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SPEECH
or
EDGAR COWAN.
HON.
Selivcred in the United States Senate,
" ? the 2st of December 180.), 11 re-
plytotke'-negro speech of Senator
Suinnrr
Mr. CO WAX
Mr. President, I
am not disposed to allow the
neech
of the honorable Senator from Massa
chusetts Mr. Si mm:k, to go to the
country without a very brief reply.
If that speech be true, and if it be
f folly; then all the blood and treasure;
I which we have expended in that war
- in order to restore ourselves to com-!
panionship with the people of the
i South have been equally fellies. But,
Mr. President, is it true Or is not
s this a series of ex )arte statements
, mude up by anonymous letter-writers,
Topl15 are down there morolike
I ly stealing cotton, people who are
down there in the enjoyment of place
J and power, people who are interested
I that the disturbed condition of things
I wLich exists there now shall always
continue, because they make profit ol
it? Is there any man who has had
-any experience m the trial of causes,
any man who knows anything about
the nature of evidence, who does not
know that the honorchlo Senator
could have sent his emissaries into
ny cue county in the lately rebellious
ftalc6 and gathered up from the ex
pressions ol knaves and fools and dis
contented, single-idead people, far
7iiore than he has given us in this
f peech ?
We arc told here of the exceptional
Instances of bad conduct on the part
if the people of the South. Wh-,
what a large volume it would take to
Jiold all that ! If .a mail were to go
Jibout anywhere in the loval Hales
and hunt cp what he might "appose
to le treasonable expressions, hereti
cal expressions, how many could be
tind? Audyut we are treated to all
this here as if it was the whole of the
evidence in the case. Ono man out
of ten thousand is brutal to a negro,
nd that is paraded here as a tyj; cl
the whole people of the South, whereas
nothing is said of tho other nine thou
and nine hundred and ninety-nine
men who treat the negro well. One
man expresses a great deal of dissat
isfaction at the present state of afi'airs.
and that is paraded here, while noth
ing is said of tho other ten thousand
men who are contented to accept it
jind make the most of it.
What, then, are we to do We are
to suppose that the peojJe of the
Bouthern States lately in rebellion have
common sense; and when their utter
ances are in accordance with what is
common sense and thc dictate of their
own interest, we have a right to pre
sume it to be truo But according to
what we have just heard, everything
that has come from thc people of these
(States and from their public-bodies,
from thc representatives of these pco-
1le, is to be taken as falne ; and why ?
Jccause somecotUm agent, some cor
respondent of a radical newspajter in
the 2Corth, some office-holder who has
been making profit of the state of
things there, chooses to say it is all
false! The here.oy of State rights is
not destroyed there, the honorable
, ii mat epeecn ue xrue, aim n u vc tneir own interest will compel them when everybody else faltered,
a correct picture oi the South, then ; to allow all people to testily unless mau who stood almost alone in tl
; uoa nop us; men tnis i.epuor.c, tins tliey a.re excluded by those disabilities midst of an enraged population,
; L nion is at f.u end ; then the great war timthave heretofore excluded witness- in the vcrv storm and strifo of. tl
rw!ne!i wo waged lor toe L nion was a es from tcstil vinL'." If tho honorable worst civil war
uiur mi?: - jiae we noi nearujirom tuo public, l-ecanse 1 Jiavo no
'roui a'mott n!I the public men of the j doubt that if their names were known
tuth that that
ing of all others which was the last,:
. oi t e r iMHj , iiii, 1 1 ney j
N:.a funmittoj i?ut still further
.luiies juo vauieo; ne are not ,
! what they are. What are they ?j
tiswantcd; LvervboJy admits
the negro ou
igbt to have bis naU;
rights secured to him.
J believe
,!e raolerate conservative men of
cnamoer are tully agree! that;
. t . , .
, man MiOuU nave log natural
s secured the right to life, lib-'
-me i.guug i.ie, i.o-
ptrvtaits of bapi.iness;
of property, limbs, and
at be shouid have the
and the
..'tection
.ion; thai be shouel have the
3 sue and be sued, and to testify ,
tsof justice. Ihe negro has
-crtoben allowed intlie south-
to testify in conru of jas-
j?7l r!cQSe be Tr"8
uana .aa oeen a cuizca ,
..cm States when sJavrcy pre -
here, I would have resisted
i to testify in courts. A wit -
3 a voter cuirbt to Lc a free
3 a rottr ought to Lc a in
... "i . . , .
fhtcld not belong to tooth-
orieMiou was imt io,tnevwould not rc considered ol muc 1 ! .lot-tun tJ Wiinii an. !.. o.f
he arbitrament of the sword, that j importance. I vcrvmuchdoubt wheth-J to break tho Union ; ho wvh, Au
bey submit? Have they not acqui- cr there is a singlo man among them J abiding faith is entertained "that tbir
cti in the abolition of slavery that , who has ever wielded anything more' actions will conform to tLi. i,r,r
cr man. What chnneo would a liti-
gant have against tho master of slaves
if the slaves could testify It seems
to me that the slave ought not to tea-
tti' fir the reason that the wife
... .1 . . . .... ...
oucTllt not to testify either for or
.against tic husband. Would you ask
j a negro to testify against his master,
I to go back to that master and be sub-
jjected to his ill-will because of his tes-
Itiniony? "Would you allow him to
IteRttrV fnr thn mntitnr at. .1 t r r
par-
I, - i. ?.'-
Certainly irot.
jIJut now thi9 state of thing8 llQ8 ia9.
)cd away Now thc ,e oi4 tl,e
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southern States themselves, so f.irnsl
uhdert-tand them, aro in favor ofonfM.-
ling the courts to all these classes of
people. And, sic, they mint open
them for their own security. 1 am
willing to leave that to themselves;'
Senator from'MassachusettsaiMj those
v. ho think with him desire that these
peoido ;
peupio should have the right of tut
frri.ge. whv not sav so broadly?
Mr. SUM.Ni:il." I do sav so.
Mr. COWAN. Very w'ell ; that is
so much that is clear; make it broad
ly ; we may di;Ter from him. but the
people win decide. I am perfectly
willing to acquiesce ia their decision ;
I do not care whieli way it is ; but
tho poop'e will decide that qnetwn,
and they will decide it promptly. If
the honorable Senator from Massachu
setts wants to hold tho doctrine that
these States are not States; that they
aro not constituent members of this
Union, let Liru fay so; there is a tri
bunal to which that can be referred.
If he wishes to take iosne with thc
President on thce points, let the is
sue be made fair'- and squ.nrelv, and
it will be met. Thank (Jod. in this
Government, not like that wf Ilussiai is their disjsition and tendency, not
which he has eulogized, there is a pow- to love the North, not tolovethe holi
er above ns all; there is a power to jorable Senator from Mastachussctta
whoe arbitraniout and award we can
appeal, and who will settle tlds thing
conclusively
Now, Mr. President, I am for recon
filiation. I wani to havo this Union
restored ; and a Union means a Union
ty consent, t.ft ly furcc. I world like
to make friends of all the pcoplo with
whom we havo been at enmity here
toforo. I tlo not want the coutcst to
go on any longer. Put are we to
make friends with them, awd are they
to be reconciled ts, and are they
to behave beitcr by such f-peecLes us
have been made b- the honorable Sen
ator here to-day ? I very ju ucb doubt
it. 1 do not think that he will im
prove the condition of the southern
heart, or thc condition of the southern
mind, by thus parading these cxcej
tional cases to the people of this coun
try, and stimulating and exciting their
angry passions moro than tbcj are
now aguinst this unfortunato people
unfortunate in every respect; un
fortunate on account of their errors ;
unfortunate on account of the penalty
which has followed those errors, and
which they have suffered.
Mr. President, let us look at this
testimony. The honorable Senator,
as I said loforo. reads irom annony
ntous letter-writers, from cotton agents
and people of that kind. Now, it docs
so hapjon that we have eomo testi
mony upon this subject ; we have some
tcstiinouj of the President of the Uni
ted States, not a sammcr soldier or
sunshine j.ntriot
Mr. fcL'MXER. I havo not read
anonymous letters.
Mr. COWAN. They are anony
mous so far as we are concerned ; and
1 commend the Senator's prudence in
keening l!e names of their writer
than a pen during this rebellion.
Put
i say inat we nave tnc testimony oi ,
men of unexceptionable veracity; wejthelawa oftho United States, their
nave me testimony oi tr.e iTesident ol ,
tho United States, who was a Union
man. and vhj was in fivor of the 1
L nion at a time and in a rlace where
there was some merit in it. I do notUn a ramlinnn nf nrrMnnp;tr
;n of suppoM? there was any crcat merit in
thatlbema Union man in Massachusetts.'!!,;
surroe there was anv rrcat merit in!
44 J I
being a Union man in Massachusetts.
1 snsnect a man wunl.i h.ir hvn '
very linciy to get a lamp post U lie
had been anything else there ; but tho
President of the United States was a'
Union man in the verv thuk ami
very likely to get a lamp-post if ho
L nion man in the very thick and
storm of the battlo. He was driven
from his home; ho wns waylaid hither.
in order to attend to his otlkial doties
in this body. He has stood by the
Cn'tpn, by the Union, all the '
way mrougn, steadily an1 brmly, and
jas compliment to him the great par-
. ty to which I belong, and to which '
, Le did not belong, and never pretend-
'ed to bclonr. coufcrre.1 nmn hi nf.
' rretend-
ed to bclonc, coutcrred nnon him of-
- . .
fim hich. in the prov.deuco of God,
PRINCIPLES,
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY JAN. JO, 186G.
lias made him President of the Unitod
States.
Now, air, you sire t1d hero that
this man m his official communication
to the Senate of the United .States
, . , , ... ,. , , .
whitewashes the condition of things
down below. Yes. sir. "whitewash"
is tlio word. The honorable Senator
Bays that ho will not accept the defini-
tion of "whitewash" given by the Sen-
ntor from Connecticut or the Senator
from Wisconsin, but ho has not told
.us what ho means by tho word "white-
I It T . ... .
' h It h not neccssary
! phouIJ k.iv what ho meaus
-.r . .
mat ne
by thai
word. Lvervbodv understands it. I
sumioso pvimi I.m colored friends iii
! whom he takes ro much intcrest.would
kimw what tho meaning of the word
! "whitewash" was. rLau"hter.1 Ho
fays that this man, who stood firm
this
10
and
10
perhaps
as
ever seen, comes here to "whitewash."
What does he -menu except that thc
President of the United States In an
official communication to this body
comes here to he; that is tho plain
English of it; comes here either to
suppress the truth or to suggest a
falsehood.
What does tho Prcsidont say ? I
Willi read what ho says as a 6ufi;cient
answer to what all theno jeoplo down
South report of tho state of affairs
theie, and 1 donot find it necessary to
deny thousands of instances cf exceed
ingly lieifti'-al talk mnj' have taken
place there, and of treasonable talk if
you please; and I have no doubt that
inastateofthingsunparalled in the his
tory of the world heretofore wrongs
and outrages innumerable happen
there; but that is not the question. The
qnextwn i what is the condition of thc
1 mas of thc i eon'o in the South, v.hsit
because I very much tear that that
will be Irtught about soon unless
there is a change in tho temper of both
parties not to have Jicarts overflow
ing with love and gatitude to those
who they think persecute and hunt
them in their subpiivion, who kick
and strike at Uictn after they are down,
after they havo cried "enough"-bul
tho jueUoii is what is their dispos
ition to bey the laws ? What do we
care about their heart or their dispos
itions if they are oJe!icwttothelawB,
and submit to tho laws? Now they
have submitted to laws Mhieh iiupoe
tho heaviest penalty for il tliey nre
traitors the law imposes the penalty
of death and conf.S'ulion of estates by
means of fine.
I will read what the President says
now of the condition of that people
from tho information he has received:
'-In that portion of the Union lately
in rebellion, the aspect of affairs is
more promising than in view of all
tho ciicunislauccs could well have been
xjected." I think there is no candid
man who !t endorse that senti
ment. "Tho people throughout the
entire South evince a laudable desire
to renew their allegiance to tho gov
erntuent.and to repair the devastations
of war by a prompt and cheerful re
turn to poaecful pursuits "
V hy should they not ? To suppose
anything else is to suppose that theV
are demented, that they have no kind
of common sense U-l't, that four years
of the most torriblo war and the
mot terrible punishments ever in
flicted upon a people hkro len
withou', their lessens It cannot be,
Mr. President; it is not in the nature
of tht that it should be.
'.in abiding laith on the part of this
man w ho suffered from theso people,
who suffered irom this war and the
nrnfe
sinus, and that in ockitow (edging the
supremacy- ci Uie Constitution and
Joyaity willtto unreservedlv given to
trie government, whose leniency tkey
iciK-y tkfy
runnel t .il in nnm,:nii n...t ... i
fostering cam will soon tvinm hf,m
A i,. II. pro Vr lv,;,i,.i n,.,..
. v . a . a. v nuv aj la O'll'll I Lpj I KM
ask when in the history of this world I
r,r il... Ln.r.,.., f....i,. i. :. i i
that cvcrity, cruelty," persecution 1
that cvcritj', cruelty, persei
retusal to recofnir.n "common
has reconciled a people and pm-if
trno.l ....m-. i. k.-
rights
e.n..w i
traded country; and when has it hat)-'
pened that clemency, leniency, ns the '
President expresses it,has failed to
produeo bencticial resuits his not'
necessarv to go very far back for in.
stances to show this. Iook at the1
iit. tt uirr-
treatment of England toward Ireland. I
What has been the result tl
holding that people in a
vassalage ? A Fenian in
i,- v..i. ..
icre of her
snecies of
rmiuliTo ' A l'..niun iai..i:,. I
?min lr nnH nmt- o- knn.-iM.i. r
"I1"" c' .......a nun ancr IIHIIUITUSOI
yehrs of attempt to dominate over
not HE!.
that people. Look at Poland; look
everywhere. And it it be necessary
to see what clemency, what leniency
and justice and trust mid confidence ;
crin do to restore a peopla oncein rev-
oiution.iAKo ino conauct ot uocko
j hi au wt. iuum Hie genius
of one man, high enough to bo ubove
.vulgar r.Vitiion, statesman enough to
l.uiMuy,u.lj icuul-o wusrc -
stored to 1-raneoand isthcro now part
and parrel ot it, with every rocolloc-
j lion of U-. Revolution, efluced..,.,
Says the 1 resident,
j true hi mma oi me Mates the
i demoralizing flpc' of nor are lobe s?en
I in fccasHioiml Unorder"
These effects ar to be seen in tho
: North ns well as ic thc South
j"tutthee re Joed ia character, not
' frquenl in ocouriente, and r rapidly
dirappenring as (lie authority of civil law
I ia extended And ui(air.ed IVrnlexin' 1
I quet'um were Daturd'y to he expected
jfrom the (trenlotid sidden clmoge in tho
irtdations l etwen l!two rucfs : W
.4ciii8.no srdoaUy .levplopii)gU1pmfcelves;,1,isicdl!,cn.1 il)to thc pjoorey rel(m of
,, i i ., .. of secession and disunion; and that
the protection to wnch li m justly enti-1 , ... ., . '., ,
tied, and by meanorhii labor make him-jwo "tend, after tho great uuhtary vic-
flfa twefuland inafjeiideotmpmber of jtory which wo have achieved, to
the community in vhich he has his bom, achieve another by magnanimity and
from all the information in ruy posea- J clemency in our conduct toward thorn ;
ion, and from th which I l:rve renent- that wo will win them back to bo as
ly dfrifwl from tic mot relmblo authori- thev wcro Lcf(jPe (iur jviends and our
!:ir.'ntrdr.C,,M'tl'e,:1'rilot! brothers, ol tho same race and of tho
DitiUMiai HiiniiwrMJ l nmrij II J li Ifl'ltllJ
mprcinc itielf into a ffirit of nntionulitv.
and (bat representation, connected with
a projierly m'Jutted fyi'.eni of taxation,
will rpault in a barmouioua restoration of
the relatione of U.e State to the national
lJiIn" r . !
J. UCI U 13 U IIUIU IllOI U
testimony
yet, Mr. PresiJent ;
and it is wrth
II 1 10 VC KTC IlOrC
whilo to consider, whilo
to take counsel nud to know what we
ought to do in the extraordinary situ
ation in which wo find ourselves, from
whom will we take that counsel. Are
wo to tako it from men, the purpose
of whose whole lileoems to be to wage
wartipon these people and their insti
tutions? Shall we take it from men
whom they hato personally and by
name, and to whom it is almost im
possible to suppose they will everbc rec-
Z " i Y ,T: ' . ? '
:.. ... ..!.:.. i,
thomenwhohavenotmadethisaper.1 V- "f' pt 1Ioufe
. . . , , ., ;inctin thc afternoon and nominated
sonal war: wholinvetrcated it as a na- c c..,..t -u- n t . n.
tionaJ war, wkI wlio, m their con ibict
. r : . .i i ,.
of it, have won the applause ol
lota aections? l ie President says
, , . p . . ,.
that part of his information
i i - ,f n ... .
Who is General Giunt? Who is to
be pnt in the scale with that
fcf.I.linr mwl t-lmaa tnat iiiinntr ii.
,1 i : . r.. t... .....i -. i
,'i i , tt i r .i
iiilt iiero ioo ; iias ur loriroiien ine
position he occupies before tho Amor
ic.m neonle ? Wilh tho hi"hoit lnili.
,ar vuaniei oi a. man w-uay upon
the earth, has heeondecended to come
hero to dcrrcivo the Senate of his coua
try, and to lie about tho condition of
affairs in the South, which he has re
cently visited ? Let as lure what ho
says, and listen w ith patient reverence
to the utterance of a man of sense, a
patriot, and a prudent man, who de
sires not to embroil, not to embitter,
not to widen the gap that already ex-
'. a 1.... ......ii. r, .i 1 ...In I. .
,, .-. .i i ... . . .. i .
. J . i .. i . . r .
desires to heal and to liaejfv ; a man
i,,..:,, . ..' rII ,
iiiiuucu nun iuo n'.ru vj ii.nne lien
..Ti-. i i.. i .. i
i. v n viib iv vimer, nnu uere no
succeeded when others hail failed.!
v:.n, Ar. i i, ,i. 1
r.i i .
,i , . r . i ii-
in the inaaner of a man aiHi asoldier.
' 1 am satisfied" ;
says ; m.d when bets satined who
dares say he is not satisfied upon the!
scorc of honesty and good lutent
to-
wara tkiu uepubhc?
"1 am aalUhed thai the mas nf think
ing tnn in Ilia Sioutb tmil lh trnnnt
aiiuation of elfnir in good UiLtc !"
'i'katiswhat General Grant ty.
Is that "whitewashing?"
flie quostions which have heretofore
divided the sentiment of Itin peojt of ihejven. and was organized by calliiv
rri l
n:.. .i . -.i L:i
ir luti uirv i i-viti! h imv ntL' ir"rii i" rr l
tlo f.evcr by tlie hiheat tribunal, arm,
thai man can reorl to.
It is now said that they do not think
ui ; thai they aro only p:elending, and
have a covert purpose of doing some
thing hereafter nlxuit this thing, rrs
body can tell exactly what. Perhaps
wo will bo told they will not abide
the result.
'I waa leii.l to learn frnas) the lead
ing men whom I mel, thai they not only
accepted the riitrision armed at aa final.
Iut that now, when the amnke of Wile
has cleared away and lime has been given
foi reflection, Ihia cliciiiin has neon a
fortunate one for the whole country, Ihey
receiving like benefit from It wilh lhre in thc east library room, nt half past
who opposed ibem in the filJ and in seven, and nominated for
;.-'k" Speaker James II. Kelly, of Wnh-
W hy, Mr. President, the common in"t"n county,
sense of that last utterance is worth '(7(o Clerk A. W. Penedict, Hun
more as testimony than that fcf a tingdo'n county ; Assistant Cierk W.
thousand scribblers who merely look H.'Ponnison. Allegheny count v.
nt detached points of this great field.! Transcribing Clerks 1st, C. W.
They have resolved to accept the di. Walker, Philadelphia ; 2d. A. I). Ilnr
osion as final; and, what wo ought alljlan, Chester county ; 8d, J. P. Willis
to be glad to know, they have found ton, Allegheny county; 4th, M. Pdg.ir
TERMS : -
NEW
that it is for their benefit
They have
found, ton nfi. c.i.- u.
ed away, that they aro really in a
better condition than thev were ha.
fore, that they have been relieved from
t!,0 incubus which has oppressed them
for 60 long a time, and they are ready
now to tako their places in tho Union,
and along side of tho northern States
iwho have made liberty their great
jprincinlo rather then slavery. Why
Uljoiild they not ? If any man can
giro a reason why they should desire
i to keep tip this strito longer, with
their devastated fields, with their
treasuries empty, with their society
disorganized, I should liko to hear it.
1 therefore hope, Mr. President,
that we ma' meet them in" a different
spirit; that wo nnvy show them that
wo mado this war, not to make them
eternal enciuiesofours,notto humiliate
j them, but to rescue them; that wo made
this Avar to go and get them out of
aya-'il.o cbrtches iS ilu bud men who hud
BaLuc lineage.
I liotie too that thisancrry,irritatin'.
and exciting mode of treating this
fiubject, which is calculated to make
.Us anything else than friends, will bo
discarded hereaftet, and we shall cool-
n - ,.,,iir,,. r,,i ; i. Knrt. nf tho
; nul:OU( (boe.usothati thc spirit of the
; nnlin UvaiTiMii 4 1.1a nnott w. iiw? ! r
I v.-ith it that which will bo calculated
to restore tho old harmony and peace
la-tid tho old Uuion again. Con. Globe.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
Party Ctitu'vsrr Organization cf the
House, tic.
llAt.ms-nruo, January 1, ISf.G;
Nearly all the members of tho Leg
- .'""
islature ot voth Houses had arrived
bv an early hour last night.
e m -i i t .i .
of Pluladoliihia, tho prevent lncum-
f 11 1
,N t. c
I ho Pemocratic Senate caucus met
1 . . ,
,m thc library room, thisTmorning, and
nominated for
II .. . it latu AjLV l ..nun, .1 tiu-
1 '
. ...
Cirri: K. M. Hutchinson; Assist-
ant Clal; illiam Jf. Gallagher.
St'rueir.i-at-anns Michael M ullin
Assiuant Sc'tcant-at-arms-Jiwob Wil-
nnnrl.r,;,,rl.,hn S Tvi.-hnr
A s$ita nt Poor icrpert Si las Css!ji
Isaac Ilaker, P. tl. Norton
I JUexsenqer Heorge V.. Long; Aasitt-
ant Messenger John Cox,
j Librarian Jacob St rer.
i Transcribing CtTAs-Kicl'ird Kuhns,
Preeman lirady, Jr., Thomas llanna,
Philip Shoemaker, L. J. Small.
I The PepublicunSenatecaucusmetin
the Sonato Chamber nt seven o'clock
in the evening, and nouui-iated for
Cinrf Cterk George . Hammers
, ,rr, .
ley, o Germantown.
- . . . , ,m t t r
' Assistant Carl; Lucius Pogers, ol
-.r i-
(,vcaB' , . , , T- n
Jrnntrnh O'erhh. K. Haines,
Somerset; James (.. Graham. Alle-
gheny ; John i. Johnson, Centre;
v, J '..,, ' ., ,
Henry MUratz, Montgomery; Col.
(-y C. Pogers. lhm.
Srgrant.itrmJovh Pehlett.
vi a iiiitiueij'iiui.
Ihor Keeper John Martin, Lancas
ter. ,lfi.rM7iT---WilliiitM Duffy, Phila
delphia. J.ihrnrinn Jacob Styers, Pauphin.
J ho Jicmncratic House
caucus met
, in the west library room, nt half iuist
-unty, tolthe House adjourned until to-morrow
ituc rhair, nnd Nc'sui U eiser, ot Le-
.
liigh county, and A, I. Markly, of
ilontg'iiuery . countj-, as Secretaries,
and nominated for
S)teal.er Hon. William M. Nelson,
of Way no county.
Cki'rf Clerk Cyr T. Alexander,
of Centre county; Amxtant Clerk
Datiiel II. Neiman, of Northampton
county.
Sergeitnt-at-arinx ( 'oleman Ieck.
finnrktever John Tettcrmore.
Messenger John ( 'ox.
J'ostma'ster John P. Smith, of Pay
ette count.
J he J.epuhliean House caucus met
$2 00 Per Annum, if paid ia advanco
SERIES-VOL. VL NO. 25.
King, Fulton county; 5th, Robert
15rown, Lycoming county.
Pustraastcr J. 1). Kirkpatiick, Mer
cer count'; Assi-stant l'oatmaster W.
! A. Kunert, Crawford county.
Scraeant-at-arnus- Charles E.
Idll,
Philadelphia,
Assistant Sergeants-at-arms 1st, G.
'Strain, Allegheny county ; 2d, James
li. ork, Indiana county ; .id, Samuel
Christ, Lancaster county ; 4th, Hugh
M'Mullon, Delaware county.
Doorkeeper James M'Gowan, Law.
renco county.
Assistant Doorkeepers 1st, J. H.
Hall, Susquehanna county; 2d, Chas.
II. Kurtz, Philadelphia ; 3d, John
Moore, Westmoreland county ; 4th, S.
Y. Poyw, Dauphin county.
Messenger James M'Cauley, Phil
adelphia. Assistant Messengers lit, William
F. "drool; way, Lno county, 2d, J. J.
Nofsker, IJluir county ; 3d, J. W. Pow
ell, Lancaster county; 4th, Samuol
Naee, Philadelphia.
Senate. Tlfsdkv, Jan. 2, 18C0.
The Senate was called to order at
three o'clock p. m., by Speaker Plem
ing. f'rayer was offered by Ilev. J. Walk
er Jackson, of Harrisburg.
Tho Secretary of the Common wealth,
then presented the credentials of tho
new Senators, which were read
Mr. Fleming then ordered tho roll
of Senators to bo called, that the)"
might take thc prescribed oatili.
Mr. Wallace Fubmittel uprotst,sign
ed by the newly elected Sc'iiat Jrs Dun
can, Glatz and AVallace, against ad
ministering the oath to Senators until
tho Senate thould havo e'ctod. o
Sjx-aker for this session. ,
Tho Chair ruled out tho protest as a.
point of order, and it was cntived. on.
the Journal.
Thc oath was then administered to
the now Senators.
Mr. Connoll moved that thc-Senate-proceed
to tho election of Sijcakor,
which was agreed to.
Mr. Fleming, Abolitionist cC Dau
phin, had 20 votes.
Mr. Hopkins, Democrat of Wash
ington, hud 1 1 votes.
Mr. Hopkius then administered the
onth of otliee to Speaker Fleming,
Tho Senate then proeee.lod to tho
election of oliicers of tho Seuato,.
when the gentlemen nominaU'd at tho
Republican caucus last nil.t
elected by a vote of 20 to 11.
Messrs. Bigham and Wallace were
appointed a committee to inform tho
House of L'cpresentativcs that tho
Senate was now organized and ready
to proceed to business.
Mr. Council introduced a resolution
that the Senate adjourn on Wcdtiesdaj
the lid iiifl., until Tuesday the frth, at
i y'cbielc P. M. AgK-ed to. Tho Sen
ate then bv a vote of 27 to 4, ngreedS
to invite the Clergy of Harrisburg to
pray for them every mcming. That
tho majority need praying for thero is
no doubt, utter which they Adjourned
until to morrow. '
HoL'sr.. II AttHisnt no, Jan. ?.. ISC'i.
The House was called to order by
the Clerk of tho last House, Mr. Pen
edict, at 12 m.
On motion of M r. Negley, of Ihitler,
thc House proceeded to elect n Speak
er Mr. Negley nominated Hon. James
It. K el ley.
Mr. iMissimer nominated Hon. Win.
M . Nelson.
Mr. K el ley had (." vo'.es. .
Mr. Nelson had "1 votes.
Mr. Kclb') wns conducted to tho
Chair by Messrs. ;iass and Nelson.
Mr. Nelson, of Wayne, administered
the oath of office to the Speaker.
The members wero then eworn in
by the Speaker.
After the adoption of a resolution
fixing the hour of in feting at eleven
a. m. .and ol t.(liourn:oient at one r. m..
moruiug at eleven oYlock
Sevatk Wednesday. Jan. 8,lMif.
'i'htf Senate met tit 10 o'clock a. m.,
the Speaker in tho chair.
The hour of 11 o'clock having ar
rived, the Senate p; "weeded t ) draw a
committee in the con tested election
csi of Duncan vs. M'l'onaughv.
Hon. John C. Kimkcl. of ilarris-
burg, was admitted ns counsel for the.
contestant, mid J. jU'Powoll Shnrro.
I IN.)., of Chambcrsl mrg, lor the sittin g
Senator.
The following Senators were an
nounced by the S peaker as tho com
nut tee.
The Spcab cr de rided that he could
not be excii cd fnMii serving on Raid
committee in iihsejieo of an a Hi davit
on the part of the Senator that he wni
unable t -stttend to tho duties of said
position.
Sabaeijjiently thr Sonator was ex.
cused.
Mr. W hite, mod to mibMitntut
Senalrc M'outgorncrj- in place cf Sen.