Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-02-10
For the State Sentinel
Political Relation.

MESsRs. EDITORS.-We read in history, that
the advocates of the dosmas of legnlizef reli-
giOn in y ears passed, burned at the stake, dis
senters, and with reckless cruelty offered up
to sacrifice all who did not sanction the tenets
of truth Promulgated from beneath the GRIM
son canopics of crowned headsi
When Protestant succeeded Catholic, and
when again Rome was IN the ascendant, the
dominant party bore down with an irOu hand,
upon those who dared worship God accord
Ing to the dictates of their own conscience.
Yet, in this our modern day, our day Of pride,
and national glory, there has sprung up in our
midst a, party linked together by chain of
dark design, who, like blood-hounds pursue
the worshippers of.S,. Peters church even to
tho threshold of the altar.
The sacred feelings of our forefathers who
bought our freedom with their dearest blood,
AMI amid the smoke and carnage of the
sanguinary battle field, fought side by side,
Catholic and Protestant, are forgotten by their
degenerate sons; and in one vast, damnabls
conspiracy, they seek to stamp the seal of
nations condemnation upon The descendants of
those Who crossed the broad Atlantic to strug-
gle for our liberties.
Could the mouldy forms of those patrio-
sages arise in their ..sepulchral habilimenrs
from The noiseless confines of tn. tomb, and
see the maynard degoneracy of the present
day one simultaneous curse, deep and lasting,
would fall from lips long stilled by the icy
hand of death Could he who slept beneath
the midnight sky, uncovered save by the blue
canopy above-he who weathered days Of
peril and nights of storm, with lafayette, stand
in their midst;-with sorrowing tone would
he pronounce the deep ingratitude of those
who deny home To the citizens of France
What boots it to them, that the blood of
Kosciusko flowed upon our soil, when in their
dark inquisitons they prcmulgate their prin-
ciples, too degrading to meet the public
gaze I? Such men should be buried in some
unhalOwed spot, bleak aud barren place,
where winter reigns eternal, that the bowling
winds might chaunt requiem cold as were
the hearts they bore
While Nero exuted over his success of
tyranny, the hand of re;ribution was already
raised, and eer he was prepared, he paid the
penalty due to his many atrocities. The
time is near when the iron hand, directed by
the true hearts Of the Democracy of this
Union will strike rne mighty blow, and for
ever wipe out the dark spot upon our es-
cutcheon, and place the American Eagle aoft
in al its majesty, inviting all the oppressed
to rest beneath its protecting wing. The day
will soon come when the voice IF the fanatic
will be hushed by the wave of public con-
demnation; when he who cries disunion, will
bear upon his brow a seal as indelble as that
stamped upon the brow of the first murderer;
when in one wild confusion, the bonds that
bind the unholy coalition will be rent asunder,
and the tocsin of universal protection be
sounded from the Lakes of the North, to the
everglades of Flor;da-givng the oppressed of
foreign lands home beneath our flag of stars
and stripes: and freeLoyn to tDorsliD God