Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-11

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North ..lLL.4.A.A,,.",.y. lS!l lI; lse95 j. (
South ......,.'.' ..'.''''''''' o. "l''l ''l.l''
Northern ? onaaGj5Bity. .:". 79 lCa 8Oel !.
The above calculation Is made on the to-
tai vote for President in 1860, which was
4.130193 estimating South Carolina st50,-
OOO), thus giving fraction over 10000 toa
Representative; under the rule of the act OF
NAV %, 1850, TO divide by 233, and assign
additional members to the largest fraction,
SO as to make the whole number 242, as at
present. Itwin beseen that while the yot-.
ing basis amendment Is the better for the
North, New England would lose JOttr Rep
resentatiVes under 1t, while on the amend
ment proposed she gains ttoo, making q diff
ference of ste, while Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan and Wisconsin, by this amend
metlt, in effect, lose ASeuen Representatives,
they would have otherwise gained making
a difference of thirteen against the West In
favor of New England. .i-f' , ..'..9g ~
It has been matter of complaint that 1t
took three votes North to equal two South
in'electin& Representatives and an exam
nation will show that the same thing Is true
concerning New England, compared with
the six Western States of Ohio, Indiana, IL
linOis, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa,
where sixty-two Representatives In the
vote of 1860 required "a 024 votes apiece,
while the tWenty-seven New England Rep
resentltives took 1S9O9 apiece, a difference
of over 900, making an aggregate advaf-
tage on their twenty-seyen Representatives
of 135,000 voters In proportion to the West.
10 scrutinize still, closer, on the figures in
Greeley's Almanac for 1860, results thus,
under the proposed amendment:
No Reps; No ySsSIs; ,SS 81 Av,p r RsP; e;
RSods Island. ..."..s 1851 s,975
Making on sixteen representatives and
23l, $40 votes an average of 14,4S2 piece
to each representative, while that now OF
the Southern States, according to the same
authority, is ouly 1920, being lower, ,avI
erage for these States than two-thirds OF
the Southern States considered even Indt-
uidually. The only remedy against this in
equality is. to -equalize the whole system
on the voting basis, striking down all con-
structiue representation; and not seek to
substitute one unequal system for another,
as the proposed amendment does.
The tariff and questions OF finance are the
future topics that will divide the country.
The great West, fought for the unity and
Integrity of the nation, and not to gain any
selfish advantage for any pet theory OF pol
itics. Ohio has no interest in seeking TO
force an apportiOnment, which for her 442-
AL votes " i'll require %, l42 to each Repre-
sentative, while Massachusetts, will jelect
eleven on her vote of l69, l75, at 1879 votes
apiece, givingan advantage to the latter of
difference OF 1000 to District, making
n, 600 votes in the aggregate, The duty of
the great valley of the Mississippi is TO
compel all sections to obey the COnstitu-i
tion and the laws, and in amendments TO
the Constitution of the United states 10 re-
qu're uniforniity In their operations. "A |
Governor D5nnisOn, when he charges in
his spvecn at Athens, Ohio, President john
son with inconsistency, because he OPP
poses the present amendment, which is
not the uotin1 basis plan, must have short
memory as to his own position in urging
Sherman's proposition on Senators. on nm
The Radicals delight in charging Pres :
dent Johnson with being false to his pledges
in not Furnishing traitors; but they are
careful not to quote correctly what he did
he say in his speech In the Senate March 2
1861. He said: ''IVere I the President OF the
United States, I soould do as Thomas Jefferson
did In 1906, 10Th aaron Burr, toho lods charged
toith treason. 1 io0tIld hdve them arrested and
tried for treason, aud, III CoNvICTED, by the
ETERNAL GOD Uhey should suffer the penalty
of the law at the hands of the eXecutiOner.
Sir, treason must be punished. ItsenOrmity
and the extent and depth OF the oifense
must be, made known" The Presi-
dent can try no one any more than
Gov. Cox, but depends on the courts and
jurles.tO enforce the laws. Why don't Chief
Justice Chase, whose duty It is, try Jeffer-
son Davis? We in Ohio well understand
that it Is because during all his life, and
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mitted to the resolutions of '9S and '99 as
much as any Secessionist.s You reeolltct in
this city, when his Adjltant General CAR
rington made preparations to resist the au
thorities of the United States, in the Ober-
| lin Fugitive Slave cases. II Judge Swan and
your Supreme Court would. have sanction
ed the revolutionary proceedings. Gov.
Chase's speech at Cleveland is fresh in your
memory, and he dare not deny his declarh-
tions, to prominent citizens here, that
he intended as Governor TO sustain
by military force, II necessary, the right of
the State to nullify the Fugitive Slave law
through the machinery of the State organ
izatiof. No wonder, then, Ire cannot try
and condemn Jefferson Davis or other lead
ing rebels for maintaining by arms. the
doctrines he preached himself. Hence
the Radical dodge to have Davis tried by
pie from seeing the Inconsistency OF their
own record. ~ br..,rs-.t
Judge Sutliff, jChases' special mouth
piece in our Supreme Court, In 9th Ohio
State Reports, page 300, quotes with appro-
baton from the resolutions OF '98-'99, in
dorsed by the Cleveland meeting, as fol-
lows: Dds9N Iun ET0nEN WuiYg|
"That, as in all other cases of cotnpactl
among parties having no common judge,
each party has an equal right to judge of
itself, as well of infraction as OF the mode
and measure OF redress. ."rE IL RI
{ ITruly, the Ohief Justices own chickens
have come home to roost. Verify, Judge
Swan has lived to see poetic Justice dbne
himselfih the easeof Chase. f8lil
Fellow Citizens, will now close by callS
ing your attention to one act alOne, Of reck-
less legislation, which proves, how little
this Radical Congress cares for. any ma
terial interest Of the country when pefpe-
trating a partizan deed, Henry, Stanbery,
one of the first jurists in the country,
| was nominated for Supreme Judge by the
| President, and not, daring to meet the
odium involved In his direct rejection, on.
the 23d of July plt. anbill was hurried