Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1852-08-05
sArURDAY MORNING, JULY 81, lsss.
:. To the People Of Indiana---s,atement of


in Thursdays paper intended show the extravaganza
Of the Constitutional Convention and the late Of
the Legislature. This Convention is sore matter to
the Wings. The very mention Of it throws them into
spasms naturally the sight Of water does rabid
animal. l is sf-
The object Of the first article is to prove that the
calling of the Convention Democratic measure;
that the number Of delegates fixed by Democratic
Legislature; that majority Of The Convention were
Democrats; and that the Democratic party respoasi
bic for the whole expenditures Now if il will be any
qualification TO Mr. Defrees the Wing party, we will
admit that the first move in favor Of calling conyen.
tlon to amend the Constitution, was made by Demo
cratic Legislature, and that Democratic Legislature
established the ratio Of delegates at one hundred and
fifty members--he greater the number the nearer the
approach to the people, being the Democratic rule But
whilst the Journal charges that the Democrats are re-
sPonsibe for the paid clerks door-keepers
reporters, and to the president and secretary orgets
that these allowances were authorized by the
joint vote of Wings and Democrats.
When the Democratic party came into power in Indi-
ana in lS43 they found the State on the verge of Bank
rupcy, with debt of twelve Millions the interest on the
debt paid and the credit of the State down at the
lowest ebb They about good earnest to lquidate
that debt and the character of the State
Their is told in the present credit Of Indiana
with her bonds par and in the fact that the interest
IS now promptly paid, and more than half million of
the principal will this year be discharged To prevent
any future Wing Legislature from involving the State
in debt ruinous end destructive, the Democratic
party commenced agitating in favor of a new Constitu
ton, by which the Legislature might be inhibited from
borrowing money This and other references among
which might mention biannua sessions Of the Legs
laure, greater lberaty in permitting foreigners to
exercise the right of suffrage and simpfication of
the practice of the law.
When the farmers old log barn becomes decayed and
leaky he pulls it down and builds that will preserve
his crop, and the additional expense is always made up
by the savings of few years. The old Constitution
had become Ieaky and it necessary, as matter of
economy, to have one. A new one could not be
made without considerable expense. That expense
the Journal shows by facts and figures, the enor
nous sum- of eghiy;fve thousand dollars. Now where
is the Democrat in Indiana that would part with that
Constitution and go back the old system for the sum
of eghtyfve thousand dollars A Constitution which
is honor the State and the noble men who framed
it. The truth is and thero of Disgusting it,
the Wing objection the Convention is what the
work cost, bat the work itself, if they dare avow it.
Immediately after the meeting of the Convention,
Gen. David Kilgore of Delaware, now a Wing Presi-
deatia Elector, moved that the Convention adopt the
old Constitution, and adjourn sine die IL was good
enough for him. He had been member OF the State
Legislature the of 1885, and had voted
tn extrsvagant system Of internal improvements He
had desire have the hands of the Legislature tied
in their future operations. During the session of the
Convention, on the question OF extending the right Of
ba1 uhoIe
that he was opposed to such extension 'whila tiess
rights to be extended TO the unfortunate black san
,rho has ten times intelligence" AVE. here
spot where the shoe pnches Ii is the extension Of the
right of suffrage these Democratic foreigners that
makes the CALLED jade of Whiggery vince That act
has increased the Democratic majority Indiana thou
sands. whisgery may rave and howl. Their doom is
sealed Tbs of their existence has gone down to
rise in Indians The Constitution is adopted,
and is now the supreme law Of the land
\ Legislature, after session Of five months: has
formed and re.mOdeled all the laws suit this
Constitution code Of practice in civil and crmi.
nal cases. has been adopted by which, all the old Eng
sh system OF pleadings and tom-fooleres blocking up
the road justice has been removed and the practice
simplihed and made plain local legislation is prohibit
ed the further influx Of negroes has been prevented,
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u.s. The whole organic and State law has been simpl.
fed re.modeled and changed to suit the Democratic
spirit OF progress, and The whole work of this mighty
change, by which millions will be saved in the future
expenditures Of The State has only the Of
hundred and thirty thousand dollars, according 10 the
extrayagant figures of the Journal. A much less
than was estimated. We challenge the annals of egis-
lation both State and National, for example of e-
gislatiye reforms Of much Importance, costing little
money. All these laws the process Of passage, had
10 be written ont, which required great number Of
clerks The whole expense is not quarter much as
Wing administration has invested in a Japan expedi-
tion; than double much the funeral ex.
penses Of Henry Clay which paid out OF the National
Treasury. 1t comes with i'll grace from Wings, to
talk Of the extravaganee Of Indiana in paying few
thousand dollars clerks, doorkeepers, and wood.
choppers, when their Wing administration has swelled
up the expenditures Of the General Government TO fifty
Ave millions annually and still complain bitterly that
Democrats are not willing spend annually millions on
harbors. rivers, creeks, and nlets. -i-a
Had the new Constitution been in force, the ten mil
lions of the peoples money which squandered in
wastefu extavagan and useless system Of Internal i'm.
proyement would been saved the honest, hard
working, tax paying people of Indiana The four mil
lions utterly lost by the Encouragement of Wing fund
commissioners would have been saved Bat we have
pursued this subject far enough The expense Of the
Convention and the Legislature the ground of
lection. II lies deeper The object Of the whole Whg
party through their central organ make the Con-
stuton and the Legislative enactments, in pursuance
thereof unpopular by raising the wolf cry Of extrava
gance But this stratagem will be unavaing. Men
who preach virtue and pety practice IT, But for