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

consciousness of the business of their cause
but he must know that they came forth from
their hidden birthplace in disguise, silently,
stealthily prowling out into our midst like a
thief in the night, 'preferring darkness rather
than light, because their deeds were evil"
and does he not know that their first acts were
to Cypress their fellow men?
las he not yet read an authentic account
Of their acts DISTINGUISHING their fellow cit
liens, and recitals of the manner their bull
lies murdered in cold blood, with bloodgeons,
pistols and knives, fathers of families in
presence of and amidst the wailings of moth
ers, wives and innocent children, of their
fendish acts in surrounding and firing houses,
burning them and their inmates, men, women
and children, who dared not flee, prefer
ing to be roasted alive, within the sweeping
flames rather than face the bowie knife and
pistols in the hands of Know Nothing
mob He must know all this, and still
when he conceives that there has been an
unjustiable outbreak on part of a few of
our adopted citizens, and they are in the
hands of the law, and when this midnight
assassin like order in this city, pastes at night,
upon the corners of streets and on lamp
posts colOred triangular piece of paper, with
black cross and figure upon it, on the
Sth of this month, for the purpose of call
ing the nefarious order together, for base
purposes and when simultaneously with it
there is public call for meeting of citi-
zens, with design to entrap them into the
same meeting, and those citizens assemble,
this gentleman is one of the officers of such
a meeting and declares its intentions, and
panders to the wishes of the vile proscrip-
1--WE order by calling us incendaries and de-
nouncing the Sentinel because it has ever
| denounced that order as base and corrupt
because we. in sympathy for those We be-
lieve oppressed, declared what we believe to
be their rights if unlawfully trampled upon,
as they have been by secret organization
which Mr.. BLAKE should aid us in denoun-
cling, rather than be silent or aid them by
his influence.
Mr.. BLAKE may call us incendiaries, it is
but charge. We have seen him acting po-
litically with the Know Nothing party, in
fusion meetings when that party in neigh
boring city have proved themselves incen-
diaries. We saw him on the 18th of July,
in this city, acting with, and if we rightly re-
collect, constituted first on Central Commit
tee of a party made up mainly of Know
Nothings and dis Union Abolitionists; and
even after that secret order had in various
places committed acts that should have caused
him, as he loved virtue, loved religion, loved
and desired the welfare of his fellow beings;
and opposed crime, butchery and slaughter,
to stand aloof from Fusion party like that,
when one of its elements, was an order re-
sponsible before the world and before God for
such outragcs. We submit to his sober julg-
ment and decision, whether in the relations
he bears to this community, as a christian ii
was not his duty, by all that is humane; all
that is just; all that is good among men, to be
found opposed with us to that party, however
constituted, instead of now denouncing us,
after having for months opposed and charac-
terized that party as it deserves. But there
he was, and there we fear he will still be
found, giving that Fusion party support and
countenance, and calling US incendiaries be-
cause we oppose portion of the Fusion par
ty which embraces in its organization the
secret order which every peace-loving citizen
must heartily detest.
How can Mr.. BLAKE hear Of their acts at
Louisville, and then denounce us when we
denounce them.
When real band of outlaws, are roasting
alive their fellow men, shedding the blood
ofpolitical opponents like water--bespatterin
a devoted mothers arms and face with the
brains of her infant blown out by a pistol in
/ the hands of a Know Nothing murderer,
while she was fleeing with the hope of saw
ing the life of her devoted child; is it not
time for him and men of his class to array
themselves on our side, and join us and the
Democracy, who are shocked at such diabo-
lical Outrages. We think SO, and envy not
the man who will keep silent, or give the
Order countenance any where, OF act with
them in political organization.
1t is against such a party that we are OPP
posed, and against such that we will wage an
eternal warfare, and if we cannot have the
aid of those who would subselve the public
morals, we at least should hope to be spared
their assaults.
If such society is not to be rebuked and
discarded by those who profess Christianity,
and who are expected to "do unto others as
they would that Others should do INTO them, -
it is not wonder that. in cur day revival
of religion are scarce and that the sublime
teaching of the gospel, has in a great measure
ceased to effect the hearts of men, and that
we see infdelity, religion, Know Nothingism,
Abolitionism. disunion and crime, going hand
in hand through the land.
1t is "pure and undefiled religion to visit
the widow and the fatherless and keep ones
self unspotted from the world, not to clothe
a community in mourning, create widows and
orphans, as the order have done in Louisville;
and certainly if christians would remain I'M
spotted, they would shun party like that Of
dark deeds, that are spotted so deeply with
the blood of the innocent, in a religious per-
secution, that all the water in christondom
would not wash out the stain, or baptise them
into purity and forgiveness.
Strange, indeed, it is that the moral sense
of some of the religious community is SC
easily shocked when a few Germans, aftel
the toll and labor of the day, sit down al
their homes to drink their lager beer, and can
remain unmoved when a secret order exist.
in their midst, who, we verify believe, arc
kept by fear of the contest, from the same
religious and political prosecutions of the