Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-03
The Profigate Journal.

As the heat of the weather increases the
evident symptoms of rabid iretiulness' a
purblind mendacity and a complete reckless
ness of decency, distinctly mark the the In
diana Journal Its course is marked by a
total disregard Of the most common courtesy.
Its vocabulary is filed with language so
coarse and so foul that it disgusts every re-
fined and respectable reader. Its assertions
are dogmatical, assuming and ridiculous IL
pretends to candor while it is full OF hypoc-
risy and misrepres entation.
The long, silly and coarse article which
was published on Friday morning as Its
leader, is the proof which we adduce to sus-
tain the foregoing remarks.
This wanton and rabid conduct OF the
Journal would indicate that it is maddened
by despair at the prospects before IT. 1t
sees the downfall of Abolitionism speedily
approaching, and in its wrath lashes itself
into fury, and gushes forth its spleen IN
streams of foul scurrility.
The impudence of this hackneyed press
is monstrous. 1t assumes to speak for the
Democracy and to declare their sentiments.
. II nuts words into their mouths which they
(lneysr uttered, and then undertakes to centric
fvert its own weak and false assertions ltpre-
teeds to be the expositor of Democratic Prin-
cirles and viii not allow them to point to their
own platform and printed records Tor the
RI.
Were we disposed to try our hand, we
think we could give the journal full
dose of hard words and bilious exPlietives
but we are in too good humor to enter Into
such a contest at present-we shall therefore
permit it to indulge in its ribaldry and cpl
thets. as such matter is, no doubt, quite
relish to the appetites and tastes OF Its pre-
tendingly pious and decent Abolition read
ers.
The Journal stated a bare faced falsehooC
when it said that the Democracy are In iaVo
of extending slavery into Kansas. Also
when it stated that it " extenaated the effort
of ArcH1NsoN and his crew, to force slavery
into Kansas 1t states fasehood OF tn'
blaekest dye, when it asserts
"sEyery Democrat advocates the Southern
doctrine that slavery has rigLt to go into az
territories without law, or PERMISSION
Also, another falsehood when it says
ssThe Sentinel knows that too. Every Dem
ocrat' has approved the attempt to execute mos
laws bv the aid Of Buford's band, and the MIS-
s,uri borderers, who have burned, plundere'
and,murdered, without check or restralnt iron
the President"
We give these as specimens of the misera
BILE slang and lies in which that negroizeS
paper INDUCES, and we deny, by the whole
sale, every one of its falseheods in references
to the Democratic party, and to the sent
ments or conduct of the Sentinel.
The Democracy hold the doctrine thai
Slavery cannot exist in any State or Terri
tory without the aid ofpositive law. This j
an almost universal sentiment, and none bu
extreme ultraists ever doubted the position
The right of STAKEHOLDER to take hi
slaves into territory, has never been set
z tied, and is a judicial question, only to b
titled by the Supreme Court when it shall
nl'ed upon to decide the question unde
!. : ~ to construe the Constitution Thl
y The Democratic ground on that point.
The Sentinel, nor the Democracy, hav'
4 oz-a- advocated the conduct of the Missouri