I shall confine my examination of these results to the nineteen free States, whose statistics are presented in the census of 1860, and the very radical change which the new basis of apportionment would produce among those States forms the ground of my opposition to it.
Blaine focused his analysis on the implications of a new apportionment basis using the 1860 census data from free States.
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