New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-28
The Issue in Indiana.

resut Of the. late Election IN Indiana, tnat lne
issue was essentially local one, 80 far as the
candidates of the Destructlves could make 1t SO
that Wing Extravaganza, State Bankruptcy,
and the necessity Of Retrenchment and Reform
IN the State Government, were the weapons vgor-
ouslv piled by the Loco Foco candidates, with the
effect of keeping 5000 Wings away from the
Polls. The Wings endeavored to hinge the ques-
ton on National questions, but were to great
extent overru!ed by the clamor set up by their op
ponents, Redeem our Bankrupt State And
though Whitcomb, thc Loco.Fo candidate for
Governor, was himself prominent advocate in
Internal improvement System Of that State, ne
was somehow enabled to throw all the blame OF
his own acts upon the Wings and make capital
out of his own errors We are seldom so fortu-
nate as this.
But on another portion Of the State issue, our
opponents mad a decided advantage-shame TO
Indiana that we should have to say it We al.
Iude to the State Debt. Indiana is deeply in
debt, with little income, and docs not even begin
TO meet the interest what she owes, which o
courseis rapidly accumuiating. In THIS dilemma,
shere is but one of two things to be aone-either
practically if not openly rep1djate on me one
hand, or provide means Of payment on the other
This question Gov. Bigger met frankly. He
said in all his speeches, Our State Debt must be
paid; arn in favor of getting the General Gov
ernmznt to aid us with the Proceeds of the
Public Lands; but, with or without aid, we
nab
our tarnshed honor and faith But Whtcomb
took the ground that the State could not, for the
present, pay any part Of the Debt, or even of the
interest upon it--that taxation would drive away
from her all Immigrants-and that she had more.
course but to wait, pay nothing at all, but 'hus.
band her resources until her increased popula-
ton and wealth would enable her to pay with
ease. And this convenient doctrine has been
adopted and endorsed by plurality of those who
voted in Indiana.
Now there are doubtless men who staid away
from the Polls and let this doctrine prevail-there
are probably some whose votes carried it--who
did not clearly perceive that they were making
covenant with death, and duplicating them
selves in the most atrocious swindling and rotbe
ry but letus exhibit the same princisic in a more
familiar case: A. B. is great manufacturer,
lnmberman or speculator, and he makes bad
venture and becomes embarrassed He lets his
workmen's wages fall in arrears; and they come
sound hm camCrng for paymcnt-ior the means
of giving hsead 10 their children But he bows
snem ou.t, with bland smile, saying to the des-
palnGg chopper, teamster butcher, tailoress wash
erwoman, &c. who have trusted him Do Mt
be lmpertnent-lt IS not convenient for me to
pay those little bills of yours this month, this
year--pcrhaps not these ten years--it would
trouble me, derange my business, empty my
wine-vaults and impovcrish my ardcr my
great friends would not come to sec me as they
now do; and | coHld no longer double my
wealth every ten years, as have hitherto done
$50 60 away you troublesome creatures you
cannot reach me by law, and do Mt choose to
pay you-when / do 1 will send for you.'-Who
would hesitate to pronounce this fellow most
consummate villain How many hand would
ache to shy stone at him. Ye; this graceessly
lmpuoent scoundrel is Indiana to the life, as ex-
pressed through her new Governor and endorsed
by her People.
All the pretext set up by the opposers of pre-.
sent payment of the interest on her Debt prove
that they mean nerer to pay. Immigrants worth
having would certainly sooner settle in State
that was paying her interest, though with some
difficulty, than one which was letting it run on
unpaid, accumulanng on compound ratio. The
prctence that she can't pay Is frivolous, so long as
a..
and her People squander IN idleness ten times the
interest every year. Her Debt is hardly more
than that Of this City, with half her population
her Annual Tax bill, provided she paid the las,
cent, would be fur less than ours, while her growth
Is more rapid her capacities far greater than ours
What imbecihty in villainy, then, is it not to
pretend that she can't pay, and thus render her
knavery, though gigantic, intensely contemplate
u In Hamilton Co. Ohio comprising Gin
cinnat) the Bank section of the Van Buren, party
choked off their own candidate for Congress
Senator Fa.an) and swallowed DR.. Duncan
without grimace, in order 10 secure the return
of their own pet, David t. Disney, a leading
Cass man, to the Senate. The County Conyen-
ton ratified this compromise; but the Hard
Money Radicals Of Cincinnati have bolted, and
nominated cid Moses Dawson for Senator in
place of Mr.. Disney, alleging that they cannot
vote for Bank Director. They viii be whipped
in, however.
u The YELLow FEyERis increasing at New
Orleans. During the "a hours ending at 6 P NJ.
OF the 18th inst there were 10 persons admitted
at The Charity Hospital. of whom had the Fe
ver, and OF the deaths there, 3 were victims of
this scoaFge. The physicians had begun TO en-
counter it in their private practice. We look to