Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-09-05
The Indiana state Journal.

expose of its principles In reference to the great
National questions now before Congress, in answer
to article from the editor of the New York jour
nal of Commerce, inserted in the last number Of
the State Sentinel. The Journal of Commerce was
Taylor paper in 1913, but disagreed with the CAL
phin Cabinet, in its non-action policy II sustains
Clay, Cass, Webster and others, in their efforts TO
settle the whole slavery question: and advocates,
as does the National Intelligencer and President
Fillmore the passage Of all the bills that have passed
the Senate, viz: territorial governments for Utah
and New Mexico without the Wilmot proviso; the
settlement of the Texas boundary question, by the
payment of ten millions to Texas the admission of
California with her present boundaries and her Con-
stitution interdicting slavery; bill with regard to
fugitive slaves, and the bill for the abolition of the
slave trade in the District of Columbia. If we
derstand the Indiana Journal the editor one
for him, takes the ground that California should be
admitted and the slave trade abolished in the District
OF Columbia; and the other questions should be
lodged kicked out of Congress; and the edi-
tor winds up his unusually long article with the
expression, that call these questions ought to have
been settled six months ago, and settled aboue in
dictated, and would have been, were majority of
thC incihDCiS VI uic pfCocnI OOngTtSS, DuS10eSS,
workngmen instead of third rate political bablers
Now, we wish our readers to bear this position of
the Indiana Journal in mind When the Galphin
Cabinet introduced its non-action policy to Con-
gress, such third-rate bablers as Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster took ground against it, and support
ed the creation of a committee of thirteen in the
Senate, whose object to settle the tOhole SLAVERY
question. The people of the whole Union are ac-
quanted with their course and have never consider
ed them third-rate babling politicians until the
wise, sagacous and talented editor of the Indiana
Journal made the discovery The Omnibus bill was
upset. it is true, but the dissolution of the Gaphn
Cabinet its passengers have all been safely landed
the Speakers table, in the House, in single vehicles
MIR. Fillmore and his cabinet coming TO the rescue
instead of opposing their passage.
The Indiana Journal, speaking of the Journal of
Commerce and its position on these questions, and
of the members of Congress whose course it advo-
Gates, says:
The dough-faces of the North that 90 for appeasing
the Southern disunionists at all hazards first assume
that there is great danger of dissolution of the Union
and then appeal to the patriotism of the people yield
up every thing for its preservation"
The editor then cites Stephens, Toombs and Rhett,
as men who are bullying Clay, Cass, Webster and
others out of their senses. The Journal must have
poor opinion of the people, when it endeavors to
impose upon their credulity in this manner The
Journal knows, or ought to know, that the men in
the Senate, who have voted for lie bills that have
passed that body have disregarded the threats of
disunionists the hand, and the opposition of
fanatics on the other, and have marched steadily on
ward in what they thought to be discharge of their
duty II is the Indiana Journal and kindred prints
that have given aid and comfort the disunionsts
of the South and aboltionists of the North; for they
have been all found acting together to keep alive the
apple of discord either for the unholy purpose OF
bringing about dissolution of the Union, or for DO
Itcal purposes. If for the latter it is risk which
the American people will never encounter for the
mere elevation of any party TO Office
There is still danger that some of the bills may
fail in the House, and the Indiana Journal is deter
mined to cling to the iI-ated non-action policy to
the last. 1t is men, like the editor of the Indiana
Journal, that have kept this question hanging before
Congress for the last nine months to the destruction
prostration of all useful legislation-a combina
ton of disunionsts and aboitionists, whose polit
cal existence depends upon excitement whose heart.
are dead to the voice of patriotism, and whose only
end and aim is mischief or political aggrandize
ment.
We are glad that better day has dawned upon
us; and that the leading commercial, free-trade pa
per of the nation has exclaimed-'sWhat are Tariffs
Banks, or Sub-Treasuries, in comparison with thu
union of these straightforward as an invitation
for all the friends and opposers of these great ques
tons of national interest to unite in the holy cause
saving the country. The editor OF the Indiana Jour
nal seems to stand back in holy horror He unite
with Seward and the disunionists of the South to keel
the question open; and that he has fully unveil
ed himself in opposition TO the present adminstra
ton, the people will know what to depend upon
They will not, hereafter, be misled by his sophistry
unless they prepared to tolerate, what they wer
compelled to do, during the last Presidential cleo
ton, change Of sentiment almost every week.
What the course of the Indiana Journal, 70
example, in regard 10 the Mexican war? We frs
see the editor figuring the Secretary of patriot
ic meeting, at the Court House in indianapolis, with
out distinction of party, where strong war resou
tons were adopted and one among the number TAX
ing the ground, that if nothing else would do, tn
'Star Spangled Banner' should be planted upon tn
: halls Of the Montezumas. We next see him, in tn
darkest period of that war, responding amen to tn
, reasonable speech of Tom Corwin, where he said
If he were Mexican, he would welcome our brav
troops ''with bloody hands to hospitabe graves
Now he is aiding and abetting the reasonable dc
signs of Rhett, Stephens and Toombs, and thei
Northern non-action allies-he is calling Webste
and Clay babling thirdrae politicians; and the me