The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-28

leading Republican senators on the subject,
nor does it aliude to LiscoLN's message.
Itquotcs Messrs, WHITE and BAyAaD, who
are not authority even with Democrats. and
unfairly and most meagrely Mr.. THURMAN.
IT does not name MoRT0s. and CoNgLISG,
and EpMUSps, and most singulariy neither
boutwell, nor DAWES, OF Massachusetts,.
The Dispatch OF yesterday spread before
the country what all these gentlemen said,
and will the Advertiser and it's Republican
contemporaries still keep up the delusion
that theirparty is not committed against the
very position now assumed by the Rcpubli-
cans as a part OF the programme for the
seating of HAYES and the defeat OF the will
OF the people OF the United StatesY
It is a fact OF some note in the matter that
none Of the leading Republican senators
whose opinions we spread before the coun-
try yesterday have yet retracted their opin-
ions, and they have too much at stake to
abandon the ground so conspicuously and
emphatically taken by them. For instance,
how is Senator BOUTWELL,, OF Massachu-
sets, to recede from what he said so lately
as March last? lie then vehemently eX-
pressed himself as follows:
81 agree entirely with the. suggestion
made by the honorable chairman Of the
committee THIr. Mortonl in regard to the
rover to count the votes and the duty to
count the votes. that one was conferred
upon Congress and the other cnioined upon
Congress. The power and the duty are in
Congress. Congress must exercise the
power and perform the duty, and it is not
possible under the Constitution to transfer
it to anybody else. There can be under tie
Consultation no tribunal to decide that or
any other question arising IN the course OF
counting the uoteS, because 1t is q duty I'M
posed upon the too houses of Congress. They
alone can perform 1t, and they haze not the
poorer 10 transfer its performance to any
bodg else. Whether this po,0cr is there for
real or for acoe, there 1T is; and until the
Constitution IS altered there it nutstTemain."
What says the Boston advertiser to this
We repeat, we have seen ABRAHAM LIN
COINS message in no northern Radical
paper, while rapcrs Of that class are indus
triously at work TO impress upon the public
mind that the counting of the electoral
votes is merely "mnisterial duty Of
Congress in Joint session, and that there is
no power in Congress to 90 behind the GER
tificates Of the States and the seals OF their
Governors Bosh MOTION and THURMAN
both swept away this idea as cobWeb.
| The Senate-both Radical and Democratic
membcrs-was overwhelmingly with them.
The message and the debate to which we
alludc must be brought before the people.
To assist in drawing attention especially
to the lamcntcd LiNcoLN's message we
print it again:
:. TO the Hon. the Senate and House Of Re
prcSeatatiucS .........
| The Joint resolution entitled JOINT re-
| solution declaring certain States not entitled
to representation in Che Electoral College ,
has been signed by the Executive, i'll defer
cnce te-the view OF Congress, implied in its
passage and presentation TO him. In his
| own view, however, the two houses OF Con-
orcss convened under the twelfth article OF
! the Constitution haze complete p0Der to ca
cillc from counting oil electoral r0teS
| dcemcd Jy them to be illegal. And it is not
competent for the Executive to defeat or
obstruct that power by veto, as would be
| the case il his action were ut all essential IN
| the matter. He disclaims all right OF the
Executive to interfere in any way Ill the
matter CT canYasSing or counting electoral
votes, and he also disclaims that by signing
said resolution he has expressed any opln-
ion on the recitals of the preamble, or any
Judgment OF bis own upon the subject OF
the resolution. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
..Erecutire mansion, February S, 1862"
We also repeat the resolution which is
referred to in the message OF Mr.. LINCOLN.
This resolution excluded, amongst others,
the votes Of two "loyal" States Louisiana
and TENNESSEE which had been re0rganizcd,
and both OF them had loyal Governors. The
resolution is as follows:
"Bc IL resolved by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States Of
Amerjca IN Congress assembled, That the
States mentioned in the preamble to this re-
solution Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi. Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and
TENNESSEE are not entitled to representa-
ton in the Electoral College for the choice
OF President and Vice-Prcsident OF the
United State for The term Of office COM
mencine OH the 9TH day Of March, 1865;
and no electoral pote shalt be received or
counted from said States concerning the
choicgot President and Vice President for
sold term Of office"
For this resolution the following senators
voted Messrs. Anthony, BROWN, BucKA-
LEW, Chandler, CLARK, CoLLAMEE, Cox
NESS, DAVIS, Dixon, FARwELI., FOSTER,
GRIMES. HALE, HARLAN, HENDERSON, Hen
drichcS, HOWARD, johnson, [Reverdyl NOR
GAN, Morrill,. ME-. POWELL, RAMSEY, Sher-
man, STEuAHr, SUMNER, IrUmbnN, WADE,
and WRlGHT-29.
ZACH. CHANDLER, SHERMAN, ANTHONY,
(the probable next president OF the Scnate,)
Mr.. SUMNER, in fact almost every Republic
can senator, then took the position which
lir. TRuMBULI. and Mr.. HENDRICKS took
then and still adhere to.
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Senator Conkling on Counting the Vote.
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