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12 THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION.
the delegates to the respective counties in districts, as above set forth,
from which a registry. had been reported. The apportionment was as
follows : .
Ist district, Doniphan county,..........ssese00» seeeeeeeeeees 7 delegates.
2d . do Brown and Nemeha do-
3d do Atchison : / 5 do
4th do Leavenworth 1 do
5th do Jefferson
6th do Calhoun
wth do Marshall.
8th do Riley and Pottawat
9th do Johnson
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10th: do Douglas do
llth . do Shawnee, Richardson, and Davis............ . do
12th do ‘Lykins . do
16th do Lynn . do
18th do Bourbon, McGee, Dorn, and Allen........ . 4 do
From this it will be scen that twenty-one out of the thirty-four
organized counties were embraced in the apportionment; and the
journals of the convention (Exhibit No. 4) show that all these were
represented in that body. From the same proclamation it will be
seen that five election districts, embracing thirteen counties, were left
out of the apportionment. These were, as will appear from what has
been stated, the 13th district, being Franklin county; the 14th, in-
cluding Weller, Breckinridge, Wise, and Madison ; the 15th, Butler
and Coffee ; the 17th, Anderson county; and the 19th, Woodson,
Wilson, Greenwood, Godfry, and Hunter.
Of these thirteen counties nine had but a small population in them.
This (apart from the statement of Mr. Calhoun and. other reliable
information) clearly appears from the returns of the election on the
4th January last, the official announcement of which is filed with the
papers of this report. rom that it will be seen that not a vote was
returned as having been cast in that election in seven of these thirteen
counties about the disfranchisement of which so much complaint has
been made. These seven counties are Weller, Wise, Butler, Wilson,
Godfrey, Greenwood, and Hunter. “Nor was there a vote at that elec-
tion in either of the three unorganized counties of Washington, Clay,
and Dickinson,
In two of the thirteen counties stated above—to wit: Madison and
Woodson—there were but 90 votes cast—40 in the former and 50 in
the latter; and but 1,135 in the four remaining—to wit: Franklin,
304; Breckinridge, 191; Coffee, 453; and Anderson, 177; so that if
the election of the 4th J anuary should be received as evidence of any-
thing, it would prove nothing more conclusively than that the clamor
about the disfranchisement of half the people, or even a considerable
portion of the people of the Territory, is utterly groundless, and_re-
sorted to only asa pretext for the want of something more solid.’ This
pretext becomes the more glaring when the cause of there being no
registry in these four counties of Franklin, Breckinridge, Anderson
and Coffee is understood. This is fully’explained not only by the