The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-01-23

be thrown away by selfish ambition Are not the free
men who conquer freemen by violence much tyrants
their felow-czens the despot who subdues his
people by the sword You should regard that who
depriyes legal of his suffrage enemy TO ber-
ty-as tyrant not satisfied that should be free
In addition TO this violent invasion of the right Of su
frage there has been systematic effort made by fraudu
lent and illegal TO control the government OF the
State All good must regret that there should be
found any every of honor dead to every
patriotic feeling that they willing to rob their nee b.
bors of their legal rights by corruption and fraud Can
such have considered what fatal consequences will
flow from this practice if continued Though they may
acquire temporary ascendency, they should remember
that the peace and good order of the community depend
upon keeping the balotbox that all will yield
willing obedience the verdict it renders all their civil
and social rights all their hopes of liberty for themselves
and descendants depend upon maintaining the purity of
the baotbox That this great wrong may not be again
inflicted the State you should provide such
of punishment viii deter the wicked and protect the
good You should punish the illegal voters and he who
procures illegal vote to be cast greater eon than
the who has unlawfuly taken his neighbours property
We all interested in this subject for if satisfied
with our form OF government if are content with the
Of freedom enjoy must maintain the basis
of that government and that freedom And all must
know that liberty and purity of the baotbox one
and inBeparable.
Gentlemen, you have oil been more or less engaged in
the which has recently closed in Indiana and you
cannot but have observed how few of felow-czens
determined their action by any benefit they expected de-
rive any injury they feared TO suffer- from the laws OF
their State Indeed they seldom called upon to
consider those subjects which affected their local in
teres but had their attention rather directed TO the laws
and institutions of those who reside in neghborng States
and Territories and think warranted in expressing
the opinion that the people of State thor
oughly investigated their duty After the most careful
sderation they have decided that for Indiana she will
recognise and the constitution of the United States
the highest law for the of her people, that
constitution interpreted by the tribunal established and
authorized by the instrument itself to decide between the
separate and United States
That as for those who regulate the laws and institutions
of other States will concede them the same sove-
reignty and independence which we claim for ourselves
Nor do stop here If fellowcitizens desire 90
beyond the limits of the States and make their homes
within the Territories purchased by the blood and
Of ALL we say they 60 shorn of of their
reign rights which they possessed citizens of the State
but fully authorized to regulate their domestic affairs in
their way, subject only to the constitution of the
United States At the time the federal Union was formed
all thought now do. They believed that it was
safe to permit the people Of each State to regulate their
local institutions in their way; and that patriotism
and Christian duty demanded that they should protect
and spirit of the constitution which made that Union
But during the last Canvass from the press the rosrum
and the pulpit the proclamation made that the citizens
of OF the States violating the laws of God and
inurng the Of human freedom by holding kind of
property which, when the of the revolution began
had legal existence in every portion of the vast empire
which now recognises supreme law the constitu-
ton of the United States; that it duty to dis
regard the plghed faith of fathers and trample u-
der feet the agreement they had made rather than
the constitutional rights of property mantained and
moreover that it duty to elect President of the
United States with Congress to sustain him. who main
tanned that when American citizen crossed the bounda-
ry of the State and entered the Territory he should be
longer freeman possessed of the inaenabe rights of life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness but reduced to the
condition of colonial vassaage that State should
be added this confederacy unless her citizens made her
laws in accordance with their WILL but in obe-
dence to the yrannca dcttion Of the citizens of the
old.
Indiana rejected these andemocratc unconstitutional
doctrines, exhibiting patriotism and fidelity to liberty
worthy of the best days of the republic She instructed
her representatives in the federal to protect
each citizen in all his rights of property according to the
Of the constitution and that they should admit
States into the Union demanding only that they pre-
sent a republican form of government
If should become possessed of any information during
the present session of the general assembly important to
be c0nSdereu snail avail myself OF the earnest Opporu
nifty to communicate the to their respective bodies
BALrlMoRE HARaoR-THE PHILADELPHIA RALRoAD.-The
Baltimore American of yesterday morning says:
" The steamship Wm Jenkins succeeded in getting up
Fort Mcenry yesterday at noon but at the latest
counts had not reached her wharf She of coal
and had burnt up three hundred empty whskey bar
rels keep up She left Sandy Point Tuesday
morning passenger who walked up the ice from her
reports the ice broken and floating below the Bodkin The
Jenkins supplied with fuel and has probably reached
her wharf before this time Captain Halet reports the
steamship City of Norfolk two of the Cromwel-ne steam
ers and the seamtug Phoenix below the Jenkins all
coming up They will of course avail themselves of the
channel made by the Jenkins pro bono ub and get
without serious difficulty The Boston Steamship Com
pany it is said will not claim any right to the track
they might under the ordinance authorizing the charge
trackage and will be open to the public The Jen
kins is unuured by the ice and will be ready immediate
y her place in the line. The ice is very firm and
strong being from six to eight inches In thickness Sew
era of the from this city down Annapolis
towing vessels into the roads, and thus putting them be-
yond danger from the ice.'
The paper has the following in relation to the state
of the Baltimore and Philadelphia railroad
1.-THE operations for cleaning this road of the obsruc
tons caused by the storm proceeding satisfactorily
The relief train from Philadelphia reached the stalled train
at Chester 1.-THE that left Philadelphia on Sunday
night extricated it, and enabled it proceed on to Will
ngon where the distressed no doubt received
the accommodations and rest they stood in need Of The
relief tran laborers &C. sent from here also succeeded
yesterday in opening the road to Havre-de-Grace Inn
amounts Of had to be removed to accomplish
this and labor of the most arduous description under
gone The whole force of the road will to-day be turned
upon the portion between the Susquehanna and Whining