Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-04-22

To THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA.

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The Locofoco Party and the system of Internal
Improvements in Indiana....The connection
of that Party with the Systematic system
wound up by the recommendation of u WIG
Governor, and upon the resolutions of Whis
Members of the Legislature. whiE invcsti"
cations had into the conduct of the Omcess
connected with the system. Locofooos sno" q
! to have hed The power do this, but did nSs'
| Milton staPp. Reorganization.
".
Our preceding Numbers have laid before tbs
People the inception, passage aud Management; OF
The Internal Improv ement System in Leblanc;
aud they have fully demonstrated that its incep-
ton and passage were claimed BY THAT PAX
| TY, and that its ma ma emen, has been gross, on
the part of prominent Locofocos, while the acts
| Of tho Wings connected with that 81 stem-whe'h-
er in all cases, right wrong-have been tu''y
endorsed and appreciated by their leading men
| and Press, from the birth TO the grave OF tho
System. It remains for us, in this Number, to
| show TO the People Of Indiana that. although the
Locofoco Party had the early means and Po'oer
to haze done it, tina, il is to the Wings to whom
they indebted for the ,c:sding up Of that Sys-
fem--for the Investigations which hauc led to the
exposure Of the guilty, and for the s'eo"s rh'c"
are foot for the punishment Of those r@ose
connection ,rith the System has made them ame"a
bic to the la,c.
Passing by all other Sessions Of the Legisia-
ture, we direct tho attention OF tho Reader ~
once to The Session Of lS39-4O Al that period
tho Locofocos held q clear ma jority Of TWENTY
SIX votes. There was no investigation put on
foot, however, by them, into the conduct Of the
public Agents connected with the System Of To-
ternal Improvements, nor was there any PROPOSE
ton for investigation; nor was the System sub
jected to a winding up process. But the winter
of lS4l-2 was ushered in by a recommendation,
in his Message, Of the presen, Wing Governor OF
the State, that the System should DO abandoned.
its Offices vacaied-its affairs Investigated, and
the scattered energies Of tho State concentrated
and made as available as possible" This recom-
menda,i on was acted upon by Mr.. MARSHALL,
WING Member in the House Of Representatives
tcho, notwithstanding the fact that such Locoto-
CO lions as Edward A. Hannegan and Thomas
Jefferson Henley were members Of the came Boz
dy at the same timo,--introduced the Bill, aehieh
became the la,r, rinding up the System, and pro-
riding Agent to bring its operations to close!
Nor was this the half which characterized the
conduc, OF the Wing. that occasion, in their
zeal TO expose TO the world every chink and crnu-
ny ia the System Of Internal improvements
o.z-For the frs: time. AT THAT SESSION,
was SPECIFIC charge unde agains, any Pub
lie Officer connected with that System.Zc0 Al.
belt the Locofocos had rallied and denounced,
their lips had been sealed and their arms para
LIKED, SO far the arraigning Of specifications
against public funcs ionaries concerned. hut
ia the winter Of 4l-42 such was not the csac.
NOAH NoBkE-a man who, for years the vs-y
but, Of Locofoco malice and caumny, Who psssed
through the frey ordeal Of that Party's most RE
gid inve stiga,ion and extorted praise even from
the lips of his accueers-was then The Fund Com
missioner Of Indiana. As Fund Commissioners
Mr. NOBLE, in his Report to the Legislature.
made specifications against Milton Sfopp, his
predseessor IN Office. charging him uitk sralfea>
sance, in sereral important paysicxlars, a. Psb-
lie Functionary. And what was the COURSE
which the Wig members Of the Tndissapolis Le.
gislature pursued in reference to q WH1c OvYrcsR
.Uho .ras thus charged scieh bad faith in Office BY
A WHICH Did they follow the example Of Sx.
cRErARr WOODBURY. and MARTIN VAN BUxxx,
who winked at and CLOSED over tho pseuiasions
Of such Rogues as Boyd, Swarswout, Price, Har-
ris and Spencerf Not they. Bed condscs vas
charged by Wing against Wing. There was
20 covering up, ss 10 the exalted instance cited,
eve give below from the Message Of Gov
Bigger in 1871. Wig:
ssNoah Noble, Es4 the Fund Comm ssousr. has b>em
asiduousy engaged through The
OF his Office. Your his
very report which viii be laid before ,ou maxui-
,uds and the variety of topics relating exclusively
debt and
yment, forbid my attemp any particular
of its Yoa will perceive
po, tbs Of the suspended debt involved
doubt and dinscslty. Every fair and Impartial mind
the impresson that Indiana has been
imposition and avd.
If esusefassd for Dishonest
Indian. Bonds obtained By ,be poeeto AID
enterprise. If creditors - Be sasis
fed IL 10 they sonetimss lent assissanss
eajoiling agents oct 81 the bons
If heavily operating inssasons involved II
,ve specula lions which they sink, pow.
,rf,I Effort we're forth. Indiana procured
nearly vaius, and thrown the moasy
Al reduced prices raise The of meeting ps.sisg
emergency
"a, public agents identified wih MeseArns.
aetions any Of them have WILDLY eefsl6 49,