Nebraska advertiser., 1866-10-04
ReDreSentatIOn.


How the problen of IaIiol
will be affected BY The freeing of 'h'
slaves Of The South by the late rebellion
is a question on which there Is much per
plexily With he masses, end has bee
much misrepressnted by the cOpDerhea'
press Of the land To the better undsr
standing Of this question we copy frou
The Constitution of The United States lhl
section which now controls representation
E2-RVVresPHtatrves 1wf-drect-tRxe:
shall be apportloned among the severe
States which may DC included withia HI.
Union, q according 10 their respective num-
/ beTs. winch shall be determined by add
ing 10 The whole number Of free persons
Unfolding those bound for a term OF years
and excluding Indians not taKed-hree
ftfhs Of all other persons.
2This@three fths-C0ncessionJO lhs
slave power of the South gave them the
right 10 count FIVE slaves the same OF
their representative a~pportiO3menI as
three free persons, and this was voted
on exclusively by The whites. Thus, 4
a planter bad $50 slaves, worth perhaps
| SI50,GO0-and many had double tina.
number-his single vote for C~OngressmeE
or Presidential Electors would count l5C
times as much as the vote Of John JacOt
Astor, who was worth $40, 900 900. This
was the shape things were in when the
rebellion broke out.
That the freeing of the slaves has made
a change in the Constitution necessary
must be apparent to the most ordinary in.
~telIect. The cause, quoted above, unless
changed, would count the negroes The
same as free persons, increase the polti-
cal representation Of the rebel STATES, ana
still the rOting population Be the same j.!
Thus, in the above example, the southern
planter-sIrlpped of his main ,4fait.
through his treasoa-cass vote nov
which counts $50 times a. much a. ans
man in the NsFIh ~no pay thrice as uIch
Internal gesehue AK each year as the
Sou,herper y worth=lhe Southerner
thus gaming .he power Of 100 free per-
sons through his treason.
The Chicago Tribune gives the follow
ING facts aud aguresl 70 illustrate :
Ths whole numbsf Of seals in the
House of REPRESENTATIVES is-limited by
law 20 24l forthe thlrly SIX organized
States They are appar39Bza between
The North and Seel Cow
Free States have
Late Slave States hsvs 20 Ge3
THIS division Is blsed on Jne s,alus o,
slavery, which made hv5 slaves cOJH a.
three free persons. But slavery beng
abolished, the freedmen would { unt the
same as free white PERSONS. u6l be
Constitutional Amendment is adopted,
Notwithstanding lhey are sI q f-suchis-
ed.
kAlE III AAttN-ii--A ~ At@'+.tt ~ .AE
United STATES, according 10 Lae census q
1860, III round numbers, eas lci3 5s
1n.the Elrlsk I-ae3
Ufpssgutfrla stavs 5s,ajJ ~
Total eafranch1scd ropaa4sin 2s.sO0,0co
Divide It's number by the 2II seats
aud t produces as The ratio Of represen-
-tation Ill POO persons per seat. On
this basis The Northern States would be
entitled to 100 seats in the House of Rep
resentatives, and The South to - seats.
But if the ~Copperjohnson scheme of rep
r~esentation should BE adopted, the North
will lose ~twenty-three seats and the South
gain as many, making a relative loss of
political power of tOrty.sir votes in Con
gress and in the Electoral College in
choosing a President, as the following
figures show
Whole population 3I,2tO 600
OF which the North has