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The character of this transaction, symto-

 matic of a pertidious heart, can only be es.

 timated by analysing it's motives and Pur-

 poses. The legislatures of seven of the

 smaller states of the Union, to secure to themselves an undue proportion of influence in the popular branch of the National I4e- gislature, had adopted the practice of elec- House, to which their numeric population entitled them, by general ticket, whereby each member was made representative of the whole state, and not of the specific number of persons entitled by the Constitu- tion to one member. It was in truth a mode of election iniquitous and unjust to all the other states represented by single districts, and equally unjust to the minority of the people in the states SO represented them- selves. It often happens that the minority of whole state, consists of the majority in several of it's districts. This had been strongly exemplified very recently in the state of Alabama. In the 26th Congress. three ou. of five members from that state, chosen by single districts, were Whigs- The legislature of the state, for the express purpose of preventing their reelection. enacted law prescribing their election by general ticket, and the whole i've members from Alabama. in the 27th Congress, are Loco ,Focos slaveholding Democrats. The result is. not merely that nearly one hali -nf tho people of the state are unrepresented

 but they are Misrepresented by persons oi opinions and principles directly opposite tc their own. This is equally contrary to the principles of popular election, and to the letter of the constitution. There is another uoint of view inawhich it's incompatibility

 with the principles of popular representa-

 sjon is obvious. By the single district sys