The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-12-21

county of WAYNE / should like, if
had time. to institute comparison be
tween Wayne and the county of Sulli
van, which the Senator from Nigo ha
the doubtful honor to represent on thi
floor. 1t would be like a comparison o
Massachusetts, and South Carolina.
Mr. HANNA, interrupting, said -
:. Does the Senator regard Massachusetts
as his model State ?"
Sir rs between Massachusetts, ant
South Carolina, the former is to the lat
ter as heaven is to hell When afte
years Of absence. have returned to tn.
great loyal Write Water Valley, hav,
thonght that it was of her the poet sung
when he said
'Ti> Land OF every land the pride
Beloved bv heaven Ger all the world beside
Where brighter suns disperse serener light,
And miltier moons par disc the sight,
land of beauty, vlrtue, valnr. truth,
Time tutored age and love exalted youth.
The first charge made by the Senator
is that Wavne county is distinguished ed
for her disobedience to law, and fol
mobs. He instances the oft ft-repeated
case Of insult offered to Henry Clay BY
Mr. Mcndenhali and here the distin.
guished Senator pays a glowing eulogy
upon the name of that great statesman
and couples with it that of Webster
Jackson and Sias Wright Sir, let me
say to that Senator that Wavne county
was ever the friend of Henry Clay, and
/ during the long years of slander and
persecution in which the party with
which the Senator afiiliates, heaped upon
that great man all the calumny and vile
I epithets that could be coined from cor.
rupt hearts and devilsh brains, the peo-
pie of Wayne county, true to the noble
instincts that have ever actuated their
| political course, stood by the illustrious
kentuckian while living, and with hearts
mourning for his loss followed him TO
his grave, while their prayers lowered
over the sod of Ashland's sacred tomb
! And to day the people of Wayne coun-
/ ty would rather vote for Henry Clay's
last suit of clothes than for any Copper
head that ever beslimed the earth. The
Senator need shed no crocodile tears
nor utter any post morteDt groans over
the name of the illustrious Commoner
His fame is a jewel not found in that
Senator's crown. Sir, he is dead and
his tall form lies beneath the grass of
his Kentucky home. That gray eve,
with which he pierced the secession
leaders Of his day, is CLASSY in death,
that long, bony finger with which he
pointed out the true pathway of renown
to his countrymen is palsied in the grave
but his great name, and proud example,
still lives and calls upon his countrymen
to stand by the flag of the Union. Web
ster, too, is dead, and that eloquent
voice with which he enraptured listen
ing Senates, and thrilled his countrymen
with emotions of patriotism and valor,
is no longer heard but though dead, he
yet speaketh on the side of freedom.
loyalty. and the great principles of his
! favored New England. Jackson. too,
has left this earth, and gone up yonder.
vet from his orbit in the great constel-
la:ion above he repeats to us, The
Union of the States must and shall be
preserved" The Senator cannot turn
to these great memories and find conso-
lations for the deep damnation of his
party. And l point him TO the immor-
tai Douglas, the giant of his time. and
once the proud leader of the Democracy.
His last legacy 10 us was those immor
tai words that there were but two parties
in this contest-patriots and traitors -
| The people of Wayne county belong TO
one of these parties, and the sullivan
county constituents of the Senator to the
other. And TIL handwriting has been
of our martyred heroes, that no man can
mistake its meaning.
The Senator from Vigo arraigns
Wayne county on an Indictment OF his
own drawing, but which was doubtless
founded by a grand jury of Sullivan
county patriots, i'll " Golden Circle as
semhled. The first count is that one
just disposed of. The second is, that a
mob of Wayne county people misused
. one John l.. Robinson. The facts Of
that case are, that a citizen of Richmond
Henry Shombre, a young man of noble
parts, generous heart, and brilliant in
tellcct, emigrated to Kansas during the
controversies there between the Free
State men and the Border Rutfians-
Young Shombre, true 10 the instincts of
his nature, and education Of his boy
hood, enlisted in the cause of freedom
and was killed in one of the affrays, fall
ing victim to that damnable power that
gaining strength from the nourishment
of the Senator's party, afterward at
tempted not the death of one man,
but the death of the Republic, and filled
a million of graves. The news of his
lamentable death had just come to his
family at Richmond. Loving hearts
were bleeding with anguish. and the
weeds of mourning were hung around
the stricken city.
! 1t was then, this man Robinson, in ad-
dressing 4 Democratic meeting in that
city, disregarding the mournful occasion,
forgetting the common decencies of life
+ charged that the feeble young man had
met a dishonorable fate, and said he
ought to have been thus killed A
/ brother in law of the young man WAS
( present, and became so highly incensed,
that he administered personal chastise
ment to the honorable gentleman. Or
der was only restored BY the interference
Of prominent Republicans. This was
/ doubtless violation of law. but it fnd.
an apology in the heart of every hoCora-
! bic and chivalrous man. Yet all this
was but the act of one man, for which
the county was in no wise responsible
should not thus have referred TO John
l. Robinson. had his name not been