Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-16
A man,s homo and his house is bis citadel.


it and him, aud especially at time when
'trifes light as air" become monsters IN the
eyes of those who, on the ore hand, believe
themselves wronged and their personal rights
infringed upon in an unwarranted manner,
when they believe themselves prescribed and
prosecuted, and who on the ether hand believe,
seemingly, that wrong can be done that good
may come out of it.
Officers of the law have much more power
and more rights than citizens, but there is a
point where the powers and rights of officers
cease, and that of citizens begin.
Just laws Cypress no one, and prudent Off
GERS in a small city like this, with the minis
tiers and executors of the law all about us
from the police officer up to the Governor of
the State, need no standing army of hun
dred in each ward Of the seven wards of this
city to keep the peace this being the number,
we believe, proposed by MIR. BLAKE.
For the Democratic party of the city and
all opposed to the conspiracies of the secret
order, we will say that we need no such
menacing, oath-bound army perambulating
our streets at night, and prefer that they
should remain in their dark midnight caves
and plot destruction against their neighbOrs
and countrymen.
We believe Mr.. BLAKE deceived by this
hypocritical canting order of Know Nothings
who seem to exert such an influence over,
him, and we submit to the second sober
thought of the gentleman whether he is moi
now satisfied that such a course as he pro-
posed in conjunction with the Know Moth
ings at that meeting would not have had q
tendency, if successful, to produce the very
state of things which he mistaken as he was
endeavored, as he said, to prevent, as the acts
of outlaws in our city.
A large portion of the public mind is SEN
sitive, easily aroused, and there is deer
feeling in the community caused by tho sick
ening details of disfranchisement, crime and
indiscriminale butchery in neighboring city
instigated and perpetrated by the Know
NotEings of Louisville, against Democrats
and foreigners, in which neither age or sex
were spared from butchery, and where the
Know Nothing officers of the law were i'm.
potent to prevent the butchery and crime
and portion of our citizens opposed to the
Know Nothings here believe they saw in the
invisible, but easily detected and stealthily
secret moving hand of that secret order here
by certain movements, in certain quarters, and
among those who both knowingly and IN.
knowingly do their secret biddings-saw by
the rallying sign used by the Know Nothing
leaders here, an account of which we gave
yesterday, Of the triangular piece Of bgte paper
with Mack cross and figure 8 upon it, posted
on doors, corners and pests in thousands over
the city-by well devised and planned at
tempt to entrap citizens TO such nefarious
proiect-indications that all that was wanted
was that hundred in each ward, composed
Of the secret order, should be sanctioned by
the public, to do injury to their peace and
quiet, and really believing that political aims
were intended to be reached by the order
We have charity enough to believe that MIR
BLAKE is unknowingly made the eats paw o.
the order, and we think he and his real friend.
must see it so when they examine tho fact:
with regard to the manner that the mc citing
was got up and conducted.
Il Al IL.
elsewhere, we say "God Forbid that hun
dred of Know Nothingsin a ward here, should
ever be allowed by public sanction, to be
quartered among a peaceable community
By their deeds elsewhere, we know them
and by certain indications here already, we
say, when such bold and threatening propo-
sition shall be tolerated and sanctioned, il
will be time that all parties opposed to them
shall prepare to resist ruthless band, who
seeming the blood of victims of the order il
Louisville, may become ravenous for the
blood of those opposed to them here. Then
we should hope to see a man whose inten-
tons we respect as highly as those of Mr.
BLAKE, again with the Democracy who de-
test the acts of the assassin-like midnight or.
der.
The Democracy here believe that we hav,
aw enough executors of the law enough in oul
city to suffice, and last of all, will not con-
sent that this city should be ga,7iso,led by a
secret order, that elsewhere have set law
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had parallel since the days of the French
Revolution.
We would be glad if in justice to ourselves
and that party for whom we speak we could
stop here, but we have much to say to Mr.
BLAKE, and what we do say shall be ''more in
sorrow than in anger"
Granting as we do, in heartfelt sincerity
that he only desires to serve his Great Master
in the remaining years of his Gas we believe
aside from his present relations) meritorious
life, we must take the liberty, (Which he has
given us by joining with that order in an at
tack upon u.s. of endeavoring to show how
his efforts to the moral ends, at which he
aims, how his present example, and the com.
pany ne keeps politically, and into whose arm:
he has recently thrown himself, not only des
troy his power for good, and render hin
impotent in the service of public morals, bu
must, if persisted in, hereafter, entitle him t
the credit of throwing his otherwise noble anC
holy influence, of age, position and unds~bt
ed philanthropy, into the scale Of political Ii
centiousness, political and religious anarchy
For the good he has done and the good h
intends to do, thank us as little as he ma
for the gratultons expression of our feelings
we should for his sake, the sake of the repu
tation which he may leave behind him, regre
that the later acts of his life and his latent as
sociations were of character, which woul
conduce to such ends, and must be lastin
stigma upon the christian name.
Does he doubt that he is giving his iuAu
ence to the intolerance of religion, and tn