Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-01-03
From Washington.
/ correspondence of the State Ssui,nel
WAsuINGToN. DEC. 10Th, lS5'

| exciting times this week. The dull monOt
ony of voting has given way to the more
agreeable, pleasing, and exciting exhibition
Of speech making. The long pcnt up feelings
struggled for utterance, and after being choked
down for while, at last, becoming irreslsti-
BILE, broke forth in perfect avalanche of
words. Mr.. Dunn, of Indiana opened the
ball on Monday morning with n defence OF
his course in refusing to vote for Mr. Banks,
and furious 9nd whitening onslaught ON
Greeley, of the Tribune. This speech is inn
portant in more ways than one, rs showing
the kind of men who compose and lead the
Rlack Republican party, the disreputable
fEnenss shry will esdpioy Ger tlssir rusHsas-
grardizement, and s.the end their own selfish
prom otion-at which they aim. Iwould ask
no better or stronger documents To stamp
'Demagogues,' Political Knaves," and, Can't
ing fIypocrites," upon the brows Of at least
three fourths of the leaders of this Republi-
can party, than the speech of Mr.. Dunn, who
belongs to their party, but whose chivalric
spirit spurns the ignoble and disreputable
means they employ. Listen to Mr. Dunn's
exposition, We men of Indiana who have been
so often told that this Black Republican par
ty was the essence of purity and reform
breathed into life to purify the Government,
aud bring the country back to its ancient
standard of honesty. Listen to this mortify-
! ing expose, and see therein the political scoun-
drelism and canting hypocrisy that were COW
cred up in the honeyed phrases these men
employed last year to deceive and betray
YOU into placing them in power.
! Mr. Dunn commenced by reading from the
| New York Tribune and the Times, couple
Of attacks on him for refusing TO vote for Mr..
Banks. In order to show the Inconsistency
OF these papers he real extracts from both
of them dated in May, 1854, when the Ne
braska bill was pending, in which Mr. Banks
and Others are very severely handled for vot-
| ing for Mr.. Richardson's resolution to close
debate upon that bill and to postpone the
Pacific Railroad subject, so that it might be
brought at once before the House. "'frai-
/ tors" "Betrayers Oi the North,'' "faithless
Representatives." were the terms then appli-
ed to Mr. Banks and others of the anti Ne
braska men of the House who voted for Mr.
! Richardson's resolution. Their votes, said
these editors, secured The passage Of The Ne
brdska bill" "There is no use,' continued
they "of talking any more about Cancellation
with a set of men who have once again be-
haged tie North into the hands of the SlaUeoc-
racy To-day should be made memorable
in their lives by its indelible stain upon their
future political character" &c, &c, in the
same strain. Commenting upon these ex-
/ tracts Mr.. Dunn said that this resolution Of
Mr. Richardson did render certain the pas
sage of the Nebraska BILL and but for the
passage of that resolution, that bill would
/ have been defeated. But, said Mr.. Dunn. it
was alleged that this was a blunder on the
| part of Mr.. Banks. lie hated blunderer
/ In choosing horse he would rather have a
very devil than a blunderer. blunderer
was unsafe. Confidence might cost neck
/ there. wonder if it occurred to Mr.. Dunn
/ flen he .skS denouncsng Alr. Banks for IND
vote for Mr. Richardson's resolution, thus Sc
curing the passage Of the Nebraska BILL that
his own colleague, Dan Mace, gaze a similar
u0te, and that his vote against the resolution
could have defeated it. NV eye involunta-
rily turned to Mace to mark how he would
treat this assault upon himself, for he and
Banks voted alike. But he was dumb, and
opened not his mouth. He sat down pa
tiently and resignedly, while Dunn thunder
ed forth his denunciations upon Banks and
him, aud those of their kidney, who so voted.
Poor Dan Mace, it was not always so with
YOU Bnt now, ruled with rod of iron. the
four meek Representatives from Indiana, who
claimed once TO have been Democrats. bow
their neck to the yoke of Dunn, Colfax,
Scott, * Co., and allow these men to put the
! .f r,,l, tI IL
tisement can rouse them even to growl of
dissatisfaction. "Oyerseer'' Dunn cracks his
: whip over them. and they crouch in perfect
submission at his feet.
i Mr. Dunn declared his willingness to he
bound by the decision of full caucus of the
anti n ebraska men, put as it was he would
not now vote for Mr.. Banks. Describing the
state Of affairs in his own party he said:--
"The great trouble in this whole matter from
the first has been, that Caesar has party and
Anthony party, but Rome has no party."-
| call the attention of the people of Indiana
to his precious admission thoroughly in
proof of what the Democrats have said OF
this piebald party, that it was for their own
aggTandizement and not for their country's
good they were struggling. True for you,
Mr.. Dunn, Banks has party and Campbell
has party, but tho country has no party, in
your speckled conglomeration of isms. Nc
truer words ever fell from the lips of man
Mr.. Dunn belongs to this party--he knows
its aims and its OblectS-he knows the stuff
Of which it is made, and after careful and
: behlnd-the-scene view of its workings, its rot
tenness, and corruptions, he admits Lefore tho
country that his own party is engaged il
pandering to their own selfish ambition, and
that within its ranks, the country-the coun.
try's good and welfare and prosperity-has
no party. What q precious atimissiOnl Lei
{ it go forth on the wings of the lightning, anl
let the people read and reflect upon it.
MIR. Dunn had, it appears, voted once o
twice for Mr.. Banks, and it is well for tn,
people to understand his reasons for refusin,
G any longer to support him. lie had agreed
4 it seems, to follow his colleagues and vot
: for Banks. And with this understanding h
was surprised, he said, to notice Mr.. Barbou
voting for another gentleman. We will lie
, him tell the balance Of the story in his owl
words:
Before my name was called, however, had
e time To Mr.. Brenion. and ask the of thi
n division. He authorizes me to say that he in
n formed me that il was the wish of Mr. Banks
. friends that we should not all unite upon hiI
(Banks) at the start; that we should wait unit
several other gentleman had been tried. an
when discovered that they "would not go" an
:, be dropped, then We should all u4itc upon NJ
I Banks. daughter
Sir, felt, as then said. that this was n,
u Just the proper sort of conduct among gentleme
q protesting To le friends. standing upon the san
platform, working in common cause. with
common purpose 10 accomplish-it was not lu
the course which they should pursue--that
was neither fair manly.
n True for you again, Mr.. Dunn. Itwas nj
"a the course that honorable men should purSu
>, but showed the political trickster and Dem.
gogue in every lineament, fit to be an Cffsprr
= of the tricky Mr.. Colfax. Yet this disrepl
table, unfair, dishonorable course TO chol
down the prospects of other men-friend
IL standing upon common platform, al
+ working i'll a common cause''-was the col
e eocted and deliberate plan of the leaders
your party-men high in authority in yo
Israel, whose councils sway and direct Il
'e movements of your pure and honest party
"lIonor among thieves" finds no respon
from them. Every man for himself, and d