Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1841-10-12


Request complied ruth. and ,rhy attending 10
olcn affairs Indiana nOiC, and SIR years 40. Err
peudifure for scraps of Internal Improvements.
Suspended debt State pa,rninS her bonds.
Procession, i,co mules long, Of 'rdgOns loaded
irifh silrer illustrates The amount u State debt.
Difference betlceen seeing and not seeing, and
beilreen paper money and specie. Bad agents
should be booked afier Their doings last Irin-
ter Details Of nerC system Of iGratIon. lis
character and Effects IN irresponsible Board,
not elected By The People, entrusted tcuh more
potcer than The Legislature. No appeal from
us arJifsa,-g decisions, crfH u It should double
or treble our fares Violation Of a principle set
NJ bg runners of L. s. Constitution. .fbsm-
dtiy o The ne,r plan, IN praotce n Court, ruth
ont either rule Of lar, jury, rltness, counsel or
pleadmgs n "reIG!,re situation" tar. The
People rriH be tared by fhenselrss not at ALL
Conclusion that The neic Fiscal Inq,GsttioH
should BE- abolished.
FELLOW CITIZENS | have been earnestly
requested bv some of those, who have recently
interested themselves in getting up, throughout
our county, meetings for the purpose ct exam
inlng some of the dongs of the las, Legislature,
10 prepare and submit to those meetings a state
rnent of the financial condition of Indiana and
more especially, to furnish the details of her re-
Gently adopted ~ stem OF taxation.
II i a melancholy task vet | have under
taken To perform A. because the candidates at
your recent election, on whom 1t more especially
devoIved To give YOU this Information, have
omitted So 10 do and because, IT we suffer our
Legislature to- proceed, as for few years past
they have proceeded, without check or rcmon-
STRANGE, We shall well deserve the evils which
a course of legislation imprudent even TO reck-
lessness, Is bringing upon our state.
Al. tFfVlt II
each man attends to his own affairs, without
neddlinu with poIitics. His OWN AFFAIRS
BE 1t so But whose affair Is it, mot our own,
that those whom we elect 10 make laws for Us,
have involved W. IN debt, millions upon mu-
lions, have spent these millions without proilt
or return and have placed before Us the odous
alternative, either To violate our phghted faith
20 the public creditor, or TO bow down ourselves
and our Children hewers of wood and
drawers of water, to the stock brokers OF the
Atlantic States and the capitalists OF Europe
Our own affairs Listen YOU who would leave
notifies To the demagogue and the speculator -
listen to a short history of what such men have
done for US in the last few years, and then say,
whether, when we attend To affairs, we
OUGHT not 10 include those which our agents IN
the Legislature transact for us at Indianapolis.
.css than SIX short years ago, what was the
situation of Indiana STEPPED, as we are now,
10 the very lips, in debt and taxation, we have
almost forgotten how envable was our situation
then lin debt at all, except for bank stock
which was rapidly rcdeeming itself, It was for a
few thousands to complete the Wabash and Erie
Canal and that the proceeds of the Canal
Lands promised soon To repay. The entire eX-
penditure OF our State Government was less than
$4,000 annually averaging, probably, about
i,relre and half cents year, for each man. wo-
fka TAFT \
tax sufflced to raise half OF that sum and an ad
valorem tax of fire cents in the hundred dollars,
the other half Those were DAYS of pride and
hope for our Young state Rapidly Strldlng on
in the full career of prosperity, her taxes 50 light
as hardly TO be felt, population and wealth flow
ing in upon her dav by day, her credit unimpair-
ed her faith untarnished, her prospects without q
cloud
The SIN short wears have past and where
stands Indiana now In debt more than a tentt
of every dollar of property, real and personal
owned by her citizens ; her poll tax doubted
her property tax Increased EIGHT FOLD
her treasury bankrupt burden upon burder
heaped upon her and not even the proud con
ISOLATION I'm advcrsitv left : g All Is lost, eTcep
our honor :" that too is forfeit The check
due for interest on our public debt were, las
July, dishonored. Next January they will b'
again dshonored Our State Bonds have sunk L
half their original value and are hawked abou
from broker To broker like the due bills OF sOm'
insolvent SPECTATOR the worthless notes o
some broken bank Our good name Is gone
with the rest
What think YOU now of the doctrine. that w
had best attend quietly to our own affairs, ant
let politics and politicians alone II we hav
no regard for the national honor, five care no
how grievous a load of debt we entail upon on
children, If we are content TO give the tenth o
our property to erect monuments OF rockies
folv throughout the land-ln a word, Ii we ar
ready and willing tamey to endure the thousan
evils brought upon Us by BAD LEGISLATION
then let US sit down, our arms crossed in pa
tient Indifference, and indoently eyclaim = lie
il pass. What does II concern me -
But such Is not your spirit. These nc
your intentions The voice of enquiry and re
form is abroad The People have slumbere
long but they are awnking now They de
mand Of their agents Il reckoning. They as
for statement of their affairs II shall be IN
endeavor briefly to submit TO them an outline
these, with as much accuracy a. the scanty nj;
terals, which our official reports furnish, enabl
one whe is not behind the scenes, 20 make it on
The AUDITORS and Treasurer's Reports
last Session inform us that the total expenditure
Nv our State for INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, wer