The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-03-09
Election Of United States Senator
nnd Supreme Judges.

and Supreme Judges.
On the 22d inst both branches of the
Legislature met in convention to elect
United Stutes Senator and two Supreme
Judges, aud it is with extreme mortifca-
tion and regret that we are compelled to
announce to our readers, the defeat of
our distinguished Senator, the Hon. Will.
liam Allen, who, as the facts clearly de-
velopc, was the victim of corrupt combi-
nation, that is as disgraceful to the demo-
cratic party, as it was dishonest and ne
farious in its inception. 1t was in fact
the result of a bargain and sale, effected
by the management Of designing and in
Iterestod politicians, whose whole lives
are criticism upon their principles
men that have always acted upon the
principle "let us do evil that good may
come" whose condemnation according
to high authority, is just On the first
ballot Mr.. Allen received 81 votes, Mr..
Ewing Al, Mr.. Chase IA. Mr.. Giddings 9,
and Is blanks. After the first ballot, Sen
ator Whitman, ofFairfeld, withdrew the
name of MIR. Allen, for fear. as we are
advised, the whig members would discov-
er the plot, unite upon and elect him on
the second ballot, and thus defeat a com
bination that was base and humilialing in
the extreme. We cannot suppress the
indignation that we feel at this result and
the causes that brought it about, and we
hope the people will see, in this affair,
another and powerful reason for the a
doptiOn Of anew constitution that will
strip the Legislature Of the patronage
that has so long been the fruitful source
Of such intrigue and corruption.
The bargain and sale between Clay
and Adams, by which the latter was placed
in the Presidential chair, ard the former
in the line of safe precedents, was con-
demned by the united voice ofthe democ-
racy OF the whole nation; and yet some
of the very men who have been loudest
IN their denunciations of that secret and
corrupt coalition, are foremost in this Goa
lition, that, for moral and political turpi-
tude, is not whit behind it. What do
they expect to gain by such policy?
Do they uot know that every combination
thus formed is stab at the very vitals of
the democracy, and, above all other
means,is calculated to ALLEVIATE them from
the great principles for which it has been
their pride to contend? Ifthey cannot
trust their public servants, elected to car
ry out their wills, better by far dispense
with them entirely. Our Legislative
Halls of late years are proverbial for COR
ruption. Honest men who love the gre at
principles of political equality. liberty,
and fraternity, and act upon them because
they are right, and who detest the erpe-
diency measures that are SO frequently
escorted to by interested and designing
men, will not suffer themselves to be made
the representatives of the people, be-
cause they loathe the pestilential atmos-
phere that fills those Halls session after
session. This perhaps is one of the prom
inent causes of the evil complained of,
and might and doubtless will, be reme-
died by the people in due lime.
On the 4th ballot, Mr.. Chase, having
received So votes, was declared duly e.
lected. OF Mr.. Chase, as a poltica man
we know but little. He has of late years
been identifiec with tho abolition party,
and at this particular juncture of our po-
litical affairs, may do much to weaken, if
not to sever the bonds of uniop that unite
us together and constitute us as a gre 1t
people These exciting topics will come
up in Congress, and it will not only
require man of strong nerves but of cor.
rect principle to meet them and put them
down.
Senator Allen we know. No man has
enjoyed the confidence ofthe whole DEM
ocratic party in more eminent degree.
He has served the democracy long and
faithfully. No matter what emergency
arose, Allen was faithful to the last. The
great champion of the people, he was
ever watchful of their interests, and Wig.
liant in the maintenance of their rights.
From these he never swerved ,and hence
his political career is the most consistent
of any man in the Senate. Yet this man
was made the victim Of foul plot-black
and damning as any that has ever soiled
the fair escutcheon ofthe democratic par.
ty. Let those who choose, look upon it
as a triumph, we look upon it as a burn
ing shame-a disgrace that will not be
easily wiped out.
At the same time Rufus p. Spaulding
and William B. Caldwell were elected Su-
preme Judges in the room of Judges
Birchard and Reed.-M. Vernon Demo
cratic Banner,