Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-10-04
~ The reported declaralion Of lho Kno

CCT- The reported declaration oi the Know
Nothing organs of this State, that the secse:
order of Sag Metts, has an existence among
rs, within the organization of the Demo
cratic party, Is q malicious falsehood, the ef-
fiontery of which is only oqualled by the
brazen and stereotyped lics which our oath
bound and spirit-sold opponents arc CON-
PEELED to telland repeat TO shield themselves
from the obloqsy oil their association. The
men that utter these ISLANDERS know well
enough that the Sag NIGHTS have taken no
footnold in this State-least o. III have they
found resting place in the bosom of the
Democratic party. They know that every
prominent Democrat in the State, and every
Democratic newspaper in the State, and
every Democratic Convention held for year
within our borders, has opposed and denounced
all secret PoIItjca, assoclations,-and they
know, moreover, that the Democracy, unlike
part CT themselves, are not discriminating
liars, that they are IN earnest and mean what
they say when they oppose Know Nothing
ism and its kindred progeny. Why is ii
that men, the world might suppose to be
honest, wall persist III declarations wnicn Eve
skins OF the people OF tbs State know to be
false? Why is 1t tnat men OF seeming re-
spectability aud osteut4uons morality Will
prostitute truth aud practice deception, cSpe-
clally when the very truth they wish 10 per-
vert, and the deception they practice, must
rise Up in judgment agaius: them and ulti-
mately condemn them and their iniquitouS
party to dark and infamous ooscuriry?
Tho association in the midnight conciave
the diabolical orgies Of priest and convict,
christian aud intdel, the meek aud profane,
ovor the prostrato Constitution Of our country
aud beneath the dark pail Of Know Nothing
ism-wherc SANDER Is taught 10 be right, il
1t Injuries 40 opponent; where prescription
is irculcated as moral duty II it falls Oh
stranger where perjury is mado 4 religious
right, if il protects q brother; where blood
shed and rapine are 8 sworn obligation, If they
become necessary to promote the ends of tile
0bitieus and glut the veugeance Of the
mdddsned religious fsnatic,--such associa-
tons as this must corrupt tie very persona
who, in the broad sunlight, would resist the
poisoned shaft Of error and staud. sustained
openly by tho support Of honest men, a
monument Of purity aud right.
As the election draws nigh particular Ell.
fort seems to be making by our subtenaneAr
politicians TO pervcyt truth in every possible
shape and throw, as for as can be done, the
odiuul that belongs to themselves, upon the
shoulders Of the Democracy.
The people are not to be deceived. In
the canvass of yg,ytour the systematic lying
Oh the Know Nothing party had its effect
aud told wonderfully in favor Of denagogues
and against the best interests Of the ccuu.
try-ton, because the community were not
in the frst place to believe that Ja-
was introduced in their midst, and
next, that men Of the order, who pretended
honesty, would publicly deny their associa-
tons, and in another breath propagate the
very ISLANDERS that were Matched in the loath-
some hidden nests, cut Of which, still drip !
ping with pOluti ID, they had just, at the pre-
vious midnight hour, emerged. Honest men
were not prepared for this seeming impoSsi- !
the scene has changed. Men
who once denied their connection with Know |
now acknowledge thoy lied
when they said SO. The people think it bu
natural that those who once falsifed their
honor and who now find the iniquitics OF
their order becoming stencil in the nostrils
IF honest men,-the people think it but nat
raj that those fslsiGes should at this Tine
ltteup, TO throw the odiurn that belongs to
heir own secret Vaccinations or tho,s that
have opposed and predicted the evil ends
hat were comm