Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-01-29
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for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum and two mills for the
education of the blind.
No change has been made in the execution law,
with the exception of explanatory law, in relation
to executions sent from one county to another.
The VOTE in relation to the settlement of State
debt was not party vote ; but Mr.. Osborn of La
porte, the wing leader in the House, reports
will show, not satisfied, until he drew from men,
bers on the floor, direct answer whether or not
Governor Whtcomb in favor of the general fea-
lures of the bill He had hopes that the friends of
the Governor would blink his uncalled for nterroga-
tories. In this, however, he was mistaken. Govern
or Whitcomb, since he came into Office, has had
one prominent object in view and that has been the
tettlement of State Indebtedness Last winter,
al his suggestion, bill was reported to the House
appointing the State Agent to negotiate with our
bondholders the subject of arrangement of our
public debt; but the wings in the House, to defeat
the measure struck the State Agent and inserted
the Governor-the bill then passed by party
vote and sent to the Senate, who reinsated the State
Agent as an amendment, which sent back to the
House for concurrence. The House again, by par
ty VOTE refused to concur, and the bill fell between
the two Houses. Our bondhoders, seeing the Dem
Ocrats of Indiana were favorably disposed towards
the State for the last several months, and with whom
arrangement has been made at the present session,
subject to the ratification of our bondholders. The
people of Indiana believe that this proposition is suf
fciently liberal to our bondhodcrs and if half the
holders of our bonds provided for in the bill come
into the arrangement the rest might as well at once
submit to the terms no other or better arrange
ment will hereafter be made in favor of our creditors
Indeed there large party in the Legislature,
many of whom reluctantly submitted to this compro-
mise, who were at once prepared to repudiate the
four millions of bonds, for which have received
no consideration, and which were virtually cheat
ed out of through the incompetency and msmanage
ment of our Wing Fund Commissioners. This great
loss to Indiana, which would have finished three
four of most important public works, have al
ways charged directly upon the Wing party, and we
defy that party itself from the charge
indeed they have attempted to do 1t. All
they have attempted to say in extenuation is,
to the language of Gen. Stapp, that the bottom of
creation had fallen and Indiana had lose amongst
the rest.
We are proud to compare Governor Whitcomb's
administration with that of any of his predecessors
1t gloomy period, in the history of Indiana,
when he came into power. To the language of
another we were tailed. We called upon Hercules
He responded to the call. We are again moving.
Governor Witcomb took the responsibility to
mend arrangement with creditors, leaving the
details Of that arrangement, where it properly be-
longed, with the representatives of the people, The
bill that introduced underwent the fiery ordeal of
investigation. Several amendments, of an important
character. wrung, like pulling teeth. from the
Agent of the bondholders. The measure is now up
on us-t will be the settled policy of the country,
for the holders of bondsare too well informed not
to know, that this is the very best proposition for
them that Indiana will ever submit to- and they will
readily acceptit.
i An observation was made by Mr.. Coffin Of Parke,
on the last day of the discussion of the bill for the
settlement of the State Debt, which will show dis,
tinctly, the attitude in which Governor Whitcomt
now stands. in reference to the restoration of the
credit of Indiana Mr.. Coffin was aggravated beyond
all endurance, at the obsnacy of certain Wing Sena
TORS and when urged to the task stated without the
least equivocation, that Mr.. Ortiz and other Wing
Senators had told him. as an argument for their
that the passage of the bill would the election
of Whitcomb by at least ten thousand majority The
correspondent Of the Wabash Express was right wher
he said. that among The difficulties that har
sprung up in the ray Of passing the bin to prOride 70,
paying the State debt. DC, the most prominent IS tn
apprehension that ii oia aid in the reelection of Cor
, Whitcomb, by giring him the CREDIT of arranging
and prOriding for paying eff the State debt p!
, The friends of the Wabash and Erie canal viii
prove recreant to the best principles of human ma
ture, if they now shrink from giving Governor Whit
comb united support in the coming election Blu
for his all-powerful arguments, while COMMISSIONS
of the General Land Office, the second grant of lands
for the continuation of the canal from Lafayette tC
e Terre Haute never would have been obtained, which
was the entering wedge towards procuring the valua
BILE grant of last winter of eight hundred thousand
\ acres. When this canal shall have been completed
b when uninterrupted water communication il
opened up between New Orleans and New York
the two great commercial emporiums of the Union
+, Justice will be accorded to James Whitcomb. w
. cannot subscribe to the doctrine that Republics arr
. always ungrateful, and we believe the gratitude o
Indiana will not be msapplied at the August cleo
q tion So far as Mr.. Marshall is concerned, we cal
point to great act of his recommend him to tn
confidence of the people, He obtained much celeb
rity for speech, in reply to Mr. flanagan, dress
ed up in the rounded periods and tnsel of Barnett
4 who reported it but what the subject 1t wa
in defence of an issue of small bills by the State Ban
Is of Indiana, and apology for placing the sacre
funds of the State, devoted to the of education
. under the management of the Bank! While one can
didate has been devoting his great intellect to tn
o of Democracy, In Its purity, by warning hi
countrymen against the dangers of associated wealth
the other has gained ephemeral popularity mainl
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