Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-08
II By request. we r~epublish the following,
from the Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday:
The Indiana Legislature and the
Hon. Jesse ". Rrigh

We have, ON more san one occasion, expressed
the hope that the Indiana Legislature would, at
It's approaching session. elect Mr.. Bright 10 fill
= the vacancy of his unexpircd term in the Senate
at Washington. Our desire in this does not
spring from anything personal between Mr.
Bright and ourselves; for, Us our readers well
know, we have treated him with "a much rough
ness a. he has W. with his opposition What we
did was not out of personal malice, but what we
considered the best interests of the country and
the Democratic party. We are now moved bv
similar impulses to desire his re election to the
Senate. The more we reflect on the subject
the more we are strengthened in the convic-
ton that his election is due TO the great Dem0
cratic party at the hands of its brethren OF In
. diana. =
= We would not obtrude our advice or our wishes
upon the Democracy of Indiana, on any ordinary
occasion, ia reference to the election of it, own
Senator; but we know the deep interest their
brethren elsewhere feel i'm the return OF Mr.
Bright to the Senate to fill out his own term
They everywhere desire il; they everywhere ex
pect il. They desire his return TO the Senate
to v~indicate the sovereignty of the State OF In
diana, and the manhood, honor and dignity OF
the great Democratic party. which has been as
sailed through the person Of Mr.. Bright.
Democratic friends OF Indiana. what do YOU
suppose the Abolitionists of Ohio and Indiana
would have done. had 4 Democratic majority ex
PEELED the notorious b. II Wade. of Ohio. or the
scarcely less notorious Joe Wright. of Indiana;
they would have done what the Abolitionists OF
Massachusetts, did when Brooks caned Sumner.
They would have raised a howl in behalf of
the MN who represented their organization.
and called for vindication of the party through
him
Fellow Democrats, remember the blow was
not aimel ut Bright. but at YOU. who sent him
to the Senate Not one of YOU but would have
shared the same fate In returning him 10 the
Senate To fill his own vacancy YOU vindicate
yourselves. and that OF the great party you repre-
seut. The election of any other person for his
term carries no moral with il. II would look ms
IL the Democracy hid grown week and timid
aud. therefore. il disposed 10 assert the manhood
that Is such a noble aud prominent trait of its
character.
Mr.. Harris. one of the Republican Senators
from New York. aud who WAS Chairman of the
Committee t0 which was referred the resolution
To- expel NJ. Bright. siid. in m able speech op
posing IL, that he expected To- see him returned to
his seat by the peopleo OF Indiana The expecta
ton was founded on the gross injustice of the
whole proceeding. his knowledge Of It's unadul
tcrated partisan~hip. and the conviction from the
previous practice of the Democracy. that they
would not permit this wrong 10 90 unrelressed
He. therefore. spoke with the confidence he did
of the final result. in case the Senate would per
f'i"t' NV u'-'aht WIuShtt WNptNtt w tut
adoption of the resolution of expulsion.
We sincerely trust no Democrat will permit
his name To be used Tor Senator. for the unexpircd
term. in opposition To Mr.. Bright. until il has
been offered 20 him The present il one OF the
times. and this n proper ease for the sacrifice OF
individual wishes aud personal preferences.
State sovereignty, the chiracter, prestg e and
manhood Of the great Democratic party. the
vindication of = principle outraged IN the person
of Mr.. Bright. all demand that self should be
banshed from the presence OF those hisher aud
holier impulses. which confer upon human IA.
ture the impress OF divinity The Democracy
every where will think far more highly ot the man
who might. by persistence. have been nominated
aud elected. and who declined in favor Of Mr..
Bright. than Of him with hi Senatorial votes
about him They would remember him with fl.
vot and pleasure.
Other considerations than those We have pre-.
scented viii suggest themselves 20 rejecting Dem
ocrats for the election of Mr. Bright. We shall
not continue the subject. We know We DO no
more than express the universal desire OF the De
mocraey outside of indian for Mr. Bright's re
turn "a the Senate. aud nothing but the great in.
terest thus ielt would have induced Us to say a
word on the subject