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VIRGINIA.
ELEorIox OF UNITED STATES SENATOR.
House Of Delegates, Dec. 3.

ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR.
House Of Delegates, Dec. 3.
The House, according to the Joint order of the
day, proceeded by joint vote with the Senate, to
the election of senator, to represent this State in
the Senate of the United States for six years. from
the 4th of March last
Mr.. MARTz nominated Isaac S. Pennybacker,
esq, In appropriate and earnest language.
Mr.. DENisoN, of Shenandoah. in seconding the
nomination of Judge Pennybacker, observed
feel It a duty which | owe distinguished friend
which owe to the county which represent, of
which he is a native--to second the nomination
which has just been made. | do so, sir, without
fear-with full confidence; for 1 know feel |
know-that this trust, great as it is, can be with
perfect safety confded TO his hands. Judge Penny
hacker has grown up, from his earliest years to the
present time, in the principles of democracy-in the
principles of Jeilersoiin the principles of Virginia.
and the matured judgment of near forty years has
confirmed him in the truth Of those great principles
which, in his youth, he was instructed to believe.
Sir, he was taught to read the constitution of the
United States as the Bible of his political faith,
without interpretations, without false constructions
This is the rock upon which he has built; and the
storms may come, and the waves may dash upon
1t, but 1t Will stand mistaken as the eternal
mountains that surround his home II is by the
constitution that his political faith has been form
edit is by the constitution that his political
course has been directed. Whilst he has been, at
all times, ready to extend to the general govern
ment all those rights to which it is entitled he
has been the strenuous asserter of al those other
rights, the exercise of which the States have re-
served to themselves. Sir, Judge Pennybacker is
a state-rights democratic republican. Judge Penny
hacker was educated for the law. An an early
period of life he was admitted to the bar and inn
mediately took prominent stand a well-read
lawyer and an able advocate, and soon got into an
extensive and lucrative practice. But his fellow
citizens were not content to let him remain in this
retired state, but soon called for his services in
more widely-exendeda and more distinguishes sphere;
and, during the administration of Mr.. Van Buren,,
he was elected TO the Congress Of the United States
Ay, then it was, during the storm of opposition
which had nearly ingulfed the democratic party
and when weaker friends were shrinking from her
diminished ranks--then it was that Judge p. gave
up oil private considerations and threw himself into
the melee to lend his aid to revive the dropping
cause. Immediately upon being introduced into
Congress, he took high stand politician and
debater; and, to show in what high estimation he
was held by the administration, soon as there
was vacancy, he was elevated to the bench of the
United States court without any other Recommended
ton than his own nnrne and il is in that high sta
ton that he has won for himself reputation to
which he is indebted for the still more elevated po-
sition to which trust this House will this day ele
vate him. Judge p is distinguished for an intellect
of the highest order; for mind great to conceive,
and physical strength powerful to execute for great
powers of concentration; for an industry that knows
no tringi for an energy that regards not opposon;
for determined purpose that knows not vacillaon.
These qualities, united to great dignity Of manners,
and manly, fluent, and impressive manner of
speaking, render him pre-emincnuy qualified for
the high Office for which he is now a candidate.
Judge Z. is western man; but il is with joy--with
heartfelt joy-with feelings of admiration and of
gratitude for many friends see around me, that
ann able to say that Judge p. is the candidate of no
sectional Understanding of the North nor the
South the East nor the West--but that all section
al feelings have melted away before his merits that
the right hand of fellowship has been extended TO
him from all parts Of the State; and that he now
stands here the candidate ofthe great democratic party
of Virginia. Judge p. is native of the county Of
Shenandoah. lie is one of the Oldest, truest,
stanchest soldiers of the old 10th legion of democ
racy. Sir, the democratic. party owes much to the
tenth legion of democracy. When doubt, and dark
ness, and despair pervaded the whole State--when
the clouds lowered and the tempest ragged there was
one bright spot of hope, one CLEAN Of sunshine that
gilded the distant mountsn-top that rose brighter,
brighter, brighter still, until the darkness dis
PEELED, and all again was life, and light, and joy. Sir,
the tenth legion has twice saved Virginia. The
democratic party owes much to the section Of the
State from whence Judge p. comes, This par Of
the State has had but little preferment. Sir, she
wants but little; she asks but ltte but this she does
ask. She asks with mothers fondness, amothels
care, for the preferment of this her much-oved and
long-cherished son. The election of Judge p. will
be compliment paid to his native country-to the
whole tenth legion of democracy--w will be
joyfully received and gratefully acknowledged.
Sir, leave the name of Judge p. before the
House the democratic candidate for senator of the
United States from Virginia.
Mr.. BococK seconded the nomination with pleas
ure. Judge Pennybacker was not the candidate of
mere section, but was sustained by every portion
of this Commonwealth. He is an able, faithful, and
republican, who will represent fairly the
principles Of Virginia; and it an honor due to
the champions of those principles, and to the tenth
Logon, to select man from their midst who will
most manfully maintain them.
Mr.. LYONS said he would not enter upon a dis
cussion ofth qualifications of the gentleman nomi-
mated by the democratic party. This House has
only to furnish the certificate of election; the fiat Of
election has already gone forth. He would not de-
tract from the character Of the judge, would he
ask the House to elect an individual to political
station whose principles were opposed to those of
majority in this House and in the State; but there
was an obnoxious principle involved in his election
which he would discuss. He was opposed to the
election of member of the judiciary to any political
Office; and more especially was he opposed to the
selection ofa member of the federal Judiciary to rep
resent this State in the Senate ofthe Union.
He considered political judiciary curse upon
any country. Their eyes are placed rather upon
the popular arena, than the scales Of Justice, and
are dazzled by the glitter of Office and honors. The
ermine, like the veil, when once taken, should be
taken for life, and never rclinqushed
Mr.. LErrwIcH said he did not expect the demo-
Gratis to select candidate acceptable to the wings.
The wings wished to follow the example afforded in
another State where the divisions Of the democratic
party enabled the wings to choose between the can
didates. The unanimity Of the democratic party
prevented this on the present occasion; and the
qualifications ofthe gentleman selected were such
to render him acceptable to the whole party.
He had known.the Judge long and fhvorably in
various trying situations, and his abilities were ever
equal to the occasion He had no fears of the re-
suit; the fiat had gone forth.
Mr.. LYONS replied that he did not wish to create
confusion in their ranks; he only wished them to
select candidate free from the nint Of federal Office
Mr.. LEAKE observed that he should have been 81
lent but for the elluson the faint Of federal Office,
made by the gentleman from the city Of Richmond.
He was not selected as the candidate on account
Of the station he occupied in the federal Judiciary,
but because he entertained those principles which
had best qualified him TO represent the sovereignty
of the State.
State sovereignty would he better secured by his
election than by that of any one whom the GENTLE