Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-03
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that are constantly cast abroad, to the injury
of the fair fame and good name of the Gar
den City. Her facilities of commerce, says
the Press, are misrepresented by rival neigh
bors for the purpose Of turning trade into
their own Golfers, and the character and hab-
its of her people are foully aspersed and out
rageously maligned with a similar intent
The Press ampliies upon the grievances of
Chicago, and thinks that the inventions and
| fabrications of its enemies could all be borne,
if they originated entirely abroad. The source
off the evil, however, is attributed to the
public journals of its own city. The Times
is charge with malicious Justification of
facts, and the Tribune with the most fragrant
incendiarism. The Times, it is reported, de-
sires to manufacture political capital at the
expense of the city's reputation, while the
Tribune, protesting infinite friendship to Chi
cago. stabs her at her vitals and saps her
very heart IS blood "If this paper, (the Tn
June, } was established says the Press,
+" for the purpose of stirring UP neighbor
against neighbor, of marking more deeply
than nature has done the national peculiarl-
ties of our people, of inhaming sectional an
imosities and the prejudices of caste, OF
turning peaceably inclined community into
pandemonium of Infatuated fiends-it could
scarcely pursue a course more likely to &C
complish the object than that which has
characterized it for the past year"
The remarks Of the Press constitute OF
themselves a striking commentary upon the
accessible characteristics, which they are inten-
ded to shield from public scrutiny. The
five daily newspapers of Chicago, differ
materially in the complexion of their pol
tics as indeed in all other particulars.
In this difference, they display confused
state of public opinion. They are sup
ported by the public and are supposed to
give a true reflection of public sentiment.
If this be true-if the newspapers of a
city, taken together, are the mirror by
which its interior being is held up to the
vision, then, the very comments which the
Press makes ulon two of its cotempora-
ries, the comments which they in return
make upon it, the reflections which the
Democrat, the Times, the Tribune, and the
Journal, are throwing constantly against each
other, convict the Press, in the very teeth Of
its defence Of Chicago's reputation, of a most
glaring error. We have no desire to injurt
the reputation of the young and beautiful
Garden City. Her position is the best, in {
commercial point of view, upon the Lakes
Beyond all doubt, she is destined, and
that before great while, to out-number any
of her rivals of the North West. A portion
of her population, too is of the very best char
acter is made of that fresh and energetic
material which is common to the elements Of
i, expanding youth. Yet, that there exist:
in Chicago, as has already been intimated, an
} unfortunate population, fanatic and incendi-
airy population, is certainly apparent in the
events repeatedly occurring there, and i:
evinced most evidently and satisfactory in the
tone and character of its public journals.
j The Times was more than right in the as
sertion that the late riot in its city was mo
the first which had occurred in Chicago
and it might have added with perfect con
! sistency, "by no means the worst" few
misguided Germans, the victims of dis
eliminating law, were thown, more by acci
dent than by preconcertion, into demonstra
tons of rotous character. A few months
previous to this, however, when the Repre-
! sentative of an independent sovereignty at
tempted to defend the course he had pursued
, in the United States Senate, attempted t.
explain to his constituency the motives
! which had actuated the discharge of hi
duties-men that knew how to be gentle
men, and who consequently placed them
; selves beyond the pale of excuse, wer'
the men who instigated riot, and who assist
9 ed through mob violence to deprive al
American citizen of one of the most vitalll
essential rights guaranteed by the Constitu
? ton of our government. There was pre-
5 meditation and calm calculation in their pro
ceedings We remember well to have reaC
from the emblazoned letters of certain news
papers in Chicago, the calls which wer
made upon the merchant, exhorted to leav,
his counter, upon the mechanic, exhorted e
leave his bench, upon the sailor, exhorted t.
leave his ship, to come forward, all, with thu
: fixed and determinate purpose of disturbing
and breaking up a political meeting. Thi
thing was done, and, as the Times says, the
aiders, abettors and participants in the out
rage were, in part, ministers of the gospel
and self-constituted leaders Of morality.
If the last unprecedented German RIO
was disgraceful, the calmly. cody organized
moral mob, Of which we speak, has no super
lative degree in odium. When native Amer
lean citizens give the example of mobocracy
and violence, the individuals who come
amongst us from abroad and whose sympa-
thies, and feelings, and habits, our aim is to
have assimilated to our own-these stran-
gers to our mode of life, could scarcely be
expected TO adopt a higher standard Of
morals, or a better standard of law and equi-
ty.
However disagreeable it may be, the city
of Chicago must bear the stain with which
she was polluted by the high-handed violence
Of her good citizens against the Douglas meet
ings, and wear It too, in bold relief, until the
events of the future, ob.iteTating time, shall
have washed it from existence.
GrIf Virginia defeats WISE Cor Governor
and declares in favor Of Nothingism,
the Abolitonists and Freesoil men &C Indi-
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