Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-01
DAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 4. 1855.

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ETt'red Douglass lectured in PHILADELPHIA
on last Friday night. The SIN saws he is
remarkable man, the most distinguished col
ored man living, with a reputation for elo
quence and high ability unquestioned. ye
TINS man was once slave, is now fugitiv
from slavery. What superior specimen o
Southern chiyalD' his master ought 4
have been to claim authority over implici
physical and moral obedience from the grea
Orator and Representative African. w,
should like to have his whilom white faced
caucasian" oyerseer, who stood ready Il
Scourge fired 10 his field work with a raw
hide, If such asman under any circumstance.
ever needed scourging, think, write, speak
and act IN competition with him, Just too see
which would show himself the better fellow
Nay, we should like to hear Mr.. Vice PreSi
dent Bright the STAKEHOLDER, and proscriptve
candidate of Indiana pro-slavery loco-foco-
ism for the Presidency, take a tilt with the
"nlgger' in an oral discussion from one of the
butchers blocks in the Broadway market
house. People could soon make up THEN
minds then which was the most aft
and senselessa Individual for a newer OF
wood and q dralerof water.--Madis0a Ban
s,ey.
We find the above paragraph in the Indian
apolis journal of yesterday, extracted from
that bitter and INSCRIPTIONS Abolition print,
the Madison Banner. 1t will, no doubt, GO
the rounds of the Fusion papers throughout
the State and it may give the cue to the
party of all the "isms" TO prepare themselves
for another ism, of a still darker and stronge,
nature than any one they have heretofore
openly advocated, to-wit amalgamatiohism
We, few days since, alluded to call for a
Fusion Convention at the North, of whites
and blacks Unfortunately, to take theprepa-
ratory steps for nominating ticket in favor
of the extension of the elective franchise and
the right to hold Office to negroes. The next
move, we should suppose from the Banners
article, will be for Convention of similar spir-
its, of white and black Fusionists, to nomi-
nate FRED DOUGLASS for the Presidency =
Only think of that A negro TO fill the sta
ton once occupied by GEoRsE WAsHIEGToE
We suppose, We say, that such will be the next
move. What else can be the meaning of the
Banner men in their fulsome eulogy Of
FRED DOUGLASS? What else can be the in
terpretation, when they speak of him as the
"great orator and representative African ?'--
What else can be their motive for desiring a
~ tilt' in the Madison market-house between
JESSE d. BRIGHT, who is spoken of the
Democratic candidate for the next Presideli-
CIV, and, FRED if they do not intend the negro
What else can be the purpose Of the Journal
men in seizing with avidity the Banners ef-
fusion, and sending it through their columns
to all their readers throughout the length and
breadth of the State Such movement
should surprise no one who is conversant with
the fact that the political friends and coadju-
tors of these papers in New York have re
Gently nominated this " distinguished colored
man. for seat in Congress; and nomination
of him for the Presidency would be only one
step higher 1t would be strictly in conso-
nance with the policy of the Abolition Know
Nothing party, of elevating the negroes and
degrading the white men of the country OF
bringing about a general fusion OF the white
and black races.
There is no use in disputing about tastes,
and we shall, therefore, not quarrel with these
Abolition AMI amalgamation editors for pre-
ferring FRED DOUGLASS to JESSE ID. BRIGHT
for the next President We shall not be as
tonished if they should invite the "Jistin-
guished colored gemman" not only to the
butchers blocks in the Broadway market
house" but also to their beds and board; and
we have not the least doubt but that they
would feel more pleasure, and be more al
home, locked up in the embraces of FRET
DOUGLASS, even during July night. than in
the arms of JESSE d. BEIGHT, or any Other
white man in the country.
But what an insult have these Fusion edit
ors cast upon the State, in coupling the name
of the negro, DOUGLASS, with that of the able
statesman who now solely represents Indiana
in the first legislative body of the Union, and
who at the same time fills the station of the
second office in the United States 1t is diff.
ficult for us to find words TO express our in
dignation at such comparison, or at such al
insult. In attempting TO degrade the intel
lect of JESSE d. BRIeHT, they degrade the in
teiligence of the people who have hitherto
elected him to the many high Offices he for
merly filled in the State; they degrade the
Legislatures who twice elected him To tn,
seat in the United States Senate which h,
now so worthly holds; aud they degrade th'
eminent men in that body who elevated him
at the last session, TO the station heretofore oc
cnpied by such luminaries as JEFFERSON
CLINTON aud CALHOUN.
It's oosSi5le that the blunted senses or negr,
nartialties of the Banner and journal edition
NAV look upon or regard FRED DouGLAss as q
greater man than JESSE ID. BRIGHT; and sucl
NAV be the favorable estimate Of all their Alb
clifton or ainalgamaton friends and followers
who may vote for the negro as next Presi
dent. But, for our part, we prefer puttin
onr trust in the shrewdness aud judgment Q
the People, and their representatives in tn
State and National Legislatures, which hav
so frequently passed upon the ability an
qualifications of "Indiana's fayorite SON.
He has gone through ordeals to which n
other man of his age in this country has pass
ed; and he has thus far sustained himse'
with honor and success in eeery station t
which he has beeu elected, and gives proms
that there is none in which his native power
of mind will prove inadequate to fill.
THE DEMOCRATIC PYRAMID.-Let us lool
at the glorious Democratic pyramid that ma
been erected in few weeks by the indom
table masses of Democracy, aroused to actio