Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11
The woolly VIII epulIers.-No 6.

Iuc WOOlly VIII tpulleIS.-NO o.
If ever there was a party that has betrayed
the wishes, wants and sentiments of the
people, it is that party whose leaders are
personated in the names of Greeley, Weed,
Webb & Co. Their honest sentiments, if
they have any, are dramatically opposite;
but in order to wrest the reins of govern
ment from the hands of the Democracy,
they band together like Brigands, and use
every artifce that political infamy may sug-
! gest, to accomplish their ends. The most
notorious libels are published by them against
the leaders of the National Democracy, and
what they print is spread broadcast through
out the whole country, even at the expense
of the government! Thus, the very men
who libeled, are libeled at the public ex-
pense.
These men, who assume to be the leaders
of the Black Republicans, and the 'loire pull
lers," profess to have endearing affection for
the peoples interest. During the eighty
years of the existence of the Uuion, we have
seen what such men would have accomplish
ed, had they the power. That great and
clear-sighted stateman, Thomas Jefferson,
foresaw the designs that were in contempla-
ton, to form a Northern and Sectional gov
eminent; and for the purpose of checkma-
ting the Northern Tories and fanatics, he
recommended the Louisiana purchase, as a
counterpoise to their desideratum. This ter
ritory is now divided and peopled into
States, each one forming a Sovereignty in
itself, and when we are all counted and uni
ted, We form a galaxy of ~indepdent Repub-
lies, such as the world never seen.
There is o g subject which these "wire-
pullers" have ever harped upon. 1t is the
eternal din Of slavery. The Constitution
guarantees each State the enjoyment of its
immutable rights. This is a solemn COM
pact. Among these rights is the regulation
of the domestic Institutions of each indi-
vidual member. New York, long ago, by
wise and judicious legislation, exterminated
the existe nee of slavery, as it was an evil
that was not acceptable to the majority of
the people. The process of its extinction
was gradual and effectual. New jersey fol-
lowed the example of New York, and il
there be a slave now living in either State,
it is because they prefer to live with their
old masters, in
"The cot they were born in
and enjoy a worldly competency, than TO be
ruthlessly thrust into the world, aged and
helpless, the inmates of pauper-houses and
prisons, and the tenants of pauper-graves.
Had these "wire- pullers'' never introduced
their Abolitionism, the States of Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, and per.
haps Missouri, would have been free States
at this day. When these doctrines were
first advocated, the people of these noble
sovereignties deemed it better
u-toh.or tho lila thov have
Than fly to others which they know not Of"
They saw the reasonable design of the
New England fanatics, and they were re-
solved to stand shoulder to shoulder, and
battle for their legal and Constitutional rights.
The wise men ofthe nation formed an Eman-
cipatery Association, whereby they conceived
that Slavery could be gradually e~xtinguished
At the head of these men stood Henry Clay,
and had it not been for the o~ficious inter-
meddling of English and Eastern abolition
lists, the cause of "human freedom" would
have been thirty-fve years in advance of
the present day.
1t is an old saying, "put a beggar on horse
back, and he will ride to the devil" 1t
might as well be said, put an abolitionist on
horseback, and he will soon find his indi-
vidual friend.
The peace of the nation requires that these
"woolly wire-pull ers' be put down at the
next election. We toiU do W-Cdmpaign
Democrat