The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-01-15
Election OF u. =. SenatOr--COnstitu-
atOnal Rights and obligations Of
Members Ct the state senate.

Election 0f U. =. SenatOr--COnstitu-
stOnai Rights and obligations OF
Members Ct the state senate. :
The matter of the election OF u. 3.
Senator, at the present session Of the Leg 4
isla,ure, is now the all-absorbing topic among
politicians, and since the muiishness OF the
State Senate has become so apparent, as the
determined policy of the Old Line dema-
gogues, the subject is beginning to receive
that attention from the press which its i'm
portauce demands. The avowed policy of
Loccfocoism, is can Old Hunker OF no cleo
tion," and thus the old fossils of the spoils
regency practically demonstrate their con.
ceptons Of popular sovereignty by threaten
ing to play the "dog in the manger."
They talk about using all their "constitu
tional means" to stave off the..election ofsa
Senator this session.
The following extract, from an Indanapo-
lis letter published in the Enquirer, gives the
policy right from the mint, which the sold
guard" in the Senate, whom the people have
not had an opportunity to displace, design to
pursue:
The State looks 10 the senate in this hour
of the peril Of great principles, as the Old
Guard which IS TO save it. Every eye is
turned to this able body, and the question is
on every tongue:-will the Senate, the last
citadel, hold out! | think there is little
doubt about the unfinching frmness of this
body. There are among its members men
who made this question the issue of their
election; men who promised to refuse by all
constitutional means to go into an election.
We doubt very much whether any other
Locofoco, except the puerle cerrespoa dent
of the Enquirer, would SO far desecrate the
name of the constitution, as to use it in so
dirty connection as the above.
Listen again, to another scintillation from
the pen of this bold expounder Of cons,itu-
tional oligations:
In any view Of the case consistent princi-
RE requires that the senate should throw it,
elf on its constitutional rights and stave off
the election, and think you may rely on the
statement that it will be done.
From this we may infer the intention OF
this precious bunch of senators, to coolly
and deliberately defeat the will Of the peo-
pie of the state, at all hazards. The ques-
ton resolves itself iate the single issue
whether the emaciated and rotten corpse Of
old Hunkerism shall be represented in the
y. 8 Srnate, or the people Of the state Of
Indiana. The people, by fresh expression
Of their will at the ballot box, have constitu-
tiondly declared by an overwhelming MAORI
ty, what that will is, and the hand writing
will be found upon the wall in due season-
Woe to the Senator who dares disregard M
But We are told that the election must be
"constitutoaaIly STAYED off''--that senators
have been elected under pledges thus to act,
their promises. Thus the villiany of old
Hunkerism oozes out, and we are todd that
the nefarious project dates back 10 the last
election. New members Of the senate have
stolen in under promises and solemn ones,
too, no doubt, to either secure, ii in their
power, the election of an Old Hunker Doug
las Democrat, or cheat the state out of its
legal representation for the ensuing two
years. Such is the Unconstitutional means
BY which the Old Line press is calling upon
its minions in the senate to slave off the
election.
This is a construction Of unpreceden tet
novelty and originality, that the constitution
confers power to "stave off, Legislative &C
ton. We can find in it directions and pro
visions. which clearly point out the path o
duty to our legislative bodies in every emer
gency, but nowhere in that instrument i,
power granted to legislators, to thwart tb'
will Of the people and obstruct the wheels
of goyeEnment by muish obstinacy aud in
action.
Tue tidings from the Capitol now are tina
there will be no election, but it remains to b,
seen whether the virtue of the senate will
bearthis imputation upon their courage an,
patriotism.
IEcTURE THIS EVENING DR.. Bannin
will deliver his first lecture this evening a
Crescent Hall. His subject is .'tbe Philosop
of voice and music.'' As this lecture wi
be free, and Or. BIS lectures have in tn
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