The American Congress has just revised the apportionment of seats,
and the new list shows that power is rapidly passing to the West. The six States of New England, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connec- ticut only seat 24 members out of 283, and even with New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, only 89, or considerably less than a third of the whole. The South seats 63, and all the remainder, or 131, are from the West, which in a few years will outweigh the entire remainder of the Union. Already New England is quite powerless as far as voting strength is concerned, although the superior education of her children retains to her much of her influence. She will by and by occupy much the position that Scotland does in Great Britain, while the South will be as Ireland, Pennsylvania as Lancashire, that is, rich, but conservative ; and New York as Yorkshire, rich, but Liberal, the freeholders being strong Republicans. The new list shows strongly the folly of con- fusing the opinion of New York with that of the Union. She is the most populous single State, but is nearly balanced by Penn- sylvania, and does not nearly outweigh Illinois and Ohio together. The States in which Germans are strong have now just one-quarter of the votes, even if we exclude New York.
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