The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-02-12
Expulsion or senator Bright.

Congressional proceedings, that Hon.
Jesse D. Bright, one of the Senators
from the State of Indiana, has been ex-
PEELED from the Senate on the charge Of
treason. Read the proceedings,and es-
pecially read the remarks of Mr.. Cow
an, one Of the Senators from Pennsyl-
vania, and a graduate Of Athens col
lege in this county. His oath would
not permit him to..vote for Bright's ex>
pulsion. -
The New York Argus, in an able
article, explains this case thus: The Sen
atorial Committee, to whom was refer
red the question of the charges against
Senator Bright, reported that they we're
not sufficient to justify his expulsion;
but portion of the Senate are discon-
tented with the decision, and are NOV
ing to expel, from their uncongenial as
sociation, one of the few remaining
Democratic members.
The only charge against Bright is
that he gave letter of introduction to
Jefferson Davis, as President of the
Confederate States. Senator Bright
disclaims all remembrance of the act:
but admit it to be true; and admit it to
have been in earnest; and concede all
the censurableness of his having cor
respondence with the enemy; what,
then? Mr.. Bright was avowedly an
opponent of secession. He did not
hold, with the Tribune that secession
was right-that the Southern states
had the same right to seperate inde-
pendence as the reyolted colonies in
1776. He never preached disunion,
or gave secret or public aid to the dis
unionists. At the time he is charged
with giving mere formal letter OF IN
PRODUCTION to Jefferson Davis, Mr.. Sec
retary Seward was negotiating with the
Southern Commissioners in regard tt
the evacuation of Fort Sumpter, anc
, had substantially agreed to make tha
surrender.
A.e we to go back beyond the actua
outbreak of hostilities, to see who tam
pered with the seeding States? lie
Mr.. Seward and his fellows of the Cab
iuet. let President Lincoln himself, an
swer then. Let Mr.. Harvey, our Min
lister to Portugal, explain how, and a
whose instance, he sent on the dispatch
es by telegraph announcing the move
ment of the feet to the relief of Sump
ter! The electric spark that carrie'
{ that announcement lighted the batter
!, les that beleaguered the fortress an
) struck down the American flag. VIII
; is responsible for it? Who stood be
9 hind Harvey and prompted him; an
t who now holds him in his undeserve
). office?
It We care nothing for Mr.. Bright. FL
~
y = to judge by his defiant tone, cares notl
It ing for his place--not enough to max
= = any concessions to his adversaries. b.
he is the representative of a soyereie
: and loyal State; and its rights are i
9 question. We do not believe th'
s there is, outside of the Abolitionists,
i. the State of Indiana, traitor. "
are sure that of the disloyal men, who
b evil instruction and reckless agitatit
h have resulted in the gradual weakenir
E. and final rupture of Federal ties, thre
'f fourths are the political opponents
4 Mr.. Bright. The political majority
the Senate, therefore, have no right
d disfranchise Indiana, by the proscri
4 !. ton Of Mr.. Bright; and if they do, t
re State will rise up to protest against
. If Mr.. Bright had for long yearspr
u sented petitions to dissolve the Unio
v like Senator Hale; if he had proclail
s. ed the Union not worth preservin
like Senator Wade; if he were emba
O. RAISING the Administration and thres
o. o. ening the generals in the army, Ii
/. other Senators; if he had organized
: senatorial cabal to lay prostrate Il
re Constitution, lest it should stand in t
= way of an empirical scheme of ema
4 4 cipation; if he had installed a dem
ID gogue reign in Washington, and 6
Y, y structed legislation while the army "
Sc paralyzed, and a financial crisis thre'
IS IS ened to engulf national credit and pr
: lie and private prosperity; then
o. o. would invoke against him the wrath
,ir the people and the Judgment Of He;
= en-. But even then we would not {
ID pei him from the Senate. We wo,
on leave him to his constituents: trusti
rs vs to the patriotic of Indiana to do just
to him and the country.
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The Washington correspondent
/ the Cincinnati Gazette states that I
u. ball af the White House on Wednesd