Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-02-18
]. IL. BUELL., Sec'y.
TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA.

TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA.
Fellow CITIZENS: The Democratic Wing mem
bers Of the Indiana legislature now IN session
feel that they cannot IN justice to their canVic'
tons Of what is duo 10 you, separate from each
other and retire to their homes, without spread
ing before you by united act, bret reVie" OF
the prominent and grossly improper acts which
have charact erized tho course they regret 10 say,
of that portion of tho present legislative body
which denomnates itself "democraiic." Deep
ly mortified are they that this duty IS demanded
ot their hands. For more in consonance with
their wishes would It have been TO have been
spared the acts, s. consequently the necessity for
comment upon them which their opponents nave
seen fiji to do 10 yoIr detumeu,, the detrinent OF
law and right, aud what we conceive 10 be the IN
tefests Of u gfent and intelligent people. but as
sentinels whom you have placed upon tho vail
thew may not shrnk from any responsibility how
ever unpleasant, which duty TO themselves as Your
REPRESENTATIVES IInperiously deinin6
Fellow citizens: We suy to you at the thresh
hold of the very brief remarks about to be mnde,
that never have "a people been more Hhgfahhy
w,onysd than have been the people OF Indiana,
by me acts OF portion oi their Representatives
d,ring the present session Of the present Itgsla-
,urs That has been done for which, thanks be
IA Heaven the Union aifprds but few precedenis
TIA, has been done which 10 other and less I'D
eral lands would have lighted up hres whose raw
oges might mol have been restrained by the calm
and deliberate fiat of the law. But these wrongs
have been peaceably acqniesed IN, because there
~ n power resident IN your hands r;ightie: thau
We power To which We Gao ever appeal, as
now with tho full seriousness ;hatI VIII do the
right regardless 10y who or OF when me wrong
NAV have been committed. 1t is in the full con
vic,ion that this power will be exercised, MAT we
have calmly welded - tho insurmouniabe dItiI-
cuIties which have borne Us down while IN DIS
ch,rge of those high functians with which your
pleasure has invested US, and It Is IN the toll con
.,c,,on that that power will be legI'mately eXer-
cised ina, we now proceed TO untold to you TIE
p,anifod reasons which your own dignity and IN
teres, urge, for a heavy visitation upon the heads
of those rhose political outrages have iriumPhed,
f., the moment, at tho expense OF all that is sa.
cred IN morals, and IN tho institutions beneath
which j, Is happiness TO live.
Since We have net here IN legislative session,
the Constitution OF your State has been ruthless
is violated by the expulsion Of a legally elected
and commissioners wing member, and by the sub
sti,utiou in his stead of polltca! opponent
That opponen n, was substituted without evidence
ana w,hou; law, and tha, Wing member was
thus elected by a verdict rendered without proof,
without a trial. and by Judges who refused to
hear his evidence which was at hand imporing
10 be heard! That member was expelled by men
who refused tho demand of the people that their
own power should be re delegated 10 their own
hands And this act OF violence, revolution ahd
disorder Perpe,ra ted because falsely called
democratic ma ority, tor the most Sc hsh ana oAse
of pay,zan purposes possessed the brute power
IN do II and not that the deed was not known TO
DO wrong, perfidiousiv and abhorren,iy wrong.
bv tho very men tho have stained with 1t the
hitherto pure page OF our history.
Since we have met here IN legislative session,
not only has your Constitution been violated IN
one Of its most important provisions, but COM
mon honesty has been laughed al and Knocked, by
the retention by the Same men, IN his place IN
the House of Repre- seniattves, OF deianl'er to
the State, OF a man with YOUR money which he
has embezzed IN his pockets; OF man proven
defaulter by the Journals OF tho very House
which tbus audacious,v prorounces HIM innocen'.
and bv his own written aud published confessional
Since we have met here IN legislative session,
a falsely called democratic member OF the Sen
aie who was solemuly pledged 10 vote the voice
of a wing moinrlty Of his constituents Numbering
sixteen hundred, toulY betrayed the trust reposed
in hun and IA which his constituents conhded;
and when the day of trial came; when the cleo
ton of United States Senator 10 which he was
pledged stand BY the party no betrayed, trans
PRED tha, Senator dIsregarded his pledges and a
bandoned The ranks of those Tor whom he was
delegated 10 act.
And worse than all, since we have convened
here, a pretended Wing Senator from Wig coun-
". who had counsellod with US as a Wing, who
had been trusted by Wing, who Ind re-
-g,stered before Cad hts vows with us as a Wing,
turned recrean, to honor and TO duty. and reach-
srously, under the preence Of instructions which
ne never obeyed. and which have no reason
TO believe that he houorah received, BETRAYED.
US and YOU, and by his single vote. knowingly
and deliberately elected EI~ard A. Hannecan to
che office Of Senator Of the United States
We do not ask YOU fellow citizens TO he ed our
mere words which pa siou often Dictates but con
lure your patience while we present i brief sv-
nopsis Of The unfortunately too stubborn proofs
Upon which each Of these grave accusations rests
OF the facts connected with the expulsion of
Enos Beaii a whig, and the substitution OF Mad
ison Marsh a modern democrat BY the party vote
ot the aiority in The House OF Representatives,,
You are 10 great exiont already apprised Mr..
Beall was elected from the counties of Steuben
and Dskalb and commissioned Vhe vote having