The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-06-28

seDtoisV0 tnuts ~ tue last aCJOuIueC 6NS-
;ion, United States Senators were to be
elected. !,
This sfiant further ssascs tia, he is
now temporarily in Washington city. and
i. about leaving for Minnesso,s Terri
tory, without rturning TO the State OF
indiana: and that he intends 10 make
Minnesoa his future residence.
CYRUs h DEW.
Signed and swo-n To, before me, this
10Th day IF April. 1858.
A. K. ARSoLp,
Justice Of the Peace.
The first feature of this affi lavi,. that !
will strike any reader familiar with the !
case, is tho entire suppression OF one /
vital fact. Mr.. Drew is givinS al &C.
count OF The organization Of the 81 te
Senate, under oath. He tells what war
done q, one period OF the attempt To or
ganizc. hut carefully suppress every
allusiou 10 any other. We want thi-
fact well noted. DIR. Drew. by this sup
preston, leaves it TO be understood,
and he evidently intends i; 10 be under
Stood, that bur one effort at an orgaui-
cation was made on the 6:h day ot
January, 1857. Nobody eau read bis at
f.lavit snd understand ANYTHING else
Now what WAS this palpable attempt at
deception for? Mr.. Drew knew that in
the afternoon. the conflicting attempts
at orgsEiza alton TO which his sffiiavit
sllujes were adjusted, and regular, full
aid ligal organization made. Why did
he suppress all notice Of this fact. II
he was pretending to give q history OF
the organic rfion, he knew il would be
false 10 tell Only Of the failure 10 organ
ize and say nothing Of the repairing Of
that failure later in the day. What need
was there of telling Of the conaicring
organizations Of the morning ut all. if
tie purpose were only to show who were
quail & d rs Senators aud who not, for
the qualifications under the disputed or
eanization of the morning were disal-
lowed by all p rites, and another order,
ed and executed! The explanation OF
this strange suppression Of the truth is
given US BY Mr.. Fitch. He stated that
bu. forty. seven Senators were legally
qualified, OF whom twonty-four partici-
pated in his election. being a m ,jority,
and. as Mr.. Benjamin Of louisiana had
ssuck on this point, he wanted SONS
sort OF testimony to satisfy Mr.. Benji-
min. SO Cyrus X. Drew swears tina,
OH the s;h day OF January the Repub-
Iicauf attended revolutionary organs
zltion, which was wholly illegs,; and
in this urgsnizltion three Republican
Senators - Stanley Cooper, John S
Bobbs, aud Isaac A. Rice-whose seats
!. weats were contested, were sworn in
So far SO good. Mr.. Frtchs statement
is thus far sustained fully. Here are
, three to come of Of fifty Senator'S, ;eav'
ing Fitch's forty seven. Now all that i:
needed is that nothing shall be said o
, the regular swearing in of Bobbs all,
, Rice by Governor Willard, and OF Mr.
, Cooper BY Willard's order, on q resulu
, tlon Of the Senate in the afternoon. Il
leave i: distinctly proved by Drew's os,l
that only forty seven Senators were le
eally qnalif Il. Therefore Mr.. Drew
; says nothing on this point. He wou,,
: have to destroy Filcb's statement on
his case by telling the whole truth sbou
the swesring in Of tho Senators. s
s he suppresses part Of the truth. Tha
is tho way the prstext for keeping ihes
sxindling Senators 10 their seats Wa
ii Again Mr.. Drew says that the Rs
, publicans of the SAFE Senate refuse,
z to permi, an ihyeatigaiion into the RICH
!. Of Bobbs. Rice, and c op,r TO tlIei
& seats, when he knew that Baob's con
h 'estant had withdrawn from The contest
!, and that neither Cooper's nor Rice's con
u fes'ants never appeared on the groun
during the session; and yet the Reput
o licsns s'nt al the cases TO the Comm,
4 tee on Elections. and o regular rcpol
h was made late In the session confirmin
the scat Of ell three. No regular COZ
j. test was made In either case, aud Mi
Drew knew IL, and the Committee O
e Election did take charge Of the case
q and he knew that. Yet he swears a
" above.
Again. he says that during the "disol
g. dsrly proceedings" in the progress Of tn
Is rival organizations Of the morning OF ih
!, 8h, "a bois,erous armed mob, led b
is James r Lane, Of Kansas, crowded til
}. doors, b oies. aud avenues to the lea,
N of the ,nate." and that they came ther
,r "to overawe the Lieutenant Governc
{, aud the Democratic members" Th
ii utter ride, lou mess Of this lie 1--WE ca
lr it BY its right name, aad are perfect
Of ready to Justify the epithet,) cauno,
D. exaggerated. The hundreds Of men W h
r. witnessed that scene, Democrats, an
D. Republicans, and there were about
,e many Of one as the other, we'll know ho
o. to appreciate evidence of which such
>. statement is portion There was n
r. mob. The ''armcd" part Of the stol
or Is purely fancy Of tie frighrene
", ColonsPs. We were 10 the crowd, NJ
b. Drew was not, and we saw nobody wi;
hi any weapon more dangerous than a pc
I'd knife. There was far less 'bois,srou
err ness in the lobby than within the ba
OF The crowd was as silent as so larp
g. a crowd could be. General Lime di
n not lead them. did not kaow as many
TO them as Mr.. Drew, did not take any pa
10 except TO sit and look on as other spe
ne ta;ors did. and moreover. fully one. ha
nd of the crowd were as bitter opponents
3, L,pc as could DO found. 1t is s.rane
v. that Mr. Drew should have forgoite