Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1844-07-18
Wipe your Spectaclcs:


If the Rifle editors VIII now wire their spectacle,
once more and read the nine messages Of Governors
Noble, Wallace and Bigger, saying nothing If their
lnaugurals, they VIII see that there is scarcely one O.
the list that is not devoted, more or less to party poll.
ties OF a National character. And those are much
stronger cases than that of James Whitcomb. For
those messages were Official documents emanatinr
from the Governor. not as an indiriaual. but as the
Erec9tire, 'furred' (s the Rife says) with official
station and printed at tie expense If the uhoIe peo-
pie. Where was the holy horror then
We all recollect that the Wing Governor Corwin.
Il OHIO, while in Office, was in the constant habit of
making jealous political speeches. Of which the whip
papers teemcd with the most extravagant praise.
where were your denunciations then, Gents , The
very last papers from Tennessee, show that the Whic
Uov. Jones Of that State is now in the field with n
regular string Of appointments for making political
speeches. And yet according to good whig doctrine
tins Is all perfectly far and correct. Ave. the aristo-
cratic milllonaires Of Philadelphia have presented him
a service Of silver plate for his patriotic Whigcism
alias liberalism
But iurtAer. The State Of Indiana has witnessed
within her limits what we were panied to see. and
"hal we nope every one dlsapproved of. Wing Judges
actually descending from their judgment seat, during
ue term 81 The Court too, and not only making stump
speecheS' but entering INTO party alterations. II is
inc sacred duty OF the Judge to preserve his ermine
uhspotied, and to hold the scales of justice even. in
winch are weighed the property, the character. and
even the lives Of his fellow citizens. He sI,ould With.
era" ms jcfagS as much as possible from tie noise
and turmoil Of party STRIFE. But in 1910, we saw
Judge sample IN the north s,umping il even as n wbic
Efctor, to say nothing Of other Judges making zcal.
ous-nay furious political speeches. and even JUDGE,
IN nominating conventions. In fact. il is n,torious
that a Circuit Judge who lives not 100 miles from
i actually making speeches in tic pre-
sent canvass, and in the modern approved .tgIe Of
Wing violence and wing pLusc. Where nou d. we
zee The upturncd federal eye cf holy horror A iudge
Il large dscreiioa in deciding on the rights
u INC c!tzcu,-he %cxpounds and applies the law
md ofcn decides the )oc's. The Governor, dutv i
merely to see that the laws as he find, them. are cv.
The Wing leaders were then re,a,gs,ro,,5
with m vain as 10 Wing Judges intcrfcrinr IN nol.
and now tFcy have the impudencc to talk about
ulcers interfering in a canvass Out up,n ,ucl br,.
zen lypocr.sy!,
And now what has James Whiicomb done +, lie
been called on to preside at two meetings # his
'oltlcal friends TO which we believe no one objects
; a thing IN lisclf) and he has on special invitation {
poken ON four other occasipns-all told. He has
'ithln The last two weeks declined accepting twclvc
fifteen other invitations to address the people. On
ach OF the four occasions referred 70 he has restrict. I
Il himself to the discussion of n single qnesiion Of
what II admitted to be of transccndant Importance TO :
ne welfare OF the country at large. lie is not n can.
ldate Tor Office. His interest is only that of the
ountry. lie has INDUCED in no personal obnsc has
ssailcd no individual, has appealed 10 documo,,s
lone Tor his facts. and has addressed himself 10 tbc
caSoh u ms ielow citizens present. Now. instead v
! general ana naked assertion, tie Rifle and Journal Il
-u'ors had better try to show in what particular he a
"s uttered a ialschood. They haow they cannot do
ana hence their rage and v~cxation. If they had c
ana arguments at command they would never :
ave rcsorted u abuse and filschood. =