Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-16
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MoNDAYM MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1856.
A Few Words more on that Man
George D. Prentice, and we have

A day or two ago, we told the readers and |
patrons, the friends and the enemies of the
Indiana Sentinel, what we honestly thought
of the incendiary and mercenary editor of
the Louisville Journal, who for little filthy
lucre hired out his pen to do the dirty work
of the vilest and most unprincipled faction
that ever Gisgraced the history and character
of this OF any other free nation upon earth,
and to bring foul and everlasting dishonor,
shame and degradation, to which may be add
ed the permanent overthrow of her CONNER
cial prosperity and social happiness, upon the
most reputable and advancing city of the
Great West, by instigating among her people
the most atrocious spirit of mobocracy, of
national aud religious bigotry, and causing,
as an inevitable consequence, her streets and
the very dwelling places of her inhabitants
to run in carnage and blood.
We told them what we thought of him;
we fearlessly proclaimed to the world the
prominent and undeniable fact that loomed
up in unmistakable characters above the fire
and smoke of the terrible conflict above the
fierce, blood thirsty howl of his rabble of
desperadoes and cut-throa;s, and which
struck upon the eye, and brought conviction
to the minds of all honest and candid men,
that upon the guilty head of GEORGE d.
PRENlTcE was all the innocent blood shed in
ths-eity of Louisville on Monday, August 9th,
1855. Oh, memorable will be that dark and
dismal day in the annals of lawleSsness and
crime. Memorable will it be in the history
of the Republic forming upon its otherwise
bright and unsullied pages another of those
foul stigmaS which blacken the escutcheon
of her good name-the result OF a mean, mar
w-minded religious bgotry, fomented and
preached in the midst of peaceful and lib
eral community by base and interested dem
agogues, and rufian scriblers, for the purpose
of riding into the high places of power and
emolument upon the shoulders of duped and
deluded people, and filing their empty and
bankrupt Golfers with blood-stained money,
money acquired at the cost of murdered
women and children. And OH memorable
and never to be forgotten in all coming time,
will be that day in the history Of the now
doubly ''dark and bloody ground" title to be
hereafter applied, not as before, with the
honor of glorious and immortal rccollections
but with the burning sting of infamy and
shame.
We have declared in our paper that the
real author of these proceedings, and respon-
sible before God and man for the deep and
damning disgrace they have brought upon a
noble city and a noble State, was the hireling
and infamous editor of the Louisville Journal.
Well, we boldly, and fearless of contladic-
ton, reiterate that declaration to-day. And
in spite, and in defiance of the Hindoo howl
of rage and madness raised in this city, at
our bitter and well merited denunciation of
the Louisville incendiary and mscreant We
refuse, utterly refuse, to abate one single lot
of what we then said, for we spoke the truth,
and so help us high heaven, nothing but the
Truth. And, having once taken our stand
against lawlessness, mobocracy, ruthanism,
and clime-no matter by whom advocated or
committed, we care not whether it be a de-
based and brutal Know Nothing bully, gam
bier and cut.throat, or some taTed and feath-
cred convict, who by his base hypocrisy, his
crouching sycophsncy and low-born subser-
viency to the wealthy, the powerful and the
great, has risen from his native littleness and
obscurity to a position in which be may spread
desolation and death among those, who from
their peculiar situation and circumstances are
at any moment liable to become the victims
of his vndictive malice and fury-having
once firmly planted our foot upon the solid
foundation of fact, public, well known, indis-
putable, and almost universally acknowledged
fact, and, in accordance Herewith, given free
and unrestrained utterance of our unqualified
condemnation of the bad and wicked man
who had earned for himself the titles of
"naurderer and rOJber'-and having as plainly
and clearly expressed our Indignation and
contempt in regard to the means and man.
ner employed and resorted to, to accomplish
so magnificent c. achievement, we are not to
be driven from our position by the noisy and
bois.erous clamor of his shameless and I'M
principled admirers aud imitators. No, In
deed, we have not the remotest idea of do
ing anything of the kind. The stuff in our
composition is of far different kind from
that which would cover before threats of
personal or popular bigotry and prescription
True, we don't think we could ever mus
ter the bad courage, the fiendish bravery TO
prove and illustrate our lneal descent from
illustrious sires, our great and undoubted ca
pacity to rule America. But we do think
there is somewhere about the region of the
heart, (and we beg not to be charged with
egotism when we say it) a little of that sort
of bravery, and courage which never, never
shrinks even in the presence of the pistol, the
bowie-kni(e, and the bludgeon of the ruifian,
the outlaw, and the bully, from the faithful
and unflinching performance of solemn and
imperative duty. That duty we felt called
upon to perform in the case of the man who
melted robbery and murder, and crime Of ev-
cry shade and description in the city of Louis
Vile, except that crime alone which we shall
not mention nor allude to, farther than to say
with one OF our Democratic content oraries
that even that crime we wonld have to record
against the band of villains who obeyed his
blood-thirsty mandates, were it not that its
commission would have been personal insult
70 their heartless and in.potent master. That
duty we shall discharge when called upon to
do so, aud it is utterly nonsenical and futile
to suppose that we can be deferred from its
honest and upright performance by any
amount of street indignation, fury or proscrip-
ton.