Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-01-21


that they the pure peiladlums Of public virtue, the
firm defenders Of social order, and the dsnieesed cham
pIons Of public gh-ihey have proclaimed abroad that
the penalties Of the law instead Of being the guardian of
the lives Of citizens ard the security Of their property
bat the aything of scoundre!s and pupDet Of
crime that culprs confined r the commission Of high
crimes and misdemeanoTs to be released from custody
by corrupt judicial officers and forth assured Of mpu
nifty prey upon the vals Of society and commit dePre
dations upon the harmony Of the commulty-hey have
been able draw from the magazine of their malice
epiihets sufficiently forcbie describe colors sufficient
" dark depe. the enomiy Of the present occasion.
How strange Inconsistency 10 persons thus graiu-
ouy thrust themselves forward the support of
and rectiude Of conduct who themselves tyros
the rudIments Of honesty, juveniles In the
frs, lessons OF morality and total strangers the funda
mental principles Of the christian religion Would 1t not
be WELL could they appreciate its full extent the bear
ing which their lives have upon the welbsing Of the
community which they move, order that they might
be prepared lead of IN the reformation of which they
praie with much voubiiy
The political juggler, bankrupt Of the standing aud
popularity that would enable him attain The eminence
whittier his hungry aspirations for power, aHd his de-
bauched lust for peferment mOant-the man that would
barter his country her prosperity, aud honor to promote
the ends of his private interest," that would sacrifice
her glory reach the goal of his sordd ambition, has
found material in this exercise Of judicial power for
vneng the world of his lofty PATRIOTISM bis love for the
people, his affection for law aud good order and his inex
bic hostility to wrong, dishonesty and crime.
The diseased and disiempered debauchee, whose
nued indulgence in centOus has converted his
body into moving bagnio his appetite the low and
vicious ministers TO Abandoned nature, and his prnci
pies and practices into the unhaowed agents for the pro-
pagation of vice. immortality and social corrupon whose
whole life his been passed in pOluting the purity aud
blasting the vrture of the deiencees and unsuspecng
and whose trophies the destruction of innocence and
the corruption OF honor, be, though infectious
pool Of moral purfacon has discovered in this discharge
Of official duty consequences so runous in their nature
of The
Punishment of social order from amongst US.
The counterfeit christian, nfdel in principle AID
hyPocriie in practice-who has "stslen the livery Of
heaven TO the devil in, and who, mecenary
than Judas would remnreessy sell his Saviour for
number than thirty pieces of silver with searching
ress has discovered in this exercise u judicial prerogatve
features Of revolving nature 10 lash his sensitive
and tender concience into indignant rebellion and
his delicate feelings TO overflow wi b piOus bile; since it
shadows forth his prophetic vision the dissolution Of
society, the prosTatiOn # religion, the overthrow Of
ray the triumph Of crime and the prevalence of general
anarchy and universal misrule.
The profgate specuator destitute Of moral honesty
and pecunarly nsolvent through the reckless
gance of his moDey-makiDg projects and the ruinous
tendencies of mercantile gambling who has violated his
solemn contracts and repudaed with calm composure his
ust liabilities finds in this discharge Of official duty, traits
of so heIn0us TO wake the half starved suscep
bities Of his scared and sterile conscience, and
him with holy zeal in the moral elevation OF his species
the Suppress Of crime the legal execution of laws and
the preservation of those high principles of action which
have been the sport Of his avarce and the dupe Of
his whms.
The wiley and hearlless ha,rker. intent alone upon
increasing his heaps of igoIten gan by entrappng the
unwary and imposing upon the unsuspicous-he whose
sOrdId bosom meyer felt single emotion of benevoence
nor throtbed with single Pulsaon of kindness-who
inaccessible to all the knder and gener feelings of his
nature, could contemplate with calmness and indifference
she msfounes and miseries Of Others and experience
the least glimpse Of compassion pity has suspended for
the objects of his selfshness to contribute his
quantum of abuse upon this exercise oil Judicial power
which he discovers must endange the security Of his
person, but most Of all, the safety of his property.
The paltry office holder, whose whole life exhibits but
UNMARRIED and connected display of meanness aud
Willy but unbrOken and monolOn0us manifestation of
lust for spois and craving for pacewhose education and
character better qualify him for the sphere of the galley
slave than the discharge of the duties which circumstances
have confded hm-even be, though pauper in prin-
cpe and beggared in morals has been able discern in
this exercise of legitimate power, the commencement OF
ruinous Innovation the subverson of social order and the
prostitution Of off cia power to the purposes Of fragrant
Injustice aud manifest wrong
The sly and dishonest pettif9gger familiar alone with
the kitchen work of his profession, and compelled TO
skuk in obscury and peddle conscience five dollars
draught whose boast of nothing but nces-
industry in multiplying difficulties, generating dis
senons, nourishing feuds and stirring up hosties-of
nothing bu, bleak barren waste of moral degradation
he, though libel his species, and disgrace
his professonwilhout positive virtue feeble
ray of light over the group of dark vices that invest his
character, has crept for and coaked forth
his mnledctions against his wicked perversion
Of jusliee-iorgeng that had justice all times been
promptly avenged, obscuriy of solitary
might have been his than that which envelOps him.
The impudent aud senseless quack, licensed to commit
homicide and peTpetrate plraces human ie under the
imposing title of NJ D.; with Just enough perception
abstain from taking MS perncious nosirums but
reckless and hardy enough to administer them to others
who Is not secuted aid hooed of community only be-
dead men speeches and unable avenge their
wrongs; and whose dismal pathway through life is all
srewed with human bones, aud haunted by the piping
ghosts of his murdered victims, and who after has
solved again 10 bis kindred Dirt will leave behind no eg.
dence that he ever existed save the numberess ombs in
the gloomy graveyard-he too has for suspended
bis work of destruction 10 exhibit his dgnaon at this
legal and honest discharge Of official trust, which he
discovers endanger the security of private property
and jeOpardize the lives and safety of the people
Such men, with not few Others who lost in the i'm.
mensity of their insignicance, it would be nasty
and useless consumption of time to describe, and whom
will leave TO contemplate in Obscurily and filth the oahe-
of their characters is the pack that
been unkennelled to hunt me down. to slime my reputation
and lraduce my molves-to call down imprecaons and
invoke on my head for the fearless discharge of my
official duties, which the laws of my country made obga
tory upon me- and for the assumption Of responsibility de-
manded by my station and which it would have been
avoid and puerile shun. And why this enm-
y on the part of these persons respond for these
Because in the administration of my official duties
happened, unfortunately perhaps for myself to be con-
posed of sterner material than bend my convictions
right and duty to suit the peculiar whims of any
set of men-unschOoed in the cachsm of passive serv
y have dared to act according the suggestions of my
judgment aud TO pursue with unwaverDg fidelity the
line of my Duty unwarped by the attey and regardless
Of the threats of any faction particular class of ndvdu
as-because scorned to make the powers Of my office
pander the private interests of any man. subserven
to the purposes of any set OF because thought it
more honorable independently and faithfully to discharge