Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-08-12
For the Indiana State Sentinel.
Sinle University.


Whatever is of interest to the public should be
known especially when touches the highest interest
Of the mass of the people. To suppress facts and
keep them concealed from the public eye when it is
essential that they should be known, is a species of
tyranny not to be tolerated. Whenever the best in
terest Of the people is tred with, it is the duty of
every one, far in him lies, to call the public
mind TO the fact and expose to public consideration
the actions Of those, who from their stations are held
responsible for the injury done. few inquiries
then, are demanded in relation the Indiana State
University. II Madam Rumor is TO be ciedited, or
facts permitted TO have their merited influence, Pope
in singing to Spinosa,
e" Whatever Is, is right
uttered falsehood when applied to the Indiana Slate
University. 1t is trite, but remark that "where
there is SO much smoke there must be some fire"
Now, 1t Is fact known to those who are conyersant
with the history of the Indiana College for the
twelve months, that there has been " some smoke -
curling around IT, and the people, the legitimate
eregns and guardians Of this temple Of learning,
having deep interest in its prosperity and welfare,
ask lchy as this! No metaphysical chicanery" can
evade full explicit and direct to This inter-
rogatory. lie t'at is conscious of the rectiude Of
his actions shrinks not from public examination OF
them the reverse is true of him who knows and feels
- that exposition is death, secrecy life" But fiat
justltla, whatever the consequences may be.
An answer to the following nerrogatories is de-
manded by the people. Let those who are possessed
Vi the IdClS respond 10 tnetn.
/. What the origin of the difficulties at tie
Indiana Stale University last winter which caused
two Of the first students at college to leave! These
students have since graduated at the Indiana Asbury
University with distinguished honors.
= II right and justice were regarded in the attempt
to adjust this difficulty, why did the literary society
TO which these two students belonged, unaainousll
pass resolution condemning the action of the faculty
There must have been some fragrant violation of The
principles of Justice, call forth this action by the
society.
3. Why have the facts and the history of this nfa
been kept from the public! Repeated calls have beer
made, in of the public prints for al inves
tigation Of this difficulty, but the calls vet hav,
been answered only by their own echoes Is the pub
lie to be placed at defiance and trHed With Facts
and light are called for,-let the people know wha
has taken place and now exists at the only college il
the west, perhaps the only in the United States
that they call their own,-et the Board of Trus
tees do their duty, and if Denmark" is found 10 b
- rotlen let her be purified. Then will the Indian
State University, instead of 81 boast SEQ of Indiana
sons at her classic fOunt,
Drinking deep of the waters Of wisdom
Some twenty years have elapsed since the Stat,
founded this college Why has il not fiourished
There is a legitimate cause, an unvarnished answer
to this inierrogatory. An unwholesome and uncon
genial influence is thrown around this collage tina
is repulsive TO the proud spirits of man. There
force and meaning couched in this remark abOv,
the province of language. An unpropitous genius
rides sovereign OF the ascendant. VERITAS.