The Evansville daily journal., 1861-01-05
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EVANSVILLE, IND.
SATURDAY MORNING.. .........JANUAr.Y 5

SATURDAY AtoENING...............J .JANUAr:T
CorSrING THE PRESIDENTIAL VorG-
The second "Wednesday in February is the
day fixed by law for counting the electoral
vote IN Congress, and declaring the election
-President@a and Vice President Of the
United States 1t is now openly asserted
that the plan is under consideration to defeat,
If 1t may be, the action of the law by the re-
fusal Of the Senate to meet the House of
Representatives, and participate in counting
and declaring the vote Gin. Gas.
1t is not hard to believe that the des9e-
ration of the Secessionists and their SYM
pathizers will lead them to resort to such rev
olutionary means to defeat the consumna-
ton of the peoples choice. Such revolu-
tionary movements have been perpetrated
on a smaller scale by the Democracy, for
the purpose of attempting to defeat the
election of United States Senators, and for
the purpose Of electing those officials from
the Democratic ranks in defiance Of law or
right. In Indiana, in 1855, revolutionary
means were resorted to- to defeat the elec>
tion Of Il Fusionist as Senator In 1857
Messrs. Bright and Fitch were chosen by
their party not elected by the Legislature
in defiance Of law and right. In 1859
when the Republicans fairly elected Messrs
Lane and McCarty as Senators, the Demo-
cratic majority in the United States Senate
refused to give them the seats usurped by
Aessrs. Bright and Fitch.
In Illinois, when Mr.. Trumbull was elect
ed, if we mistake not the Democratic Leg
islature attempted revolutionary resistance.
And so we think they did in Iowa when
Mr.. Harlan was elected
IN Oregon, only the past fall, some of the
10. Lane members of the Legislature took
to the woods, and had to be run down and
brought back by ergeants-at-arms, in or
der that quorum might be made, to take a
vote for two senators. Messrs. Baker IRE
publican) and Nesmith (anti-Lecompton
Democrat) were elected; but they are un-
der no obligations TO Cen Jo Lane and the
Lecompton Democracy, for they did all they
could by unfair means to prevent an cleo
ton, as the Constitution required
The revolutionary course shadowed forth
in the above extract is not therefore too
outrageous to expect from a party in which
Jesse D. Bright John Slidell, Joseph Lane,
William Bigler, James S. Green, and that
class Of reckless and desperate politicians
are the master spirits.
Ne means, however foul, will be spared
by their desperate acknowledgement be
cause cast out of Office by an injured peo-
ple-to prevent the Republicans from en-
tering on the management of the National
Government which las been intrusted to
them by a fair vote Of the people. The
"powers that be have s. long battened on
public plumber that they imagine they have
Il proscriptive right to 10 so indefinitely,
and that any other party placed in power
by the people are interlopers. They regard
the Government tbeirs and not the peopls
and if they cannot hold possession OF ii they
will readily tear ii down and tramp}e it in
the dust TO prevent it from being admins
tered in.auy other manner than for he uni
versal spread and sway of slavery
The question now presented 10 The Amer
lean people is, shall the best form OF gov
ernmeht that God ever vouchsafed to man
be recklessly destroyed by band Of con-
spirators because they cannot longer control
it2 The voice of an outraged people an
swers in thunder tones, MOI