
33l votes We replied, showing that these anon
allies were unavoidable under any apportion-
mcnt, and that II Republican counties, casting
Ia. $40 votes, also had only q members. Inc
: Uortd now claims that three Of these counties
, are not alrays Republican, having go'e for
Seymour in ls62. They atoned for that error
in both 1863 and 1854, and have given Republ-
can malorites in seven out of the last nine cleo
tons. We might as well claim NewYork and
Kings on account OF their Union malori,IeS III
r l-6l.
But in fact all this is immateral. The ques-
ton il not whether the apportionment operates
hardly. but whether it is correct. We defy The
, Uorld to find flaw in our calculation. We
t defy it to point out county which, taking lis
vote as basis is entitled to more or less repre-
, sentation than we gave it, We defy it to make
r out an apportionment upon any basis, either Of
votes or of population, which will not be open
. to precisely the same objections that it makes
to our table Let it take the census of l,55,
and see whether the apportionment made upon
that is not open to exactly the same criticism.
t Let it compare the vote of 1856 with the appor.
t tionment then made, and say whether an appor-
5 tionmcnt made upon the principle of our table
5 would not have corresponded precisely with
, that actually made.
4 weak minded correspondent of The World
asks how the vote Of the city could be increased
by naturalization. without corresponding
, growth in the population by immigration. W.
will show. Surprising 100000 adults had
landed here in 1859, and been counted i'll tn,
census Of 1860. Suppose not another soul haC
3 arrived for the next five years. Does no
even the amiable correspondent see that in leo
u the rote might be increased 100000 Give year
having elapsed TO qualify the aliens), withou
; particle of increase in the population. Prob
ably The Uorids correspondent did not con
ceiye it possible that true Democrat, Of th
I imported class could wait five years TO vote