Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-10
aThe Mysteries of Inieuity.v

1nlS Is tne uIe OF an arucle winch OrlgndHy
appeared in the pages of the Wing Review, a new
magazine recently commenced in New York city.
1t pretended to tell by what stupendous fraud upon
the suffrage, concocted by gamblers, escaped c~onvicts
and rufians, in close connexion with the leaders of
the democratic party, the last election was won. Be-
ing written with great imitation and grandiloquence
of style, and the completest recklessness of truth,
with a large infusion of anti-democratic malignity, it
of course just suited the taste of a certain class of
wing politicians, and was extensively copied by wing
editors. Among others, our ~neighbor, the Journal,
which seldom fails to seize upon such stuff with great
avidity, copied a portion of the article, and we be-
lieve recommended attention to it editorially. Now
that the readers of that paper may see how much the
charges made in the article are worth, we copy the
following extract from a notice of it by the N. Y.
Courier g. Enquirer, a leading wing paper:
SO In this very long and circumstantial pretended
history of the frauds Of the last election, it is worthy
of remark, that the writer does not attempt to give
the slightest evidence in support of his allegations.
He starts off upon a mos absurd theory and then as
he proceeds, manufactures facts in support OF 1t.
Charge upon charge is brought forward in the most
circumstantial manner; allegation after allegation is
made with as much apparent confidence in their truth
as if the facts had been. elected in a court of justice /;
and yet not one particle of evidence In support of a
solitary charge or allegation, is placed before the read
er. Nobody can rise from the perusal Of this paper
without a conviction that it is from beginning to end,
the work Of an unsettled and wandering Imagination
of a brain laboring under a most unhappy hallucina-
ton, which calls for the prompt interference of kind
friends to prevent more disastrous Consequences
That the mind of the writer is not as tranquil as IT
should be, is apparent from the gross contradictions
contained in the article itself; and that the response
bic Editor of the ma gazine, has no brains to become
- IL &C T. L - e - -
ing and ridiculous article into its pages"
The Courier & Enquirer further said
1.-THE editor announces in conspicuoust type, that
8 the copyright of the article entitled MYSTERIES OF
INQUIRY has been secured by the author, according
to law. A full edition, with emendations, [of its
facts, we hope, is already in press, and will be issued
in two or three days = A mad man in the Blooming
dale Asylum, some weeks since, imagined himself the
liver of a goose, In process of being enlarged, to make
a Pate toie grds. Most assurdly, the conccit, was
original and we think there would. have been quite
as much sanity evinced in his securing the copyright
to it, as there is in taking out a copyright for the
article in question. No copyright was necessary in
either case, for there is as little prospect of any per-
son ever copying the fifty pages of rigmarole from
the Wing journal as there Is OF a sane man borrow
ing the idea of his being a goose's liver In process
of enlargement by heat. We cheerfully admit, how
ever, the right of the author of The Mystery of In
EQUITY to a copyright, on both instead of one of the
usual grounds for protection 1T IS perfectly original
in Its character, and from the commencement to the
end, a fiction
The Courier & Enquirer could not have known that
the /" Mysteries - had been copied by the Indiana State
Journal, or it never would have talked as it does, per-
haps. And, perhaps, again, it does not understand the
taste of the wing party here, or the material upon
which its zeal and faith is FED When it comes to
learn that, perhaps it may be a little less severe in
cohdcmning the PRONUNCIATION of humbug, folly and
falsehood of the grossest and most palpable kind
through the pages of the leading periodical of the
party. ,f.
After the scathing rebuke of the Courier g. Enqui-
rer was published, Cotton, the editor of the Review,
published a card in which he admitted the folly and
~falsehood of the article, and tried to evade persona
responsibility by charging the rascality on the writer
Of the article alone.