Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-07-12

SPEECH OF Mr.. WRTGHr-We had the pleasure on
Saturday in common with a large audience of our fell
low citizens, of listening to very able speech, on
State and National policy, by Hon. Joseph A. Wright,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, and we speak
tho united voice of the assembloge when we say that
we have seldom listened to any speech with more
pleasure or profit.
His views on the subject of State policy, show him
to be a thinking and practical man. He has no fne-
spun theories TO tickle the ear, or amuse the fancy;
but his ideas are founded on common sense, and his
policy has been matured by reason and experience.
As a member of our Legislature, at an early day,
when the whig party, holding the relns OF govern
ment, were p~lungiDg the state into almost irretrieva-
bic rum, Mr.. Wright was one Of the few men, who
had the courage or honesty to stand up in the face
of a maddcned public sentiment, and raise his warn
ing voice against their policy. He saw as all men
should have seen, the inevitable ruin and bankruptcy
of tho State, and it will be his aim, if elected, to car
nv out in its letter and spirit, the wise arrangement
of our State difficulties, made under the administra-
ton of Gov. Wh:tcomb.
MI. Wright views on the common school question
the necessity of holding a constitutional convention
of providing for the election OF all officers by the
peonle, from the Judge upon the bench, 10 the Post
Master in his ofice-of curtailing the interminable
amount of local legislation, all meet the decisive ap-
probation Of the people. They prove him to be a
practical man-a man who has not grown grey in the
service of the State, without profit to himself, nor
without a resolution to profit others.
On the subject of National policy Mr.. Wright de-
clared himself an unwavering Democrat. He was
opposed 10 The high Tariff poicy-opposed to the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into any territory now free-in
favor Of suppressing the slave trade in the District Of
Columbia-in favor of National appropriations TO our
great Western Rivers and Harbors, and in favor Of
preserving the poor mans homestead from the grasp
of merciless creditors. He had voted in Congress for
the extension of the Jeffersonian Ordinance over the
Territory of Oregon, long before the idea entered the
head of Mr.. Wilmot, and he was prepared to sustain
the application of that Ordinace over all our present
territories. He had voted with John Quincy Adams
10 rescind the infamous rule against the right of pc
tition, believing that to be one Of the sacred rights of
every freeman.
Mr.. Wright's manner of speaking although not
formed after any classical model, is bold, energetic,
and not ungraceful. His delivery is repid. and some
times impetuous, for the ideas crowd to his tongue
faster than 'the unruly member can give them utter
ance. He spoke of his opponents as a gentleman Of
ability and capacity. ond treated oil parties with en-
tire respect, an example which we hope will not be
lost on his antagonist.
We have heard many expressions of qualification
at the speech, and of the conviction that Joe Wright
was certainly born to be governor of Indiana. So
mote il be .-Goshea Democrat.