Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-04-10
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INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL ., 1851.
Family Quarreis.

Family Quarrels.
Under this caption the New Albany Ledger copies
article from the Terre Haute Journal charging with
having ''evinced much Of disposition to dictate
the press of State" with the following remarks:
We cannot but add regrets to those OF able
contemporary of the Journal only that there should
be uuarre but that there should be cause for quarrels
of the difficulties which would leopardize the
Of the democratic party the approaching elec-
ons. That proceeds from the overbearing dctatoral
OF the Sentinel, believe the press is agreed
least have yet the first which attributes
t. any other cause.
The Terre Haute Journal, an able and consistent
Democratic paper committed greater than
in supposing evinced disposition to dictate. We
have given our views very freely certain leading
sures and intend still to do so. We believe that the
compromise adopted by the late session of Con-
gress will be the moving element in the Presden-
tal election. The Democratic policy the subject of
the Tariff is settled. Protection is san obsolete idea"
No effort viii be made to change the mode of keeping
and dsbursng the public money. The defeat of the
river and harbor bill will change the policy of the gov
ernment the subject of internal improvements and
the bounty land bill has forever put rest the question
Of the distribution of the proceeds of the sales OF the
public lands. But suppose these issues all fresh
before the people, the questions growing out of the
compromise measures be smothered up? Whether they
should be made element in that is not the
question: but that they will be, fixed fact, and
honest should meet them. During the last
sion of Congress there petitions presented in
lavor of the repeal of the fugitive slave law than upon
all other subjects combined.
There are fifteen slave States who are vitality inter-
ested in this question 1t is which rises above all
party considerations with them 1t question of their
constitutional right reclaim their fugitive slaves-wth
them it is question Of property well principle
and he who suPposes that the South will support any
candidate for the Presidency whose opinions not
known and avowed this question, mistaken. There
will be dodging it, and, in opinion, there should
be none. No Democrat at least should desire to
re-enacted the scenes of noncommtasm which we had
exhibited in the last Presidential election. If are
have non-committaIism let it be among the Wings and
not with party, whose flagstaff is planted on the
rock Of the constitution and whose principles writ
ten in living characters. With this conviction
menced our editorial career For several months after
our first issue the leading editorial articles written
at Washington and doubtless partook, less, of
that feeling Of excitement which pervaded the political
atmosphere Of the capitol. The editor, then member
Of Congress- Influenced alone by what he conceived
be his duty, regardless Of party personal consdera
tions, determined to support the compromise Some Of
the Democratic presses approved and others condemned
his votes.
In sustaining these and particularly the fu-
gitive law which has been the principle object Of
attack did expect the approval Of those papers
which had condemned the Of the editor MEM
ber Of Congress- but did not expect tie opposition of
the New Albany Ledger. We harbored un-
kind thought towards the edtors much less uttered
until we were most violently assailed. The article
which appeared in the Sentinel in relation the print
ing ef the constitution was written by the publisher
The editor was Washington City and knew nothing OF
H. and this fact well known the writer, who, at
that time we supposed Mr.. Norman, but have since
learned that it was Mr. Kent Had the article been
reply to the paragraph the Sentinel it would have been
all fair and there could have been cause of complaint,
but he travelled Of the record to make violent at
tack on the editor who he knew in no way respon-
sibIe for the article. Had be stopped here we might
have excused him. bat if determined to follow up his
blows he garbes article from our paper which was
written for the purpose Of showing that there was col
luson between the ree-soers and the disunonsts, in
which we copied from the Daily Globe the remarks o.
Messrs Julian and Holmes prove that fact The infer
ence was fair and legitimate This article Of ours
was made the cause Of most bitter personal and po
litical attack, headed "unparalleIled audacity."
Now what could set Mr.. Kent to defending Mr. Juar
,r Mr. Holmes and attacking was, and still is, mys
terv. We always entertained for him kind feelings an'
can onlv surpose that he is influenced by secre
opposition which we have been unable TO fathom. W.
shall in future endeavor fill our columns with matte
Of more interest to our readers than these unnecessary
quarrsIs We shall preserve the line Of polio.