Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-17
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We have looked through the speech Of Hon.
Joseph A. Wright. of Indiana. delivered at In
dIanapolis on the occasion of his appointment
by the Governor as United States Senator in
place of Mr.. Bright. We find it in "a Republican
paper, and we have observed that it has been
generally reproduced by the Republican papers.
1t is a rather slim affair Mr.. Wright seemed to
have eomprehended that the public would regard
it as singular circumstance that Republican
Governor should appoint him Senator, and this
speech is in the nature of excuses for his position
in the arrangement. His chief excuse is that
political parties are dead. dead, dead" For
merly when men have exchanged the aIfinities of
the Democratic party for affinities which were
more congenial or profitable TO them, they have
alleged that the party had deserted them and not
they the party. IL is original with Mr. Wright
to leave the Democratic party because il is dead.
The excuse Is novel, and his own invention.
We venture the prediction that in little while
he will turn living witness that political parties
not dead. He will turn up full blown
Republican in his own person. That is our pre-
diction.
Mr.. Wright especially stulti6es himself in this:
IL has been his habit in times past to claim that
the platform Of the Democratic party was the
Constitution. The claiia was true The Con.
sttution is the platform of the Democratic party
He now. besides declaring that political parties
are dead" declares that "their platforms are not
worth the paper they are printed upon"
1t Is because the platform of the Democratic
party is the Constitution that the party survives
Its grand mi sion in this war is to preserve the
Constitution. Where would the Constitution
have been to day but for the Democratic party?
Where would the Government and the Admins
tration have been to-day but for the Democratic
party? What but the Democratic party is the
brehkwater which protects the Constitution and
the Government from the surges on one side of
Secessi0nism and on the other of Abotionisml
The Republican party is sbolitionized Look at
It's leading journals. Look at the sort of sup
port it has given TO the President in his con-
servative and constitutional position Look at
the measure which its recognized foremost lead
ers have brought forward IN Congress Look at
the c0nhscation bill of Trumbtll and the fclo de
Sc bill of Sumner. Look at its public meeting in
New York the other night, called by William C.
Bryant, Horace Greeley and hundred other of
its well known partisans where the German Re
publican reyolutionst and disturber, Carl Schurz,
proclaimed. and was sppIauded in proclaiming,
not that political parties was dead, but that the
Union WAS dead, and that another and different
Union must be constructed
Every patriot, in such crisis as this ought to
thank God upon his knees three times day that
the Democratic party il not dead As for our
selves, beyond this. we thank God that Mr..
Wright has gone where ne belongs We eougrat-
ulate him upon the new company ne will keep
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