The Manitowoc Pilot

Expulsion of Senator Bright.

Jesse D. Bright, a Breckinridge member of the U. S. Senate from Indiana, was expelled from that body on the 5th inst, being charged with favoring the secession of the Southern States. He left the Senate Chamber before the vote was announced. The galleries were densely crowded. and the audience expressed their satisfaction at the result. Previous to expulsion, Mr. Bright spoke at length, saying he had ever voted for peace and never gave a sectional vote. Every impulse of his heart was given to his country and he yielded to no man in his attachment to it. If he should be turned out, he would put himself on trial before a tribunal who should be found just. He would submit to the people of Indiana the question of right or wrong in the case. He had taken no part in the movement for the disruption of the Union, and he would leave the people to decide the question

Mr. Bright has been a member of the Senate for sixteen or seventeen years, and until his abandonment of Douglas in 1860. was considered one of the leading and patriotic men of the nation.

We have not much pity for him, but justice will oblige us to say that the Senate did not have any evidence to convict him of the charge, and his expulsion seems to have been caused more by the political animosity of the Abolition Senate than by any regard for truth or the safety of the Union.