Indiana State Sentinel

Whig Precept and Whig Practice.

The Journal, in its paragraph concerning the rights of minorities, says—

"We always supposed till the article of Saturday in Chapman's Sentinel, that minorities had rights as well as majorities—if not in every case to the same extent. For instance, we supposed, or should have supposed, that when a party of 70,000 voters had already one representative in the United States Senate, it was more fair that the other party of 68,000 should have the remaining one, than that the rights of this large majority should be entirely overlooked," &c.

And we had supposed too, or "should have supposed," that in the present Legislature, it would have been but "fair" that the seventy Democratic members, representing the above 70,000 votes, should have had the election of some of the officers, appointed by the Legislature at the session just closed, instead of the other eighty members, representing only the other 68,000 voters, getting all the officers. "For instance," they elected their principal and assistant clerks in both branches—their sergeant-at-arms—three circuit judges for seven years—their Secretary of State for four years, and they even condescended to turn out the Democratic State Librarian and appoint a Whig in his place! The party lines were never more closely drawn, Whig caucuses more regularly held, nor more uncompromising bitterness shown, than by the present Whig Legislature. They filled their insatiate political maw with every office, big and little, within their reach, and now, dwarfed and overgorged, they are growling, because they did not get the last remaining office, that of the United States Senator, as a means to violate the public will of Indiana; and make war upon the President of her choice: The Journal seems to concede that the majority should have their present U. S. Senator; though its party tried hard to prevent even that. and now it thinks the minority should have one, of politics as opposite as day is to night, to balance and neutralize each other, and leave the State without any influence at all in the U. S. Senate: