The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-01-25

These able and patriotic men, these
fathers of the Republic and the Con-
stitution, established the presidents,
followed in ten successive counts of
the electoral votes for President and
Vice-P President of the United States, by
their proceedings in Congress, attested
by the signature of the several Presi-
dents of the Senate John Langdon,
John Adams Thomas Jefferson, Aaron
Burr, John Milledge, William III Craw-
ford. and John Gaillard) with the
appreciation Of the Senate and under
its orders, declaring that under the
Constitution for which they had fought
and bled the President Of the Senate
was the officer designated by it to open
all the certificates, to count all the
votes, to declare the result, and to
certify over his signature, that he had
so opened and counted the votes, with
the result of his count to the success
full candidates. that in a miniSteri-
al capacity in the presence of the two
Houses, which ATTEND" without per-
forming any active functions in the
count, as public witnesses Of the act.
With the rise of Andrew Jackson as
ent men figure in Congress. A new
era begins-that of decentralization,
sedition, and treason--0f wal upon the
Constitution and the political morals
of the Republican, the Van Burens,
Woodburys, Isaac Hills, Wrights,
Marcys, Calhouns, Haynes, Rhetts, &c,
who WELD the destiny of the nation,
starting with the declaration, as a
fundamental law, of one of it's ablest
and most distinguished leaders, Gov
ernor William L. Marcy,) in the Senate
of the United States, that ito the Victors
belong the spoils." Even under this
era Of usurpation and corruption, and
UP to the adoption of the now defunct
22d Joint rule, the President of the
Senate, without challenge of his
right by either House, although under
Slightly different form,) assisted by
tellers appointed respectively by the
two Houses, opens and counts all the
votes, and declares the result The
tellers are simply clerical aids. They
perform no other than the clerical
function to read, examine, and ascer-
tain the votes after they have been
.apened and delivered to them for that
purpose by the President Of the Senate.
Hence, at the ELEVENTH COUNT
February II, 1920 of the electoral
votes of the several States for Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United
States, the two Houses, agreeably to a
Joint resolution, assembled in the
chamber Of the House Of Representa-
tives, and the President Of the Senate,
in the presence Of the two Houses, as
sisted by tellers appointed respectively
by them, opened and counted the votes,
and announced as the result of his
count, that Andrew Jackson, of Ten
neSsee, was duly elected President, and
John c. Calhoun, Of South Carolina,
Vice President of the United States
At the TWELFTH. COUNT February
10, 1889 of the electoral votes of the
several States, the two Houses, agreea-
bly, to q joint resolution previously
adopted by them, assembled in the
chamber of the House Of Representa-
tives, and the President of the Senate
in the presence of the two Houses, as
sisted by tellers respectively appointed
by them, opened and counted the votes
and declared as the result of his count
that Andrew Jackson was duly elected
President and Martin Van Buren, Vice
President of the United States.
At the THIRTEENTH. COUNT (Feb
ruary s, 1880 of the electoral votes OF
the several States, the two Houses
agreeably to Il joint resolution preyi
ously adopted by them, assembled II
the chamber of the House of Repre-
sentatives and the President Of the
Senate, in the presence OF the tWt
Houses, assisted by tellers respectively
appointed by them, opened and count
ed the votes, and declared the result
The vote of Michigan being question
ed, on the ground that at the date OF
casting her electoral vote she Was no
a State in the Union, the President o
the Senate, in announcing the result @
his count, by q previous agreement Q
the two Houses, declared that whethe
Michigan be counted or not, III elthe
event, Martin Van Buren,, OF New
York, was duly elected President o
the United States but in either even
no person had been chosen Vice Presl
dent Richard M. Johnson, Of Ken
lucky, and Francis Granger, Of NeN
York, were the two who had receive
the highest number of votes for tina
office, and Mr.. Johnson was on til
same day, by the Senate, elected Vic
President.
At the FOURTEENTH COUNT (Fel
ruary 10, 1841) of the electoral votes
the several States, the two House
agreeably to joint resolution prev
ously adopted by them, assembled L
the chamber of the House of Represer
tatives, and the President Of the Senate
in the presence of the two Houses, as
sisted 10y tellers appointed respectlyel
by them, opened and counted the vote
and declared as the result of his coln
that William Henry Harrison, OF Om
was duly elected President, and Jon
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