Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-02-07
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Senator Bright.

Journal, Of late dates Inc following paragraphs, viz:
First
INpIANA SENATORS INSTRUCTED A few days pre-
vous TO the adjournment at the Legislature, ile fol-
lowing joint resolution passed thai tody and will be,
in few days, transmitted to Senators and Rep
reseniaiiyes IN Congress.
Be resolved The General Assembly Of the
STATE Of Indiana, That senators Congress be instIuet
ed and rqBrsied 10 cssl their votes
and then influence 10 Rave hgrafled upon any law
that be passed fo the organization Of the territory
Gently acquired from Mexico provision forever excluding
from such ierntaE slavery and involuntary serviDde 9th
eTwse than in the punishment OF crimes, whereof The party
has been duly convicted. ~
SEC. q Be further resOired That his Exoeency. the
Governor be requested forward each 81 Senators
and Representatives in Congress copies Of this joint IesOu
ton at his earliest conY enence.
Messrs. Whiicomb and Bright call themselves
Democrats and profess believe in the doctrine of
instruction We shall now whether they will obey
resign.
Letters from Washington, received during the ses-
sion of the Legislature, say that these gentlemen
were using oil their influence with their special
friends here to prevent the passage of any resolutions
of instruction the subject Of slavery. In this ef
fort they have failed. and they, although sympalhsing
with the South, must for the extension Of the
ordinance of 1851, or resign. They love Office too
well to choose the latter alternative and therefore,
will vote for it.
This will go hard with them, and especially with
Mir. Bright he s, probably, the only Senator from
free Slate that is a Stakeholder
| His lime is out next winter and whether the Dem
ocrais Wings, have the Legislature il is pretty
generally understood that he will have permission to
remain at home.
Sscondfy-
| 0TWhen MIR. Clemens, Of the U. S. Senate, got
| into pet and denounced the Northern Democracy,
several Of the servile of the dough-aces of the
North attempted to pacfy him by assuring him that
their States had never passed instructions favOraby
TO the Wilmot Proviso. Jesse d. Bright among
that number. He was mistaken in that matter, as
resolutions passed by our Legislature last win
ter, and now recently repeated. Should any terrific
rial bill before the Senate containing that Pro-
viso the Indiana STAKEHOLDER will not dare vote
against it.
| And thirdly
| GEN. LANE AND THE PREsIpENcY.-Next Winter
an election of U. S. Senator will take place to fill
/ The vacancy occasioned by the expiration of Dir.
! Brighis term. The Hon. r. ID. Owen is anxious to
! be his successor, but one Gen. Lane stands much in
his way. The recent meeting (at which Mr.. Owen
figured largely nominated Gen. Lane for the Presi
dency was an ingenious movement TO get him out Of
Mr.. Owens way for the Senate ! Will il succeed
We shull see.
Old Sank. himse II, is nothing, when compared with
the luck of the democratic party of Indiana! Only
think Of their good luck in having the Indiana State
Journal fJr defender and advocate-a keeper of their
good name and fortune. Who can, hereafter. doubt
their signal triumph and ascendaDcy Frankness, il
is true requires TO admit That certain portion Of
this friendship may, strictly speaking be called
born 1sdl nllude The announcement, 10 the dem
ocratic party of Indiana that of her Senator's has
= committed the objectionable crime that General
II Taylor has-owncd slaves True, Senator Bright did
not buy them Of John Hagan, as General Taylor did.
The former, through his wife, Miss Turpn that was.
inherited hem from his faker-in-law. speak OF the
Journals zeal in this behalf, born, because
Senator BIS connexIun with slavery had It's origin
Twelve fifteen years ago, and that loo, imme-
diately across the Ohin river from Jefferson county,
a Indana-in the State where if ! mistake not The
, editor of the Indiana Journal was born reared and
educated and where he could, had he been so dis
posed have learned The understanding that reflects
a virtue instead Of crime upon Senator Brights
, conduct towards his slaves. The origin, soy, Of
u this connexion directly opposite Jefferson
~, Indiana. majority of whose voters, wing she
was. took him in preference to Wllber0rce Lyle,
! Esq, one of the best lawyers and most Trustworthy
= federails.s In the county, for the oce of Probate
n Judge; and some few years later. for member OF
the State Senate, in preference such Will
II Der and Judge Dunn. The connection was knuwn
openly and publicly, in lS43, when majority of the
= people of The State decided that he would grace the
chair of 1t. Governor and in that contest pert OF
!, the State give him more decided preference than
= the northern, where federalism very indusri-
! Gus 10 keep Doctor Mendenhal the notorious abo-
liiionist directly at Mr.. BIS heels, especially in the
Quaker counties, TO nterrogae him upon the subject
Of slavery.
/ A question, and have done il is addressed 10 the
editor, and is relation bis information that Sen
s. ators Whitromb and Bright have tried to proven,
I. themselves from being instructed upon this any
l. other question, by the Legislature of Indiana. Ny
question is this is the information reliable in this
z it in former one. thst Senators W. and
/, B. had otciously sought opportunities OF doing the
It political dirty work Of Edward w. McGaughey
j. q. w. X.