Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-01-07


mere professions
| The ANTI-WAR DEBATE IN THE STATE SENATE
We very much regret that our reporter in the Sc
nate omitted to sketch the debate which took place in
the Senate on the 3lst ut on the subject of the Mex
lean war, and which sprung up the question of
printing report of q standing committee, presented
by Mr.. Read, concurriDg in the sentiments of the
Governors message on the subject But in order to
exhibit the position taken by some Of the Wing Sem
ators and also for the purpose of correcting an
neous statement of the speaker, in regard to the State
Sentinel, we extract from the State Journal of the
4th inst, the remarks of MIR. Holloway, follows
MIR. Holloway Remarked that no expressions of
toyism and federalism could deter him from express
ing his opinions. 1t true that he was bound to
the Wing party by hooks of STEEL, but when that
party should depart from the path of honor Justice
and duty he would be bound to the party no longer;
and he believed the declarations of President Polk and
| JAMES Whltcomb, that the territory Of the United
States was invaded and blood shed upon American
soil to be untrue in every respect Mr.. II. declared
that he believed the declaration of to have been
unholy, and though he willing to engage in a
Just war; In defence of his countys rights he could
never sanction one that unjust and unholy the
present war. Mr.. H. then spoke of the effects of the
present war upon the prosperity and perpetuity of
this republic, which would, if the conquest of the
territory of Mexico should be completed rend this
Union into fragments. He believed it but carving
out the foul conspiracy of Aaron Burr, by Samuel
Houston andPresident Polk and would end at last
in the dissolution OF the Union. He was opposed
to spending the money of the people in printing a
report that presented false issue before the people.
Mr.. Holloway made some further remarks in answer
to the Senator from Vgo He then spoke of rights
the disputed territory upon the Ro Grande and show
/ ad fha Of Ga uhan ha
to sign a treaty with Texas He then spoke of the
position which the Editors of the State Sentinel in
March, 1884, assumed in regard TO the annexation of
Texas-men who were the head and shoulders of the
Democratic party, and who welded more influence
than any half dozen politicians of that party-and
also, in respect to the proceedings of Democratic
meeting in this city, denouncing the authors of that
measure, and asserting their determination resist
the traitorous design, eren unto TO death-and then
taking the whole back in the short space of few
months Here Mr.. H. read from article in the
Sentinel and declared that whatever Senators might
think of his views upon the subject, he was not the
man to sOlemnly asseverate certain principles and
then back out from them, take them back in the
short space of few months"
! The remarks of Mr.. Holloway, in the second par.
agraph of the above extracts relation to the State
Sentinel and the Resolutions passed by the Democrat
c Club in 1874, are based upon total misapprehen-
sion of the real sentiments which were intended to
be expressed by EACH So far from opposing the an
nexaton of Texas, they emphatically condemned the
policy of Tyler, in his supposed attemp: turn the
question into Presidential hobby for his own bene-
fit, calculated to prevent delay annexation, and
to lose us the whole or part of Oregon also. The
latter result did happen, and we now think, as a
consequence of Tylers folly in relation the Texas
measures
L.. bof.ro -. Al.
scnted but have never thought it worth while to
go into lengthy exposition. We have not time to
do it now but may hereafter, should favorable &C.
casion present itself. We shall now content our
selves by saying that we were not only always, and
without the least hesitation, in favor of the annexa-
ton of Texas; but we are now and always have
been in favor of the ultimate union with our Confed.
eracy of the entire territory of North America as fast
may, any of it, be ready to apply for admission
II GIVE willing to crafty ''the young men
about town. by giving them u reasonable space in
our columns, either to expose humbug or to excoriae
humbuggers- But they should not forget that we re-
quire such communications to be brief and sententious
in phraseology and that they shall approximate to
something like correctness in style. Words ought to
be used only to express ideas, and they should be
pointed and direct. We abomnate long. attenuated
rigmarole Of mere cords.
We admit a reply to Backwoodsman to-day,
more upon the principle of 'aud alteram partem,
than because Of its coming within the rule above al
luded to. Such phrases, for instance as spass into
transient Oblivion and there study refinement of man.
ners, -" malevolence Of his sucharged heart.''-
'Prope his denuncaton,' of visit
alton, -" innately operative imagnations, " law
woven around" &c. &c-are perfectly abomnablc.
Let the writer take piece of good advice from US,
and never hereafter attempt to write while riding on
horseback He would net tdk in the way in which
he has written his communication. IT he had writ
ten as he would have talked lie would have escaped
all these, violations of good taste and good sense.
6-rIn consequence Of the high waters the mails
ceased almost entirely during the past few days. In