The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-02-05


droop at the mere possibility of it. Indeed,
mnch of the financial embarrassment under
which France now labors is owing to her
railway projects with drawing capital from its
accustomed channels.
As with railways. so in a thousand other
modes, an sing population an increasiLg
kow.edge, energy. and enterprise. are en-
larging the sphere Of employment for capital.
These railways themselves, in their turn, be-
come potent instruments Of development. oc-
casianing when constructed through new Staies
a rapid settlement of the country, ana; every
where increasing production. and absorbing
capital. Thus il is easy to understand what
has become of he gold.
From the iowa City Republican.
Reception speech of the Hon.
James Har an in the Iowa Sem
ate Chamber.
Hon. Senator Sanders called the meeting to
order, and Hon. Judge Woodward was called
to the Chair. and upon an invitation being ex-
tended, Mr.. Harlan said:--
appear her. to night without any very
well defined object. or any set speech to make.
Bit PERHAPS lmay properly review the reasons
of my appearing before yon. A few years
since, this Stase was in the hands of your po-
litical opponents the Legislature, the State
and Iudic,al Offices were all decidedly in the
majority.
Since that time there has been great revo-
luton. You have now the ascendency in
this State. The Missouri Compromise has
been repealed. and new urder Of things has
been instituted.
Mr.. Harlan then went into the early history
of political and Legislative proceedings in To-
We; and detailed The circumstances of his elec-
ton. and the protest of sixteen State Senator'S
the conduct Of Senator Jones in Congress, and
the effect of the State Senatorial protest on
the decision of the U. s. Senate. The ground
of the decision was. that all elections by the
joint convention, in which both Houses Of a
Legislature meet, in their collective capacity
conid not be Constitutional, if either House by
majority, should protest In short, if all The
members were to vote at an election, it could
only be tolerated, because majority of the
States have adopted this mode. Senator Jones.
for example, was elected in this manner, with
ont protest which constituted. a valid election.
Under this kind of reasoning, Mr.. Harlan's
election was declared invalid by the majority
in the Ueitec States Senate.
On the contrary. il was maintained that
where each branch beforehand agreed upon
the time, place and manner Of electicn; and
agreed as 10 what constitutes an election; and
where the election took place in the time and
place and manner agreed upon, with ne dissent
before o. after the convention by the majority
Of the collective body, an election was valid
eveni if a portion absented themselves.
Mr. Harlan di no, impngn the integrity Of
the Senate in their decision. All the Reprb-
lican members of TIE U. s. Senate, twelve in
number, voted fo- the validity of the election
Four temocratic members and two Americans
All the remaining Democratic and Old Line
Wing members voted against it, do not, he
added. at.ribu e corruption, ont state these
things that you NAV see how much political
opinions inhqenced their votes.
Mr.. Harlan expressed very feelinelv his
gratitude for the honor conferred this day
| the crowning honor Of his life-and expressed
,he hope Of making returns by industry and
fidelity, on his resuming his seat in the Sen ate
Of these Uaited States. with new commission
| Appiausel. ,t
In allnsion to the Kansas resolution Of the
General Assembly Of Iowa. just passed, in
structing Senator's, he said never, while Con
gave him life. woald he give his vote to .xtend
Slavery into free Territory. He went at length
into the question. end the history Of Congress
sonal action on the subject. till the new ;,olicy
Of Douglas and others, has Of late prevailed,
and until the present term OF the Supreme
Court of the U. s which ut would no. be
strange,) might decide that the ordinance Of
1881 was unconstitutional This decision; il
1t should be made, we have to meet. /, sad
he, shall meet one decision OF the Supreme
Court with anosher; the Court by Chief JUS
tice Marshall. with that Of the Court presided
over by Justice Taney; especially when con-
slider how the SUPP eMe Court is constituted,
with Eve Judges from the South, appointed on
account of their subserviency to Southern views
and four from the North.
He spoke Of the effect Of the late election
Of New England in a solid body, and New
York, with $1,000 majority, and almost the
entire northwest, probably securing majori-
ty, at the next election, to the lower House Of
Congress. And in the South, the slaves
more than four tenths Of the Southern popu-
lation-are Fremont men, who have found out
that only their masters are in favor Of Slavery.
(Great applanse). And even the masters
were held in dread Of their slaves as the result
of their false charges against the Republican
party.
He added also that the Democracy Of Iowa,
who had carried things with so high a hand
here IN former years, were now reaping the
bitter fruit If their wrong doings, realizing
the saying those who sow to the wind, will
ere long reap the whirlwind.
Reiteraling his sentiments Of gratitude FOR
the consideration in which be had been held
here to-day and this evening by the kind atten-
ton and attendance of his friends, he sat down
amid loua and continued applause.
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