The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1851-02-01
Aaares. 10 the Elector. of Indi.na.

suspension Oh iS rules, iOr the purpose oil ln-
PRODUCING resolution Of some Importance
and which, il we are TO adopt it all, should be
passed now.
SEVERAL VOIGES. Read! Read
MIR. OWEN. 1t is as follows:
That Committee OF one from each Con-
gressonal District be appointed by the CT air.
to prepare an address 10. the electors of the
State, embody.ng "a brief statement Of the
changes proposed in the amended ConstiIu
ton, and suct other matters in connection
Herewith. as may aid III securing It's adop-
ton"
move suspension Of the rules for the
purpose of introducing this resolution.
The question being on suspending the rules.
il was decided in the affirmative. So the
rules were suspended, and the question being
Oh the passage OF the resolution,
MIR. OWEN said: Mir. PRESIDENT. We
have been in session here for Three months
and half, and shall have TO remain IN SEES
sion two orihree weeks longer, 10 complete
our work making an entire session oil some
tour months It's expense, including report
ing and publishing debates anu journal, may
reach from eighty 10 a hundred thousand dol
lar.
Ii is of the greatest importance TO the State,
10 say nothing OF our own reputation That the
new Constitution, the result 81 all THIS LABOR
aud expense, should not be rejected by the
people. And it is our duty to take proper
and reasonable means towards securing lis
adopiion. What are those meansl One oil
The most efficient is, TO prepare AMI pace De-
fore the people. IN condensed iurIn, stare
ment, showing distinctly what HE princlpal
changes are, which are proposed III lile new
Constitution AIS compared with the old. The
changes are NUMEROUS. Even we VINO nave
made them would be somewhat puzzled to
SIT down and enumerate them. Many per.
sons, especially farmers living III remote ana
seciudel spots, may not have The old Coasil
tuition 10y them. when they receive ii copy oil
that amended by us And even II they have,
it will be work oiconsiderable labor. 10 col
late and compare every one OF lis hundred and
fifty seclious
10 not propose. sir, to introduce into this
address anything like special pleading in de-
fence of our work. Let II stand Oil It's own
merits. Let those who would examine ar
guments Tor OF against amy provision, look
for these in our debates. Now and then, II
might not be out of place very briefly TO give
the reasons for change and 10 state the ell
iecis to result from it.
n Ii has been customary TO talk oil the changes
the people expected IN this new Constitution;
AN some, out Of this body and not specially
charged with the duty, have undertaken &c
SAW what ioere the specific amendments &C.
maIkled. Sir. there was, IN strictness, but
one obstruction given without dissenting
voick, imposed equally upon Us all, when we
'.ok'the oath to discharge our duty as dele
gate Ii was To make good Constitutions
such ahone as the people might be satisfied
TO 1--we uiid.c for huli IA century to come. Al
other slrucIloSs are merely imaginary ths
result OF local productions coming to us u
one shape from the Nofsh in a dilierent on,
from The South IN one form from the East
in another from the West. When We shall
have framed Constitution as perfect in al
lis paris as our combined Judgment aud sSpe
rience enable us 10 frame 1t, then, and not ul
Y lhrp shall we have performed our wifose dur
7fy here.
know that many things have been touch
ed by us which may not have occurred, IN al
vance. 10 the people geue ally DIS necessary
amendments. That is natural; and could no
indeed. well be otherwise. Did you ever
sir, undertake. The thorough repair OF AN ok
house which had stood some thirty or forty
years. untouched by the wOrkman's handy
Ii you ever did, us have, you doubtless have
acquired some experience III HE progress o
the work. Perhaps you had carpenter, ii
the first place to examine the building, aut
report to you what repairs were Essential
and at what probable expense! He nigh
tell you OF one two stills evidently decayed
OF q portion OF the flooring 10 be renewed, q
, of n WORKOUT, weather-beaten TO If whc
must he replaced by new one. lie woul
suggest, it may be, that the whole expens
, could not exceed IA couple oil hundred dollar;
But then he would add, that until the floor
were taken up and the joists and frame wor
OF the building exposed, 1t Was impossible
determine. with any certainty what was nee
cssary 10 be done. You bid him commenc
y the work !; and before a few weeks are ove
it becomes apparent TO you, that TO make tn
Job thorough and permanent, first one add
!. tonal repair aud then another must be III
dertaken. You perceive clearly, that, unle,
q you do the thing eliectualy, what money 20
do spend is but SD much thrown away. WhiI
you are about'It, you resolve tn do VIII;
sooner or later must be done. You regar
i this us true economy; rs COST ing less lii :l
= end than continual patching and daily exp,
dents. lou cid not, indeed, expect such
C task, when you first undertook IT You Ina
o 40 idea that your bill would run up. as 70
soon discover that il will. to some five or 81
hundred dollars. Bot not the less do you Sc
and know that you could wisely do but one
two things; either 10 refrain from the rcpa
II altogether, or To make it what it should b
'r eiirctual and enduring at once.
; So i Is with the task-an incalculable in
portant one. which We were sent here to pc
form. Let men outside say what they pleas
1t WAS our bounden duty, after once common
ing our work, to do il thoroughly. kno
is that alluson has been made, in another plac
n 10 the time that has been consumed Of
,, labors; and 10 The fact that our present Co