Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-07-04
subx.r,,ns The state.


The New York Express very clovsrly CON
ments upon toe Massachusetts programme Cor
The subversion Of the rights OF the States, bu'
perversely proposes TO carry i farther than the
people Of the Bay State would like. The En-
press Learns quite too fact. even for quick visited
Massachusetts,. and will make things unpleasant
II Il goes on IN this way. Here il the arSH-
rerfum al Nsts Engiehdum. 10 which our pre-
eocious New York contemporary ndulges:
eli Ns~ EsglAaa oe readily resolved upon
subyer,ing the States and the rights OF the States
beginning In the matter of suffrage-we do
not see shy ne Of New York should say No
The Constitution Of the United stAtes-tbe
Federal Grvern ment the Senate OF the United
States, the Supreme Court of tbe United States.
are very hard and harsh upon the Empire State.
aud very anti Democgatic-and II New England
be bent upon change. so be IL.
"This l. a government now Of 80 States-of
which IL takes some - or OF the lesser or es 20
make a New Yofk-and yet New York has
ONLY two Senator'S In Congress, while these Is
States have 30 Senator In Congress. Now, the
Senate of the United States IL the great power OF
this Government IL monopolizes the making
OF treaties. the ratification Of Executive appoint.
ments, the judicial part OF the impeaching power
indeed, the President himself Is only second
rater, In comparison with the Senate. Two Sena
tors from little, tiny, titmouse Rhode Island,
are as big potentates in the United States Senate.
as the two potentates from the nearly four mil
lions OF New York. Why, We have more people
under our sidewalks than live In Rhode Island.
We have a thousand to one IN our attic heaven
to every single Rhode Islander on the ground.
Thus az subterraneans, and certainly. TO say
nothing OF terreslrials. We eclipse this little. tiny
Rhode Island, thousands and tens OF thousands.
and vet the titmouse ia as tall ia the Senate as
the giant Lilliputian there IS as big as Brob-
dignag.
or scarcely so little Republican, as all this.
Then, there is the Supreme Court OF the
United States, which makes and unmakes acts
of Con- rsss or acts of Presidents, and which can
make or unmake States. This body consists oil
but ten men. and these ten men are no. created
according to population, but. according to lpre-
sumed) merit. And why should not New York
have her proportion of the ten !
Then the President of the United States Ii
elected by the Electoral College. and this collegs
is 80 created, that New England has twelve Flee
toral votes TO New York's iSenatorial) two
What can be more anti Democraticr
"And next, ifthe President of the United States
| is not elected by this Electoral College. the
| States, in the House of Representatives. cleo
him--and in this vote, Rhode Island has just a
| much of the vote as New York.
Then again, the President may be, and some
times is. (as President Lincoln was the frs
! time) elected President by large minority o
the people. What more anti-democraticI
1.-The fact is, there are 0 great many things il
| the Constitution that may be changed. and whel
Massachusetts, men shuttle. why not shuttle will
| her 2
"Then, in Constitutional Convention, We cal
consolidate New England into one State. ant
| give the Western States their proper influence il
the Senate.
| "lf this is to be consolidated Government
New York. the Empire State. has a right to a
| least thirteen Senator'S in Csngress--the proper
| ton of her population-and two Judges of th
| Supreme Court of the United States--a sixth
part, too, of the Foreign Ministers and Consu
| lates, and of the spoils' generally-say. TIVE
Cabinet Ministers all the time, or nearly all thu
| time
"The reyolutionists OF Boston, who are nov
again seeking TO subvert this Government, bu
little comprehend the job they have on hand. i
once we begin. To obtain the negro suffrsg
victory they are now struggling for. at the ex
pense of the States of the South will cost them
f we adopt their principles of government, IN
suppression of their own State"