Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-11-06

Wick if his friends or rather the friends Of honest
policy would do violence TO their principles by acting
contrary to what they believed to be the wish of the
people, which was their duty to honestly endeavor
to fulfil This mpIacable hostility of Peaselee and
his friends to Wick was the more remarkable, but
short year or so before they had professed towards
him the greatest possible degree of friendship They
ten stood in need of his character and popularity to
help themselves into public confidence and ofice he
noc was a candidate for the very Office wanted by
Judge Peaselee They therefore turned upon him, and
we could compare their conduct towards him, to no.
thing better than that Of gang of footpads who,
pressing their victim down with their knees, We're
trying as hard as they could to cut his throat with
rusty knife.
This was the progress OF affairs up to the meeting
of the District Convention That body met, and after
organization, the Delegation Of Marion county col
lectivey as we'll as others, withdrew to decide among
themselves the question of preference among cand-
dates. The Marion county delegation decided III
favor of Wick as first choice, by vote of sersn out
of nine townships-two only being given for Peaselee
with all the aid the Morrison family" could bring
to him. The Peaselee men or Morrison family y
then moved for a second choice, against which the
Wick men argued that if we adhered TO him in Con-
venion for reasonable time, should have proba-
bly, the advantage of change in some other county,
in favor of our first choice and thus be certain of his
nomination. This was fair generalship; but the
PeaseIee men grew so warm upon it, that the Wick
men yielded the point, and many of them voting for
Peaselee through misapprehension, he was declared
the second choice Wick-by fire to four townships
Now comes one of the special beauties of Peaslee-
ISM AS soon as Peaslee declared the second
choice one of Peaslee's friends, brotheriIlaw of
Morrison, moved 10 appoint certain friend Of Peas
lee to cast The rote Of Marion county an Contention,
and 10 tate IL to HIS SOLE DISCRETION TO rote for
Wick as long he thought proper, and after he
thought IL proper to change, then to rote for Pedsee
in other words to confer single person The COM
6ined polrer Of the tchole Democratic Party of Mari
ON County, to be exercised as he alone thought erPe-
dient and proPer!!!
We never believed that the author of that motion
was fully sensible of its gross enormity. He was
blinded to its extravaganza in every respect by his
over-wrought zeal for Peaslee and his personal hos
tlty to Wick. The proposition was of course re-
ected, though not without manifestation of passion
for and against and the person appointed to vote
was instructed to give it for the first choice of the de-
legation until otherwise directed.
Now for this conduct Of Peaslee's friends in that
Delegation, we hold him 10 be responsible. We have
many reasons for so doing besides those to which
have briefly alluded in this very meagre and hasty
sketch.
1t is for assisting to thwart him in such unfair
schemes and nrigues that he is offended at us, and
for nothing else.
Let the People Judge between him and US, as to
these things.