St. Mary's gazette., 1866-11-15
TIE INEQUALITY OF REPRESES-
TATION

The six New Easlaud or Yankee States
have a united population of 3.llo,512
whites, ard 81, III negroes. For this pop
ulaton they have twelve Senator's in Con-
gress, willis, New York, with 1881 .73o
whites and 40, ,00o blacks--more than the
whole population of the Yankee States
-. c..!r iwn senators. Her excess OF
population over those s'y S.ates (eKcess
745 1872 amounts 70 more than the 7N-:'a N:-:'a
population Of Maine 1928 ,27e } more
than the whole of New Hampshire and
Vermont count lined 1925 073 3l5. .o0SO
and more than that of Connecticut and
Rhode Island combined, (460, 14T; ia
620)
Pennsvvanis with population Of e
64o 3e6 whites and 66,849 blacks. and
lacking ONLY about two hundred thousand
of the sum total Of th" aggregate New Eng
land population. has only two Senators.
Thr.w of Vermont or New Hampshire
and Pennsylvania has more people than
the remaining five States.
OHIO, if you throw of Maine. or New
Hampshire and Vermont, has rs large
population as the remaining 5 a.eS, and
yet has Only two Senator's.
Illinois, Indi:l and Missouri, il you
throw of Massachusetts,, contain each as
large population as the remaining fvo
a&.w England States, and vet each OF them
has but two Senator's On an cquitabls
rapresen alive basis, whilst thesa five
States have ten Senators, those three W es-
tern States should have thirty instead Of SIX.
The ten Southern States which arc dc
MED representation in Congress, are enti-
tied to twenty Senators. II allowed Sena-
tors according to population, compared with
the New Eng land population they roul1
be entitled to twenty-four Senators, aud
have ,O52,0 OF people to spare-a num-
bcr equal to the population of Maine and
Connecticut or that of Connecticut, Fcs-
mont and New Hampshire. Thus thosp
States would be entitled, according to thc
/ Yankee apportionment. to from twentvsix
to thirty -one Scnators--fyoin six 10 eleven
more than they ever had.
| In addition to these fscta, nine Of thu
| Southern States separately exceed Rhodo
! Island in white population; eight exceed
Vermont; seven exceed New Hampshire ;
I and one equals it; three exceed Connectl-
| cut sud Two exceed Malue.
In the Sanate of the United States as
represented New England furnishes QUE
sixth of the mem bers-twelye Senators
although the people Of that section number
only ne-tenth of the country'5 population.
,,F' -, ~. - the clsven Southern States remain
out the Yankee section pcsaasHes one third
the Senators Of that bOiy. and consequent
| ly wi.los an immense power. 1t rcstrlc-
ted 70 a population representation those
SIX States would be entitled to but seven
| Senator's and one-tfth Of Senator-oulv
a fraction over one half the present number
These flc:s disclose the source OF the
immense influence and power exercised by
the New England States in the affairs OF
the Federal Government, and tell the Sc
cret Of the rump policy of continued scpa-
ration Of the States Of the Union. Wills:
NV Eu gland thus controls the Senate OF
the United States, and makes laws for the
whole country for her own benefit, tits bot tc
be expected t'.at her politicians will adyo-
cate a restoration of twenty more Senators
70 that body to destroy the power of the
/ Yankee section Nor is it to be expected
,hat the people Of New England, who pro
4 titing in their material interests tni2".11
the sectional legislation Of that body, will
vote otherwise than Vermont and Maine
have Just now doue The Kinhtcs art
true to tLelr olcr sccflon ond 70 themselves
and their efforts 70 des'rog Southern repre-
stntutioa arc d't parts If tie genera! Plor
70 ertcnd hcir oirn -latI1t.