Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-11

ceded any act of legislation. The vote for
Speaker showed the Democrats had majority
of near twenty in the House, Br. Rep. p. IL, and
on President Of the Senate majority of ahous
six in that body. Coming, as these resolutions
evidently did, from eaucus Of the Governor
and his friends, il was intended as an imputaiion
upon the patriotism of such majority. 1t was
in effect saying TO them, you are disloyal, and
We will now let YOU know that We so undersi and.
On account of that disloyalty you are not COM
petent to choose officers, and we the minority,
/ will dictate the class of persons from whom YOU
may choose. And yet the Governor talks about
pdrfyism at that session. Who introduced il !?
But let us follow this little further. In the af
ternoon of the first day Of the session, the Re
publican members absented themselves from the
Senate chamber on the plea of celebrating the
victory of Jackson at New Orleans. Bah A
Republican celebrate q victory gained by Jack
| sonl 1t is ridiculous. On the next day quo
rum, thirty-four Senators, were not present; two
or three Republicans were in their seats, the bal
ance were gone-bolted from their duty without
stopping to legislate at all upon any subject. Br
! Rep. p. Is. Without quorum no business can
be done. On the next day, Saturday, there was
still not full Senate, although quorum was
present. Br. Rep. p. 81. What was the excuse
that these men gave for thus acting? To pre-
vent election of Senators TO the United States
| Senate, by the majority, unless that majority
would agree, in advance, 10 choose men dcOciRg
doctrines 10 suit the minority. In other words,
striking directly at the right of the majority TO
govern. To show that this is not mistaken
view of their action, we will give extracts from
the speech of one of the Republican Senators
who remained in his seat, Mr.. Browne of Ran
dolph. He said:
am not here ambassador or minister pIenpoten-
tisry Of the members of the Republican party who dis
enf frnnf fhetrx nc in he afF iau1.f
very much whether any Senator conscenously abb
sent himself from the legislative body for the purpo.e Of
IN NIX the representatives. Of the people pur-
poses Of legislation the people Themselves; End
you attempt to force them 70 eg-ate contrary to their
convcti You strike a. the foundation Of republican
institutions itself Br. Rep. H.
And again
II IS said that prevent the election OF L. S
Senators. Gentlemen. let say the people Indiana
expected this Legislature TO elect United States SeuatCr
and public feeling nd ate certainly that 1homsS
A. Hendricks would be elected for the long term = .
The Constitution this State makes il the duv of this
Legsature 10 elect United States Senators and my Re
publican friends do propose to shrink from IT,
Demagogues aud politicians only. aix conditions their
1 fealry. believe much ss ! believe any other
thing that by the same power you deprive rebel Of his
With Whieh he shoots down loyal Union soldiers BY
that power must strike down the relstiOn
which exists between him and his slave.
Thomas A Hendricks is loyal man Of that conditional
school thai dont come up TO MY IDEAS of what os ol
man should be, hut You may elect him, ! am
concerEed would avert the calamity if could do 20
by legal and constitutional lie j. nOmna led.
You have the po"er 10 elect him Br Rep l5 Is
In these extracts, as in the tooth of a rattle
snake, we find compressed the poison thatscor-
rupted the blood of Morton and his fellow-plot-
I tiers. Hendricks was the choice of the people
and they expected his election. But the will of
the people must be defeated, in the manner that
was thus acknowledged 10 be unconstitutional.
because he ,cas not an AbolitoHist. His sentiments
were known to the people of the whole State
majority had said, elect him. But these plotters
| in their midnight caucus, had said, he does not
come up to our ideas and we will defeat the will
of thar majority. Whether Morton was looking
to the same place. if he could stave off the elec-
ton, we need not inquire.
! Thank God the public Indignation was made
manifest in such an unmisiakable manner that
these plotters, against this right of the majority
| to govern, were compelled TO sneak back TO the
discharge of their duty, and no pledge was given
by Mr.. Hendricks at their bidding. He was
elected, and but lately has given another evi-
dence of his firmness in standing up against
these ideas of loyalty, entertained by these Abo-
/ litionists, by resisting attempt 10 announce
from the United States Senate that equality is a
I right negroes NAV claim with uhites, as may be
seen by reference to a debate published in the
Congressional Globe, PIP. 553-4-5, of Senate
proceedings, on the 10th of February, 1864.
/ Sumner, that most ultra of all fanatical Aboli-
tIonistS, read letter from negro signed by the
name of "a. Il. Augusta. NJ. b." On. b. means
mule breaker, we suppose, in which he COM
I planned of having been prevented from entering
street car. Ii will be remembered that there
are street railroads in the city of Washington,
/ upon which cars run for the accommodation of
passengers. Summers resolution looked to fur
| ther legislation to prevent such outrages upon
humanity" as he said and he further said, that
an incident like that sir, is worse for our coun-
try at this moment than a defeat in battle; - and
I Il 20 further; / believe that the rejection of
I Senator from a car would NOT bring half the
shame upon this capital that the rejection of this
officer necessarily brings" The officer it ap-
pears, was Major in the army. To the same
effect were the remarks of Grimes Wilkison
/; Wilson, PomerOy, and Clark. Mr. Hendricks
showed that there were ears specially provided
for colored people, and that this was an attempt
( 10 force them into cars with whites that whilst
this noise was being made about this one negro,
| thousands and tens of thousands of white vete-
ran soldiers, returning from the Rapidan, came
under the eve of Senator's into the city, in cattle
and burden cars in the cold ,cedfher and tcSth0ut
I IRE. and vet the voice of these Senators was not
{ heard in their behalf The answer to all this, as
to white soldiers, was that il was necessity that
compelled the course, and to the negro that
" the true policy is TO let men stand equally be-
fore the law" The resolution was adopted BY
the Republican votes.
IL was long since SAID tnat " coming events
cast their shadows before" If so, then certainly
it was these coming events or the secret voice OF
an overruling Providence, or a thorough convie-
ton of principle, that effectually admonished
and fully enabled the Democratic Senators and
Representatives of 1868 to turn deaf ear to
the Establishments, and a firm front TO the
threats. of those in power.
But look for a moment upon the feast to which
we invited. 1t is equality, social land pOliti-
cal, before the law, of the white man aud the
black. If it Is necessary to accomplish this seas
of bloOd-the blood OF lckite soldiers, must flow.
We are told it is better that should be de-
feated in battle than that one impudent negro
should be treated as an inferior to white men, or
as unfit TO associate equal with white Ia
dies. Defeated in battlel What does defeat
in battle necessarily involve. in this war; The
loss of life TO many brave men. Yet in the csti-
nation of this cold-blooded idol wOrshipper This
idol is the ncgro), such loss would be as nothing
when weighed in the balance against the great
injustice of preventing greasy negro from fore
ing himself into the company of white ladies
and gentlemen. 1t is useless forlNestern men to
say we do not sympathise with these ideas, nor
agree with these men. You ,cu haze 10 come TO
that standard be called disloyai. So the PreSi-
dent. western man, said in his inaugural, that
he had "no purpose nor lawful right to interfere
with slavery" So COngress-these same men
being present-under the influence of fear re-
solved that this war was not for the purpose OF
interfering with the rights or established insti-
tuiions Of the States" And yet these men,
aided by outsiders, such as Beecher, Phillips
Garrison and Greeley, wrought the President to
their liking, as the potter leans over his wheel
and fashions the clay; they have kneaded him
as the baker shapes his dough, until he has be.
come a mere tool in their hands, as tho eats paw