The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1863-01-29
Letter from Columbus.
HOvsr OF REFRrsrSrATlvEs, |

J
EDiToRs GASErrE:-- Last Monday dis
cussion broke out in the House and ragged :
all week. spreading rapidly and st'adily Q
until it involved The whole house. II
was greatly aggravated by the vast a.
mount of inAammAble and cOInbusIible
material collected during the vacation,
and by the quantity Of gas generated
since last winter 10 places where ventila-
tion has been imperfect. 1t originated in
a resolution ntrOduced by Mr.. Dressed.
|of Franklin. ipquiriug into the arrests
made in the State by the military power.
Yesterday itS spread was checked by an
adjournment until Tuesday, and in the
meantime it shoulders. only 10 break out
again next week and consume hundreds
OF dollars worth of--Time.
In this difcussi, n the range las been
unlimited, from the ablest and profound
est constitutional arguments 10 the weak
esl and most vulgar stump speeches,-
Messrs. 0dlin and West, 10 my judgment,
are the ablest among the Opposers Of tie
resolution. and Messrs. Smytbe and Con-
verse the ablest among its supporters
The speech of Mr.. Odlin was truly earn.
est and eoquent--such speech as one
rarely hears in State Legislature. and
such as one nigh, expect to hear in the
Senate Of the United States, 1t abounded
in such thoughts as these: THE cry Of
violation Of free speech and free press is
the cry OF license instead Of liberty
+ "Trus liberty is the liberty Of law, and
D tho liberty Of responsibility Tie DIS
$ cussion has elected the following uDsn.
swerable argu1ep's
lst. The Constitution Of the United
: States is purposely silent upon the war
power oi the President, because this pow
or is to be used in emergencies. and must
vary to meet the emerg, ncy.
NJ 2i. The President has the power to
;. declare martial law, which may, or may
not, suspend all other law, and which
- power involves the power to suspend the
"a hab as corpus.
,. 81. The President is the only officer
i. 10 tho Unitet States sworn 10 preserve
the Constitution. all others being sworn
10 10 support it. Hs is, therefore. in order
70 to dis, barge his duty compelled TO sus
pend constitutional guarantees 10 time
u. like this. ....".al '-"..e.
4th Frecedens for military arrests
and for the suspension Of the habedS cor
n rus, are found in our own history, viz
a, 10 the arrest Of Burr, in the Dorr REBEL
:. ion, 10 The action OF General jackson al
' New Orleans, O.:
10 a ELECTION On U. s. sESAToR
10 You arc aware, before this. that on lss
y Thursday. the Hon. B. +. Wade wal
>. elected United States Senator. The ex
trsms war men, tn Republicans anc
"a Union Democrats, voted for Wade; The
~ more conservative Union Democrats, vot
Z cd for Hon. Thos. Ewing; and the straiSh
a Democrats, Bulternut aud Wa,. voted 70
ce Hon. Ii. j. Jeweu. Mr.. Huston vote'
ch for General Schenck (the only vote) ant
after the election, invited oil those VIII
- ~ voted for Schsnck TO "come down an
take drink" Many Union Democrats
n. in voting for Wade. overcame some ol
m and deep seated ptejudices. and the
~ -, were led to this by considering that th
"A. people Of the North have become as rad
len ioAl in their war policy. as Wade; .hl
his dof,asa at present would be corsidere
:. cx> triumph of the opposers Of the Admit
i'' I' istratiou; and that he is a Wur power
ery Washington which the country cannot a
= ford TO lose at present There is one ga
mp flying feature of the election which yc
.SSy have noticed, viz; that the Straigh, Der
' ocrais united upon the Hon. II, j. Jewel
an, the mai who reproved Vallandiagham T
ia his late speech in Congress. and thus
OF their votes snubbed the Buttrruut al
vallandingham wing Of the party. T
''' vote stood thus:
can Whole number Of votes cast. l26
Necessary 10 a choice, "a.
se'' For b. +. Wade, Is vol
49, .re' " II. j. Jewett, 35 f"
rom 0 % Thos. Ewing. Is Z"
Asy. Robt. G. Sphenok, I"
''ou EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
,.", Two resolutions have been introduc
ysre 10 tho House endorsing the Presidcn
,uld Emancipation Proclamation, one by n
the Bradbury. the hearty aud whOle>soul
auo. ,. mombsr, and war man. from Gallia, a
',al one by Mr.. West, Of Logan, perhaps
b he ablest lawyer in the House, with the {
cepion oil Mr.. 0dln. These have be
hab. laid over. under the rule, aud have l
,im, yet come up for discussion. They =
all no doubt DO adopted, because every |
by ion and War man fsvors the Proclsmat
anti as a war measure. aud because eve
~. lawyar ,ot ,,A;udicnd hv marty K mn