Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-10-11
putnam" on the Kansas Question

In the October number Of P,itisqns's Month
iy, appears al. article on the Kansas Question
from the pen If soms "ltelasy politician" "
who has been fred with indignation at the
fraud perpctratcd onthe North mud the whole
country, by tho passage Of the Nebraska and
Kansas act.
Political articles in magazine Of 4 purely
literary character, are, We think, dsciaedly
out Of taste. besides being very unfair. Put
MANS Monthly has large circulation, it is
read at many, very many iresidc5 both North
count Of the excellent chara2ierOi its literary
articles and the very valuable information
which il contains. Many people ore aIt to
take for truth what they see printed in a
book, and when the proprietor Of 4 magazine
which processes to he "a Magazine Of Litera-
ture, Science and Art" {as docs PUTSAM's,)
goes beyond the pale OF his jurisdiction and
attempts to excite the mind Of one portion Of
the community against another, at peTiod,
when calm and sober thought. should take
the place of poliiica! excitement, he commits
great and groviops wrong. Political arti-
cles are generally taken with some grains OF
allowance, tha: is when they aro read in po-
litical newspapers and magazines, bu. when
they come TO Us under the garb of literature,
the POISON IS 10 often swallowed before dis
covered
! PUTsAA's Monthly from tho perio3 oi is
existence has teen the medium OF attacks
upon the Democratic party and the South,
/ fcm rolitico literary quacks and worn out
I rolitic;ans General pIERc.. was hardly seat
ed in his chair. when this Algerine OF litera-
turc. tnrst upon Rim Ike thunder in cloud
lesa day, with Oh article on Sour New Pres;-
/ deIt" If fats only had hesn stated. it would
have been sufierabls. but the article was full
! of misrepresentation. The "peerlsr insti
tutions'' of Utsh. and tho South have nj had
. rap from PUTNAM, and row he bolts into
Kansas with visn and maliSnity somowha
surprising. In late number 4 writer OF th'
admission Of Utah, gravely informs Us tha
may always means mag, aud he attempts tC
argue upon constitutional question without
+ q knowledge Of the construction OF statutes
If he IS n lawyer. which We hope for the crodi
Of the profession Is rot the cas- ha has evi
IDENTIFY forsaken Coke and black letter, for 20
etry and light literature.
, The writer Of the present article wake
; wroth. means over the grave Of Webster l.
crocaiile. and bottling up the winds Of heav
en-, starts forth upon Quixotic expedition t
q play thunder generally. Inadisp:iringtUne h
| enquiries: as it that the hereditary anti
!, slavery sentiment Of the North (hereditar.
5 since ghen?) has received some men an
mysterious access of violence, ike feve
g which recurs in 4 more malignant type?-
;. (msy be SOY Is it that the people of tn
) North have been suddenly..seize with (chol
!, era perchsnce) some irrational animosity tc
\ wards their brethren of the South. and rus
forward blindly, to the preparation of an III
provoked injustice? Not at all There is NJ
y thing thoughtless or unkind in the rccel
7 movement. 1t ia legitimate frnit OF circuu
stances-a natural and normal dovelopmen
which any sagnclous student Of cause N
e, effects, in the moral sphere might have pr
dicted and which indeed was predicted