The freeman. (Fremont [Ohio]) 1849-1850, 1850-01-26

such a game could not win. The object of the
senator IS too shallow to escape detection The is
sue was not between the senator from Medina and
himself but between the senator from Medina and
the senator from Summit He, Mr.. p hsd mere
y acted as the agent for the senator from Summit
The charges preferred by the Summit Senator,
ought to be investigated by committee. This is
due othe Senator from Medina but it is none the
less due to him that the men and influences which
brought Mr.. Broadwell to demand to be heard,
and forced the late Speaker to take position
which necessarily led to the disorganzation of the
Senate Let the investigation be broad and ann
pie and all would be satisfied.
Mr.. Blake said: He had no desire for a partial
investigation of this matter. He would demand
thorough investigation OF the whole. He desired
to show the motives by which the senator from
Cuyahoga was actuated in the course he had purd
sued. Gentlemen seemed to think while j was id
that chair was mere automaton. They forgot
that | had no constituency to represent, that
alone was there to be insulted and abused, while
my position denied me the privilege of defending
myself / am now upon the floor and the equal
of the senator from Cuyahoga, and demand that
my rights be regarded. All ask is full fair and
thorough investigation
The manner in which was treated in the chair
was unjust, uncourteous, ungentlemanly, and con
temptible, and unworthy Of any one who claims to
be gentleman viii show up the gentleman's
conduct and the part be acted IN this matter,
when he could draw up charges, take them to the
senator from Summit, and procure him to become
my aecuser, when the senator from Summit has
said over and over again that he had no personal
knowledge of the transaction.
I'll show the senator from Cuyahoga what kind
of an investigation we'll have. I'll show him whose
character is to be impeached. The character Of
one of us is to be tried the character of the other
must be tried also. I never exchanged words with
the senator from Summit the subject until after
the arrangement, perhaps on the Sunday after
When FIRST learned the course the senator from
Cayahoga and his friends were going to pursue, I
told the Senator from Summit desired to stand up
in good faith to every word and every letter of my
engagement wished him, therefore, to urge his
friends to pursue the ordinary course.
complied with my contract but the senator
from Cuvaho9a has not with his. He has receiv-
ed the full consideration. The democracy have
their clerk, and that by my vote. What pay have
got? They have abused me as long as they
could find abusive epithets. If they call that pay
I have had it. have been well paid. If not
think could sue the senator from Cuyahoga and
recover damages. l have had the honor of presid-
ing over the most tumultuous body in the world
for several weeks and have had to sustain my
self there in the face of threats of violence. de-
sire now that the character of the senator from
Cuyahoga in this whole transaction shall be shown
up, the whole part that he has takenin it.
A vote was taken on the preamble and resolu-
ton above, and was defeated BY strict party vote
Mr. Payne voting in the negative. Thus we find
the Senator from Cuyahoga voting against permit
ting Senator Blake's having investigation of
the charges preferred against him. Upon this des-
pcable paltroonery of Senator Payne. the Toledo
Blade well remarks:
as not this beautiful picture? A crieaturist
might immortalze himself, and forever consign the
name of Senator Payne to the contempt Of the
people, by giving him his proper place in lthogra
! ply Brave man After having searched the
dictionary for foul epithets, and dressed them up
with all the gauds and decoratives Of prurient
imagination, to annihilate Mr.. Blake the very mo-
ment the tables are turned, and Blake is placed IN
position to meet he invokes the aid of a tie vote
to screen his meanness from exposure, and claims
that in the whole matter, he was acting as the hir
ed assassin of another man. What beautiful spe-
cirnen of humanity What glowing commenta-
ry upon modern democracy!