Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-04
FRIDAY EVENING. AUGUST %. 1856.
N lew Advancement.

New Arrangement
The firm Of Larrabee d Cotton is this day
day dissolved by mutual consent. -
The business of the State Sentinel office will
be continued by Larrabee, Bingham d Co.; an d
all debts, claims and demands due or to be-
come due TO Larrabee & Cotton are required
TO be settled with and paid to the new firm
lNDIASAPoLIs, August 26th, 1856.
W. C. LARRABEE, q
c. w. COTTON
By the above notice it will be seen that
| the Sentinel establishment has received a
new direction. Arrangements are in pro-
gress to enlarge the Job and Book depart
ment and give the paper moro general in
terest for all classes of readers. 81
The Daily Sentinel will be issued, hereafter,
in the evening. By this change in the hour
capitalization, the publishers will be enabled
to give their city subscribers all news by the
morning mails twelve hours in advance of a
morning edition. They hope this change
will meet with the appreciation of theirsub-
scribers an friends. asi It's has been made for
their benefit.
1t seems almost unnecessary to state that
the political character Of the Sentinel will re-
main unchanged. 1t viii be, as it has been,
firm supporter and exponent Of the princi-
PIES and policy Of the Democratic party
Every effort will be made to give it a char
acter in all respects worthy the position it
occupies, as the State organ of the Dcmoc-
racy.
A new era has been developed in the char
acter and purposes of the two great political
parties chat divide the country, which inn
parts peculiar interest anil paramount i'm
portance to the elections now near at hand
1t is the object and end of the Democratic
party to continue the Union, the Govern
ment, the Constitution as it has been and
as it is, and to confer upon the people, by
equal laws and just legislation, happiness
and prosperity. 1t has been the mission of
the Democratic party, since the formation Of
the Government, to impress upon it its prin-
ciples and its policy, and now it has the
proud evidence that it has had the sympa-
thy of the people in the fact that it has given
to the country, with their approval, its en-
tire foreign and domestic policy. In all our
rational laws not vestige remains as me-
mento of the proud and powerful parties
which have, from time to time, under va
rous names, opposed us. Aud in the present
canvass no issue is made by our opponents
upon any of the great and distinctive meas
ures of our party, save ard except the sin
gle question of Negro Slavery.
Mr.. CLAY. in one of his great efforts, re-
marked that self-government is the natural
government for man." The belief that man
is not only capable of self-governme ent, but
should exercise it. is the corner stone of Dem
ocratic faith. Remove this tenet from our
political edifice, then will this glorious fabric
of Government, reared by the sacrifices and
wisdom of men of a heroic age, be swept
from its foundation. The people of the State
of Indiana have but one opinion upon the
question of negro slavery, and that they vol
UNFAIRLY expressed in its Constitution; and it
was the Democracy of the State which gave
that Constitution its character. Upon the
same principle that we settled that question,
they having the same right to do so as we
had and have, the Democracy of Indiana de-
sire to confer that privilege upon the people
of every incipient State. To deny this to
the people of Territory is but to question
the capacity Of portion of our fellow-citi-
zens, equal in all respects to ourselves, for
self-government, or the ability 10 frame their
own Constitution and laws.
And who can deny the correctness of the
Democracy upon this question? If it is not
just and sound position, then is Republican
ism but dream-a phantom. We are con-
tending for the principle e-one to which the
great heart of the people beats in responsive
sympathy-not whether the administration of
that principle has been right or wrong. 1t is
and has been the principle of our party to
discriminate between individual action. in
justice and character, and just public prnci-
Piles, measures and laws, not allowing the
former to interpret the latter. As TO the cor
rectness Of this position the daily experience
of every person gives ample testimony. And
as it has been upon all the great public ques-
tions which have, from time to time, agita-
ted the country, the settlement Of the sla-
very que tion will be left to the Democracy,
the only party which has ever manifested
Io<x;.lo.;,,o 1r od,,,;r;s.rcfi.,a ob;I;tx Ard co
far as the General Government is concerned,
that question will be settled upon the firm ba-
sis of the principles of popular sovereignty,
against which the wild fury aud rage of IA
naticism may for while be hurled, but be
hurled in vain, and, from the dark and por-
tentious cloud, will arise the rainbow, giving
promise of peace. AS it was with the foul
and hellish spirit of Know Nothingism
which for while was rampant throughout
the land, denying to man not only his just
prerogatives, but his very manhood, on ac-
, count Of the accident Of his birth, which the
Democracy met and hurled back to its hiding
place, so it will be with the settlement o
the question with which colored Republican,
ism is now agtating the public mind for tht
mere purpose of securing place ard power
the result of which and their unhalloweC
schemes, will not only destroy that brother
hood and harmony which has hitherto made
! us an united and invincible nation, but viii
be the commencement of that foul spirit o
Q sectioBaliSm and antagOnism which mus
: sever those ligaments which have thus ia
e so strongly bound the States in common
destiny and common glory. The Democ
4 racy can and will settle it upon the just aa'
natural principle of leaving with the peopl
i who form State government the privileg