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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
ng to law from the Governor. Six months later, or in April last, the Governor pretended to have discovered an error in the returns, by which Mr. Daly was chosen, and he revoked the commission previously issued to Mr. Morton. This act of Governor Black, he contended, was a gross usurpation of power — a usurpation of the constitutional privileges of this body. The Governor had no shadow of right to re-open again the canvass of an election he had already legally determined, and to concede su the Commission so issued was prima facte evidence of the legality of the election. Mr. McClernand, of Illinois, took substantially the same view of the case as his colleague, and held that it was a most dangerous usurpation of power which Gov. Black had attempted. He said Mr. Conway's statement of facts was wild and exaggerated, and exhibited ignorance of the law as well as of the facts of the case. A somewhat excited colloquy was springing up between the two, when they were both per