The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-02-15
Letter from Judge McCarty.


We need make no apology in presenting
our readers with the following interesting
letter from Col. McCarty, recently elected
United States Senator from this State. 1t
will be noticed that he claims the authorship
of the brief that has been 50 universally adj
mired by all who read it:
Col. DUMoNT-Dear Sir There is no in
stance in the British Parliament of a refusal
TO hear a party in assertion of his rights,
nor in any country where civil liberty ex-
lists do Courts shut the door in the face of
implorations for justice, except in the United
States Senate. State Sovereignty has be-
come empty words in the mouths of its pre-
sent friends-is''cloven down in it very conc
tuary by its own high priests, and justice,
the great pillar of the whole social fabric,
denied sovereign State.
Messrs. Bright and Fitch have not the
chivalry to court criticism to their title, AL
though repudiated and disowned by the
State, and charged with procuring their
commission in violation of the Constitution,
and under q false and fabricated journal,
that the Senate joined the House in conven-
ton.
mission of its impotency to protect States
rights and insist that this impotency is in
duced by its own act, an estopped self Great
ed, qualification self urged that it has
abdicated the power to preserve its integrity,
that it can aduiterate its organism with
foreign elements, but cannot purge ITSELF
that it has power to wrong State, but not
to redress those wrongs Instead of vindi-
H.
fuge from criticism behind the infallibility
of votes.
You will recolect that one of the argu-
ments to seat Messrs. Bright and Fitch was
that the State did not deny their title, that
this was tacit acknowledgement. That
predicate of the decision is swept away, and
the denial will work a like consistent action.
The late lamented Butler, whose States
Rights doctrines were inspired by the teach
ings of Virginia and Cardinals favorite
sons would not yield his convictions to
estate exigences-nor his consistency to
opposite action III parallel cases. Fearing
that neither justice nor the courtesy of an
oral argument would be allowed rs, | pre-
pared the brief that has been published, and
submitted it to the Judiciary committee, to
whom the memorial of the Legislature has
Deen referred.
What (if any weight the political affini-
ties of Mr. Lane and myself had do not
know. 1t is known at home that | am
| States Rights Democrat of the strictest sect,
but am neither a slavery props gandist or
proviso restrictionist; for non Intervention
in either States or territories of which am
not a member; that dared to differ with
the President in the attempted subiugation
| of the people of Kansas TO the Lecompton
| government; that | dared to differ on his
| tariff policy, and differ with all who en-
courage fillibusterihg. expeditions of lawIess
| adyenturers to prey upon people at home or
| abroad; and deuounee the venal and cor
t rupt of my own or any other party, and the
vassals and serfs of party principle to party
| success. ss III. ~ 3 ..-
| Messrs. Bright and Fitch hedged round
with the divinity of decision won by
| the Judas sale of their master. and so for
titled as, like Peter, not only to deny their
master whose livery they assume to wear,
| but to insult and seorn her mandate, will
find that there is spirit enough in Indianato
| punish the gross insult of the servants to
the master, although entrenched in their
castle of res ddjudicatd.
Very respectfully, L have the honor TO be
Your ohedient servant,
| W NJ. MCCARTY