, 1862-06-26

Defeat of the New Constitution In Ill1.
no1R.-Excitement at the National
Capital on the subject.


iETGm OlT OWl AQLIeSpc1aenLl !
WARRINGTON, June 2s, 1861
No other POLITICAL event, sinceI have been
domiciled IN Washington, has created half the
excitement that has been manifested concern
ing the vote On the new constitution OF ILL |
uois. The municipal election In Chicago, and |
the supposed t1emenduous influence Of Vent |
worth in the northern part OF the State had |
inclined almost everybody to the belief that |
the ewindle would be adopted, while Richard
SOB, Robinson, Kaspp aud Allen In the House
vociferated on all occasions that it would be
adopted by 10000 majority, 10000 majority,
10000 majority, or any figure you please. |
Phil. Fouke, as he is faniliarly called, was the
| only man on the Democratic side who seemed
to have any clear understanding Of the case.
He thought the vote would be "close.n It
turDs ont not to have been very close after all,
I but Mr. Fouke was much nearer the truth than
| his friends,
| When the returns from Chicago and Spring
field came in there Was regular mob Of e1-
u]tation Oh the Democratic eide Of the House,
and Richardson incontinently added 10000 to
| his majority, and s cubit to his stature. He
declared that II the constitution had been de-
feated be should have made up his mind to re-
tire from public lia-ths Democratic party
would be buried fathoms deep-but non that
It ,eas carried, the Republicans might as well
give up the ghost, they were tied hand
and foot, and there was no more hope
for them forever! After Richardson and
Allen, the most boisterous exultants were
Vallandighsm and Voorhees,, and old Mr.
NickliHe grimly smiled his approval Of the
: | result. AL this was Wednesday morning,
just after the House assembled. Powell o1
, Kentucky brought the news over to the Senate
radiant with joy.
} We received no more returns that day. Or
| the following morning, before any Repubi
: can had received q syllable, Richardson Eas
observed to be in bad temper and his Demo
cratic colleagues remarkably quiet 4 feV
! hours later our side got ta dispatch giving tht
! | vote Of Qsancy-seventy y-seven majority ag1ins
the constitution. The next thing heard from
. wss Lee county, followed closely By the vote
? in Aurora, Woodstock, Geneva, Elgin ant
{ Rockford, showing that Northern Illinois hat
, got her back up higher than ever. 1t Wa
Il now our turn to raise the shout, and imInedi
s ately there Was fockiug Of Republican,
IS around BIT. Washburne to hear and congratu
s late. Members from Maine and Californi
= were hardly less interested than those Gou
q Illinois, Indiana and Iowa From this tim
d forth no Republican from our State in Wash
n ington allowed himself to doubt that th
sWindle Was defeated, and the proslaTcr
party killed dead as mackerel. understan
10 that Kicha1 dson acknowledges himself dea
/, aud decentl} inferred unless he changes hi
u ! place Of residence
~ There is Of course great deal Of har
L. swearing about ''that pamphlet" Richarl
Commissioner eJ public buildings" instead {
the superintendent of the folding room,
-, report whether 1t was folded at the expense {
j. the House, created great deal Of merrlmen
e- which @a5 heightened when Mr. NashbuIr
"stopped with his 1cft," and put in q tremes
re- dous body blow On the subject Of the Vala,
m digham address. Mr. Richardson attaches q
" together too much importance to "that pan
d, phlet" The only credit due to the documez
to lay in its exposition, first, of the McA11ist'
oo t and Stebbins' bond swinde, and second, of Il
he nefarious attempt to abolish the grand jul
~ system in all criminal trials less than murd
or and felony. Richardson 81 Co. have too lit
|. faifh in the intelligence Of the people. I'll
nd two faets enumerated above, or either one
O. O.: them, were enough to defeat the constitutio
81, =. and it only required that they should be 5
forth 60 that the people could read them
lar will not be denied by any man in Illinois th
to the dc1unct constitution did provide way
ed which those McAllister and Stebbins' bon
te, might be collected to the nttermost f.rthil
ted Of their face, principal and interest.
't; '9s will not be denied that it did dprovide for
nrr abc1ishment Of grand juries for all offer6e6
Lha punishable BY death or imprisonment in
in perite1ttiary, putting every cltizen on tt
re; without previous examination under oath
ro- tht charge preferred against him. Such bel
=es the case it is for the makers ofthe swindle
~ ~ ask each other schy they did it, not why
!, Of remark here that there has hardly been 1 mi
ted signal yindication Of the capacity Of the peo
sid for EelfgoEernment than the voting down
3 of this constitution.
a. "a, weste1n men in Washington agree, is
80 | picking of the bubble Of WcntW0ri