Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-05
For The sen,lnel
The Present Crisis

mOVlnent u the great ldea oil the day. In the
the North, during the past year, through it,
secret organization, it brought together, on the
principle of the "cohesiVe looloey Of public plum
der" men who all their lives-long have been
at political variance, and cemented them to-
gether, under the promise of division of the
spoils, when the victory was achieved
In Indiana ,as in several other of the North
en States, Legislature was elected, whose
chief mission was to reward the faithful They
fell out by the way, and adjourned without ac-
complishing the object for which so much la
Dor had been expended. They had too many
self-sacrihcng patriots to provide for, and hence
did nothing in the way of rewarding the faith
full. Chapman, a bolting Democrat, was early
nominated for Public Printer; but Gegg,
Sanders and numerous other Old Line Wings.
with Ellis of the Lafayette Courier, a pretend
ed Democrat, but really an abolitOnist of the
Obrlin stamp fairly hunted him down; ran
him off the track, with scarce grease-spot left
of him. His poor old father, broken down in
health and in spirits has retired from the tri-
pod, ready tu exclaim,
81 II | had served The Democrats,
With half the real have the Fusionisis
They would not, in my old age,
Have thus deserted me-"
No verify. They twice rewarded him with
the Office of Public Printer, and for six long
years he hell the office with its emoluments.
They honored him by sending him as dele
gate to the National Convention at Baltimore,
in 1S4S, where, with the rest of the Delegates
from Indiana, he voted for LEWIS CAss as the
standard bearer of the Democratic party
They, through President Polk, appointed his
son midshipman in the Navy, which office
the young gentleman has since resigned.
While holding the profitable Office of State
Printer they crowded their honors upon him
by nominating him and electing him Dele
gate to the Constitutional Convention. They
came within few votes Of making him the
Democratic candidate for Congress from this
District, and many of them Recommended
him to President Pierce for City Postm ,ster
Z" The poor old man has gone 10 his rest-
Peace to his ashes His history is only
specimen of Others who left their early friends
and principles last summer, in their worship
of strange gods.
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, sums
up the obituary of the last Indiana Legisla-
ture as follows:
Born of Fusion and of Folly, its brief ex
istence was worthy Of its parentage; it died of
corruption and passed away, without carrying
with it the respect or regret of any"
The Cincinnati Gazette and Cincinnati Com
n'ercidl are, if possible, still more severe in
their censure of the late Legislature.
The Know Nothings, having accomplished
their mission in the North, by combining the
conflicting elements on the principle of the
cohesive power of public plunder," before
alluded to, have now entered the sunny
climes of the South. The present battle ground
is Virginia. Extra Billy Smith has Joined the
Know Nothing organization, and has taken
the field against Henry A. Wise for Governor.
He gives the following graphic account 6f fhe
origin Of Know Nothinsism st the Eorlh,
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