The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-10
For the Union.


INDIANA.
The question is often propounded in political circles and
am asked my opinion in relation to the question
every day Of my life aWl the republicans of the senate
the Indiana State Legislature agree to go into an eecuon
Of United States senators7 My uniformly is
don't know" Nor do believe that any else can give
any more satisfactory to the question And why
do think Because the party that has control OF the
question governed by any fixed principles upon
which TO and draw logical conclusions ineir
future all uncertain The principles which they adVo
Gated and held almost as sacred their hopes of
but few months ago are totally discarded and, as
filthy rags tramped under foot Their aims ana pu
poses of yesterday wholly repudated to-day ana To-
morrow will witness set Of principles upon
which alone in their opinion the moral social intellectual
and political good Of society rest They are governed
in their political action by single motive and tnat
hatred and hostility to the democratic psry and into wna
ever direction that leads aordng the greatest hopes OF
success without moments reflection as TO the honesty
integrity or consistency involved in the position assumed
by them they enter and pursue with all the ardor Oh en-
venomed spite and malignant hatred which the eon ever
feels toward the tribunals of law which checked him In his
wild career When met and thwarted in scheme Of
hatred they only pause long enough to discover some other
tack into which they PITCH like 80 many maddened nor
nets with all their might and soul They have never yet
or if discovered they have yet pracsed
upon that old MAXIM which is as true in politics as in MORALS
that honesty is the best policy and that political
party like an individual before it hope to be trusted
the public must establish character for truth honesty Az
strict integrity But this the republican party have not
DONE and no reasonable opinion be formed in rela
ton to their future policy based upon their past history
The lamp of experience in their case cannot lume the
future no further than reveal the fact that depend
ence be safely reposed in the future upon their avowed
professions and declarations in the past
Two wears ago the present relative position Of parties in
the legislature was reversed The republicans then had
majority upon joint allot but the democrats had con-
trolling majority in the senate That majority acting
der high sense Of patriotic duty, deprecadug the fell
spirit of sectional anaticism whose strength could only
have been augmented in the Senate Of the United States
for none but fanatic could have been chosen by that k
gsature II any had been chosen at altook the respon
sibty pcsponng the election until the present session
In that they acted in strict conformity with the universal
wish the whole democratic party or the State Not
dissenting voice. far remember was heard but
the shout Of hearty cordial appreciation raised from
one end of the democratic lines the other The paudt
Of uel DONE good and faithful servants" greeted
who had thus maintained their position
upon their return home to their constituents.
But how was this act of the majority Of the senate met
by the black republicans of the State Did they the
issue thus presented before the people, the abers Of all
such questions like that of any other question: by discus
sion and argument2 No. Denunciaton bitter, vindic-
tive and personal denunciaion, the only resort In
their immaculate Judgments was too plain for argu-
ment-it did not admit Of any doubtit was consu-
tonal duty and all who had taken the oath to sup
port the constitution and refused to go into the cleo
ton were perjured villains and scoundres;D they
had violated and trampled upon the constitution of
the State which they had solemny and sacredly
to protect and support and their conduct was base
and infamous-the Contamination of all rascalities
The democratic party did not the action Of their
ators in that light They looked upon representation of
the State in Senate of the United States in the
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State and Of the federal government than obligation
nnder which the State have choice discretion
and under that view ofhe question: looking upon il
Nv a right It became matter Of choice to the democrats
c ambers whether the State should be msepresented by
republican senator or not be represented at all
They chose the latter alternative and sent the question back
TO the people
State was riumphany carried by the democracy at the
October election against the united vote of
and black republicans large majority democrats
returned to the lower house. but In consequence of the
number of backrepubcan senators elected in the whr
wind of anatcm in 1854 holding over and Of their hav
ing carried two senatorial districts by the most ia
grant fraud they have small majority in the senate and
can control the election of United States
ators Now the thing reversed 1t was two years ago.
your bull that gored my OK and hoT are the republican
LAWYERS disposed now under that state of cs Are they
willing to take home to themselves the judgment which
they pronounced then against their -hsn the
farmers bull had gored their ox7 They have laid down
the law and pronounced terrible judgment against all
who under their construction, have violated its require.
We do not believe in their construction therefore
we do not feel the weight of their terrible denuncations
But let us turn their weapons of attack upon the democrat
c senators against themselves and how they will stand
before the fire..
The democrats believing that tine triumph of the fusion
iss in 1854 was but temporary and ephemera gained by
fsehood and deception felt themselves fully justified IN
the course they adopted in stavng off the election until
the people should have time to reflect and reconsider their
basty and advised decision they thought in sending
to the house large majority opposed to the policy Of the
democracy and the result has proven the wisdom OF their
determination in the complete rsesabshment Of the as
tendency and domination of the democracy the fixed
policy of the State The issue of postponement went before
the people The conduct of the democratic senator's enter
ed largely into the canvass condemned and denounced in
the most bitter and oppobrious language by the republic
cans, justified and defended by the democracy.
have already alluded to the manner in which the action
Of the democratic members Of the senate
They were denounced in unmeasured terms with having
wuly and deliberately rampled under foot the consitu
ton Of the State which they had sworn to support and
obey; they were charged with recreancy and foul perjury,
and were branded perjured villains and scoundresn
Now these terrible charges and IL true should
sign those guilty II not to the penitensry to the lowest
hell Of infamy and degradation. They made only
here aud there and by but few irresponsible individuals
but they were made and reiterated by the whole republican
i ton in the press and from the stump.
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