Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-02-11

VIII CbaNe. WOet CNn CAnkeT t0o mln0
Of the people Of one section agains
those Of another, If their rights are eSI,s
and justice is meted out. 20. slA,ss WI,
shall array ths westtagainst the east, IN,
north sgainst,the south, when each sec
tion is alike SECURE in, its freedom, an,
whes the rights aud ,indisiCiual interest
o6sxery citizen are allie protected anC
defended 7 Secure perfect representa-
ton so that no section amino interest i,
client in the National Legislature, thsr
the increase Of population carries with il
no element of weakness. then the in
crease OF our territory, instead of weak.
cning the government adds to its
strength and power Give TO the people
freedom, give them peace and content
ment by securing absolute self govern
ment, and our territory may absorb a
continent, and the increase of numUers,
and expanding domain, and the accumu-
lation Of wealth, win only add strength,
glory and power. But as bong as the
people are only half represented, ms long
as there are interests, sections aud
classes, that have no voice in framing
the laws, as, long as portion of the peo,
pie are practically disfrapchiSed, and
there remains at home, a clamoring, dis.
contented minority, equal in wealth.
power. and iphnence, 10 the represented
class, thea the increase Of population,
aud the expansion Of territory only adds
elsmcnts of weakness, dlscurd and decay.
Apply this principle to the election of
Presidential electors. Abolish the sys.
tenn whereby minority of the people
are enabled to elect a President and a
Vice-Presideni. We are one people. One
Sovereignty. The Chief Magistrate is
an officer of the whole people he is at
the head OF that Union that makes as. one
nationality, and all the people should be
heard in his election. The people, and
not the States are sovereign. WHY
should majority OF the people in the
smaller States be represented in the
electoral college, whik. ~ the larger
States there remains a body ut citizens
more numerous than the entire populn-
tion of tho smaller States, wholly unrep.
resented What will take place in SIP
at the Presidential election /? Then oc-
ours our quadrennial struggle that in-
vsriably convulses the country from end
end, paralyzing business, deranging the
finances, causing unnatural and undue
excitement, creating iealouSics and dis
contents, that years do not cure. And
whye BECAUSE u minority, or bare
majority, OF tho people elect the Presi-
dent. The question is, who shall be
represented IN the electoral college.
Only about one,half the people eau be
thus represented, and the struggle, the
excitement, the bitterness, the trickery
and the frauds, all come from this one
fact The cumulative vote would remedy
all this evil. The respective parties in
the several States would carefully meas.
ure their strength, and would cast all
their votes for 50 many electors as they
could reasonably expect to elect. Then
ell tho people would he present in the
electoral college, They would I've fairly
represented there, and al, tbs INDUCE
ments to fraud and corruption, perjury
and crime, would vanish. The elections
would he peaceable and hoIest. The
people would asseinhe quietly. and meas
ure their strength,
Our country Is the hope of mankind.
Here men are permitted to make thelp.
selves. Here they are freed from anti.
qusted custom and usage, and the God
given intellect, capable of endless OK.
pansion aud growth, cuts itself loose
from the shaekles of despotism, turns
away from the track Of long established
thought, aud euters Npnn a career of
boundless investigation aud research.
Development and progress in AL that
makes men great and happy, in all that
cultivates the moral, mental and physi-
cal, in all that expands and enlarges the
heart, is the natural and inevitable con,
sequence. Our country is desined to be.
come the seat OF learning and culture.
Here the achievements vi the human
mind will yet fill the world with wonder
and astonishment, We are attracting
to our midat men from every nationality,
Of every climate and to0aue. 1t is ours
TO take bold of these. varied aud diVersi-
fled elements. and to- carve out OF each
and every one the trae American citizen,
whose ek;efest glory is the American
name, whose proudcst memory u Aluer-
ica's glorious past. To accomplish all
this, our laws and institutions mast be |
strong and sigadiast IN. the innermsst !
hearts of the people. Dheu the SUI ging
waves from the. Orient, hringing Saxon.
Teuton aud Csk, Cossack, Turk and |
Celestial, will hreak harmless at our heet. |