The Oregon union. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-28
What Bakers Election did.

With what beautiful consistency
preaching against abolition, comes
from wretch who, to crafty his per-
sonal malice, did not hesitate to send
an Abolitionist to the United States
Senate at a time when that was the
only branch of the Government that
was not in Abolition hands, and when
that election gave the Abolitisnists a
MAJORITY OF ONE, even in the Senate.
Don't preaching against Abolition
come with beautiful grace from the
crowd who elected Billey Adams pet
puppy, "Abolition Johnney" instead
of Judge Wait; aud who done all
they could to send Logan-at that
timea radica. Republican-to Con-
gress in place Of Shiel and Stout2
Don't preaching against Abolition
come with sweet accent from the
Observation-Disclosures Squirt, who
helped to elect ssSore-headed Sumner
to the United States Senate before he
left his native New England? But to
Bakers election; it is frequently said
that Democrats had majority in the
United States Senate to thwart the
Abolition designs of the Lincoln Ad-
ministration, if the Southern Senators
had remained.
This is not true. The election of E.
D. Baker gave the Administration a
majority Of one, even in that body.
Baker acted and voted with the Abo-
litionists ON every occasion. He voted
for the Clark substitute and lodged a
vote on the Crittenden resolutions.
After March 4th 1861 the United
States, stood 81 Republican Senators
to 81 Democrats of all shades, giving
the casting vote to Vice President
Hamlin, who, of course, would throw
it on the side of the Abolitionists.
The following were the Republican
Senators of the 37th Congress-.
MA1NE--Lot NJ Morrill, and VIM Pitt Fessenden.
VERMoNT-Solomon Foot and Jacob Collamer.
NEW HAMPsH1RE-John Hale and Dan'l Clark
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sumner and Henry
Wilson.
RHODE IsLAND-Jas. F. Simmons and Henry B.
Anthony.
CoNNEcT1cur-James Dixon and Lafayette S.
| Foster.
New JERsEY-John G. TenEyck.
PENNsYLvANIA-Dayid Wilmot and Edgar
Cowan.
ILL1No1s-Lyman Trumbull and II Browning
IND1ANA-Henry S. Lane.
OHIo-Benj. T. Wade and John Sherman.
MIcHIGAN-Zachariah Chandler and r. s. Bing-
ham.
IowA-James W. Grimes and James Harlan.
W1scoNsIN-James R Doolittle and S o. Howe.
CALIFoRNIA-JamesA.M McDougall. elected by
Republicans.
M1NNEsoTA-Morton S. Wilkinson.
KANsAs-James H. Lane and S. G. Pomeroy.
OREGoN-James w. Nesmith elected by Re-
publicans) and E. D. Baker.-34.
The Democratic Senators from free
States were Bright, Latham, Rice and
Thompson. These four with the 80
slave State Senators make 81. Thus
it will be seen that the Senate, even
if all the Slave State Senators had re-
manned, would have been tie, giving
tine casting vote to the Republican
Vice President, Hamlin. This was
the prospect that alarmed the South
and had as much, or more than any
thing else, to do in driving that section
out of the Union. The Oregon Goa
litions had such an effect upon the
mind of the National Democracy that
we find the coalitions against Shiel,
against Stout, and in favor of "Nes," f"
and Baker alluded to in the address
put forth by Mr.. Stevens on behalf OF
the Democracy in 1860. There is no
doubt but what those coalitions pro-
duced lasting impression upon the
minds of men in the South and led
them to believe that they had no pros
pect of Justice from the North, when
even such favored communities as
Oregon had been at their hands, turn
ed against them and sent Abolition
lists to the Senate of the United States,
to vote away their constitutional rights
and assist in cutting their throats.