Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-27


the Democratic party has been compelled to
combat, inch by inch, with hard and solid
arguments, for the privilege of perpetuating,
and retaining the great and overwhelming
good which we now enjoy. Strange and un-
natural discontentl how ike the spirit of
smlting pes'ilence it has been abroad in the
land. The chosen people of Israel, under
the direct care and mercy of Jehovah muir
INJURED to return again TO the flesh pots of
Egypt; and so in our day we have seen Sc
ditious leaders moving their followers to re-
pine against the institutions which Heaven
assisted their fathers to ordain.
Democrats of the good county of Mont
gomery; in after years you will look back
on the rigorous and Jealous campaign of SO
as the brightest and most glorious portion OF
your lives. The BarOnS who met the per-
fidious and tyrannical John at Runnymede
and extorted from him Magma Charta are not
so much entitled to the gratitude of man
kind as the national Democracy of this wide
spread Union. When the field Of Marathon
snail become uncertain and obscure to the
traveller, and Miltiades a name lost to all but
the Antiquarian; when the pass of Their
mopylae shall cease to have a definite locality
and Leonidas grow dim in the mists and
shadows of remote ages when the great
battle fields of the world and their blood
stained heroes rot in oblivion even yet shall
posterity as long as constitutional freedom
remains dear to the heart of man look back
and read with eager and unabated interest
the page of history which records the tolls
and the triumphs of the friends of the Ameri-
can constitution and the American Union.
Your great old party has done much. very
much for your country but her last great ef-
fort has been her noblest and crowning act
of service Like as unto the Tribe of Levi,
so has the ark of the covenant of your coun-
try's glory and honor been confded to the
keeping of the Old Line guard; and well
and faithfully has the trust been executed.
1t has been profaned and defled by falling
into the polluted hands of Black Republican
ism.
We have had great captains, too, in this
Presidential contest, worthy of our party and
of our mighty cause. 1t is not my purpose
TO speak now of the public character of the
Sage of Wheatland or of the young and gall
liant Kentuckian. The world knows all that
by heart; but here in the midst of my most
cherished friends, know will be pardoned
brilliant and gifted young Vice-President
elect. To know him is to love him, and such
is my rare good fortune. | made a short
tour of his gallant State, and discovered no
more than seemed natural, fit and appropri-
ate, when found that his people prize him
with an affection amounting almost to i6ola-
try. He reigns supreme in the hearts of those
who know him best, his high souled fellow
Kentuckians, and the imperial purple itself
coull give him no prouder or loftier position
than this. Fortune has made him her favor
ite, and it requires no prophets eye to behold
spread out before him a future in which he
will permanently engraft his name upon the
history OF his country. Well might Ken
lucky swing from her old political meoiinG
to endorse John G. Breckenridge. He will
ada new lustre even to her already glorious
fame. Young Democrats of Indiana, your
vote of November 4th, 1856, is one to be
proud of when your hair is bleaching with
the frost of age. Men and measures were ftly
and appropriately combined.
But cannot dwell longer, nor is it proper
that / should on matters remote from the pur-
poses of this hour.
You have presented to me splendid and
and flatteringly engraved silver pitcher. Your
eloquent and gifted Senator has accompanied
it with words of kindness and compliment
which will be treasured up by me until the
silver chord of life be loosed. | will not at
tempt to conceal from you the very great
pleasure / experience in receiving this strik-
ing testimony of your continued esteem and
confidence. l shall consider no fortune ad-
verse or unkind so long as it leaves me such
friends as those by whom am now surround
ed. l accept your rich present. have no
sufficient language with which to thank you.
An entire lifetime, devoted in my humble
way to the service and support of our cherish
ed principles is all that l can offer you in
return. This you shall have, be it long or
short, and if ever my energies should grow
faint and weary, will be reminded by your
durable gift of my obligations TO the Democ-
racy, and draw from it new vigor and inspira-
1 ton.
This pitcher viii be faithfully kept by me
while l live and when the grave is growing
green over my head, it will found bequeath-
4 ed to hands that are true and loyal to the
Constitution and the Union. Accept my
gratitude. God bless you and yoursi Good
night.