I think that all this shows simply what I have asserted before. that the public mind was "tom up " about this question. The people did not rightly know what the law was. It was a new community which had not been in the habit of acting under State laws. made up of immigrants fresh from other parts of the country or the Old World. living in a sparsely settled region. where the territorial area is two or three times larger than that of most of the old States. It is certainly very much larger than Ohio. which has nineteen Representatives upon this floor. and yet it has not within its limits a larger population than is necessary to entitle it to one member of the House. and that population is scattered through the gorges. the caions. and the distant mining regions of a wild country.- It is utterly absurd to suppose that everything said and published in the center of the Territory would reach these distant portions of it in time to be of much use in an election campaign. I shall insist. as I go on. that the papers and the politicians of tie Territory succeeded in so muddling tfe public mind that they did not know what the nature of the elaction was.
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