New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-09


doing coufrsses then to be, even upon ts Own TAU.
iudiusrl,p pripciplrs-iu cases ~here the seats oil
Democratic Srpators are concerDed-totshy ioae'
frp,ibe. How.v-r, not 10 fail IN the sa'ice eA'
p~cI.d OF it, The Union. while tacitls con'e'sing
that Mes,rs Bright spd Fitch are imPostors anu
u,urp-rs. Who have entered tue Senste under false
pre,eps.. has the awazing Impudence to in'iss
that the case. having been once sdjddged, AMI .
usjori'y Of the Senate having rec )guized their
chin. II is Cow too late to move the mttter any
further and that tue State Of Indiana must not
only submit 10 go without any representation 10
.br Srpsie. bot mnst besr rs we'll a. 1t can. tle
presence there, for several years 70 come, OF two
interIopn. passing themselves on sid being
passed IF up,n the county, a. Senators from lG-
disna.
To take this ground ia to assume that tie Senate,
in sdmittiur Messrs. Bright AID Fitch TO their
spn,s acted with fall knowledge OF all the c'rcum-
s,apcc. Of the case. aud with d. llberate judgment
thereon: in other words. that the Democratic ma.
jerity Of The Senate deliberately made itself party
to thr q oss SANDER If not the gross fraud OF which,
De The Union tacty confesses, Messrs. Bright and
Fitch and their confederates in the Indiana Legis-
lature haze been guilty. Now, We do not our
eelyes profess to any very bigh estimate of the po-
litica honesty Of the Democratic Senators; but Ne
must decline to subscribe, as matters yet stand,
to such a very harsh judgment upon them. We
must believe till compelled by their own conduct
to admit the dlscreditable conclusions OF The Union
as true that some st least, of their number scted
upon false idea of the facts and thereby fell int,
hasty and untenable decision, which they will
take the FIRST opportunity to reverse lbdeed, this
excuse of false idea vi the facts may DO safely
extended to every Senator who voted to admit the
pIetsrd~rs to their seats; and perhaps, in candor,
It ought even to be extended 10 Nrs,rs. Bright
and Fitch themselves. The mere technical grounds
upon which they We're admitted into the Senate
h-d TO weight With apyb'dy. That was mere
.bam and outside show. 1t is seldom that political
bodies, in explaining aud justifylne thec conduct,
evrw he real grounds upon which they set. Toat
erouud, 10 the case Of Mes.rs. Bright end Fltco,
was the assumption, and it may BE- presumed toe
belief that Indiana " Is in reality an Aimlnistra-
ton State; that the anti. Administration major.
ity IN her Senate was mere tempo
rary accident, and that the next State elec-
ton would show il to be SO. Ga this ground the
majority in the Senate might hhtter themselves
that they doing substantial if not formal jas
tce in admitting Mcssrs. Bright and Fitch "a SEN
atcrs; und, with the usual deluson of selflove,
Mefsrs Bright and Fitch may have really believed
that in taking those sears however defective their
title IN law, they had at all events, valid tile IN
tire choice and good will Of q majority of the
people uf Indiana But the election which Lately took
place. the receut action Of both branches of the
Indiana Legislature in rejecting their pretensions,
show most copclusisely that this assumption was
false one. 1t takes away the only shadow of
Justice aid equity UPON uhlch the decision Of the
Senate rested, aud hence is as directly hostile to
the wi.hes of the people Of lndiana as It was con.
tray to the prior decisions of the Senate and the
rights Of the Indiana Legislature. Such being the
state Of the case. tho duty in""n'A-nt noon the
Senate ia sufficiently manifest. That body can
not refuse to admit the Senators who, having been
legally chosen by the Legislature of Indiana, will
pre.rbt.y present themselves for admissions; nor,
having done that, can the Senate allow tae two
interopers any longer to retain their seats.
If any embarrassment exists as to the precise
Wy Of getting rid OF them, il is fully 10 the
power Of Messrs. Bright and Fitch to remove IL.
Let them at once retire from position which i,
no longer tenable. If self.respect does not
promp, them to this, at least they owe i; to those
Democratic brethren of theirs whom they have
brought into so veU awkward predcauent, by
insisting upon taking seats in the Senate 10 which
they had hot even color Of title