Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
Democratic Meeting in Washington
County.


The democracy held ameeting in Salem
at the court house on the oath instu and or
ganized Democratic Association. The adj
dress of the Association to the people of
Washington is excellent. We give an ex-
tract
Our opponents afraid to nail their flag on
high, ashamed TO meet us publicly in fair de-
bate, were habitually providing around at the
dead hour Of night plotting against the best
interests of our country. They got their fol-
lowers bound together by horrible oaths, they
caused the individual will to be suppressed,
and in all cases to submit to the majority of
their superioTs in all matters, and even sent to
the polls and made to vote ticket, which
under any other circumstances, they never
would have done.
Many promises were made by them only
to be broken, individual friendships were sum
dered to make way for political Iscariots, the
sacred cause of religion was blasphemed and
used as a mask to hide the braZen faces of
/ the perpetrators of the dark and damning act.
/ That organization is still alive and working.
/ They still hold their meetings and imbibe
| freely at the putrid fount of Know-Nothing-
| ism. They are at work. Even now their can
didate for Clerk is known, and he and his CO.
adiutors who are Joined with him are using,
and will, use every effort to succeed. Men
who have been honored BY democrats with
/ place, men whom they have aided and assist
/ ed are now united with Abolition-whigs,
Democrat Freesoilers, and drunken Temper
ance men in opposition to the Democrats and
/ National Wings.
] chall lio 10 tbo
old flag to be disgraced shall our county,
hitherto invincible surrender shall the star OF
liberty and equality now fall to the earth
and make way for intolerance and bigotry, foI
tyranny and fanaticism Are we willing
basely to ground our arms and show no cour-
age ? Our sister counties are rousing up
The old Democratic spirit is aroused, the
same old constitution still guides us as oui
beacon star. We look back to Jefferson and
Jackson and Clay and Webster and compare
their views with the opposition and we are
startled. Our very existence a people de
ponds upon our exertions Organize Organ
ize Place your sentinels on the watch
tower of the citadel and bid them keep gooC
look ont, and let him who sleeps upon hi
post be branded with Indignation, and be wht
deserts it subjected TO eternal scorn. Awake
arouse he udN DIlSHlellS. ElIOI uluSl ~
r crushed. Our country must be saved from
destruction. The honest yeOmanry are thu
ones to dOit To them more than any othe
class do we now turn for the preservation o
the nation. We beseech OF you, to ponde
well upon the condition of your County, you
State and Nation. See the black flag read,
to be raised at the head of the ship of State
Let the battle cry resound from hill to dale
let the watch word of every Democrat anC
A National Wing be "Victory or Death" an'
fight on until success crowns our efforts. The
let us be of good cheer All will be well
Though the Heavens are partially overcast
!, the clouds are passing away. The prospec
# of glorious day was never more bright
/ is an invariable law of political action, tina
:, coalitions when once successful cannot hold to
gather in the next succeeding contest. Hos
tile factions like allied armies may act in con
h cert when fighting common foe, but they a
d surely fall to pieces over the responsibilitie
and spoils of victory. Then let us stand fin
to our principles, the constitution and the Ur
ion-to that great Democratic party whic
l. has so long controlled the destiny of the Stat
Al and Nation, and which cannot be abandone
\ without destroying the last hopes of the ell
shaved and dOwn-trodden masses of the Oh
y World.