Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-10-25
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B. T. Slocumb.
From the last National Volunteer, which is
nov under the exclusive editorial control OF
our old friend and efficient veteran in the
cause Of Democracy, Mr.. DAVID TEACHER,
we take the following resolution, compliment
tsry to Mr.. BENZ. F. SLocUMB, offered, it
seems, by Hon. s. DoSELsoy, and passed
unanimously at Democratic meeting held
in Shelbyville on the evening previous to the
election
Rssolosd, That We cordially tender our thanks
to B. F. Slocumb, Esq, for the brilliant manner
in which he has discharged his duty as junior
Editor of the National Volunteer, and commend
him to the fraternal regard of the chivalric De-
mocracy of Mississippi, whittier he gOes 20 con-
tinue his efforts in favor Of the great and ma
tional principle of our party.
Mr.. SLocUMB will carry with him, wherev-
er he goes, the best wishes of host of
friends,-friends won to him by his honora-
bic bearing as man, and his energy and eff
cheney as politician and an editor.
From Mr.. SIS valedictory, which we had
intended noticing before this, we will now
I give place to couple of extracts. he says:
/ During nv brief intercourse with the readers
Of the Volunteer, it has been my aim to foster
! Truth: forward justly just cause, aud ard in
the upbuildiug and perpetuity Of that which
believed best and wisest in the government of
my country Ny Democracy has not been
mere ideality, but infexible, stern, yet pro-
portionate and beautiful reality. Ii has been
with me the Jupiter Tonans of Republicansm
and at its shrine | have offered pure heart
worship. 1t is still the Democracy which "was
Graded in the storms of the last few years of
the eighteenth century, and rocked by the hur
ricane that swept the county at the election of
Thomas jefferson" II is the same Democracy
which for the last fifty years has swayed the
destinies of this nation, extended our bounda-
ries from tcean to ocean, borne our couniry's
flag in triumph over sea and land, and made us
a great and prosperous country" have wor-
shipped it as the party under whose protecting
egis civilization has performed its first great
cycle-undcr whose control on our continent the
Occident and Orient have met, and VIC have
both the rising and tho setting sun. In the Ian.
guage Of a great orator, whilst to Europe we
gather up the Graded glories of the evening
sky, we break upon the East with the jocund
glory of the rising morn
Rast and West are gone,
East and West one.
have ever regarded il az the party Of the
PEorLE-the party of enlarged patriotism and
enlightened NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. no govern
ment whose tendency is TO swallow up man.
/ kind-no dismal charnel house of.human rights
and human hopes-but seeking to elevate, TO
encourage aud 10 expand the conceptions of the
multitudes on our shores, and thus TO build up
aud perpetuate True RIruBLIo upon the broad
4 principles that government is made TO pro Get
! and foster man; Republic in which humanity
is recognized "a tho chief object OF care. by
which the hearts Of men, Gin the gladness OF
freedom and the outbursts Of noble feelings and
impulses, may mock the laugh OF many waters
when the hills clap their hands for joy" q gov
eminent which protects but modulates itself
like a garment TO the swelling aud expanding
form of human growth, and in which every
one feels like giving and receiving protection
and support
SO do still regard it,-still worship il In
the advocacy Of ls principles, have been Goa
scientious in The discharge Of q high and noble
duly 10 my country, which stands to-day. in
the naked elements of physical power, the first
5 nation upon the earth, with an untold future
| aud which If wisdom prevails. shall forever
stand upon the desert Of the world, ''like some
, vast and eternal rock" the anchor Of human
, hope, under whose shsdow al mankind shall
fiud protection aud rePose.
Her present glory and power is q guarantees
that the same government under which she ha:
thus grown, will carry her IN her sublimt
{ mission of freedom aud religion, and in her des
tiny shall be wrapped upand realized the high
est hopes of man. l could not, then, be Other
] than a Democract-l ask no higher distinction
, In the piids aud glory OF Old Rome, 10 be Ro
man citissn WAS better than To be King. In The
pride and glory of Young America, where alone
Is seen aud felt the bright and cheering ex
, ample of the success of Democratic principle
in political government, 10 be a DEMOCRAT is 9
: prouder glory than to be an Emperor. May the
\ time neyor come when that glory shall grow
less. or when the mighty power of our country
welded by the wisdom and virtune Of her poo
pie, shall expend itself in mad ambition and in
ternal dissentions, or in its huge strength rend
itself asunder, as internal fires brake up the sol
3 id earth, sand make the sea dry land, and tn,
dry land sea-" Let it be the labor and the duty
Of every patriot and phylanthropist to cherish
. our inestlmable heritage and cement more close
!, " each pillar in the glorious fabric. Let Vi
school our hearts and minds TO the highes
standard Of patriotism, and especially endeav
: or 10 entertain more good will and charity fo
!, our fellow men. We are all Americans-al
patriots-let US live in peace and happiness
aud each strive 10 add TO the common glory o.
our land, and perpetuate ts fair fame to the emf
r of time. May no desolating hand ever dar'
4, despol it Of its power and beauty
DExonGrrc REJoIcNos.-The brilliant dem
ocratic victory In Georgia Is illicitlng the mos
enthusiastic manifestations in all parts of that
: State. The Augusta COnstitutionalist of Sat
4 urday morning last has the following announce
T ment:
"The citizens Of Richmond county opposed
q to know nothingism. and all parsons who re
ioice in the brilliant and impGrsnt victory re
0 Gently achieved in Georgia in behalf OF the con
e stitution and the great and true American prin
!. ciples of civil and religious liberty and
. equal rights of oil citizens, whether native
= adopted, Of this great republic. will meet
N Wednesday evening next. at Z o'clock. at t }
City Hall, 10 mingle their congratulations
$ the auspecious result for our State and country
Of the late elections.
4 "Lct there be general rally.
. "Let the kettle to the trumpet speak,
The trumpet to the cannoneer without
The cannoDs to the heavens, the heav
: ems TO the EARTH