Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-10-08

1. sehtatieh has beeome very defective nm M
equal. s6tne ef the counties having now scare,
!. y mere than thousand voters. while Bali
d more has become a great city with mere tina
70 eleven thousand voters. Annapolis Gus,
,, three hundred votes and elects two Delegate.
n Baltimore ten thousand. with only the sam
weight N the government. Of course. IN
Y latter. with some Of the larger counties,
o earnestly DESTROYS Of i Reform Of the Consl
! tuition, which the smaller counties ~ natural
y y oppose, from a jealousy Of the pumercu
] preponderance and commanding influence O
y Baltimore. We believe this radical opposl
ton of interests has never been identified will
Q party politics until this year, when the friends
: Of Mr.. Van Buren,, being majority in Balti
more and some counties where Reform i.
I most popular. with an Election OF Presiden
!, by General Ticket just at hand, very wisely
identified their cause with that of Constitu
!, tional Reform. In the late election Of Sena.
i. tOrial Electors they succeeded thereby in
carrying overwhelming majorities at Balti-
more and all the great counties, and, though
they did not obtain a majority of the Electors
lchosen, they were enabled to exhibit maio-
rity o. nearly 5000 in the aggregate popular
vote. Such was the issue of the contest.
Now the Constitution specifies that not less
uldu tNCuIy .IOuI OI IU6 JOl ~'NClOAS CApoCu
shall constitute a quorum for the transaction
of business. Now, as the Harrison party
had but twcnty-one, while their opponents
had chosen nineteen, it was fully in the pow
err of the latter to prevent an election by reii,-
sing to meet the maj. This course was delibc-
rately advised by large popular meetings at
Baltimore, al Frederick. and at Elkton, unless
the ma jority of the Electors would bind them
selves beforehand to give their opponents
eight of the fifteen Senators. 1t could not,
of course, have been expected that this requi-
sition would be- accceded to.
Monday of this week was the day fixed by
law for the meeting Of the Electoral College
at Annapolis. At IL O'Clock, the roll was
sailed over. and t'centy-one Electors (the
Whigs) answered to their names. The cali
ing Of the remainder was like that of spirits
from the vastly deep'-they would not come. I
Every Elector was in Annapolis, but twenty
one only in the State-House. Soon after, n I
reputation from the minority appeared, and
presented letter. containing, rs is presumed.
IN offer to compromise on the basis before /;
They were informed that the
College was not yet organized, and that no
could properly be received.
They retired; and the majority, after waiting
i'll T. NJ. adjourned to S, but still no quo
um. A, 6, they adjourned to 9 of the fol-
owing day. /,
Tuesday came-but not the delinquent {
electors. Three of them entered the Hall ,
0 examine the record, bat declined an invi-
alton to qualify. 1t is understood that fur Z
her propositions Of compromise were made "a
ut either not considered or deemed inadmis- r
lbie; and at O'Clock, p. m. the minority left
IN the Baltimore steamboat. with @
olors flying, drums beating, and salute of c
rtillery. f
So Maryland has no Senate; and the State e
if we rightly understand the O
latter, will cease to exist on the first dav Of a
anuary next. What will be her condition q
hereafter We know not: though the Balti- Y
'ore Republican has promulgated the idea e
lat she will lapse, for the time being. into a a
errltory dependent on the General Govern Il
tent. o.
The minority Of the Electoral College, it IS s,
1derstood, will issue an s.Address to the a
eople of Maryland,'' recommending a Con- Y
,ntion at Baltimore in December to frame ~
new Constitution. d
The measure adopted by the Electoral Fl
'nority must be regarded as virtually a re- c;
'iutionary one-a remedy above the law az
r grievances deemed intolerable, and other c.
Use incapable of removal. If sustained by te
people Of the State in the pending Dele tn
te and Presidential Elections, the over 81,
row OF the old Constitution will be COM tn
tie. A contrary result would be disastrousi
those engaged in this proceeding, though La
; deem some Reform inevitable 1t is con- n,
1ded by the Wings that the refusal to come tic
o the Electoral! College involved the guilt
specific perjury on the part of all those
ectors who had taken the usual oath to
oport the Constitution, and Of moral delin-
ency. treason, perjury. or something of the Of
I'd. on that Of the others.-The most imme- en-
tie effect of this extraordinary proceeding on
! be to exasperatc in the highest degree SOL
h political parties, and to call out forn1i-, pal
Die vote at the coming elections. pei
New-Ycrker, Sept. "a pro
wa
DS' spi
There never was such time of fraud. mis- TIL
and downright plumber, in reia- Ge
to the public lands. as the present. If viii