Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-11-08

THAT each county be entitled to one dele
gate for every 300 Democratic votes east at
the Presidential election of 1852; Provided,
that no county shall have less than two Del
egates."
Mr.. Wise's Letter
The Yeyay Nea0s, a Democratic paper for
the opinions of which we entertain the high
est respect, comments at some length upon
the seatine1s notice of HENRY A. WIsE's
Boston Committee letter.
We have lost the copy of the Ne.os which
contained the article to which this alludes,
and consequently cannot answer to the points
made by our contemporary. Perhaps tbis Is
well enough, however, Us we do not desire
to, and positively will not quarrel with our
ways to submit cheerfully to criticism from
the Democratic press as we are ever ready
to animadvert unapprovingly upon the Gen.
surable conduct of public men, whether OF
our own or Of an opposing party.
The leading Abolitionists in the country,
with Mr. CHARLES SUMNER at their head,
are not the character Of men to whom we
alluded, as constituting the conservatism
which, existing in the city of Boston, was
the element productive Of the invitations for
lectures on the subject of slavery, to South
em men, of one Of which HENRY A. WISE
was a recipient Fanaticism has been run
ming rampant in the Puritan City, but in
the midst of sedition there is yet some con-
servatism, the out side pressure of which has
driven the advocates of a "Higher Law to
the necessity of displaying, at least n small
degree of seeming fairness in the discussion
of what they are pleased to call principle
The idea which we intended to convey, in oul
structures on Mr.. WIsE's letter, was that his
language, in itself, was disreputabe to man
of his commanding intellect, exceedinly dis
courteous in consideration of the literary
standing of the persons addressed, and unjust
to those men, not Of but among the abolition
lists of Boston, whose stability and moral in
Auenee has broken down the doors Of tn,
Temple of F'naticism and dedicated its al
tars to the open diffusion of liberal sent
ments.
Having forgotten the example given us by
the Neios, as an illustration Of the inconsis-
tency of the Sentinels position, We will adop
another, similar in character, and leave 4
to demonstrate the correctness of the GROUND
on which We stand. We will suppose that
an adjoining territory is inhabited by a rae
of barbarians, adhering to religion and law
which teach them that to keep horse in ser
vitudeis among the worst of human sins, an,
that each man is bound by laws 'Aghe'-' thai
those of mortal firth to embrace every op
portunity to deliver those poor animals from
bondage. Among these outlandish fanatics
however, we viii suppose that there are
sufficient number of men Of reason TO diff
fuse about them such a purifying sentimen
as, in its very nature, must compel the blinde'
portion of community to listen to a fair dis
eussion Of the principle on which they AFRO
gate the right to take away from then
their neighbours property. We win now g
on, and suppose that the sentiment we hav
mentioned diffuses itself more and more, TN
til the incendiaries themselves are compelled
for the sake of appearances at least, to scnt
invitations to the men whose property the,
claim the right to libcrate, to come anon
them, and lecture in their Chief City on tn
very subject which agitates the people Q
both eountriss-the important subject G
"Horse Slavery"
Now We will acknowledge that the Idle
conveyed of these moral Vandals will justif
the presumption that, should the invitation
they extend abroad be accepted, and the
conhding neighbor should ride his horse int
their territory, the probability would be, ths
while delivering his lectures, his amin:
would be stolen and carried sonses0lere to
land of freedom, much after the manner
which Mr.. WISE would have lost his slave
had he accepted the invitation given hin
and carried'his servant with him to Boston
Notwithstanding this state of things, the vel
fact that they exist-that honest men al
made TO believe them right, and that thol
sands among the deluded are struggling f
reform-these things combined should a
as an incentive to those aggreived by Il
idiosyncrasies Of their neighbors, to lend the
intellect to the correction of error and ii
removal of wrong. We will agree with o.
contemporary that our Eastern Abolitionst
like the barbarians we have mentioned, a
thieves and robbers-that they have TO rig
to presume for moment that justice al
morality can give sanction to their depr
dations on their neighbor's property-th
they are the more inexcusable because tn
are iutolligent,-yet,,w feel that they hay
been driven to n small degree of liberali
Of sentiment in extending their invitations
Sarthem lecturers, and that our Southe
friends ars hcnorably and morally bound,
much as we, the conservative men of [
North, are, to battle with the prejudices
bigots and break down the fabrics of fana
cism which are spun like nets around US
every side.
OF The st. Joseph County Forum, we