Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-06-21
For the State Sentinel
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but it seems from an article headed as above,
that we have been wofully mistaken, for il
has taken up cudgels in defense of the Free
soil party.
The Journal says that an article in Satur-
days Sentinel, under the Inappropriate head,
Fresoilism-is tissue of Misrepresentation
from beginning to end" The journal has
not attempted to prove that fact, but SIM
ply contented itself with mere statement
that such was the case.
We presume the journal will not attempt
to deny that slavery was forced upon the
United States when they were colonies, by
Great Britain, that the colonies protested
against its introduction, that ships from Mass
achusetts were engaged in the slave trade,
and that they were among the first to be so
engaged, that slavery was improbable at the
North, that it was there abolished, that it is
not improbable at the South, and that it
there exists.
We presume that the journal is aware of
the existence of the colonization society, and
that MIR. CLAY was a member and an officer
of that society, and that Mr. EVERETT is now
member, aud, We believe, an officer, that
the Abolitionists are antagonists of that So
ciety, that Freesoilism is now political or
ganization.
Did not General JACKSON coerce South
Carolina into submission when she attempted
to nullify? Have not Wisconsin and Mass
achusetts in fact nullifed have they not set
at naught the laws of the United States
Have not GARRISON, WESDALL PHILLIPS,
THEODORE PARKER, and FRED. DoUGLAss de-
nounced the Constitution as 4 damnable
fraud-and that too in Fanueil Hall? Was
not DANIEL WEBSTER prohibited from speak
| ing in that same Hall, because he acted as a
National man? Are not GARRISON, PHIL
LIPS, and other men of that stamp the leaders
of the Freesoil party? Have they not again
and again denounced the Bible as tissue of
lies? Are they not the worst sort of in6dels?
Did not Freesoilism ally itself to Know
Nothingism? and has it not now come out
from that body in a measure-because the
Know Nothings of the South could not swal-
low the anti-savery platform. Has not Free
solism attempted to use the Wing and DEM
ocratic parties for its own vile purposes
Will the Journal deny that Samuel has been
most soundly thrashed, of late, in Virginia?
For what party or country does Freesoilism
care but itself? Is it not a sectional party?
Does it not hate the South? Did not some of
its leaders declare in the city of London about
the time of the Mexican War; that the gov
ernment Of the United States was a Slave
ocracy and tyranny, and rotten to the core?
DID not Freesoil members of Congress wish
that the American army might find hospita-
bic graves in Mexico? and did the party not
rejoice when they fondly imagined that TAY-
LoR and his army had been cut off by ARIsTA
between Point Isabel and Fort Brown?
Have not the leaders of the Freesoil party
denounced WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON as
shareholders ? Have not er post tacto laws
been passed in Massachusetts-as the case of
Judge LeRISG will bear testimony to? Have
not ladies Of questionable character been car
ried about by Massachusetts, Legislators, and
fed and provided with wine at the expense of
the State ?-witness Mrs. PATTERSON. Have
not the houses of defenseless women been
ransacked, and their wardrobes tumbed
over aud even the sanctity of a sick room
| desecrated by committee of the Massachu-
sets Legislature ? Have not GREELEY and
Others declared they would spill the last drop
of blood in theil veins and dissolve the Union
if any more slave States were admitted p
Such is the tissue of misrepresentation from
beginning to end, according to the Journals
account. 1t did not attempt to point ost a
single misrepresentation, but contented itself
with an attempt at recrimination.
The Journal says that ministers of the Cos
pei were denounced as itinerant vagabonds-
it is mistaken. Men who stole the livery of
Heaven to serve the Devil and the Know
Nothing party, were denounced as itinerant
vagabonds; but let the Journal point to q
single minister of the Gospel who preached
Christ and him crucifed, who did not make
the pulpit a political rostrum to abuse his
fellow-men who did not agree with him, who
was denounced by the Old Line press Be
cause a man wears white cravat and has
Reverend prefxed to his name, he is not, a:
a matter of course, saint. Let the J0,rna
| ,roxa that tba nanoooracx- hoe ox-ar aold itcol
to the North or South. Let the journal prove
that WASHINGTON could not be elected to the
Office of constable.
The journal harps upon compacts. Is no
the Fugitive Slave Law part of a compact
part of the Constitution of the United States
When have the rights of freeman beer
trampled upon and Democracy was silent ?
The journal charges the Democracy with be
ing fllibusters; but, as in the rest Of its state
e ments, does not prove the charge.
j The Democratic party, by its consisten
e course, has proved itself to be the only na
4 tional party. For the old Whig party we ha
a decided respect; it was an honorable ma
tional party; though we did not approve z
its principles, we could not help respecting
, for its open and honorable course of warfare
but such miserable bush-fghting thing
:, the ola podrida called the Peoples party, {
i, which Freesoilism is the principal ingredien
q we have no respect, and as we have said b.
o, fore, may Heaven preserve the good State {
.; Indiana from its polluting influence.
0; MAN MIssiNG.-A man named Reuben
S Harper, engaged in the shoe business
;: Boonville, left home last week to buy leathe
e &C., at Evansville. He purchased son
q. goods here. which he shipped home, but HI
lie not been heard from since. He has perhal