Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-08-22
The Question Settled.

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public event. than experience to-day in announcing
that which, if could, would spread the whole
country in breath, the passage through the Senate Of the
Bin TO settle the TeraR boundary Question. Considering
this the difficult Of all the questions growing of
Mexican acquisitions and its adjustment decisive
of the early settlement of the remaining points of
troversy confess 10 the uncommon degree of Joy with
which il fills Hail Liberty and Union and Domestic
Peace! Hail Liberty and Union and every great interest
Of the country! Hail the return of the Government from
its long alteration back to its just sphere of action and
usefulness!
Our first feeling is certainly of thankfulness
Providence for this important first step the restoration
Of National harmony. Our sentiment is of high
respect and gratitude towards those who have perse
vered with such unnching resolution through this
trying struggle Of the last six months, rnseduced"
"unterried." They have encountered great RESPONSE
bty and they have encountered it cheeruly they have
made great personal sacrices-at least of them
and they have made such sacrifices promptly, and with
entire disregard of personal consequences Distant far
distant be the day. when such patriotic efforts sustained
by such extraordinary ability and energy, will be forgot
ten by the people of the United States.
We do undertake rece the precise of the
healing measure which has now passed, for do not
yet know them; and, in truth, do not to know
them 1t is enough for that the bill carried by
three-fhs of the votes of the Senate, confined
section or party.
framed and matured subdue sectional pre-
ludices and harmonic many conflicting views; and
we heartily congratulate Mr.. Pearce on the success
which has crowned his efforts We feel justified also
congraulating the friends of the Administration that
this happy ad usment has speedily followed the wise
and conciatary recommendation of the President TO
Congress this perplexing and menacing subject.
Ii now only remains that the great popular branch Of
the Legislature should follow up this noble work and
complete it, We confidently trust they will do We
fully believe that in few days shall he able to an
that this and other healing have become
laws. That is the consummation most devoutly to be
wished. Then, indeed would this great and glorious
Republic be
ssWhole as the marble founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air."
The above is from the National Intelligencer, the
avowed organ of the new administration, written in
moments of exulation upon the passage of the Texas
boundary bill. This healing measure passed by the
following vote:
YEAs-Mcssrs. Badger, Bell, Berricn, Bradbury,
Bright Cass Clarke Clemens Cooper Davis of Mass
Dawson. Dickinson, Dodge of Iowa. Douglass, Fech,
Foote, Greene, Houston King, Norris Pearce, Phelps
Rusk, Shields, Smith, Spruance, Sturgeon, Wales, Whit
comb and Winthrop-3O.
| NAYs-Messrs Atchinson, Baldwin, Barnwell, Ben
ton, Butler, Chase, Davis of Miss, Dodge of Wis,
Ewing, Hale Hunter, Mason, Morton, Seward, Soule,
Tnrncy, Underwood, Upham, Walker and Yulee-20.
We do not think that the Inteligencer over-esti-
mates IFS importance. Should it pass the House,
and become law, it will disperSe the cloud of civil
war which is gathering over our southern horizon.
We confess that, from the first, have been
alarmed at the threatening aspect of things in that
quarter. We may be called towards. We know
there those who will say, Let Texas try the
issue, and the United States will whip her easier
are generally the men who have never met Mexicans
or any one else in mortal combat God forbid that
we should ever have civil war, and when we are re-
quired to raise our arm to shed brothers. blood,
we confess ourselves towards.
But the most remarkable portion of the article, is
that part where the editor speaks with " gratitude
totcards thoss tcho hare perseuersd ,cith such
finching resolution through this most trying strug-
gle of ths last sir months, 'uaseduced, 'untcrri-
fed They haze encountered great responsibility,
and thy haze encountered ii chserflily, they haze
made great personal sacrifces-at least some OF
thenl-and they haze made such sacrifices promptly
and tcih entire disregard of personal consequences
Distant far distant BE- the day. t0hen such patriotic
efforts, sustained by such extraordinary ability and
IN rgy ,UH b. forgotten by the people Of the United
Stats"
So speaks the whg organ, of the new administra-
ton But to whom does he refer, when he speaks Of
Senators who have been struggling for this great
measure for the last six months?-and to what
measure? Not this particular bill, for it has only
been before the Senate for few days. He must
refer to the compromise bill, recently defeated
when he alludes those who struggled for that bill
not northern whig Senator's Mr. Cooper from Penn
was its only supporter from the northern whig rank.
after Mr.. Webster retired from the Senate. 1t me-
with no aid, no sympathy from the northern whie
party or the whig press. They were for the Presi
dents plan, or more properly the plan of the Gal
phin cabinet which would have involved the Govern
ment in a civil war with Texas; the South would
have taken Sides and the whole country would hav,
been disgraced in the eyes of the Christian world
The present bill, with slight variation in III,
boundary, which is better for Texas, of thu
features Of the bill recommended by the COMMITTEES
e of thirteen. The amount to be paid is the same
although the blank was not filled.
But we can tell our readers, who were the patriot
that for six long months struggled "unseduced an
unterrif,d" for this measure. From the North, w
find such sspatrots as Cass, Dickinson, Whitcomb
q Bright Douglass, Shields, Dodge of Iowa, Jones
e Felch, Sturgeon, Bradbury, and Norris, all demo
: Gratis. The democratic party have always been i
f favor of this settlement; but they have been or
posed by whiggery; and but for the Providentis
dispensaton, which removed General Taylor, an
: dethroned the Galphin Cabinet, the measure woul
have been defeated
But when President Fillmore repudiates the " Wi
. mot, !" and with the immense patronage of the Go'
) ernment at his back stretches forth his hand an
> touches the bghted and withered whig patriotis
" of the north, they instantly made whole, II
scales fall from their eyes, and they see things
. their true light May the wings of Indiana
lto,,cbad With the same healing wand and NAV n