Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-12-24

The CONTESTED ELEcrIoN Cash.
the House Of Representatives, on Friday
last the resolution reported from the Com
mittec on Elections, declaring the seat
of ). MORRISON HARRIS, Of this State
vacant, On account Of illegal voting at
the election, was laid upon the table by
a vote of 106 to 81.
Noticing this decision of the House,
the Baltimore " Republican" remarks:
The vote in the House of Represen-
tatives, retaining in his seat j. Morrison
Harris, of this city, is an outrage upon
the dignity of the law and character of
the House, no less dishonorable and dis
graceful than the frauds and outrages
by which MIR. Harris and his colleague,
Mr.. Davis, obtained the returns of their
election. That the Abolitionists and
Kuow-nothings should so act is no great
matter of surprise, because the princi.
pies of their party organization are d.
rectly against the constitution and the
equal rights of citizens, and they aspire
to power by trampling on both. But
that any man protesting the democratic
creed and regard the constitutional rights
Of his fellow citizens should act with
them, proves him traitor to his party
and false to his country. Henry Win
ter Davis and j. Morrison Harris have
no more equitable Or just right to the
seats they are now occupying than any
one of the ruilians who aided in the dis
graceful frauds and murderous outrages
which characterized the day of their
falsely called election. The mass of tes-
timony before the House was conclusive
upon this point, and if that body had re-
spectcd its own character, or the rights
of the people of Baltimore, it would in
dignantly have rejected the claims of
these men, and sent them back to the
rufians by whose acts the people we're
defrauded, with an emphatic announce
ment that the halls of congress should
rot be disgraced by any participation in
their rufian acts, or an association with
those who had encouraged them.
This act of the House is a gross in
suit to the people of Baltimore, and a
serious stab at the free institutions of the
country. 1t says to the people of Balti-
more, the House of Representatives dis
regards your ust remonstrance; it cares
not that the elective franchise has been
made mockery and lie in your midst
g 1t cares not that rutiians, with the
the bowie-knife and revolver, trample up
on you and deprive you of your rights.
These matters are too trivial to enlist the
attention Of Abolitionists and Know
nothings, who have united together for
the sole object Of oyerthrowing the De-
mOcracy and the constitution, and shar-
ing the plumber of the country between
them.
The people Of the country will not
forget the names of the five protesting
Democrats who united with the Adolf
tionists and Know-nothings IN this act
of outrage upon their rights, the consti-
tuition, and the dignity of the body to
which they unfortunately belong"
EXECUTION AT CoLUMBUs. Shocking
Blasphemy on the Gatiors. Albert Ny
ers was hung at Columbus on Friday
last, for the murder of b. Neville, a
fellow-convict in the Ohio Penitentiary
Myers was at one time supposed to be
insane, on which account his execution
was postponed from the ID of September.
Since then amedical jury had pronounced
him sane, and on Friday he was executed,
in pursuance &C the Governors warrant.
The Cincinnati Gazette, in an account of
his execution, says:
From the time of the commission of
the murder, Myers exhibited the utmost
indifference as to his fate, frequently tell
ing those who called upon him to ''hang
him and be id" The minister of the
gospel who offered him the consultations
Of religion he spurned from his cell with
oaths that shocked the strongest nerves,
or would tell them, as ON one occasion,
A" If you want to pray, pitch in, and
pray like h-ll." lie would listen to
no advice, never expressed, in word or
deed, the least sorrow for the murder,
but frequently declared that if he had
an opportunity he would do the same
thing over again. In this condition of
mind he remained constantly, even to
the last hour of his existence.
ION the morning of the exec ution lie
rudcly repulsed the Rev. Mr. Warner,
who called upon him; in his cell he cool
ly arranged himself in his shroud, and
walked TO and upon the scaifold with a
firm step, and taking hold of the rope
addressed the twenty or thirty persons
in the yard below him, remarking in II
light, jocose way, elf | can hold on to
this, l think | can save myself yet. -
lie then broke forth in the most BIAS
phemous language. and throwing an APP
pie and orange to the ground below, ex-
claimed ia a loud voice, " Pick them up,
you id raseals." AID with the most
stoical Indifference he continued to gaze
with unainching eye upon those below
him.
At the conclusion of some further
remarks, during which he said the gall
lows was pretty hard looking con-
cern, but he supposed he would have to
go it. the sheriff placed the white cap
over his face, shutting it out from the
view OF the spectators The persons up.
on the seafiold then retired to the back
part, when the Rev Mr.. Warner asked
" Myers, do you die in the faith Of Je-
sus Christ" To which he replied, 81
have nothing TO say to you"