Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-09-20


When the writer arrived at the meeting on
Friday evening. Mr.. Wallace had just COM :
menced addressing about seventy-fve or one
hundred very quiet and orderly persons. IL
was reported on the ground that the Sezton
bad just addressed them. A very appropu-
ate person, indeed, TO address Know Moth
ingS at the present time. Whether he CON-
menced appropriately, by saying to the K
Ms present "Hark, from the tombs a doleful
sound. or ended by telling the Owls and
bats where they as a party would shortly
lie or not, was not stated. This is what he
might well have stated to that party and tho
candidates they support for their political =
demise is not less certain than was the death
Of the victims Of the fire, swords and bullets
in the hands Of the Know Nothings at Louis
vile and other places.
Mr.. Wallace evidently seemed discouraged
and alarmed. He deplored the 'lethargy"
that pervaded that party, and well he might.
He probably has noticed in the canvass, rs be
goes smong the people. evidences Of the same
state of feelings which is so observable 10
Others that the honest, more Just and hn-
name portion of the Know Nothing order.
who unfortunately were early beguiled into =
their clutches by the dark lantern" have \
been seized with apathy since the New Alba
ny, Cincinnati and Louisville riots. His
speech was short and scattering; nor was it
delivered with that straightforwardness which
has marked his public efforts in mes past.
In Il, he failed to give his views on that part
of the liquor law which relates Ia search,
seizure and coniscation. or on that part which
rejects the juror who may occasionally drink
a glass of wine or cider; or that which allows
To no man the privilege of making his OsOa
! apples into cider, unless be himself 0sUns a
cider mill, thus bestowing privileges and in
2 munities on the owners of cider mills, a1pf
denying the privilege of a juryman to Old
Q well known, respectable citizens who drink
5 occasionally a glass Of rider.
E He commented on Gov. Willand's course
. in addressing the people on political subjects,
but failed doing what one who claims to be q !
e temperance mar should have done, in justice i
l TO Gov. Willard; give him the credit h de 1
: serves, for denouncing the fusion portion Of /
e the last legislature, (who passed the liquor !
c law for their notorious drunkenness their
whisky drinking and whisky loving proclivi- I
: ties. If Mr.. Wallace, as he pretends, really |
d loves temperance and desires intemperance |
exposed and rebuked, the people advised Of
Y its prevalence, so that they intelligently can !
n take measures for its restriction wherever il |
prevails the most, he should have RAISED |
Gov. Willard for thus publicly and boldly |
m rebuking them, by stating almost every !
j. where, the fact that there were "tspo Fusion }
lists IN the legislature last sOinter drunk 10 one |
is OIL Liner IA that body" Temperance men }
is should omit nothing calculated to expose in I
temperance, or place the responsibilities of it !
ne where it justly belongs: they should attack |
De it in its strong holds and where it Is most xife !
and dangerous, as Gov. Willard has done. :
ld Had sober, temperance Old Line Democrats !
te (instesd Of Fusionists, Know Nothings and }
Abolitionists) had the framing of a law to |
restrict and regulate the manufacture and
ut sale of liquors, it would not have needed the !
modification" alluded TO by Mr.. Wallace. 7
of 1t would nave had at least the advantage of l
L. being constitutional. Democrats, in framing (
ry laws, look at the constitution and are careful
n to avoid the passage of any law, which con-
'y flicts with the supreme law Of the State. In
the constitution they can find no authority
a. for giving exclusive privileges TO owners Of
C. cider mills only, no authority to drive reputs-
II bic citizens from the jury boxes. Nor can
n they find that authority, which would war
tn rant the passage of laws which permit the
to humiliating and ignominious search of the :
OF private houses and homes of the people, under
d. trivial charges, or the indiscriminate destruc-
o. ton Of property without an equivalent
Mr.. Wallace did not, however, fail to tell
bis Know Nothing listeners, that the Demo
ar Gratis were constantly meeting them with the
cry Of Know Nothingism. That their CHIEF
r arguments and denunciations were directed
to Know Nothingism, &c. Not perhaps, ex-
actly in terms, but substantially in words
He seemed TO be disguised with the idea
N that Know Nothingism and Know Nothings
should be the burden of the Democratic song
lie is right about that. Ii is the great cues
ton in this election. To defeat il, and the
instruments it seeks to elevate TO political
n positions, is the great object and desire OF all
good citizens. The hearts of the people are
d throbbing with hope and anxiety in the de-
/ sire that, at the October election in this State
the Order may meet a defeat as overwhel-
ming as has been administered to them every
where during the present year, where cleo
tons have taken place.
Without Know Nothingism their chancc
would be worse than hopeless. Without i 1
they would have been defeated last year, in
o the State, notwithstanding the hypocritica
e cry of Nebraska swindle," violations o
"plighted faith" "Solemn contracts bro
ken" &c.
1t was Know Nothingism that elected all
their officers in the State and all their third
rate men to Congress, who never would have
been heard Of politically, had not the poleca(
d of Know Nothingism been thrown into the
motley mixture of the political cauldron, ID
bring them to the surface.
Democracy opposed Know Nothingisul
from the first and will continue to oppose i
to the last. 1t desires no higher honor thar
he the distinction merited for that oppositionl
and ~rejoices to bear the charge Of unreleutI
ing hostility TO its doctrines, its purposes, il
advocates, its a~pologists, or its instruments.
ID Democracy met it with hostility at its ia
to ception. When it fist crawled into exist
ence under the auspices Of "Ned Buntline,a
re stripped the shroud from the Dark Lanternj
N and exposed its hideousness. Met and bat
tied against it in the meridian Of its power
when it united with Abolitionism to Strike
down national men, and filed the Halls O
Congress with the advocates OF sectional doc
te trines. When it essayed to elevate the ne
gro and degrade the white man in a cores
ponding ratio, provided he lived south o
Mason & Dixon's line, or happened not 10 Id
re born on this continent) And when they gayd
y TO Bill Poole a world wide renown, wrapped
the New York "Five Points" prize fighter id
a the american flag, and in a splendid pagean
try, composed Of tens Of thousands of Know
d Nothing worshipers and mourners, conducted
him with pomp and magnifcence through
the Broadway Of the great metropolis Of th(
nation to an honoed grave, and pronounced
d a etIogy on his character.
The Democracy have consistently and
manfully opposed Know Nothings until now
and most certainly will not at this time cees
Q that opposition, (when the order tottes b
n its very foundations,) merely to crafty thos
who defied us with il once, and at this time
Gor very good reasons) dislike to have n
even talk about IT,
When good men who were once entrapped
) into the order in this county, become dis