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Congress requiring the States to be laid
off into districts is constitutional, that
then the State Of Mississippi is bound TO
obey it. Any other conclusion would,
be absurd-the practical tendency being
TO the destruction of all authority of the
Federal government and to dismember-
ment Of the Union. If the law is con-
stitutlonal, it is palpable that the. states
are bound 10 obey it; else the federal
government is an arch mockery. Whe-
ther it was erpedient or not topass it, IS
not question in issue-if that is the
objection, the proper mode of resistance
will be to elect our representatives un-
der the law and instruct them to vote
for its repeal BY the following extract
from Art. !, Sec. 4, ofthc Constitution Of
the U. States, we consider the question
of constituliohality as irrefutably SET
tied.


''Tke times, places and manner Of
holding elections for Senators and rep
.rescntatives, shall be prescribed in each
State by the Legislature thereof; but the
Congress may at any time, by law, make
or alter such regulations; except as to
the place Of choosing Senator'S"