New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-12-13
yiItanv In High Places

Gov. Whitcomb of Indiana coolly informs the
creditors Of that State through his Message, that
Indiana IS not able to pay the interest on her
Debt-whereupon it is to go unpaid, and the
widows and orphans who have been plundered of
their all by trufting to her lying promises may
beg or starve, as they can! The Governor gives
them no ground to expect that they will ever be
paid at all, unless tsey are willing to take it in
brush fence at five dollars rod, or something
equally available and satisfactory.
The annals of the civilized worId-full as they
are Of every kind of deprevily and crime-fur-
nished few parallels to the coldblooded rascalty
of this declaration. Were Indiana crushed be-
meath an unbearable load of debt, she ought still
to make every effort and pay TO the utmost of
her ability. If sho were unable to pay the rate
of interest agreed on, she ought to pay two three
or four per cent. as she could, and the residue
whenever and as fast as she may be able. But
the pretence that she cannot pay is too palpably
false TO be put forth by any owinder who cherish
cd a lingering respect for public deconcy. Indi-
ana has now some 100000 fee inhabitant., cul-
tivating bounteous soil, capable of afc,ding
employment and plenty to ten times that num-
Der. Her wealth, which is rapidly increasing,
cannot now beless than Sl50,000,0O0. Against
this people. this Iweath, there exists Public
Debt of some Fifteen Millions of Dollars, on
which the annual interest is some 100000
Wretchedly cs her loans were squandcred on
fragments Of Public Works. those Works must
DO worth something, and might be made speedily
productive by an honest thrifty people. The in
yersal yalae of the Property Of the State every
three years would pay her whole debt And yet
her Governor declares that she cannot pay the
interest and intimates that the People are as
base as he is. We still family hope that is not
true; at any rate the whining plea Of beggary is
a lie. The Intoxicating Liquors used by these
People, to their own injury and degradation,
would alone pay the interest. Three days work
additional from every able-bodied citizen would
pay it-and there are few who could not work
three days mere in each year. New-Yor City,
with not half so many people, pays much more
every year for cold water alone. And yet India.
ma, located in the very heart Of the fertile West,
witfnoble rivers all around and through her TO
bear her vas. products cheaply to the scaboard,
pleads bankruptcy and refuses to pay any part
eyep of the interest due her furnishing creditors
She is a libel on Humanity and a burning dis
grace to the American name!
-Itis signal though common proof of tine AL
wise direction ofhuman affairs, that Knavery ap
pears 80 almost uniformly blended with Stupid
ty. There MAJ be show of sbrewdness on The
,urface-a short-sighted sharpness-but nc tho
.ouph. bred knave can long help betraying his
vant of common sense. Thus Gov Whiicomb'
.fter asserting the undeniablo truth that 1T is
ar more difficult TO pay the interest on foreign
han on domestic debit" with some very need
ess applications, turos square round and assaas
he Protective Policy, in the very face and eyes
# this axiom. Assuredly, if it is more difficpis
pay Half Million year TO foreigners as In
crest on d Debt, it must be just as much 20 TO
'ay that Hall Million abroad rather than at home