Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-09-27
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To make a silk purse out Of sOw'S ear
would BE- an easy thing compared to the at
tempt to extoTt candid statement from the
Journal. In its yesterdays issue it assails in
insulting language and with false charges the
chief Executive Of our State. 1t not only
forgets the amenities of social life and that
decent respect which is always due to the
Office if not to the man, but it violates the
sacred obligations Of truth. Every assertion
made BY the Governor in his speech at Green
castle was true in letter and spirit and if the
editor Of the Journal dares to publish the
oath taken by the members of his order it
will be complete refutstion Of his calum-
MES. The secret society Of which he is a
member DOES violate the constitution and
prescribe It's neighbors, and regard the law as
inferior to its will; il shuts out from Office
citizens who are entitled by the constitution
to hold Office; it makes a law for itself diff
ferent from the supreme law of the land; it
does require the taking OF extra-judicial oaths;
and we challenge the Journal to publish those
oaths.
But IL caps the climax Of effrontery by say
ing it loes not intimate its approval OF any
secret society social, moral or political. The
force of impudence can no further go. The
hired defenders Of the midnight order, who
for eighteen months have been the unscrupu-
Ions mouth-piece of reasonable conelaves,
who have not hesitated TO loose the respect of
men ard forfeit the hope of heaven IN order
to promote schemes Matched in sin and
brought forth in iniquity-these men now af-
feet to abstain from iutimsting their approval
of secret societies
What pertinence has the reference of the
Journal to Mssons and Odd Fellows, when
every one knows that those are benevolent
institutions and that they have nothing in
them which can interfere with the religious
social or political opinions of their mem.
bers?
We quoted yesterday a glowing paragraph
from the speech of GEORGE E. PUeH, ht
coming man Of the age, but we repeat it to-day
as 1t expresses the sentiments of our own hon
ored and beloved Governor:
II HAVE STATED FULLY THE VIEWS AND
OPINIONS WHICH / ENTERTAIN IN REFERENCE
TO THE OBJECTS PROPOSED By THE Know
NOTHING ORGANIZATION, AS WELL AS TO TIE
MEANS BY WHICH THOSE OBJECTS ARE SOUGHT
TO DE EFFECTED. Is ALL RESPECTS AND PAR
T1cULARs, ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF MY
JUDGMENT, THIS ORGANIZATION THREATENS
VIOLENCE To THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF RE-
PUBLICAN GOVERNMENT, OVERTHROws THE
PLAIN GUARANTEES or OUR FEDERAL AND
STATE CONSTITUTIONS, ASSAULT FREEDOM
OF CONSCIENCE WITH A RUTHLESS HAND, AND
DIsTURBs, IN A FATAL MANNER THE REPosE,
THE ORDER AND SAFETY OP SOCIAL LIFE. IT
IS THE TINE FOR GOOD AND TRUE CITIZENS, OF
ALL NATIvTTIEs, OF ALL RELIGIOUS sENTI-
HENTs, OF ALL PARTIES, TO UNITE IN DEFEND
ISa THEsfsEJvEs AGAINST THE AGGRESSION
20 INDUSTRIOUS AGAINST a CONSPIRACY TO
eOvERy Us BY SECRET CABAIs AND MIDNIGHT
SESSIONS, ISsTEAD OF PUBLIC DEBATES AND
MANLY APPEALS TO JUDGMENT AND PATRIOT
ISM; A CONSPIRACY TO AROUSE THE MOST TER
RIBLE PREJUDICEs AND THE WORST PASSIONS
BREAK THE PEACE, THE BROTHERHOOD, TIT
MUTUAL. CONFIDENCE AND DEPESDENcE, THE
CHARITY, AND THE LOVE, By CULTIyATING
WHICH WE HAVE GROWN TO BE PRosPERoU;
AND ENLIGHTENED COMMUNITY OF FREEMEN
A CONSPIRACY, TO AssAssINATE CIVIL. AND RE.
LIGIoUs LIBERTY IN THU LANDoF ASYLUM AMI
REFUGE.
1T is a noble cause, nv friends, which now
invokes your aid. For this, in olden time
the brave and the faithful have surrendered
their lives-the patriot has bowed his head
On the scaffold, and the martyr has looked
up from his fiery passion to behold a cross o.
promise in the skies. We are not now called
20 such trials; but we arc called to maintain
with all our energies, the sublime precepts o
liberation and mercy, which lessons like thes'
afford. By the expression of our will through
the ballot-bOx, in a method at once decisive
and peaceahle, we can secure, even for dis
tant generations, the freedom, the Justice, th'
greatness 10 establish which the colonists o
North America forsook their homes in tn,
Old World, the graves of their fathers, tn
haunts of their childhood, the scenes the,
had often admired, and the places they haC
most loved, and ventured across q wild ocean
into a deeper wilderness. Let those of II
who are descendants of the colonial pioneers
assisted by our fellow-citizens who have sine
fed from the hardships Of despotism abroat
and cast their lot in this country of promis
and adoption, make bold struggle for tn
principles, the example, and the memory o
our ancestors. That ensign which they raiset
upon the American continent shall 90 befor
us-sn ensign which now, fully i'll the sigh
Of the nations, for tho encouragement of hu
manity and the admonition of tyrants, carrie
this glorious message: EQUAL AND ExAo
JUSTICE TO ,ALL-FREEDoM OF THoUGHT AN
OF CONSCIENCE ISvIoLABLE-HOPEs FOR TIL
OPPRESSED OF EVERY CLBEE-PEAcE o
EARTH AND COOP WILL TO MES!''
GEORGE L. PuGH.
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