Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-09-18

letters aud mailed 100 newspapers and
documents to his constituents during the
session, he paid SO postage. the same that
any other person would be required to pay.
If the resolution had been adopted and a
similar one had passed in the Senate. the
State would only have paid $4,000 for
stamps for the private use Of her Honorable
lawmakers. Economy!
At the special session, Mr. Packard prac-
ticed the same kind Of State economy that
influenced his action at the regular session.
II appears that the Assistant Secretaries,
Messers. DRAPER. formerly editors of the
South Bend Forum. have preserved verJa-
tim reports of the speeches and other doings
of the mem bers of both Houses of the Leg
islature. and Mr.. Packard having been safe
ly delivered Of grand speech on the State
of the Union. to which we shall hereafter
allude, offered the following resolution
"That the Doorkeepcr contract with the propri-
etors for six hundred copies of Drapier's Brewer
Legislative Reports, embracing the proceedings
and debates of the present session of the Gen
eral Assembly, for the use of the members of the
House Of Representatives, TO be paper covered.
and delivered TO the Secretary of State, and by
him to be sent by mail--six copies to each member
AS soon as possible after the adjournment Of the
session Prorided. said Reports shall not
moro than one third of one cent page per copy.
Special Session, House Journal. p. IS.
A resolution passed the Senate giving to
each member thereof one copy of the same
Reports. A more modest aud less vor a.
cious man than Our member must have Of
fsred the resolution-he wanted SIX. These
reports cost the State several hundreds OF
dollors. and were published at Mr.. Pack
ards favorite eaice, the Sentinel. Econo-
myt
In House Journal, Special Session, p.
3O4. we find the following: - aea
"Mr. Packard moved that the Principal and As
sistantant Doorkeepers be allowed 81 per day.
(which was not agreed to- 81 f'rol.
Why should Doorkoepcrs have 81 more
per day than member of the Legislature?
Economy answers why!
On page 305 of s.me Journal, it will be
seen, q bill fixing the price of labor of Me.
chanics at 80 was by consent amended By
striking out So ani inserting 50. This
amendment was adopted by CONSENT
As amended, Mr.. Packard voted for the
bill. 80 per day for mechanical labor may
have been the proper sum. bnt it contrasts
strangely with the 'gen!leman's motion.
made previously on the same day. to allow
Doorkeepers and Assistants 81 per day.
Mr.. Packard also voted for bill making
the salaries Of District Attorneys $780,
800 more than their present salary. and
this too, after the rebellion broke out
Special Session. House Journal. p. 80.
January 18th, 1861. after several States
had seeded. Mr.. Packard -
"OfFercd a resolution in refrre nee to the inau
gural of Governor Lane--regarding it as incen-
diary in the present crisis. and not representing
the views OF the people of Indiana" rr-
1t was left for our member to make the
awful discovery that the patriot Henry s.
Lane gave utterance to incendiary language
in his message. No other person in the
wide world could have discovered the fact.
and Mr.. Packard should have the exclu-
sive credit himself for such wonderful as
tuteness. Lane, looking further into the
future thar the gentleman charging him
with incendiarism, in his message said.
"the importance of well-organized and
thoroughly drilled militia. in the present
critical condition Of NATIONAL affairs, can
not be over-estimated." There were men
in other parts of the country than Marshall
County. who desired no military organi.
cation in Indiana. Designating Mr..
Packard's cry Of "incendiarism," nearly
one hundrel thousand stalwart Indianians
have shouldered arms and marched against
rebels. Of whom. it will be seen. Mr.. Pack
ard was about the time Of his infam Gus
resolution, SO very tender. vas a.sis s.I
On the LIST day of February, 1861. in the
House Of Representatives. long after the
rebellion was q fixed fact, Mr.. Packard
delivered carefully prepared speech on
the state of the Union, and we call espe-
eial attention TO an extract from that re-
markablc speech, and ask whether its Ian,
guagc does not certainly show that its au-
thor was then . sEcEssIoNsr.--ii ga "a.
ale believed that the great fault the great source
Of the error Of the american people, il they. are
in error, had arisen from the fact: We talk OF the
secession Of South Carolina, but he affirmed that
this Union ras dissoioed long before the STATE Of
South CaroIna declayed her ordinance of secession
Dissolved. How? Notify any civil overt act oil
dissolution; by Il, means. Bat what was this
Union7 1t was great political constitution which
rests the popular good-wi--on the m;ltual feel
ing Of love and respect Of the people Of the United
States. Then if this Union rests on the mutual
good will Of the people Of the United States, be
said, the Union was destroyed when that feeling
was destroyed. Joshua r. Giddngs never uttered
greater Republican truth than when he said there
was no enmity between any two foreign nations
greater than that between the Northern and the
people Of the Southern States. But certainly gen.
temen would not accuse the Democracy Of the
North with entertaining that hatred. No; but il
was fearful fact that for long time past ran
corous hatred had sprung up in the bosom of the