Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1858 — Political. [ARTICLE]

Political.

STATE i'OLITiCS, Lieutenant Governor Hammond, in his speech here last week, gave, such an exceedingly unfair and partisan view of the action of the last Legislature, that we Copy the following from the Indianajio/is Journal, (in a reply to him: Read it, and ponder: “1. The session of 1857 was utterly wasted -1 by the Democratic party; in order to retain Leroy" W’oods ot Clarke county in his scat as Senator, and at the same time allow h-inr to keep.his office of. Instructor to the Penitentiary at six hundred dollars a war, they broke quorums, and delayed legislation tor an aggregate period sufficient to have allowed every bill to be considered and aclmd on, and every necessary act, to be .pertbrmed. Any one who will examine the Senate Journal will see that, yjcluding the four da vs t hat Lieutenant Governor 11 animond held the Senate at a “dead dock ’ in order to compel that body to recognize the pluralist Woods as a member after lie bad been legally ousted, fully two weeks.were wasted by the Democratic minority in efforts to prevent the majority from going right along with the regular order' ol business. Li that two weeks every appropriation hill, and every other bill necessary to collect the tjeveiute -or preserve the credit of the State, ceuld have been passed. Tne Republicans tried every possible means to secure the regular j transaction of the business, but the Derno- ; eiats defeated them steadily, sometlines by breaking a quorum, sometimes by those dilj atory motions'and calling.-the veas anil nays [that made'their .usual resort against; allow- ! ing work to be done, am! rulin'! i 11104 as tin 1 the last night, by deliberate refusals to pledge themselves to do their sworn duty. It the regular order of business had been pei mi ti ed by the Democrats to be gone through with, we slioulll have had our State a flairs in as good condition as they can be placed. Nothing else was needed, and the Republicans asjted nothing else. But the 1) emocrats could not concede that wftlibut consenting that a vote.'-should he taken as to whether Mr. Woods had , any biisiness with two office’s at once, and that they would not. do. and did not do. To the Inst, they fought.

for that, greedy gentleman's! claim to both his offices; and they could notyco sent to vo on with the regufar order of business with-' out allowing a vote to bo taken on Miller’s case, who Was proved to haye no right to siseat at all, and that, they boaM-ed.”sji-oulc! never be done. Anybody'who recollects the report, of the Senate's proceedings will remember how Drew, and Brown, and lie iron, and Tarkington declared that they would never allow any business to be done if a vote on Miller’s case, which Was a part of. ■ tire regular, .order of business. \v. is pressed.; This action of the Democrats defeated Legislation. They came before the people .justifying their conduct, on the ground that tinRepublicans desired to deprive two of the ! Democratic Senators ol 'their offices, and such conduct justified anv-i’esistance. They never stated, however, that one ol the Senators had two offices*.' .and the other had never been .elected to any. “2. Our asyiijfms Intd to bus closed. The • Democrat*, by j-esisting the transaction ot business,,' bad defeated the Appropriation?, p and ail institutions dependent on'the'Stale’ 1 had to'stop. What trouble this made dir readers aR remember. . The Democrats felt i that they had to hear the burthen of it. for, they urged Governor \Vi Hard to call an e:«<ra .session 'to-remedy -the evil. They Won ft-s-sod 111 it the j.blame was t! eirs, and that the means o:' remedying it hay onh in their, hands. But no remedy cam.-. Tlie ins! hitt'fans have Been opened, but without ho . and subsist solely by consent of the State Treasurer, who adv a trees such nrone-v they need, and tab as his chance of apni'Ov il ; by the Legislature.; W.e bolhWo this- j et'eid than -allowing them to be closed, hut is jt the way they ought to be supported! Clearly not, and for the; i'ailure the- Democrats ; are r'espunsibie. Jn this crippled comlition i the noblest charities of the l State exist, • ; This.must be remedied. “3. The financial condition of the State , will need careful 1 and honest handling, j . Alter two years without revenue ! ws, or I appropriations lor carrying on tin- G vernnient, and the 'whole H-f ate ma liinerv left to ! the control 'of a lew officers, the condition lof the State cannot hut ha • perplexed and j embarrassed.. Thy wisest use.of the power in the hands of the State officers cannot as-j Lure uc thatshall begin as well as we | left oft when- tiie Democratic part v stopped , j the established course of action. There! will .he _ trouh.les.onio questions of taxation, : claims, and a hundred ot her .-ma-ltorf, to set-! tie; and the settlement will be no easy! business. “*1 The Supreme Court has destroyed the ; only efficient free schools in the Stater It i is true the State tax maintains inariv schools ; for'short periods, hut every one knows that the value of a school depends on its permanence.. Six m’onths of cuucati-Mi-, followed : J.y months pf idleness, is pretty neartv equal to no toa-ching at all. The Legisla*- 1 , turn, witji a wise,and liberal desire to remedy this.evil as far as possible, permitted ! cities to raise funds in addition'to the State, tax, if they chose, in order to nri utain Schools permanently. They were not required to do more than other localities; hut they were allowed to do it. if thev wanted i to. The Supreme Court decided that it 1 was unconstitutional for one place to liav • a better school than another, even by paying extra for it; and the . cjjy schools, ’the only [ permanent institutions of the kind in the State, went do .-. n. Under tiie. Legislative ! provision there had been erected in this city height excellent sichool-housos, and''they were regularly filled, every day, with ne.tr two thousan I pupil;, all e iuc it >d well.'unia'ormly

j and cheaply. \Vo. had by far the best ■ schools ever kphnvn he're. Everybody admireji them, and b lasted of them as ou" ; proudest achievement. At the very time the of the Court was made, the sclitml-hmises were crowded every day with p rrenls. relatives and trie.u!s. witnessing tiie progress of the m ist interesting examination ever made, in tlie city. The blow fell right iivthe fullness-of our just exultation, an I left, us;worse otT than we hid been for ten years. Tire school-houses closed, and n!»\v. Jor six in ruths no poor child : has bad any chance (or air education here. So it. has befallen in Lafayette,-and \. ■ Albany/in La potto, Shelbyvil 1, and in every town where the schools bad been made porfTranent by tire liberality of the citizens. Now t here is not'a penuiuiMit dree school in Indiana, 'rive Supreme Court hah emptied the houses, and sent, the children to whatever occup tion is most likely to lill n child’s idleness. Whether the decision t hat, has efleeted this vast mischief woe ma le wic 1 1 a purpose to preserve the constitution, or to gratify a chronic spite at. all means of j dill using popular-education, we neither kn ay . nor care. It lias been done by a D -mocratic Court, and approved bv the Democratic I party, and that they will manta in the policy thus happily began is indubitable. This; ! is another error to be remedied. i bus, it will be seen, our Stali l lias a deranged treasury.'all the evils of ,a; wasted | session of the Lpgis!a|H«or the evils of a crippled system of public charities. and the i evils of no system at ail of popular edtjca- 1 j tion, all producedihy Democratic policy, to 1 remedy: a»d thy task craves good -men. j Suclr are tin? men-the Republicans oTer for Hie support of Hioi people, and in the interest excited by Democratic treachery- ip Na-; tional air.crs the interest in this shameful , neglect of State & Hairs should hot die absorbed. W'ork for the State ticket, for it deserves success.'” 0O -Reinembei* il.at Colonel Walker lias ] “un/wundril confidence" in a National Admin-1 istrat ion t hat- has sought, by all means in its : power to force the institution of Slavery lipon the almost- unanimously resisting peo"-, j pie ol Kansas: and this is the Democrtitic! idea of popular sovereignty.