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The fact was that we who represented the interior of the State felt the incubus of our disadvantages and our poverty. We decided to work together, and we "builded better than we knew." The result may be pointed to for all time to come as an evidence of what united action may accomplish, even under the most desponding circumstances. A brief glance at the strength of the State at that early period may be interesting at this point. .
Our Legislative Manual contains the census of 1845, upon which the Legislatuue was apportioned. It shows the entire population of the State to have been 304,273. Of this number 184,637, being over three-fifths, were contained in the two southern tiers of counties, and 119,636 in all the rest of the State. Only four counties of the State could boast a population of twenty thousand each.
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