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PENNSYLVANIA. 



able adjustment of the difficulties respecting the 

 counting of the electoral votes for President 

 and Vice-President of the United States : 



Whereas, The tranquillity of the country has been 

 disturbed and its business prosperity imperiled by 

 the extraordinary difficulty of ascertaining in the 

 nearly balanced vote that has been the result of the 

 late elections for the election of President and Vice- 

 President ; 



And whereas, To allay any excitement that may en- 

 danger the public peace and precipitate upon the 

 people the calamities of civil war, from which they 

 have been lately delivered, it seems fit and proper 

 that the Legislatures of the States, whose preroga- 

 tives and vital interests are involved in the issue, 

 should declare and emphasize those principles em- 

 bodied in the National Constitution by which the 

 decision of the impending question can alone be 

 safely and lawfully reached : 



Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 

 concurring}, That the will of the people in electing 

 a President and Vice-President of the United States 

 can only be expressed in the manner prescribed by 

 the Constitution, and the persons having the ma- 

 jority of the votes of the electors appointed by the 

 States of the Union in the manner prescribed by the 

 Legislatures thereof must be by the force of the Con- 

 stitution and laws declared President and Vice- 

 President respectively, and must be on the 4th of 

 March inaugurated, and thereafter ward duly respect- 

 ed as such. 



2. That all factious opposition, and all threats of 

 violence designed or intended to prevent or imperil 

 the declaration and confirmation of the constitutional 

 election of the President and Vice-President, are un- 

 patriotic in spirit, dangerous and revolutionary in 

 tendency, and merit and should receive the con- 

 demnation of an outraged and indignant people. 



8. That the lists which the duly appointed electors 

 of the States respectively are required by the Consti- 

 tution of the United States to make of the persona 

 voted for as President and Vice-President, and the 

 number of votes for each, and which are to be by the 

 electors certified and transmitted by them, sealed, to 



Obverse. 



the President of the Senate, and which certificates 

 are to be opened by him in the presence of the two 

 Houses of Congress, and counted, are the constitu- 

 tional evidence of the votes cast for President and 

 Vice-President. 



4. That under the Constitution the persons having 

 the majority of all the votes actually oast by the 

 duly appointed electors of the States, respectively, 

 are by force of the Constitution and laws the 

 President and Vice-President from and after the be- 

 ginning of their term of office, and any attempt to 

 defeat the election of a President or of a Vice-Presi- 

 dent by either House of Congress upon the pretext 

 that certain persons duly certified to be the electors 

 of any State were not such electors, or by throwing 

 out or refusing to count the legally certified votes of 

 any State, or by impeding the counting of the elec- 

 toral vote to ascertain the result, or ior any other 

 cause than that provided for in the Constitution 

 when no person has a majority of votes of the elec- 

 tors duly appointed, will be a proceeding fraught 

 with danger to the public peace, perilous to the sta- 

 bility of our Government, and exposing our nation 

 to contempt in the general opinion of mankind. 



Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be in- 

 structed and our Representatives requested to let 

 their action on this question conform to the spirit of 

 this declaration. 



Resolved, That the Governor be requested to have 

 a copy of this preamble and resolutions forwarded to 

 each of our Senators and Representatives in Con- 

 gress as early as convenient. a 



The foregoing preamble and resolutions have 

 passed the Legislature. 



THOMAS B. COCHRAN, Clerk of the Senate. 

 WILLIAM C. SHURLOCK, 



Clerk of the House of Representatives. 



One of the two United States Senators from 

 Pennsylvania, Simon Cameron, having vacated 

 his seat by resignation, a successor was cho- 

 sen by the Legislature. In the Senate, James 

 Donald Cameron received 31 votes ; Andrew 

 H. Dill, 7" votes; Heister Clymer, 1 vote. 



Reverse. 



STATE SEAL OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



In the House of Representatives Mr. Cameron 

 had 115 votes ; Mr. Dill, 75 votes ; Andrew G. 

 Curtin, 1 vote ; John Jackson, 1 vote. On the 

 21st, both Houses met in joint convention 

 to finish the election, and declared "James 

 Donald Cameron duly elected." 



The Legislature closed its session on the 23d 

 of March. 



The Democratic members of the House of 

 Representatives held a meeting among them- 

 selves soon after the adjournment, when they 

 adopted the following preamble and resolution : 



Whereas, Speaker of the House Myer, and mem- 

 bers of the Republican party of the same, did during 

 the session of the Legislature trample upon the 

 rights of the minority of the House, using means 



