The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1849-12-22

t.fsate iisef and the law in connection with If, ana
1t will be at once seea that to obey the law is nc
part of the intention of gentlemen On the Other
sIacofxhe Chamber, = : - = ,.5se-.s. - -,
The Stab ef Ohio Hamitoa coa9tg IS:
: Il is hereby certified that at the general cleo
ton held within and for the State and county
aforesaid, on the ninth day of October, Ammo Dom
ini one thousand eighthundred and forty-nne, vii.
lam I. johnson was duly and constitutionay elect
cd one of the Senators apportioned to the county ot
Hamilton aforesaid in the General Assembly of th.
State of Ohio, for the constitutional term of two
wears, he having 5,693 votes and the highestnum-
Der of votes given for that Office at said election:
As appears BY the poll books of said election du-
Is returned and opened at the Office of the CLERK
ofthe Court Of Common Pleas of said county.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set
lSEAL. my hand and affixed the seal of said court,
at Cincinnati, this l6 day of October, le49.
f. C. ROLL,
Clerk of the court of common pleas Hamilton
county, Ohio.
The evasion ycs the vice is seen III the very Vi
tails of this pretended certificate of elrrton Let
me bring to the notice OF the senate the certificate
upon which s. p Moore, a pretended member of
congress from Kentucky, attempted to take a Jori-
ma fiacie seat in the House of Representatives of
the United States:
STATE OF KENTUCKY:
FIFTH Congressional District
We the undersigned sherfs for the counties of
Mercer, Gcrrared, Anderson, Lincoln and Jasimin,
composing the said fifth congressional district, do
certify that on the 18th day after the commence
n1ent of the late congressional election for said dis
triet to wit, on the goth day of August 1883, we
met at the courthouse in Harrodsburg Mercer coun-
tr. and adjourning from day TO day, made faith
ful comparison and addition of votes amp polls for
ssii1 congressional election for said district, and
f5uni and accordingly certify, Thomas P. Moore is
duly elected Representative to congress from said
fifth congressional district BY majority of the quail
iiicd.votes Of said district
Given underssour hands, this 21st dav of August
1898 The vote of Lincoln county not taken into
calculation. JACOB KELLER,
Deruty 10. 6. y. Thomson, s. ii. c.
- R. WALKER,
Deputy for John Most S A. c.
JAMES II. LOWERY,
Deputy for John Downing S. ]. G.
The declaration of election in it is as round and
positive as language make it The certificate
states positively that Mr.. Moore was "was duly
elected" TO seat in congress, from the fifth con-
gressional district of the state of Kentucky 1t
was signed by three sheriffs only, when it should
have been signed by four. Yet that could only
be discovered on reading the law of Kentucky ap-
portioning members of congress The reading of
the law was called for. 1t was read, and the GER
siicate made to confront the truth in the first
instance, The certificate in Moore's case was Vi
cious in two fatal particulars First it did not con-
form 10 the law second it did not certify the truth
So with the certificate presented by Mr.. Johnson.
II is vicious in every particular as that presented
to congress by T. P. Moore. Johnson's certificate
does not comply with the law, it does not certify
tb Nd 81,
hood in the first instance?
Mr Whitman said it was an universal rule that
the certificate of member must be received as pr
ma TLcie evidence of his right to seat That such
would be the case, even if TIE seat was purchased
By corruption, or the certificate uds procured by a
6rf5e. He referred to the English Parliament and
the practice ofreeniring the certificate OF the High
sheriff, as conclusive.
Yes, sail Mr. Beaver, I am aware of the hig...
toned tory rule in England. Itwas as the senator
from Fairfield has stated it. Does he rely on tory
authority? Such outrrages as those now claimed
by the senator as precedents received the unqual-
itied condemnation of the wings then, and, trust
wilt fare no better now If may refer to the time
when such wings as John Milton breathed in fervd
eloquence, the great democratic doctrines, which
are spreading through ghout the world, | would say
he, who sung mans fal and Paradise lost and vet
a sweeter song of mans redemption and Paradise
regained, was the first whig-the great Patriarch
leader of the wings If you look into his Paradise
lost. you will there learn what that glorious old
whig. though. of Iocefoeoism. He has given us in
inspired numbers, description of party of lawless
violent locofocos attempting in an unconstitutional
manner-with force and fraud to enter the gates
of Heaven.
They. too, pretended to reason while medtatng
their violence. Bribery had no charms for the
great vhis reformer. Nor were the gentleman's
precedents of any value anywhere, unless the
body that practiced them, corrupt as the
precedents themselves had supposed. Mr.. chair
man, the old English rules giving the power to
the sheriff, now claimed as authority by the sena
tor from, Fairfield had been lost in the centuries of
condemnation, visited By the advancement of popu
lar principles upon it, but it has been dragged
hence, at this time, by one whose Office in that be-
half has been that of bone grubber merely to at
tract attention. if not to subserve an unlawful end
What can ever be gained if liberal principles, and
laws founded in reason, can be battered down by
such authority ?
- We are informed by the record of the times
from whence the senator has drawn his precedent,
that by his vote Col Lutterell obtained seat in
Parliament, in d6ance of the laws OF elcc,ipn. Is
it because the tories defeated the votes of the peo
pls in the person of John Wilks whig refnrmer