Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05


Union? Is it because Massachusetts, will not
appoint Fugitive Slave Commissioners and
professed slave-catchers to Professorshps in
| her colleges nor allow them to hold other
places of honor in the gift of the StateI Has
she not right to do this?
We cannot build slave pens for you,
and we do not mean, hereafter, 10 promote u
stations of respectability, and honor,the North
ern man, who far forgets that freedom Is
the birth-right Of man, as to engage in the
business of renanding his brother into slave
ry.'
What does this language mean but threat
that the provision of the Constitution of the
United States, which says that fugitives from
labor, escaping from one State to another shall
be given ur, is to be nullified, and no Northern
man, who is in favor of this Constitutional
provision, shall hereafter be promoted TO sta
tons of respectability and honor in the North
em States. If it don't mean this, it would
be difficult to determine what il does mean.
But to return to the late Legislature. The
Cincinnati Gazette says
The members evidently did not go to In-
dianapolis, rs it was supposed and expected
they would, with a singleness Of purpose, to
legislate for the interests Of the people, with
out regard to private interests or corrupt lobby
influences or, if they went with such a pur-
pose, it was very soon changed. The failure
to effect a reformation in this respect is calcu-
lated to discourage the masses Of the people
of Indiana, who have been working with a
view to secure honest and wholesome legisla-
tiOn and to driUe them back into The Jeoten paths
Of old political associations"
1t is confidently expected that hundreds of
Democrats, who voted the Fusion ticket last
October, will come back ere the ides of 1856
arrive, into tie beaten paths Of old political
associations where they will find as true a
set of men as the sun ever shOne upon. This
will be necessary, or our State will be ruined.
The old Wing internal improvement party of
Indiana went out of existence, after having
possession of the Safe government and Leg
islature for several years leaving us a debt of
some sixteen millions of dollars to provide
for. Whtcomb came in as Governor, with
the Democratic party, and with Democratic
Legislature, succeeded in reducing our indebt-
edness more than one-half. He found Indi-
ana in an absolute state of population. Un-
der his administration, our credit was restored
to a proud eminence. The late Fusion Leg
islature was prodigally extravagant in its ex-
penditure of the public money Ii is SAID
that more than eight hundred thousand dollars
were appropriated to different objects, notwith-
standing we had just entered upon moneta-
ry crisis that should have made men careful
of the expenditure of every dollar, knowing
how hard it will be for the people to pay their
taxes the coming year..
Near the commencement of Whitcomb's
administration, when Indiana per cent bonds
were hawked around the streets of New
York at seventeen cents on the dollar, and
when Hannegan on the floor of the House of
Representatives remarked that he would sci
his last coat rather than reputation should
continue, system ofrehenchment was COM
menced and which afterwards prevailed
which many have since said was mean and
contemplate, but which waslt the salvation
of the State. Even the Judges salaries were
reduced-temporsrily Il was then supposed
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