The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-04-11

it with words only They say with Cesar J:
/" Glue me money and ,oiH find men," The
Van Burenies have the money and patronage
Of the people TO find men with. We who
are opposed to them must meet them, as
much as possible, with their own weapons.
We must not only combat them with truth,
with argument, with entrealy, but meet them
as they fight us, with every efficient means
and instrument Of success that is honorable.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE NEW JER-
SEY CASE.
Three of the Committee on Elections of the
House of Representatives, have published an
address, Sanctioned in part only by Mr..
Campbell the Chairman, and Mr.. Fisher,
and, Of course, not sanctioned at all by the
four gentlemen Of the Opposition who were
on the Committee,) to the American People,
which they imagine is to reduce the measure
Of indignation which the people are preparing
to bestow upon their extraordinary proceed
ings. II is not little ludicrous to observe
this trio, (Messrs. Brown, Mcdill, and Rives)
fatterng themselves with the idea that they
have at least attained to the impartiahty Of
the Judicial ermine I" i" Impartiality" such
as is beautifully illustrated by the whole con-
duct Of these members in and out Of the
Committee by the dsingenuity and sophistry
of their own language, and particularly by
their wanton attack on Governor Pennington.
They have vented especial spite against this
just officer from the beginning Of this New
Jersey controversy, in the vain expectation
that, by so doing. they were contributing to
the downfall Of the party to which he belongs
in New Jersy. But the signs at Trenton on
Tuesday last indicate, that their efforts have
been as productive Of good, as the ISLANDERS
their partizans have heaped upon the Hero Of
Tippecanoe. Despite all the calumnious as
sauts and desperate efforts made against Gvo.
Pennington, he was reelected by an increas-
ed majority, and we expect to see that MAORI
ty still augmented at the next contest. The
people Of New Jersey understand their own
laws, and know their own officers, and they
can appreciate the motives Of foreign fasi-
fers.
Why is the charge respecting Milville and
South Amboy, even if there were any truth
in it, made against the Governor only, when
it it is well known that he gave no vote, but
simply carried out the decree of one entire
branch of the Legislature Why is this
commission called the Governors commits
sion, when it is the commission that runs in
the name of the people of New Jersey ~
1t is made out by advisement Of the council,
and the name of the Governor, like that of
the Secretary, simply appended TO it. Mr..
Fisher says, "the Gouernor actually set aside
two townships, and declared his friends duly
elected" and yet these townships were never
legally before the Governor, and it was the
Council and not the Governor who deter
mined that these two townships, not having
been returned according to law, could not be
counted, and all this, we are assured, appears
from the evidence which Mr. Fisher pretends
to have read and considered
The Committee say the Governor chad
nothing to do or say in the election of Men,
bers of Congress save the single, solitary duty
OF computation, and giving the commissions to
those who have received the greatest num-
Der of votes" This is precisely what we
have all along understood the Wings to con-
tend for, whilst their opponents have ever
insisted that the Governor and Council were
a sort of a court of errors, TO hear evidence
and adjudge the conduct of the county clerks.
We suppose that these learned lawyers Of
the committee will admit that the Governor
and Council, in making their computation"
must do it from some evidence before them,
and that the laws Of New Jersey must say
what that evidence shall be- And, we I'M
derstand that those laws say it shall be the
returns of the county clerks, all of which
were before the Governor and Council, and
as they could know no evidence or allegations
beyond those returns, but could only perform
their solitary duty of computation from the
evidence before them, if they determined,
from that evidence, "who had the greatest
number of votes,' and awarded the commits
sions accordingly, we cannot for our life see
why the committee should spend so much
wrath and verbiage on Governor Pennington,
unless it be, that through the unlawful con-
duct of the election officers, the party lost the
benefit OF their own frauds, and of the re-
turn Of the two townships. And Gov. p.
tad tk.t