Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-10-16
Look to the Senate.


the United States in its resistance to the
Kansas pr0viso," attached to the army bill
by the House of Representatives, was of the
utmost importance. 1t was one of those acts
whose significance can only be partially esti-
mated at the moment, but which in the fu-
ture stand prominently out amidst the rec
ords of the past, commemorative of the tri-
umph of great principles over the narrow,
factious, and most dangerous purposes ofreck-
less men. The disappointment, the chagrin,
the phrensy of those who were thus foiled in
their attempt to revolutionize the character
of our government, may be gathered from
the tone with which they refer to the integ-
rity of the Senate. At late speech BY Mr.
Burlingame in Boston, he is reported as fol-
lows
"When we shall have elected President.
as we will, who will not be the President of
a party nor of section, but the tribune of the
people, and after we have exterminated a
few more miserable dough-faces from the
North, then, if the slave Senate will not give
way, we will grind t between the upper and
neither mill stone of our power"
The spirit Of these remarks betrays not
merely plentiful lack" of patriotism, but
the most besotted indifference to the perpetu-
alton of the Union as it is. The language is
that of madman, and one would think
could only be uttered to madmen with the
expectation that it would be responded to
with approval. Better, however, that it
should be spoken--far better that the people
at large should well understand the nature of
the hostility which threatens every depart
ment of the government that is not subserv-
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ceed with its fell and pernicious designs hid
den from the public eye, or only partially
matured in its distorted womb
No man is going biindly into the ensuing
election for President, and therefore none
should fail to exercise his bes. Judgment, so
that he may aid in the preservation of our
institutions as they are. If the design to
rupture the Union does not actually suggest
many Of the fanatical utterances which reach
us through the press, it is beyond doubt that
there is design on the part of many to sub.
jugate to their own policy whatsoever they
may find in the institutions Of the country TO
conflict with IL. If the man we have quoted
above could only exert power commensu-
rate with the intolerance Of his spirit. he
would have set his heel, like the vericst des-
pot upon that gallant body Of men which
foiled the revolutionary action OF tho House.
lie holds at naught the prescriptive rights of
each department OF tho government. AS q
member Of Congress, ho would usurp su-
prcmacy over the Senate and the Pre- ident
Of the United States, crush them for their
adherence to the conservative principles Of
the government, scatter destruction around
him, and shrek with sort Of maniac delight
over tho ruin he had made. The human
material of which tyrants arc mado Is by no
means extinct even in this republic.
Unhappily, Mr.. Burlingame is but the
type Of large class actively engaged in TO-
menting the worst passions, and inculcating
the widest theories amongst the people OF
the North and East. There Is no tonc no
purpose OF Cancellation in anything they say
or do. They affect TO have thrown all this
away. In the words Of Geritt Smith, the
time for il has passed. Admit that these
demonstrations are for clcctioneering effect;
that they are "full Of sound and fury but
we cannot admit that they signify nothing
If they mean less, much less, than they ex-
press they mean more than has hitherto
been attempted. And they admonish US in
due season what is required at their hands.
They prove how essential il Is 10 the peace
of the country that such party with all its
display Of strength and confidence, should be
defeated. They show TO us tho importance
of weighing deliberately all our political
ana personal predictions, that we may ex-
ert the best influences to promote the succoss
Of a national man; and they leave us to in
fer the weight Of responsibility which at
taches TO every southern man and every
Southern State in this campaign in coming
10 the rescue of the Union from the hands
Of those who would seize II only 10 destroy.
We must make no mistake in this con-
juncture Of affairs. A blunder at such time
might be fatal; and II not fatal, a blunder in
Maryland, contributing to a result we all dep
recate and should deplore, would leave an
indellble stain upon her escutcheon, and a
season of self-reproach almost too intolerable
TO be borne. Lot us "look TO the Senate
and emulate its firm resistance to the en-.
croaohments Of fanaticism, and that at any
sacrifice Of minor political and personal pre-
judices or prepossessons.