Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-08-27

ing to the rotten borough system
foisted upon US by the convention
of January, 1865, and their
subsequent assumptions, they
have twelve members in the
House of Representatives, while
Davidson county, with a voting
population 1863 greater, has
only two members Not one of
these oounties had in 1859, nor has
any one of them now, two thirds of |
the ratio of representation as fixed
by the apportionment act of Feb
10, 1852. No two of them have
more population than will entitle
them to ono Representative. The
per diem, mileage, ETC., of the nine
bogus members during the sessions
Of the Legislature extending over
| four years, was greater than the
State tax paid into the treasury by
the counties they assume to repre-
sent. Let those who may doubt this
statement, examine the Comptroi-
| Ier's books and the journals ana
| laws, and they will soon be cons
vinced. Compare the voting pop
ulation of the small counties we
/ have enumerated, with that of Da-
wilson, Maury, Lincoln, Giles
Henry, Obion, Gibson, WeakleH
i Shelby, and few others of the
more populous counties in the State,
and we shall soon see the injustice
, inflicted upon the taxpayers OF
, Middle and West Tennessee. The
, small counties from which the bo-
: gus representatives come, have had
, in previous Legislatures fully three
!, times the representative power they
q are justly entitled to, when com
4 pared with other counties in East
f Middle and West Tennessee. AND
d the amount of taxes they pay show
d even greater disproportion. L
/ was with the votes of these nin'
s bogus members, for it required
} them to constitute quorum, tina
le white disfranchisement and negr'
1t suffrage were forced upon tn
II middle and western divisions o
IS the State; but the latter will nov
le return to plague the inventors, 10
D, it will result in giving these oil
n visions greater represents
h tive preponderance than ever
ct The nine bogus member
q, who were foisted into the House Q
i Representatives constituted tn
he weapon welded by ungratefu
N men to beat bown and trampl
le upon the rights and liberties OF tn
y people of Middle and West Ter
at nessee, where the greatest amour
D. of wealth and population exist
Or Think of such revengeful, pre-
ct scriptive, Darrow-minded mem
Of bers as the fanatical Jane
lie A. Doughty, Dowdy, Roger
g Murphy, Snodderly, and Woodcock
er who we're of tho bogus nine an
k who voted for every oppressive Law
ID and railroad appropriation tina
or was brought before the Legislature
A. They voted for every measure this
e would Cypress the "RebeP' tax
40 payers. Nearly all of this bogu
It. nine, elected to the coming LegI'
ee lature from these surfeited cour
of ties, are like their predecessor
n proscriptive Radicals, hostile to tn
n rights and liberties of the dir
C, franchised white people OF Tel
is nessee. The men composin
ho this bogus nine have no rights j
in the Legislature, and the House
ed Representatives should take promI
nd measures on assembling in Octob'
zee to purge itself of every such excre
of cence. That body is entitled to b
is seventy, five members under tt
on constitution, and it must be col
ia fined to that number. Let us hay
~ no moro bogus members in Il
w. Legislature.