New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-02-26

sALxos p CHASE OF Cincinnati 10 q Senator Oh
the United States elect for SIX years rou TIE fth
day Of March. He Is q man Of decided sbility, Oh
good personal character, an early and ardent ADO
litionist, formerly Wing, but now sympsthizins
on most leading questions with the opposite party
by whose votes mainly he has been elected we
do not know that on any question ne VIII vote u
act worse than bis predecessor, Whham hle"'
while on some we are confident he VIII vote Oct
ter. The change Is therefore probable improve
ment, and, keenly disappointed as we are al 'ne
failure Of the Legislature TO choose Senator Vi
Whig tendencies and sympsthies-an Anh-SiaVe
~ statesman who would sastein Protection to
Home Industry and the improvement OF Rivers
Harbors, &c-we ought yet perhaps to receive 1t
with moderate satisfaction. IL Is quite probable
that on majority Of the great practical questions
to be acted on in Congress during ms term we
shall concur in his views and approve his votes
Understanding Mr.. Chase TO be decided advocate
Of Land Reform, Of thorough hetenchment, OF
the reduction especially Of our National Expendi-
tures for Army aud Navy. as well as a most de-
voted champion Of Free Soil and Free Men, we
might record his election with complacency " mol
with satisfaction, could we deem It fairly achieved
But that We cannot do. Looking at the ~hoie
train Of acts aud arrangements IN end about 'he
Ohio Legislature which have prepared Tor ana Sc
corsd this contamination, We cannot but regard IL
fraud upon the public will Of the State effect
cd through wilful suppression Of her laws II Is
the result Of the Acknowledgement Of the Wing
Civ of Cincinnati and the thrusiing into the House
ostwo Members whose only color OF right to seats
was openly ostentatiously based on the trampllng
down Of plain and important provision OF law 49,
The Apportionment Law under which the present
Legislature was chosen gave to that great and IN
telligent city two Members OF the House, ana 10
the balance Of the County of Hamilton three Mem
bcrs We regard that as not merely Jsstlhaoie
bat a highly proper and necessary division-an act
absolutely nece ssary to give 10 Seventy Thousand
People a voice ia the making Of their own laws
But it's policyis not in questionits constitut'onai
i,y is the point Of attsck-and on anaked assomp-
ton Of its invalidity, without shadow OF judicis
or other authoritative decision against 1.-THE
Loco-Foco party saw tit TO disregard, defy and
trample on it, and pretended 10 elect five Members
for the whole county by the votes OF men not re-
siding nor voting in the ncinnati Representative
District nor pretendngto do so. These two sham
Members, claiming seats not under any existing
law but in insolent defiance OF all law were thrust
into the House by the votes oftwo prolessed Free
Soil Members-Townsend OF Lorain and Morse OF
Lake-both elected from Districts VIGOROUSLY and
strongly Wing a. between the two great parties
both Districts eminent for their devotion TO Law
and Order-both VIGOROUSLY favorable to the APP
portionmept Law Of last session TOR which their
Representatives have voted without complaint
which renewedly approved it in largely sustaining
Gov. Ford, who had also voted for the act and the
Cincinnati clause OF it Dr. Townsend, the mas
terspirt in this great wrong stood publicly pledged
to his constituents maintaining the constitution
atty OF the law, while Morse was fully understood
to be a supporter Of the law aad could not other
wise have come within sight OF an election. BY
the votes OF these two men Cincinnati has been
disfranchsed the law violated and trodden upon
the repeated and emphatic verdicts OF Ohio on the
question OF Protection fasifcd, and two Loco Foco
Judges Of the Supreme Court elected-all to make
salmonP P. Chase U. s. Senator Were he a ten
times better man than he 10, we could not approve
bis election nor anticipate good from it. II is an
act conceived in sin and some Of those who con-
nivsd Ut it Will yet have reason to rue their
their triumph.