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

ceived an unmerited complimentary banquet
from large and respectable number of the .
citizens of Mississippi, independent of for !
mer party ties or associations. As the sequel /
plainly demonstrated, it would have been |
serving the smooth-tongued knave with what
he deserved, in far greater degree than a
banquet, had he had meted out to him the
identical punishment when HENRY S. FooTE,
told JOHN P. HALE he would be sure to re-
ceive, did he ever show his Abolition phiz in
Mississippi. For, Notwithstanding he was
cringing and fawning enough to make can
did confession of his past acts of dishonesty
and lying abuse and villifcation against his
political opponents, at the same time promis-
ing future amendment-yet no sooner had
he got back to Louisville, than he poured out
against the present Democratic administration,
personally and collectively, more especially
against President PIERCE himself stream of
filth and falsehood and groundless calumny,
that would hardly be justifable against the
miserable libeller himself and which would
outlaw from all respectable society and over
whelm with infamy, any and every man
whose character for reckless mendacity and
base hypocrisy had not already placed him
outside the pale of the former, and rendered
him incapable of farther degradation from the
other.
This, too, is the same mobocrat and hirelng
who was burned in effigy in the city Of his
residence, because, as was generally believed,
and as he afterwards acknowledged under his
own hand, he had defended for psculiary
considerations the most cold blooded and afro
cious murder that was recorded in the cal
ander of crime. This conduct of the Louis
Williams towards him on that occasion, and in
fact the almost universal execration heaped
by them upon his lshonored head, explains
in great measure the fiendish spirit of cool
ness, and the incendiary thirst for blood that
actuted him during the late canvass. That he
is amply and thoroughly and deeply revenged
upon the city and its inhabitants for their
treatment of the meroenary wretch at that
time, none will pretend to deny who will
pause to contemplate the desolation and woe
and terrible ruin to all their interests, which
his ruffianism, venality, and Unsuitable craving
for revenge and satisfaction to his wounded
sensibilities have unquestionably brought
upon them.
He could have been actuated by scarce any
other motive in his savage and ferocious war
against portion of his fellow citizens, and
in the exciting appeals which he made to
their lawless foes to crush and trample upon
their dearest and most sacred Constitu-
tional rights. He had foI years been on
the most intimate terms of friendship with
the Catholic Bishop, and Clergy of Loui-
sville. He had time and again declared his
conviction that the Catholic religion was the
true form of Christianity, if there were any
truth in Christianity itself. And as proof
of his sincerity, he had caused his children
to be educated in its doctrines and practices.
In kentucky, these facts are indisputable and
undeniable, unless, indeed, PRENTICE himself
should accumulate the brazen effrontery to
deny and dispute them But, independent
of all other proofs of his unprincipled base
ness, need only point our readers to his
course during the last Presidential contest
1t has become a part of the history OF the
country how those who arc row engaged in
the unholy task of hunting down our adopt
ed Catholic fellow-citizens, denounced New
Hampshire for her religious test, and General
PIERCE for being guilty of no other crime
than that he was born upon her soil Not
one, however, of these hylocritical miscreants
and lick-spittles surpassed the man PRENTICE
in the fierceness of his wrath in the profun-
dity of his horror, in the fire of his indigna-
ton against the fated State of the granite
hills and her degenerate and bigoted sons.
To prove to those our of readers, who may
not have read the infamous and unprincipled
hireling sheet at that time, that we speak
the truth, and do not misrepresent its editor,
or falsify the record, we shall proceed to lay
before them in black and white that may defy
cavil, few scattered, random extracts, taken
from his writings during the last campaign
for the Presidency. Arguing that New
Hampshire was unworthy to give a Chief Ma
gistrate to the nation on account of her re-
ligious intolerance against Roman Catholics,
this two-faced hypocrite says:
The Democracy of New Hampshire, generally
recognized as the most thoroughly Democratic
State in the Union, have never permitted Ro-
man Catholics to be eligible to Office in that
State. On the contrary, they have voted with
extraordinary uhanimity that Catholics shall be
Ineligible to any office whatever; and yet they
now ask that one of their men shall be supported
by all Catholics throughout the nation, for the
Presidency of the United States-LouisriIte
Journal, June 10th, 1852.
Again, in reply to the position assumed by
the Democratic press thatthe test in the New
Hampshire Constitution would furnish no
Just reason for voting against General PIERCE,
he continues:
Well there are many that will think the rea
son good one. They will not consent that the
by an overwhelming majority, in favor of Cath
ole disability TO hold Office, shall have the hon
or TO awe a President TO the nation. They
would greatly prefer that this honor shall be
accorded to some State not disgraced By such
1JOminuble Jigotry.-LouisOiiieJ Journal June 9th.
In another issue of his vile paper, he con-
tends that it was notthe Wings but the Dem
ocrats of that State who were responsible for
the retension of the religious test as part of
the law of the land, and proceeds to denounce
the Democracy forthwith:
The vote for Governor on the same day. says
the Journal, was about $4,000, yet ont Of such
a large number of votes in the strongest Dem
ocratic State in the Union, less than 10000
could be found to cast their votes against the
most infamous system Of religious intolerance and
bigotry eoer ia this country.
On another occasion, replying to one of the
Louisville Democratic Press upon this same
subject, the editor of the Journal pens the fol-