The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-18
Jts>e o. BriGht.


FrOns the Hpited States Senate, but little
has been heard of him. His silence is re-
CARRIED by many as evidence that the dis
graced Senator designs quietly submitting
TO his degradation, and TePenting of his
misdoings amid the lonesome shades of
"my farm" Those who have formed such
conclusions know little of Jesse D. Bright.
Possessing immense wealth, which he has
made cat of the people during the many
yeats they bonored him with their conf
dence, he will sacrifice every dollar of it to
triumph over his enemies and regain his
lost political power, though the ruin of his
country is involved in the success of bis
schemes. Bright is a man of few words.
He makes no threats that he does not in
tend to execute to the letter. With the
patience and artful cunning of the spider
be retires to some obscure corner aud there
in the dark he weaves the web in which he
designs entrapping his opponents. Such is
the business in which he is now employed.
That we are justified in this conclusion is
evident from the following paragraph of
bis speech defending himself against the
charges which resulted in his expulsion
from the Senate.
Mr.. Bright said: If the Senate has
been pOled, and, as see il stated in some
of the papers, it is a foregone conclusion
that go must, say to my friends and my
enemies that will lose no time in putting
myself on trial again before q tribunal
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who, l am sure, Will give me all The bene-
fits resulting from an acq uaintsnce of forty
years aud upward with a service which en-
titles them to judge whether | am a loyal
or a disloyal sutject-whether have been
q faithful or unfaithful representative of
their rights in the many and varied duties
which they have intrusted to me to per-
form. / will go forth with my record IN
one hand and the record of those who sent
me me hsEs g. !he Sths and will H5I 70
tion ofrigbt or wrong in this case will
60 with the platform of principles laid
down by that party | have acted with
through life, and in the name of those prin-
ciples, and in the name of the Constitution
that have ever tried to support, in letter
and in spirit, will ask fair and impartial
hearing. This, and this only, is the tribu-
nal with which intend to be content"
Mr.. Bright's manner of appealing to the
people is we'll understood by those con-
versant with his past history. He makes
no direct appeal to their sense of honor and
justice, which could ouly result in his de-
feat He does not go before them with a
plain, unvatnished statement of facts, and
ask them to endorse his innocency by re-
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works on an altogether different plan. He
places himself in communication with bis
faithful trenchmen throughout the State, of
which be has large number, and through
them obtains control of the various county
conventions. The 8th-of- January Conven-
ton was as much Jesse D. Bright's as
though he had Individually selected every
delegate. In his speech, of which we have
furnished an extract, he admits that the
reso' utions of that convention we're but an
echo of his sentiments In most of the So
called Democratic County Conventions
which have already been held iu various
parts of the State, we discover the manipu-
laLious of the hidden hand of the arch con-
nominated as candidates TOR the Leglsla-
ture, and everything will be made to beud
towards accOmpI ishing their election
Every other class of candidates will be saeri-
feed to euable-Jesse to obtain control of the
Legislature. The friends of the govern
ment, for the reputation of the State, will
do well to keep an eye on these move
ments. Senator Brights sympathies are
clearly against the government. His cor
respondence with JEFF. Davis, in which he
recommended his friend Mr.. Lincoln, who
desired to "dispose of a valuable improve
ment 10 fire arms" for the benefit of the
Southern Confederacy, ought to have made
the State of Indiana too hot to hold him or
any of his aiders and abettors.
But suppose Mr.. Bright succeeds in his
designs. Suppose, through the instrument
tality of his wealth, judiciously used, and
the apathy of his opponents, he succeeds in
regaining his seat in the Senate. What will j
be the effect upon the whole country p
How will the fact be regarded abroad We
know of no better way of answering these
questions than by copying the following
from the Richmond Examiner of February
lIlh, which, besides throwing light
as to the value the Confederate States place
on Mr. Bright's services, also furnish US ad-
ditienal evidence that the object of the
Bright faction in this State, and in the
whole of the North west, is to break up the
Government, detach the Northwest from the
East, and make the vassal of the slave oli-