Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-08-16
That Infamous Journal

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tains the following false, scandalous aud ma
hcious libel on ourselves:
That INFAMOUS ExTRA.-The Sentiae
yesterday issued an Extra, containing what
purported to be a letter from an "Eye Wit
ness of the riots at Louisville, which con-
tanned as great a concoction of falsehoOd as
could well be crowded iliO the same amount
of space. 1t looks much ike a fabrication Of
the EdifoFs themselves, gotten up without a
particle Of regard TO what happened, for the
purpose of infiamiDg the minds of such as
might be misled by it. But, if it be what it
purports, a real letter from some one who was
an eye witness, the Sentinel men know it to. be,
in the man, unmitigated lies But perhaps
nothing better could be expaeted of a Journal
that has become not only the apologist but
the instigator of riots and violence. The fol-
lowing paragraph in the editorial of the Ex-
ira, though somewhat in keeping with the
character Of the Sentinel Of late, is almost too
infamous for us to believe that reckless as
our neighbors are, they could use it.
''By some inscrutable permission of Provi-
dence, PRENTICE is allowed to live and the
Louisville Journal to exist, when the Just ven
geance of God should have sent fire from
Heaven to consume the establishment and
its Internal editor"
Is it possible that any being in whose heart
rankles not the spirit of murder ITSELF could
use such language?
We notice there is a call for a meeting OF
the citizens of this city tonight. We have
heard no explanation of the objects of the call
but when lawlessness violence and murder
are so rife in the city, and the leading Jour-
nal of a large party defends it all, it would
be strange if the people should not meet to
take counsel for their safety.
We took charge of the editorial depart
ment of the Sentinel on the first day of March
last, with an earnest desire to pursue towards
the central organ of the Fusion party a course
of conduct by which in our edit rial inter-
course we might preserve the decencies ans!
amenities of social life. We confidently APP
peal to our readers and patrons to sustain us
in the assertion that we have faithfully en-
deavored to avoid abusive personalities, and
that our articles in their general scope and
tenor, have not violated the decorum which
would be required in Parliamentary debates.
Any one who reads the above extract from
the Journal of yesterday will see that it Is
not our fault that we can no longer extend 10
its editors that respectful language which we
always concede to gentlemen.
The article is tissue Of falsehoods, some
of them directly charged, and some of them
basely insinuated. The man who wrote il
knew that he was a slanderer and backbitel
when he did it, and we brand him as VIII
FUL AND MALICIOUS LIAR, EDrToErALLY AMI
PERSONALLY.
1t is not necessary for US, in order TO vim
dicate our varacity to our readers, to asser
that the letter published in our extra was the
genuine production of an eye witness, and {
gentleman thoroughly conversant with tn,
facts, who saw all that he described, but die
not describe all that he saw for fear his state.
ments might have an air of exaggeration. Th'
letter failed to give an adequate impression
of the horrors of the occasion-horrors produ
ced by Know Nothing bullies who concoctet
their schemes of murder and arson beforehand
in their dark dens of iniquity. The accoun
given by the Courier presents picture quit
as melanchol Y and dismal as that of the let
ter writer in our extra. 1t was well know
that fourteen hundred naturalized citizens il
the first, second and eighth wards would vot
to man for Mr. PRESTON, and their vot
would carry him triumphantly in. 1t was re
solved by the bullies that those men shoul
not vote, and murder and arson are the fruit
Of this Illegal resolution. Our naturalize
citizens had right to resist to the dealt
this attempt at disfranchisement, and thcs
are responsible for consequences who wer
guilty of robbing the Germans and Irish Q
their vested rights.
We have nothing to retract Of what we sal
about PRENTICE and the Louisville Journa
We were privileged under the circumstance
to use strong language and we did so.
The course of the Louisville Journal b.
been detestable in the extreme, and we hol
that its conductors are to answer in the sigl
Of God and their country as promoters an
abettors of the violence and bloodshed whic
have covered, as with funeral PAIL the ia
fame of Louisville.
The indianapolis Journal has indeed
much maglignity towards catholics and 70
eigners, but it lacks the ability; if its pow
to do mischief was commensurate with its
sire, we should apply the same wish to it tn
we did to its Kentucky compeer.
Its insigni6cance is its protection-ire fro
Heaven would be put to too base uses in co
suming anything so dirty
The charge Of advocating lawlessness, vi
lence aud murder, recoils on its maker Il
Journal and its party are the instigators
these crimes; they. are answerable for all t
country since the institution Of that midnig
band of assassins and miscreants, foully m
named the American Party.
We know that these men are all arou
ms; that their breath, like the invisible mia.
Of the marsh, is spreading fever, contagiC
and death; but we bid them defiance;
are confident in the power of truth and {
omnipotence Of Democracy which, bright
the sun and terrible to its false and vicic
opponents as an army with banners, must a
will crush them out of existence.
The Weekly State Sentinel
Is issued to-day. 1t contains twenty-ei,
columns of Reading Matter-all the Lat
News, Politics, Miscellany, Local News,
diana Items, the Markets, etc. Two Dol
a wear In ADVANCE Sinqla comics in ctr