Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-23

that minorities have a right to dictate to majori-
{ Is; and that il their demands are not granted, II Is
their duty TO inaugurate revolution and secession.
The Republicans adopted both, and have thrown
themselves boldly upon the right assumed by
every Rebel against the Government. If their
Republican friends At nome sustain them. it will
go far to prove that secession and treason is not
confined exclusively TO the South.
On the Sd day Of March, certain member Of
the evolutionary minority submitted to some
members of the majority conditions upon which
the minority would return to their allegiance aud
their seats in the House We have nOta copy OF
she ultimatum thus rendered, but the following
points are substantially correct:
/. Unconditional withdrawal OF House Bill
No 22l, known as the militia bill.
2. No change TO be made in the present militia
law.
3. The bill organizing the Board OF the Beney
client Institutions must be laid upon the table.
A. The bill re organizing the Board of Trustees
Of the Indiana University must be laid upon the
table.
5. Liberal appropriations to be made for the
same purposes as at the last session, 10 be erpeRd-
ed by the Governor.
6 To aid in the vigorous prosecution of the
war. but no resolutions or joint resolutions 10 be
passed in opposition TO the present policy Of The Ad
I. Tue Police Commissioners bill TO be laid
upon the table.
8. To pass no law interfering with the man
agement OF the State Arsenal, but that the same
be left under the present management aud
control
8 No apporiionment bills to be passed.
10. No bill, resolution, Joint or otherwise, snail
be passed OF a political character.
These are the political Ten Commandment of
the Republicans in the Legislature, addressed
to the representatives of the majority, who had
been chosen to legislate for the people of the
State. In eight OF them they forbid legislation
altogether, and in the rem lining two they allow
action, but with conditions anReTed This is "A
fair sample of the spirit which has actuated the
minority during the entire session, and il is not
going too Ear to declare that more humiliating
conditions we're never submitted in u deliberative
assembly. They carry ON their face the badge
OF usurpation, personal ambition and unconcealed
hatred of every policy but their own. They are
the conditions OF a tyrant master TO his subjects,
aud not peace offerings from equals 70 equals.
They forbid legislation under the threat that the
minority would continue To revolt, and that legs
latioh would be prevented at all hazards. Never
did a cOnQuerOr impose hlrlef conditions On a
beleaguered aud furnishing city than these revolt
ing memHers imposed upon the patient majority
which awaited their return. That majority sat in
their seats for ten dlys. looking every hout for
the return of those ''Prodigal SONS" who had lett
the House of their betrayed constituents, and
wandered off. like their prototype of old, spend
ing their precious time in riotOus living, aud neg
l%ecting the gre,t work of their mlsters-the PEG
pie. For weary DAYS that faithful majority
hoped that some of the minority would return Ia
their seats. if from no sense of duty, at least fIom
a sense of shame at their violated promises ami
broken VOWS. The appropriation bills awaited
action, and hese, surely, were not party meas
ures. The highest considerations of honor and
duty required their passage. Indiana had obi.
cations To meet, and money was wanted to
meet them. These funds could only be used
in accordance with appropriations made 10y
law, and there was yet no law To authorize
the pIyment of a dollar to IA creditor OF
the State. On Saturday night. the 9Th March,
about . O'Clock, II train reached indianapolis
rom Madison. and on that train were the recus-
ant members of the minority. arriving in time TO
see or hear of the final adjournment of the Gen.
eral Assembly at -, noon, Monday, the sixty
one DAVIS session then expiring by constitutions
limitation. Less than half a dozen of these gen.
tlemen deigned 10 look into the House on Mon
day. and nearly all the boilers scatteie ed for theiT
homes during that day, to receive the judgment
o.: people whom, Judas like, they had kissed
but to betray. The future must vIndicate or con.
denim them.
If there were grounds to suspect the majority
of iiliberal views in regard to voting ample ap
preparations to sustain the State Government
and for the benefit Of the soldier, the sums recon
mended by the Democratic Committee of WaNs
and Means, would place the stamp of ialsehOOd
upon all such assertions and suspicious. The
following are some OF the objects provided Tor ia
the General Appropriation Bill reported to the
House: