Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-12-13
The Fifth District.

The Fifth District.
A correspondent, writing from Conners
Vile, Fayette county, says:
81 would suggest that it would have bene
fetal influence tO notice and give consolation L
the Democracy of the Burnt District, through
the State organ. Fighting as we have been do
ing for years, without almost any hope ano
against such fearful odds, We are hardly takei
into account 10y the party in the State at large
although We have firmly maintained our Demo
cratic faith and stood rs true as steel To the y a
tional Democratic standard Look AT the reso
lutions from our Conventions. We have even IN
| creased the Democratic vote in these trouhlous
times Only three Democrats followed IN the
wake of o. p. Morton, i'll Fayclte. From the
old 900 To 800 WhiS majority, we now make z
drawn battle here, and at our last October elec
ton elected. by good majority, n Demo,
cratic Commissioned Have you forgot your old
county, II you have not, you will not he boled
with these items. So. Z
Sys asrss with our CORES Pohdent that Che
Democracy of Fayette and the Fifth District,
have ever "firmly maintained their Demo-
cratic faith, and stood as true as steel to the
National Democratic standard" We know
of no better or truer Democrats than those
of the old "Burnt District"-a Spartan band,
who have ever maintained their integrity
against fearful Odds-standing up like
valiant men and nobly battling for good old
Jeffersonian nciples-undismaye by de-
eat-uncontaminated by the dcluge OF IA
naticism which has flooded the State, spread
ing its baleful influences all around and poi
soning the public mind with its inquisitoiral
doSmas and its intolerant isms.
We well remember when Fayette county
was considered the stronghold Of Whiggery
in Eastern Indiana--when three to four hum
dred majority for the Whig ticket was as
certainly calculated upon as that the day of
election would come In those days "Soap
Factory Smith" and DANDY Parker were
in the zenith of their glory, and the "royal
family" in its meridian splendor. BY the
untiring and unfiinching efforts of the noble
Democracy of Fayette and the other coun-
ties in the District, however, "shave tail' has
been forced TO leave the State" Dandy
Sam has had to go into retiracy n tiller
of the soil or an expounder of Chitty and
Blackstone, and royalty has been COM
PEELED to doff its purple and fine linen" and
assume the plebeian garments of the masses.
The large majorities of the Whiggery OF days
of yore have gradually diminished until now
the county is almost certain for the Demo-
cratic ticket at any election. We can assure
our correspondent that we have not forgot
ten our old county; and so far from ''bOring''
us, we can assure him that we enjoy nc great
or qualification than that which arises from
the assurances which we frequently receive
that the Democracy of "Littlc Fayette" and
of the old "Burnt District" are constantly
encroaching upon the enemy-making in
roads upon his territory-captnrlng many oi
his forces-and in every engagement greatly
diminishing his strength. We we'll remem-
Der those brave old warriors, the Petros. the
Smileys, the Goodlsnders, and the Hubbards,
and the younger men of the Democratic bait
tallion-the Reds and the iIerons, the llink-
stons and the Frybargers, how long and no.
bly, they have done battle against an unscrupu-
lous enemy; and we rejoice to know that the
day of victory dawns brightly upon them, and
that the sun of Democracy begins to shine
as brilliantly in that dark corner of Fusion
ism as upon other portions of the State. And
this result is attributable entirely to the un-
swerving devotion of the Democracy to Prin
ciple, that sine qua non which does not exist il
the opposition party.
However others may think of the Demo
cracy Of the "Burnt District" or regard then
as isolated from the balance of the party il
the State, we can say that we esteem then
as gallant band of men as were ever boun'
together by the bonds of patriotism-and a
true to principle and firm to battle for tina
principle as any equal number of Democrat
in the Union. We knoto them to bc mad
of the good old Jefferson and Jackson ma
terial, and when we want an example c
fealy to party and uncompromising opposi
ton to Fusion, Know Nothing Black Reput
licanism, we will point to the unconquerabl
7 host in the "Bunt District" as the cmbod
ment of all that is pure in Democracy an
unwavering in patriotism.