Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-03
Most fragrant Hypocrisy.

Inc most ueSlSaOle piece Oh lmpuueht
conduct that we ever witnessed, is the at
tempt Of the Indiana Journal to hoodwink
the Germans into the support of FREMoNT.
About ten months ago, the same men, in In
diana, who are now supporting and huzzaing
for Fremont, were equally loud in denOun-
cling the Foreign citizens. No epithet of
abuse, no words of denancation was spared,
but they were rated as "the dirty, lopeared
Dutch" and 'the drunken and ignorant
Irish" They were driven from the polls by
force, and were smitten over the head with
brass knucks; they were beaten and MANNED,
brutally treated, and their votes forcibly ia
ken from the ballot boxes,-their wives and
children murdered with savage barbarity,
and their houses and property burnt and de-
stroyed These same men who are now rail-
living for Fremont, upheld and supported
the fiends, and villains who perPetrated these
atrocities, and the Indiana Journal apologized
for and excused these dreadful murderous
assaults as being merited by the foreigners,
and charged them as being the instigators Of
the Louisville mob, and as deserving their
fate. The Journal also published the forged
certificates, written by the Know Nothings,
throwing all the blame of the burnings and
murder of men, women and children, upon
the foreign citizens.
Now, in less than year these unblushing
demagogues, these hard faced hypocrites,
these unprinGpled aud lying pretenders, are
calling upon these same foreign citizens to
Join them in putting down Democracy, and
in putting up Abolitionism and Know Moth.
ingism. These two desperate factions have
blended in Indiana, and are unitedly en-
deavoring to overthrow the Democratic party,
which party has always been the true friends
of the foreigners, and has always treated
them as equals and as friends.
Such DISSEMINATION is too gross to pass
without observation, and too shallow to de-
ceivs our German citizens. They remember
the color Of the dog that bit them. They
have too much shrewdness to be duped by
the old lying drones of the Know Nothing,
Abolition hive. They have too much resent
ment to lick the hand that so recently smote
them. They are too spirited and stubborn
to forget and to forgive their late and pres
ent mortal enemies, and to do their bidding,
under the silly pretence that these Hindoos
and Abolitionists are the friends of freedom,
and that the Democrats are the friends OF
slavery.
No man in his rational senses should
imagine that intelligent men, such as most of
the Germans are, can be thus deceived and
made to support their old, bitter, and per-
scouting enemies. 1t is adding insult to in
jury, and should subject those who would
be duped thereby to utter contempt aud deg.
radiation.
The German citizens of Indiana have
nothing to fear from the negro, in any condi-
lion, either as free or slave class. The
Germans are able, both mentally and physi-
cally, to compete in labor or in business with
the most skillful, experienced and wise men
OF the Abolition party, and 1t Is double IN
suit to tell them that they are in danger Of
being rum under by the competition of slaves.
The worst population that ever infested any
State, is community of free negroes, and
every German should set his face against
every attempt of the Journal and its party to
place them upon an equality with our Foreign
population as citizens. They would elevate
the negro above the German or the Irish
8 - Their Leaders, as IN the instance Of
Judge KILGoRE, who is their present candi-
date for Congress in the fifth district Of In
diana, and rank Abolitionist, who proclaim
ed in the Constitutional Convention that the
negroes were ten times better qualified to dis
charge the duties Of citizens, than were the
Germans and Irish.
Shame upon that impudence which now
shows itself in this attempt Of the Abolition
lists to impose upon the credulity of the Ger
man and Irish people. 1t should be indig-
nantly frowned down by every voter who
is thus insultingly approached, and the Jour
nal should know that its foul intent is well
understood.