The Evansville daily journal., 1858-05-11
From Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nav Sth, 1855.

lou nave received, OF course, the result OF
our municipal election. The contest Is over,
and the excitement is passed, and anti -Le-
comptorism is gloriously triumphant. Con-
sidering all the circumstances, the victory is
such as In surprise the most ardent oppo
nents Of the Administration. 1t provcsthst |
the sentiments Of our citizens are overwhelm-
ingly opposed to Lecomptonism in ALI its
forms ard phases. Here at the capital we
are overrun with an army Of Government
officials, both State and General, who use
all nnscrhpulous means to operate upon
every one who can be Influenced by the hopes
or fears Of gaining or losing an office. Al
most the entire patronage Of the Federal
| Government in the State is conferred in this
city, and previous to the election, commands
were received from Bright and the leaders
at Washington, that the course of the Ad-
ministration must bo sustained, by the ap-
parent sanction Of the popular vote. in every
election that could be carried in the State
Every exertion was made by the supporters
of Lecomptonism to comply with these or
ders. Meetings were held every night for
weeks previous to the election, and on the
day of the election whisky flowed as free as
water; but the labor and money expended
were in vain. The vote was the largest ever
polled in the city, and the majority for the
opposition exceeded that ever obtained by
either party in q municipal election here.
Dcct. Talbot, q sound, upright old Demo
crat-a man near seventy years Of age
honest, but poor, and dependent on his sal
airy for support, has been removed as Re-
ceiver Of the Land Office i'm this city, and
George McOut, an avaricious man, who has
accumulated large estate, by grinding his
axes on every mans stone, is appointed in
his place, as a reward for his noisy and un-
scrupulous support of Jesse d. Bright and
Lecomptonism. Chas. C. Campbell has been
appointed Register in the same institution
in the place Of lukewarm Lccomptonite C.,
removed.
The commission for taking testimony in
the case Of Bright and Fitch has been in
! session this week. Gov. Willard was a wit
ness before them for two days. On tho first
day, he testified that fifty Senators werc reg
ularly qualified and took their seats. On
the second day, he stated that all the Demo
cratic Senators, with Messrs. Weir, Freeland
and Sage, were present within the bar o
tho House of Representatives when the al
4 legged election Of Bright and Fitch tool
5 placc-making twenty-six, or a majority o.
r all the Senators elected. This statement wa,
s news to everybody who heard the Governor
!. make it. About the irrcgularity of the pro-
q ceedirgs in Bright and Fitch's case he hac
nothing to say-absence and ignorance cast
ing veil over that transaction, and blottinl
it entirely out Of existence, so far as his re
s collection went.
e When asked about the practice and Gus
toms regulating joint conventions in tn,
, Legislature Of this State, he exhibited tn
= most remarkable ignorance and greenness
y He knew nothing about such things vt all
}. lie was as innocent of all knowledge in thes
Il matters as babe is of mental philosophy
;. Mr.. VIM. Sheets and Hon. o. ii. Smith wer
called to prove the customs and usages il
!, . joint convsnt,ors of the two Houses of tn
Legislature, from their personal knowlcdg
and experience in them. Their tcstimon
- showed that the proceedings in the joint con
NOhIiOHS VI losI WcI0
Ir irregular and illegal. The commission close
IA its labors not for tho want Of witnesses an
- testimony to prove the election ofBnght an
Fitch to have been fraud and an outrage
but from aconviction that it was useless I
, take q record of 1t, for if the Senate woul
= sustain the bogus Senators in their prcteu
= tions, with the evidence against then
ut already before that body, no accumulation Q
IN proof would save the State from the outrag
&c upon her rights and the Generalization of hs
politics. The wrong that will be committe
:! upon the State Of Indiana by retaining in II
j. Senate two prctenders under fraudulen
&c election, is Of minor consideration to IL
Of country and even to this State, to the lament
!, able consequences of sanction Of such
fraud by the Senate Of the United States,
- depraving the public sentiment and politics
Is morals of the country. If corruption an
- violence find countenance and support in Il
d, Senate of the Union, public virtue and poll
e. ical integrity will become by words. Or
~ politics have reached point OF depravit,
!, that alarms every honest citizen for the safi
- ty of the republic-a moro fatal shock car
ct not be given 20 public morals than the q
w which is about to be porpctrated by tho Sci
ey ate Of the United States in the case of Brig
bs and Fitch.