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But to return to the dim ages of 1847. At that time our Legislature consisted of twenty-two Senators and sixty-five Representatives, or members of the House. They were not then, as now, elected by single districts. There were seven Senate districts in the State. Thirteen of the twenty-two Senators lived in the two southern tiers of counties, against but nine in all the north. Of the sixty-five Representatives, thirty-seven lived in the two southern tiers of counties; while all the remainder of the State had but twenty-three. This analysis goes conclusively to show that, had the question been decided solely upon sectional issues, we of the interior would have been defeated by an overwhelming majority.
In the body to which I had the honor to belong, the first official mention of the capitol question, as shown by the journals, appeared in the fact that on the 6th of January the House went into committee of the whole, with Major Britton, of Berrien, in the chair, and that when the committee arose, they reported back a series of resolutions, one of which was:
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