Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1841-11-11

POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS.

POLiTICAL CUhRbofOND1NCE.
We present to our readers a CORES.
pondence recently held between certain /
Locofoco members Of the State Senate Of |
Tennessee and the Hon. EPHRAIM H. Fos- |
TER. These Senators, thirteen in num-
Der, constitute majority Of that branch
Of the Tennessee Legislature, and have it
in their power to defer the election of two
United States Senators from that State
for two years to come. The Wing party,
having majority in the House Of Dele
gates greater than that OF the Opposition
in the Senate, would, IL the election were
now gone into, be able to control it. 1t
is suspected by some that the Locofoco
Senators design to refuse going into the
election at present, which suspicion seems
10 be sustained by certain portions Of their
letter.
sEsArs CHAxssR,
NAsHviLLz, October 10. l3il.
To the Hon. Epbraim II. Foster:
SIR The undersigned, members oil the
Senate Of the General Assembly Of the
State Of Tennessee, now in session, being
majority Of that body, understanding
that your name will be presented to their
consideration as candidate for the Sen.
ate of the United States, respectfully re-
quest you to inform them in writing what
your opinion, arc on the following sub
jects, viz:
l. Do you approve an act passed at
tho late extra session OF Congress, entitled
bankruptcy throughout;he United States, y
and will you, it elected to the Senate, vote
to repeal the same I
2. Do you approve an act passed al the
late extra session Of Congress, entitled
" An act to appropriate the proceeds Of
the sales Of the public lands and to grant
presumption rights" commonly called the
distribution bill, and, if elected to the Sc.
nate Of the United States, will you vote
to repeal the same 7
3. Do you approve an act passed at the
late extra session of Congress, entitled
IAN act relating to duties and drawbacks, -
commonly called the tax bill, by which
increased taxes are laid on salt, food and
clothing, and other necessaries OF life, and,
if elected to the Senate Of the United
States, will you vote TO repeal the same
A. Do you approve an act passed at the
late extra session Of Congress, entitled
" An act authorizing loan not exceeding
twelve millions OF dollars" and, if elect
cd, will you vote against the bill to be in.
troduced at the next session Of Congress,
Of which notice has been given by HENRY
CLAY, Senator from Kentucky, to in.
crease the debt created by the above &C,
sixteen millions Of dollars in addition TO
the said twelve millions
8. Do you approve bill passed at the
late extra session Of Congress, entitled "a
bill to incorporate the subscribers to the
Fiscal Bank of the United States" and a
bill entitled I" A bill to provide for the col.
lection, safe keeping, and disbursement OF
the public revenue, by means of corpo.
ration TO be styled the Fiscal Corporation
of the United States !" both Of which bills
were vetoed by the President Of the United
States; and ifyou do not approve Of either
or both Of said bills, are you in favor Of a
United States Bank, and, if so, are you in
favor bank in which private stockhold.
ers are to own ell or any portion Of The
shares?
6. Do you approve an act passed a, the
late extra session of Congress, entitled
IAN act for the relief of Mrs. HARRISON,
widow Of the late President of the United
States" by which large donation was
made to private person out Of the public
Treasury and do you hold that said act
was constitutional, and, if so, do you hold
that the sams was proper aud expedient
7. Do you admit ths right of the Gene
raj Assembly as a constituent body to in
sauct Senators n Congress, and their duty,
when instructed, to obey or resign?
The undersigned deem it proper to state
10 you that they are opposed to permitting
an election to take place for filling the
two vacant seats in the Senate OF the
United States from this State until full and
satisfactory answers are received in writ.
ing from each person who is or may be-
come a candidate for either Of said vacant
seats-and copies OF this letter will be ad-
dressed 10 oil such persons, and answers
required before said election takes place.
The undersigned are, very respectfully,
your obedent servants,
lSigned by Samuel Turney, S. p H,rdwicke, Sam
usi II. Laughn. Thomas J. Matthews. A. John
son, Richard amer, w. I. Ross, Sac6eld Mac
lin, John Miller, Robert W. Powell, B. Martin,
John A. Gardner, Richard Waterhouse
N,sHvILLE, October 81, 1911.
GENTLEMEN | have TO acknowledge
your letter Of the l9th instant, PROFOUND.
ing for my consideration sundry grave
questions Of public policy, and requiring
me to enlighlen your minds by q "lull
and satisfactory" reply, or, in the oppo.
site alternative, leaving me TO anticipate
the indefinite postponement Of an election
which involves the sacred rights of the
People of Tennessee in the principal coun-
ellis of the nation, and is imperatively en-.
joined by the letter of the Constitution.
may lament, gentlemen, but foar |
cannot relieve the anxieties which seem TO
embafrass your movements and threaten
to disappont the public expectation, by re-
,ardng the execution of great and i'm
pOrtan, duty. To promise otherwise,
would bo to speak against +" the lights be-
fore me-" and to labor against hope itself.
For years past, it has been my lot to strug-
gle in warfare where, as the country
will bear me witness, | scorned alike to