Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-10-01
Pass it Round.


That in Floyd county, where our volunteers were en-
camped, and where it repeatedly charged and al
legged, before the election, that they had been outra
gcousy misreated by the Executive of the State and
where the wings have elected their Senator aud Rep
rescntative by 40 or so majority; where they have
elected their Clerk Of the Circuit Court, and even
given majority for their candidate for Lieut. Cover
nor; yet Gov Whitcomb, there, and IN the face
Of all This, has received majority Of the popular vote
at the ballot box This, it will be conceded, was
not owing to the unpopuluriy Of the rest Of
ddates, for all parties cheerfully bear testimony to
their character and standing and especially TO the al
unrvalled personal popularity Of Mr.. Withstand
ley, our candidate for Senator What is the rresis
ible conclusion Why that the people of Floyd,
who constantly in the habit Of visiting the camp
and the town in great numbers, while the volunteers
remained there and who the condition and treat
ment Of our little army with their eyes, and not
through the spectacles of preudiced politicians, have
borne their testimony in favor Of Gov Whcomb, and
against his slanderers. Floyd has given her YER
dict !! What have the N. A. Bulletin, the Louisville
Journal the Louisville Morning Courier, the Evans
vile Journal, the Madison Banner, the Indiana Jour
nal, the Wabash Express, the Logansport Telegraph,
the Bloomington Herald, the Cambridge ReveilIe the
Greensburgh Repository, and their kindred spirits in
this State and their political pedlers emissares and
correspondents, young and old and big, to say
The result throughout the State, and especially in
Floyd county, is not very complimentary TO their
character for veracy in the estimation of the people.
True gentlemen, you showed no small amount of talent
and industry in cool, systematic misrepresentation. The
only difficulty was (and il is the difficulty that always
hangs around the neck of tie wing party like mill
stone,) you counted too largely the ignorance Of the
people. You have acted on the principle that all's
fair in politics You thought, like the foolish ostrich
who thinks to escape his pursuers by hiding his head
in the sand, that you had masked your motives and
concealed your ambition, your hatred and your sell
fshness from the public eye. You now stand reveal
ed in your naked deformity. How do you feel
THE EsrRAT LIsr.-We cannot be accused of sell
shness at this time if we canddly say that the pre-
mode of advertising the estray list seems to
the best. We early opposed it, with but slight
knowledge of it's practical effects; and earnestly
opposed it in its earliest shape when the law conem-
plated reducing the price by fixing it at so cents each
notice. 1t is fact that under the old postage law,
some clerks in forwarding months notices, have
enclosed the in dollar notes. and the post
age on letter has reached ga cents. Whether this
was done intentionally through political spleen
will not say. We have selected the following from
among numbers of others of similar tone correct
in the statement, and account of its fair
and honest views and its manly independence. 1t is
from the Indiana Blade:
| 0TSome Of the papers of this State making a
fuss about the publishing of estray notices in the pa
per published by the State Printer. The law is exactly
as it should be, and those who complain of il must be
rather poor in "cyphering."
If arrangements were made for publishing in local
papers, we would never publish of the estray ad-
vertisements, for the reasons given below, and Of
course it would never be published at all In this
county there would not in all probability be than
one notice ut a time, and for this would get fifty
cents and for this fifty cents would have to send
one paper to each County Clerk (and there ninety
of then) in the State. These ninety papers in wrap
pers are worth five each, making four dollars
and fifty cents-so that actual loss would not be
less than four dollars each notice The State paper
by getting all of this work afford to do it, provi-
ded it does not look for too extravagant profits.
! But, what is of more importance than all this is,
that all the estray notices published in paper,
and that paper may always be found in the Clerks
Office of each county. IL farmer loses horse, no
matter where he may be found, by looking in the
Clerks Office of his county, he tell where to get
him. There is positive certainty in this whereas il
the advertisements published all the State,
there would be almost absolute uncertainty Of find
ing any estfays.