Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-07-05
A Pitiful Calumny.

A Pitiful Calumny.
The Republican of Friday contains an arti-
Gle throwing out an insinuation against Cover
nor Wright, which is truely contemplate.
It intimates that the Governor had been brIbed
TO surrender a citizen of Indiana to the autho-
rites of Kentucky
Some charges, corresponding with the base
source from which they spring, are so utterly
false and frivolous that they do not excite
our indignation, and this is one of them
We can only feel infinite contempt for the
msanness of spirit, which could give curren-
ey to the caIumny that gentleman OF pure
morals and stainless integrity would, Tor
small sum of money, cover himself and his
State with eternal disgrace.
The new editor of the Republican is, we
understand, clergyman. Did he learn to
bear false witness against his neighbor from
the teachings of the Divine Book? If he
had chosen to consult the records in the Sec
retary's office, he would have found that
everything was there which the Constitution
and laws of the country require, and that the
Governor, as a sworn officer, could not do ether
,0iss than to surrender the person charged
with crime to the authorities of the State
where the crime was committed.
Gov. Wright has for six years been the
Chief Executive of Indiana with honor and
credit. No man in the State is more zeal
Gus of the rights of her citizens than he. He
has never surrendered one except when
clearly required By law. But he will never
shrink from obedience to the Federal Con-
stitution, nor swerve in devotion to the Uuion.
Years ago, the principles which guided him
were eIoquently expressed. What he said
then, he is, we doubt not ready to say now.
This was his language:
It gratifying to witness Kentuckians and
Indianians, to-day, mingling together as one
people. The great mass of our fellow-citi-
zens turn away from that miscalled philan-
thropy which sets at defiance the solemn com.
pact Of our fathers, which would violate al
law and order, and which makes each mans
conscience the arbiter of constitutional rights
Differing in the structure of our social rela
tions, we came up to the bond of our Union
the ark of safety-the Constitution-conse-
auently the property of the Kentuckian il
returned as promptly to his owner by the In
dianian, as his is, in return, by the Kentuckiar
/ ardently hope that the citizens of Kentucky
and Indiana will ever retain the proud dis
tinction they now enjoy, of living as people
foremost in sustaining the rights due to each
other, and regarding and faithfully fulfilling
the obligations that they owe to each membel
of this confederacy of brothers. 1t is true
that the government of the United States i
not perfect but man has established non'
better-none as good. Through the many
centuries of the Past and among the rostles
nations of the Present, and over the habi
table glohS wherever man has made
home, < 8nay search in vain for Pc
liticalcorfs.I eration more free, and better ad
sptd il its< practical operations, to raise tn
w,ole human family to the highest attain
lole CONDITION of virtue, freedom, knowledge
Political equality, prosperity and safety. Tn
hand of an over-ruling and unseen Prov
dence is visible in the unexampled blessing
which are scattered all round us. A natio
Of freemen, stretching from ocean to oceal
from State TO State, embracing free though
free religson, free Bible, schools, home
churches, libraries and asylums.
While portion of our brethren on the we
tiers of the Pede, French, Broad, and Bl
Hatchee of the South, and those of tn
North, on the Chicopee, Quinebaug an
Taunton, are talking about dissolution an
separation from one another, and of "marcf
ing up to the last parapet with coffins OIL the
backs" of Setting at defiance the law
Of the land" we Kentuckians and Indians
JAMS are sitting quietly under the shade of o,
mighty oaks" living and dwelling as brett
rem in peace and harmony. Peace d,Cells ,
tkis valley. Our motto is, That the land oo'
quered under Freedoms banner, shall be cons
Grated to Freedom and Union, nolo and foreue
If the men of this day, who talk of separs
ton of this Republic, would visit the gre'
West-the Mississippi yalley-they woul
return satisfied that a separation is imposs
bic. With us we have a higher tat0-it
natures law, before which all the Assem-
blages and conventions, from Hartford I
Nashville, from Buffalo to Charleston, weig
not feather.
When the day shall arrive that the lar
guage and principles, avowed and spoken
the ultraist Of the North or of the South, sha
be adopted and be as common among til
great mass of our fellow-citizens of this va
ley, then, and not until then, will the frient
of free government throughout the wor
have right to doubt the capability of ma