Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-05-08
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY q, 1851.
Election of Charles sumner.


Election of Charles Sumner.
1t will be seen by the following extract from the Tr.
bune that Horace Greedy fully endorses the election of
Sumner:
What will be Mr. Summers course on the questions of
public policy which divide the great parties whether he
will oppose support Protective Tariff and whether
he will be counted among the friends the foes of Riv
er and Harbor improvement, do not know. But we
assured that whatever his action il will be dictated
by earnest and deliberate conviction and that il will
be the action oil statesman looking to universal and
permanent ends, OF partisan looking to the dis
tributon of the spols We may have him for a fellow.
soldier or an opponent some questions which we re-
gard as vital to the interests of the country but how
ever that may be, say frankly, that we would all our
comrades and all our opponents were such as he.
The Boston Transcript, paper which has not been
favorable to his election but whose Editor nevertheless
understands his opinions and views thus speaks of him.
He is forcibe and eloquent speaker an apt scholar
man OF superior Abilities of polished address and ex-
tensve acquaintance with the and events of the
times. and he may become statesman OF mark in the
political arena He will probably and work with the
Whig party all questions but vital and
tous one 1t is true, he will find when he gets Wash
ington."
His opinions on this question: which is the Slavery
question in all its phases will be the same as Senators
Davis of Mass, Upham, Wade, Seward, Chase Foote of
VT, Hale, and probably Fish These opinions may be
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free soil convention They will undoubtedly be subsan-
italy the platform of the future operations of this party
and clearly foreshadowed in the recent letters of
Seward and John Van Buren.
CAARLES SUMNER IN STATE CONVENTION.
We demand first and foremost the instant repeal of
the Fugitive Slave Bill.
ssWe demand that Congress receive into the Union no
new slave State.
And yet one thing further must be done The Slave
Power must be overturned that the Federal Govern
ment may be put openly actively and pepetuay the
side Of Freedom.
And still further, as If to do deed which should make
heaven weep, all earth amazed this Congress,
disregard of all the cherished safeguards of freedom,
has passed most crue unchrisan, deviIish law,
cure the into slavery of those unfortunate bond
men who are found sheltered by fresdes.
" Into the immortal catalogue Of National crimes this
I has now passed, drawing witht, by nexorabe
cesy its authors also, and chiefly him who President
o the United States set his the Bill, and breath
ed into it that final breath without which it would have
no life.
"Other Presidents may be forgotten, but the name
signed to the Fugitive Slave Bill will be forgotten.
There depths of inamy there heights of fame
better far for him he had been born better far for
his memory and for the good Of his children had he
been President.
''Sr will not dishonor this home of the Pilgrims and
of the Revolution by admtting-nay cannot believe
that this Bill will be executed here Individuals among
us, elsewhere, may forget humanity in financial 10y
atty to law; bat the Public Conscience will not allow
who has trodden streets freeman be drag
ged away slave. The Fugitive Slaves of the Uni
ted States are among the heroes of our age"
With this party we have connexion, and notwth-
standing the cry of arrogance and dictaon" shall
epudate every democrat as of the pale of the party
who advocates such doctrines John Van Buren boast
ed nearly two years ago that the old democratic party
was dissolved and of its elements party would
be formed, whose creed would be opposition the ns
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a combination Of the Barnburners and Woolies.
Now is the time for the democratic party to rally un
der their old banner Let the fanatics and their
scattered through the great and union loving West
go if they will into the ranks of this new organization
Let them desert the path of the old democratic party
brilliant with the glorious deeds Of the past. The
South-the true of the north and the West will form
nvncble band against which the mad waves of ia
naticsm will break into a thousand fragments If this is
to be done and the Uniono be saved there must be firm
and independence; there be ampering with
the enemy. Our motto must be THE UNION AND THE
CONSTITUTION, ONE AND NsEPARABLE" We cannot
close this article without copying the following from the
pen of Major Donaldson. 1t like voice from the
tomb of him who reposes in the quiet shades of the Her.
mitage and we trust its warning will be needed;
How thankful should feel the great Sateriehts portion
Of this Unionthe old republican and democratic party
that they have not only opposed in its inception the
fanatical efforts of the early agators of the snbect Of
slavery hut that they have warned time and again. such
men Mr.. Webster that an organization unsonnd IN ITS
basis could be built upon with honor or safety
Freesoism attempt TO convert abolitionism into
of prop for the wing party but what it has done
in Massachusetts is in the election OF Mr. Sum-
ner What il will do hereafter in New York would he
seen by the advancement of Mr. Seward il were not al
most certan-nay, cerain--that before this wretched
actonst can accomplish his objects the sound sense OF
the people will have nterposed and banished him into
utter nsiqncance and his doctrines in the reservoir of
Fourrierism We shall to this subject again, and
show democratic friends that the sad event referred
to furnishes only motives for their union and harmo-
n.y. and that nothing but this union and harmony on the
basis of the old republican doctrines eectualy put
down the dangerous influence of aboltionism and the
| hieher-law doctrines Of Mr. Serard
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