Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-02-18

it within the sphere of their duty comment 10
any way upon il, but submit the whoe matter 10
! the House for lis own consideration and action. y
In Angus, last. two years after Mr.. Brown had
purchased Tho books alluded to, and nearly one
| year after the committee had made the report to
which reference has just been made, the booksel l..
Ter came 10 Indianapolis TO procure his money for
The books sold to The Stale, when Mr.. Brown
was forced 10 give him, at its date, the following
certificate:
INDIANApoLIs Aug. 10, 1912.
! This cer,ifies that w. w Reed of Hartford.
Connecticut, in the yenr 1910. sen, TO my order
as Secretary Of State Books for the State Libra
ry to the amount of S314, 63, for arhich he has
receired no payment to my knomledge.
| WM. J. BROWN.
| Taking from this amount of three hundred and
| forts -four dollars, the one hundred and two dol
lars spoken Of left in The Treasury payable TO
| Mr. Reeds order Mr.. Brown srl defaulter
| ia the sum of two hundred and iort7.iwn dollars
Ia December last, ONLY TWO MONTHS AGO.
| proven BY the official report Of the Auditor ,
| Mr.. Brown paid back into The Treasury one hun
dred dollars, leaving sui balance of one hun
dred and fOrty.two dollars and for which he Is yet
in default: yet this man proven by the records
of the House Journl', proven by his own ceriti>
cate, proven by his own payment ~ December
last to be deiaulter 10 The State Of Indiana was,
IN the face Of ali this eYdance declared by that
And he was permitted to keep his seat, with the
peoples money in his pocket, and to vote as
Repreee NATIVE of tndiana IN the tee h o! the f-
lowing section Of the Constitution OF your State,
VIZ:
.No person, who hereaf' er NAV be 4 collector.
or holder OF public money, shall have seat in
either house Of the general assembly, until such
person shall have accounted for and paid lnto the
treasury al suns for which he may be aCcounta-
bie.''
Fellow citizens, you at once perceive that the
la less expu sion of hIr. Benli, Che frsl Of the
outrages which we have been cons1erng.) was
IN act for the first tme, not only IN your own
State, bu, throughout the Union, by which the
House OF Representatives. which the people had
organized was disoTganized bv factious mn prty,
to suit the party purposes OF that majority. II
was the establishment of a precedent, which. II
followed up, must r8su 10 the election 81 elected
members TO the General Assembly and the sub
stiiuilon of men, upon an authority not OF the
people, to accommodate tho base uses Of those
who may have tie power TO make snch substita-
ton. 1t is a direct attack upon the sword and
shield of your liberties, the Ballot BoX.-lt IS the
rlion liz republican land, by their servants.
of q power over their masters the people. And
as well may vou live under the most odtous form
Of tyranny which tho despotsm of man can In. !
vent, as Knocked by the nano while you shorn
of the power o! trccmcn, you are forced 10 yield
10 the fats oil Il power. which, by your votes you
have delhroned, and which, las in the we
have been consideriug.) is ruthlessly exercised. /
voice 10 the contrary notwithstanding, by /
the privileged few over the toing many! If you
prepared II submit TO such encroachments,
pray do not trtle with common sense by preser-
wing the outward shocs of freedom. Burn your
ballot. boxes-des,roy your laws, and select your
kings and dictators!
The plas,ering over of the confessed and pro-
ven defalcaion of Mr. Brown, merely for the
righteous reason that the falsely called "denocra
tic" ma ioriy of the House Of Representatives
had the POWER to do So deed of Consti-
tutiona violation and factional revolution, hardly
puralleled by tho expulsion Of a credentiaied
member from your councils. Nothing can be of
moro importance in moral and political sense
TIM the enactment of wholesome regulations, by /
means of which your public agents, who are en-.
trusted with your money, shall be held RESPONSE /
bic for their trusts. The trainers of your Con-
stitution thought so, and hence, by the provision
which have already quoted from your Cons,i- .
tuition. they wisely prohibited embezzlers Of the /
peoples money to occupy seats in the peoples
Legislative assemblies. Bu, this honest, his sage
and constitutional provision wa. laughed TO scorn,
as YOU have SEEN by the falsely called democrats
of the House of Representatives. They retained
Mr.. Brown in his seat defaulter then, and q /
defauIter to the people TO this hour. I
FELLOW citizens Of Indiana, Notwithstanding
some Of rs as your Representatives, dlsseuted,
vet a IN i1riiv Of those in whose behalf this nd /
dresss 10 you ia written, saw proper, because 1t
was tho period ixeI by law 10 do So, to 60 INTO
an election OF United States Senator. This
election the Senate had the power to prevent and .
thus to refer the matter lafo your hinds. Bnt
notwithstanding the falsely called democratic
M jor II of the House of Representatives, had
expelled q Wing member and retained a deiaulier
os the modern and pretended democratic politics
in their midst, III j1rity Of us. os Wings and as
republican friends order and law, could not CON
~, Of osy ehn
rest upon our shoulders. The Constitution de-
manded AZ election, this period at our hands, /
and ihough The flctiona conduct of the House
would have fully Justified its postPonement We
Welded consent TO the canvass. 10 the cha /
racter Of that canvass ani 10 the result which II I
brought about. desire now, for one moment, 10 /
in woke your earnest attention.
You are well aware that with the vote OF Mr.. /