Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-08-08
From he Log Cabin Adrocatc.
NEW JERSEY ELECTION CASE

NEW ION IASb
1t is customary to call this n free country, and
TO boast OF our form Of Government. lf al
mnstered with purity, the form Of Government
leaves nothing for man TO desirH; aud every
member Of the community would be allowed to
sit in peace "undef his own vine and fg tree,
having imposed upon him only those sautary
restraints, alike essential TO individual and soca
happiness. But, unfortunately, extremes meet
and a country. whose constitutional laws allow
the largest liberty, may be cursed with the rank
est despotsn. But we have no room TO moral.
ize
The early part Of the session was characterized
in the House, by oppression and violence and
confusion worse COMPOUNDED" Five members
were excluded from their seOts-and Sovereign
State, one Of the Old Thirteen, DISTINGUISHED.
We will not enlarge on this subject. Our object
now is TO call the attention of our readers TO the
late vote on the Majority Report of the Commit.
tee of Elections. That case was committed 10
that Committee early in the session, and il our
recollection be accurate, some expectations were
entertained from the character OF Mr. Campbell
Of South Carolina who is Chairman. But the
spell Of Calhounism appears TO have rested upon
some South Carolina politicians; under he in
huencc Of which Mr.. Nc Duffie has lately placed
his name 10 letter, calling Gen. Harrison ga
weak, superanuaed old man" and many other
things equally untrue, and disreputabe to Mr..
McDufie. And now Mr.. Campbell proposes
and pcrpctrates an outrage in the House, which
violates all moral sense, and would have dis
graced the vlest despotjsm that ever blighted the
hopes, or disfgured the history Of man.
! The Committee were evenly balanced, four
against four, until two or three weeks ago, Mr..
P. F. Thomas OF Maryland, was added which
enabled the administration portion Of the Com.
mittee TO make majority report. After the
previous question had been demanded and Sc.
conded on printing the majority and minority re.
ports, tog, Their with the journal Of the G. mmit.
lee Mr.. Campbell moved to strike out the mini
ority report from the motion t. print, and this too
under circumstances where the operation Of the
| previous question cut Of all debate. What will
South Carolina chiualry say TO that? The out.
rage did not stop here, As soon as the motion
to print was adopted it was moved that the re-
port Of the majority be nop adopted Thus, al.
ter ordering the reports and journal to be printed,
and before they We're printed, before the House
had any knowledge Of the evidence on which
| the case rested, members, in utter darkness and
! ignorance, were cpled upon 10 say whether the
sitting members were or were not entitled 10 their
seats MIR. Waddy Thompson son worthy Of
South Carolina even in her days Of chiUal'y,
livery puogenrly remarked that "hisory Or poetry
informs d us hut one Judge whose habit it was
TO decide before he heard the evidence; he was
the Judge Of He'll" Pandemonium is an ugly
place. Respect Cor our Country makes US un.
willing to say that the Hall Of the House OIL
Representatives, during the session, has been the
theatre of acts which would better become
another tribunal Judge MrSDs was saint
when compared with some things tina, no,c live
and move.
The motion 10 adopt the majority report wa,
carried by the administration party: and thus
the solemn farce was acted, in which grave con-
sli.u;ional question, involving the mos! sacred
rights Of individuals and Staes, was carried with.
out the members being allowed to see OF hear the
evidence. We add no comment. We appeal
to The ballot box and the People. 1t is time for
tie People to consider as they select their Ru.
| !ers, whether they sympathise in that enthusiastic
exclamation Of Patrick Henry, which put in
motion the ball Of the Revolution, GIVE ME-
LIBERTY, OR GIVE NE DEATH!"