The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-02-13
THE EXPULSION OF BRIGHT.

TnE expulsion Of JESSE d. BRIGHT.
United States Senator from Indiana. was
no: altogether unexpected by the public,
since the decree had gone forth that eve
ry man who did not sympathlze with the
party in power. should be ostracised.
There is no violation of the Constitution,
of law, of right. too great or too palpable
for the disunion- abolitionists in Congress
to perpetra.e.
The only alleged cause for this extraor-
binary proceeding. is that BRrcHr ad.
dressed letter OF introduction TO "JEFrER-
son DAVIS, President G. S. A." The
letter was written at the solicitation Of
personal friend, at :ime when it was
supposed cur difficulties would be settled
peaceably. Furthermore, it contained
nothing reasonable or patriotic was
merely letter Of introduction, such as
Representatives in Congress are almost
daily called upon to write, it did not give
aid and comfort to the enemy and did not
express any sentiment or opinion on the
existing questions which were at issue
between the government and the rebels.
And for doing this. and nothing more,
he is expelled by Republican Senate.
Although the letter Of introduction is
the only cause alleged for his expulsion,
there are few so blind as not TO know that
the real cause was tina, Mr.. BRIGHT did
not, and could not be compelled to, sub
scribe to the abolition emancipation
schemes Of dominant party in Congress
and in the North. and this letter was used
to accomplish undertandedly what they
thought would not be policy to do open
ly. If BRIGHT had declared in public that
he hoped the Mexicans would welcome
our soldiers with bloody hands 10 hos.
pitable graves. he would have received the
approving smiles Of those who expelled
him. If he had said that he was ready
in a certain contingency, to let the Tn.
ion slide he would doubtless have re-
ceived an important foreign appointment,
and been unanimously confirmed by the
Senate. Ii he had said, The Consti.
tuition is a covenant with death, and 2
league with hell he would have received
the hearty endorsement of that same Sem
ate that expelled him. and been left undis.
turbed in the full enjoymen, of any official
position in which his fellow citizens might
place him. If he had sung peans of praise
to Giddings, Garrison, Lincoln, Sumner,
Hale, Seward, and the whole catalogue OIL
abolition worthless, and lauded John Brown
he would to-day have been in high favor
with the Republican party and the
thought of expeling him would neve'
have entered their virtuous minds.
The expulsion of BRIGHT is an outrage
on the people of Indiana. who are general
ly supposed to be competent to attend to
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loyalty Of their representatives is concern.
ed. Until the people had given como off
cial intimalion that they desired their rep
resentatives expelled. it was certainly in
bad taste for the representatives Of foreign
States to take the matter in their own
hands. The same arguments which were
used against BRIGHT. can, with equal pro.
rristy. be used against those who refused
to vote for his expulsion. 1t is not charg.
&c that he committed any overt act Of
treason. and it is Just as proper for other
men to be punished for their sympathes
as it is for Mr.. BRIGHT TOR sympa,hies
which he is only charged with entertain.
ing.
We have not been an admirer Of the
political course of Mr.. BRiGmr for the
past few years, but would not, il in oul
power, vote TO expel him from the Senate
for no other reason than tina. alleged.