Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-12-13
The Spirit of Observation-Disclosures OF
Judge Perkins.

sruine, in those days, was the object of their
profound respect and reverence, and for any
one to venture doubt of its purity or infal-
libility was a soIt of sacrilege. Now, how
ever, lamentable change has come over the
spirit of their dreams.
The Judiciary must be made subservient
political tool-must implicitly obey their Ia
natieal behests. This doctrine is boldly and
shamelessly avowed. One of their distin- |
guished speakers, on the 18th Of July last,
in this city, in public speech to assembled
thousands, announced that if Supreme
Court decided the Liquor Law unconstitu-
tional. "Old Lineism would hear howl
such as it never heard before-a breath had
made these Judges, and breath could I'M
make them p' Another said. eff they did
so decide, they (the Black Republicans
would turn them out of office, and put Others
in who would decide it constitutional"
No considerations of conscience, of violat-
ed oaths connected with the stern oblisa-
tons of these Judges, were to be thought OF
the Fusionists had made the law, and the
Judges mus. sustain it, however IN their de-
liberate judgment it violated Constitution
they had sworn to support But what cares
fanaticism, Fusionism, and Black Republi-
canism for oaths and Constitutions
One of these Judges has, however, decid-
ed the law unconstitutional, and the prom
ised ''howl'' has commenced. He has pro-
nounced an elaborate opinion which none oil
the "howlers' of the Fusion press dare pub
lsh, aud not one of whose arguments or po-
sitions they have the courage or AGILITY to
state and assail Yet, true to their orders and
their instincts, they "howl" the louder. No
consideration, whatever, is given to Judge
| Perkins's able and unanswerable reasoning
no credit allowed for conscientious and
unavoidable discharge of his sworn duty, but
the "howl'' is kept upin full chorus-"Tray
Blanche, and Sweetheart on his track,
to hunt him down in public estimation. Be-
sotted editors-editors who many times and
oft have been carried home from bacchana-
liam revels, or resurrected by their friends
| from their pulrescent "wallows'' in the gut
ter; men of just suficiency of brains to
write Perkins where they hear of man
being drunk, are to conserve the public NOR
ais by thus fostersng spirit in the country
subversive of law, of constitutions, and Of
constitutional obligations.
This "aowling" Fusion party have made
A law the similar of which has been decided
or fell still-bon upon the
body polti; in every State in which it has
been tried Ii has been so decided in New
1 York aud Massachusetts,, and at this moment
much such n state Of things exists in those
Ststes as now exists ia Indiana. Such 4 law
has never yet been decided Constitutional by
any Superior Court in the Union, and never
will be till folly ao.l fanaticism and den...
yogusism are fully Installed upon the Bench
as they have been 10 legislative halls.
i But the people of Indiana will take ur
and do Judge Perkins justice. The blind
and impotent rawlings of drunken editors, and
fanatical knaves, will DO him no harm. This
course has been tried Gu other men aud gu
other occasions. His opinion in this case will
at once command for him al eminent place
among the jnrista of this country. 1t Is an
opinion, il is tine, requiring a Judicial intre-
pidity 10 make, which many wonld perhaps
faiter and shrink under but he has met the
occasion as became man in his exalted po-
sition, and nobly sustained his high Iepnta-
ton. II "Free Whisky" is for time the
order of the day, it resulted not from his de-
cision, but from the action Of those Dho repeal
tional one. 1t results from Know Nothing,
Abolition, Anti Democratic Legislature, which
cared not for whisky, SO its members could
get plenty. but which aimed to keep alive a
fanaticism that would give them, as they
supposed, pelf and power. They did not
soant to make Constitutional laso They did
not want reasonable law, which would put
down liquor shops and meet the public ap-
probation; for had they passed such law
"Othello's occupation would have been
gone-their political capital would have
been exhausted.
The Democrats Of both Houses offered
them such lava law which would have
closed up the doggeries and prevented theil
being re-opened. But, mol They must have
the unconstitutional, impracticable, dead let
ter law which now curses the State and
they must needs repeal all others which had
gone before it, so as to render it certain that
they could have another year or two of ex.
element oil the subject
i They talk about Judge Perkins letting
loose the traffic. If it was true, it was they
who made it inevitable. But it is not true
In many counties Of the State this law never
was executed in single instance and even
In our own city it has been openly and boldly
violated and disregarded even in the face Of
a Know Nothing, Abolition police, and a "a.
natical, proscriptiye Carson League. In
many counties no Agencies have been es.
tablished, or agents" appointed to sell, but
every one who chose sold without molesta.
ton, as they are now doing. For months
liquor has been publicly sold from behind al
least forty different counters in indianapolis
Moreover, before the late elections, in al
NEST every county where there was sharE
contest, the Fusionists themselves repudiat-
ed, condemned, and opposed the law, and
made no attempt whatever, to put its provi-
sions into execution.
In virtue of the above facts, had those flu.
sion editors who so n,alevolently traduce
Judge Perkins for his decision, one particle
of moral or political honesty, shame would
mantle upon their brows and crimson their
faces, scared as they are by hypocrisy and
deceit. But on the blackened brows of such
calumniators even shame would be ashamed
to sit.
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