Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1859-02-25

his seat---thev were liable to act under the
influence of prejudice, of passion, OF power
av, and sometimes even ct corruption. Inc
Senate was not above human frailties. And
it was the right of States, he begged to re-
mind Senators, to arraign this Senate for It's
errors 1t was their right to teach this
Senate that it is creation Of the States
not creatOr--a servant, ana not a master,
Of the sovereign States of this conlederacy.-
The State were not to be senced and stlticd
by a resolution or mandate of the Senate
The power by which complaints are stied is
the power which makes revolutions. 1hey
might strike, but they must first hear
Not even in despotism was it safe to strike
without first according to the victim an op
portunity to be heard. He denied the posi-
ton assumed by some Senators, that the
decision Of the last session was Of the nature
of Judgment. There could be no judgment
pronounced except by a Judicial power and,
not beng clothed with Judicial power by
the Constitution, the Senate could not there
fore, pronounce Judgment. lie argued at
some length that the Senate was purely a
legislative body. and incapable. under the
Constitution, of any acts but legislative acts
He produnced the Senate journals contain
ing the record of resolution passed by the
Senate in 1884. censuring Gen jackson for
the removal of the deposits. Three years
atterward, he found another resolution, or
dering that the resolution of censure ! assed
by the former body be expunged, and then it
was, with deep black lines drawn around it,
and the words "expunged by order of the
Senate" written across it. lie expected to
be borne down here, but he wished to give
the Senate notice that he should follow the
example of the precedent to which he had
referred, and offer the following resolution
Rcsoir,A, That the resolution adopted by the
Senate on the 18th of June, 1875, which resoiu-
ton IS in these words, to wit Resolved, That
"Graham \. Fitch and Jesse d. Bright ) majors
returned and admitted from the state OF India ma,
care entitled to the seats which they now hold In
''the Senate as such Senators aforesaid, the for
"ner until the 4th of March, 1851, and the latter
"untii the 4th of March 1858 according to the ten
"or OF their respective credentials, be expunged
from the Journal and for that purpose, the Seer G.
tary of the Senate at such time as the Senate may
appoint. shall bring the manuscript journal OF the
session of lSjI-5S into the Senate, and IN the
presence the Senate, draw black lines round the
said resolution, and write across thereof, in
strong letters. the following words
"ExPUNGED. BY ORDER OF THE SENATE, THIS
DAY OF, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND.
And every succeeding session, so long rs
he should rtmail here, he would call for the
passage of this resolution;and when the time
should come for him to leave that chamber.
he doubted not that he would leave behind
bin some member who would persist in
pressing this resolution, until the period
which was not far distant-should come
when this final, irrevocable and infallible re-
solution. as it was now proclaimed here to
b.. should be reconsidered. and not only re-
scinded but eXpunged. n. Y. Tribune.