Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-05-21
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our belief, ''founded on circumstances within our
knowledge" and upon the internal evidence furnished
by the article ITSELF that it did not originate in this
city and that. so far from being the work of the
Governor he ii, If he has IL at all, I'M
til he in the State Sentinel II is not at all
probable, if the Governor chose to write articles of
the kind, that he would send them for publication to
paper, ''wlose Efforts" according to the Journal,
shave not heretofore extended beyond the chroncling
of neighborhood occurrences >; not at ALL He would
of course send them to papers which possessed the
largest circulation and the most influence; not to
hardly known out of its neighborhood. This is
selfevdent, and Of course the belief of the Jour-
nal is not worth a groat. But it matters not who
wrote the article. Nobody about Its authorship.
The only question is, does it state tic truth This
the Journal denies. 1t says
"But, whoever may be the writer, we pronounce his
statements, far they implicate the conduct of
Mr. Marshall TO be UNANIMOUSLY false. Let exam
inc them The very caption Of the article is intended
to create false impression. plain unfinished brick
house, inferior to many farm-houses in Northern In
diana, is denominated 81. g. Marshalls Palace at
the Deep Diggngs !" The groveing spirit of the de-
magogue is in this miserable cant. The people
are TO be told that Mr. Marshall resides ina Palace
and is, therefore, unsuited to be Governor of the
State :"
If to speak of the house obtained by Marshall from
Beckwith fine house, or, if you please palace"
is Indicative Of grovelling spirit" "demagogusm"
and " miserable can't" then the Journal should first
manifest Its wrath upon the late Gov. NOBLE, for he
described the house in his official report to the Legis
lature in these words:
"The land and fine house on the HILL estimated to
cost $500"
Now mems notions to what constitutes {" pal
ace" differ. The Journal may think that a house
which costs only fire thousand and fire hundred dollars
is an inferior" residence, but we should think it
superior one. We don't know how many " farm
houses " there may be in Northern Indiana, whose
value exceeds this but there certainly very few
in Central or Southern Indiana. All we have to say
is, that if owned such house, and land to match
should not consider ourselves poor the Jour-
nal represents Mr.. Marshall to be. We should feel
so rich that should not covet the salary of the
Governor, to say the least. Gov. Mobiles judgment
on matter of this kind, is not to be lightly aside.
He had seen good many fine houses in various parts
of the country and possessed taste so well cultivated
that few would venture to call it in question; this,
together with the costs of Beckwith's building
So 500-is pretty conclusive to US, that neither Gov.
Noble, the Lagrange Democrat, are very obnox-
ious to the Journals censure. The Journal, very
properly asking pardon of its readers for noticing this
point, then proceeds to take up what it calls the main
charges,-that is, the question of how Mr.. Marshall
came by the house, fine not fine
1t states that Beckwith did not, as asserted, make
out the estimate of the cost of the NJ and railroad
but that it was made by Williams the chief engineer
and therefore the statement that Marshall " fought for
appropriations according to BeckUithS estimate is
untrue 1t admits, however, that Marshall, with a
majority of the Legislature, voted for appropriations
under Wilams's estimate, but says he had nothing
to do with the disbursements.
1t admits that Beckwith, the Wing Resident Engi-
neer swndled the State of about fifteen thousand
dollars but says that the assertion that Marshall
cheek-by-jo with Beckwith, is false in every
particular That it not until Beckwts arrest
that Marshall had any intercourse with him, and then
only such is necessary between client and counsel
All this is comparatively of little Importance. We
could, with proprety perhaps, have passed it all
without comment, to the main issue embraced
in the following paragraph. But we were DESTROYS to
let our readers see all the arguments, denials and
admissions If the Journal and sorry only that
could not find room to-day for all its comments in its
own language.
Having previously quoted from Gov. Mobiles Report
of l839-i0, statement of the frauds of Beckwith,
the Journal says:
at will be seen by the report of Gov Noble above
quoted that steps could be taken to prevent Beck
with from selling property, which 1t was supposed
had been acquired In the above described
His brother became the purchaser, from whom Mr.
Marshall bought the property named In Gov. Noble;
report, and for which he paid fair equivalent. Had
Mr.. Marshalls purchase been otherwise than bono
fde transaction who so ignorant otto know thai
the property could have been secured to the State
and who so STUPID to suppose it would have beer
done The charge carries with II evidence of Its
untruth."
i Gov. Noble says, that there was no summary
mode" provided by law to prevent Beckwith from
dsposing of the property which he had stolen from
the State. He accordingly transferred large amour
to his brother and from this brother of the swndling
Beckwith, the Journal says MIR. MARSHALL bough
the property, and paid for 1t a fair equivalent
Now the truth of this last assertion is the all
important matter. There is no doubt that Beckwitf
swinded the State; none that he transferred thu
plumber to his brother; none that Marshall actet
as his legal adviser and defender against the State
none that the State was chisseed out of the plum
dered property; none that Beckwith miraculOusl1
escaped; and not only all this, but there is LITTLE
dispute, that not only was the State cheated an,
swindled, and Beckwith cleared, but the bail which
he had given to appear for trial, subsequently
released alsoI Thus the swindler Of the State AM
D his friends escaped just responsibility and punish
ment; Marshall got large share of the plundere'
property which il is said he paid for; while tn
poor State chisseled out of not only the origina