The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-21
Inequality of REPRESENTATION.


,IoHN QUiNCX ADAMS, of Massachusetts,,
the great sou of the "Old Man Eloquent
IN "a lue speech, gives New England warn
mg of her Danger In pressing upon the
country Constitutional change in the ba-
sis of representation IN Congress. lie
says:
Then New England viii awake from
her dream to find the nnumcrablc horlcs /
/ oi il,c GREAT states crowding through the
broach which IN, herself has been iuf,most
, to throw down. and che parapet she dis
mantlcd she viii pray for ~ vain ~ herdaY
Of detection and despair. Gcutlemcu, this
Is mo- idle imagination, no basclcss fabric of
"a vision. The inequality which places lit
tlc Rhode Island, With 10000 people upon
20 par In one branch of Congress with New
York. with nearly 4,O00OO0; the fact that
New England with but a little over 3O0e,-
GOO OF people. cats thirty-niuc votes Cor
the election 90 the Presidency, aud New
York with luO0.O0O casts but thirty three,
has not Thus far escaped notice. DO you
suppose Ohio. with over 2O00,0O0 has never
asked why She Is entitled to only
, two senators, when New Hampshire with
, 10000 has two also. and Vermont
, with about the same has two more aud
+ Connecticut. with 100000. has two more,
! making only l,00O,0O0, or oue-half her
: number 50 that IL she needed to enforce
/, her argument, she has only TO throw in
d Massachusetts TO make up an equal popu-
: latiou to her own, aud to see the four \ an
! KEGS of New England casting four times as
many Senatorial votes rs the Buckeyes OF
a OhioY Does II ever enter the mind OF IL
lnois with l,7O00O0 and Indiana with
100000. 10 ask why the two Of them, with
! a population about equal 20 the whole OF
E New England, have four senators, while
Z We have twelve. and eight less electors
= thau wey Aud Pennsylvania. with 3,OO0.-
600. may well itaYe "a word To say when she
G too looks at New Eugland But these, we
" may say, are our friends, and from them no
, such scheme will spring.
u Then. nt least. let us be sure not to arouse
C the cumi;y of States less tricndly-lct us
beware lest we stir Kentucky with her
InHlion. Tennessee with her million, Nir-
ginia with her million and one-halG Ala
bama with her million, Georgia with her
million or Missouri with her swelling mil
. lion, MOTTO wait for North Carolina with
B.. nearly one milton, and South Carolina With
1t 100000 and Louisiana with more. Nor IS
thus the only plrtcut OF oar danger. Day
r by day the power of population passes
r AWAY from the small States, rcplaccd by the
: money which will induce, not repel assault.
New England, To speak generally, is almost
. stationary in popuntion while the great
l Western States increase from fifty to one
hundred per cent. ina decade. and Texas,
the great OOlllltEn giant. uA'dllA wv nun
! drcd pcr cent. Do you suppose, gentlemen,
l that these questions have not been asked? ?
WHY. the West has been agitatug this
L question for years, and now you are fore
y Ing the South to consider how it may re-
lmbilitate its damaged power or revenge its
injured pride at the expense Cf the Sena-
9 toral power of New England. 1t is al
ready freely discussed at the south
To this the Cincinnati EaquTer adds that
"it is remarkable that the natural shrcwd-
To- ness ami ingenuity Of the New England
:. people does not induce them to act upon
= these friendly suggestions, for they are
= agitating subject which will be to them
d worse than the waking Of a slumbering
II lion The great party benefited by ine-
- quality OF representation is New England.
e Its = matter upon which she had better,
T. for her own interests. say rs little as posi-
u bic. MIR, ADAMS is right There will be
. ere long most excellent issue made, in the
II West and South, upon the question whether
II three millions of people at the East are to
, have rs many United States Senators as
N twelve millions in the Northwest or eight
c millions in the South, and whether this dis
n proportion ofadvantage Is also to e3ist IN
. the choice of electors for President and
= Nipp Ihrpsilant -