Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-18
The Last Resort Of a rriokst er.

sorts 10 personal abuse, ana the mounting OF
unsavory epithets, he unwittingly advertises
to the world that he has nothing better to
offer. Upon controversy of this kind we
have no sort of ambition to enter. What
ever laurels are TO be won by the editor of
the Journal, in that department of newspaper
discussion, he can wear, without the slight
est twinge of envy or jealousy on our part.
If he is satisfied with the victory he has
achieved, we hope he viii quietly hang his
sword up to dry, like h,rrings in a fisher
mans hut.
The charge that we neither understand
what we read, nor how to make others un-
derstand what we WRITE" may be true as
between the editor of the Journal and Our
self. Many smarter man than we are
might find it most difficult to understand the
senseless jargon of blockhead, who has no
clear comprehension of what he himself is
prating about and equally difficult to make
that blockhead understand what he might
write, though it were nothing more intricate
and prehensible than the simple propo-
sition that two and two make four.
As big blockhead, however, as the edi-
tor would write himself down to be, he I'M
derstands perfectly well what laws we re-
ferred to when we stated that the obnoxious
Jaws passed by the Kansas Legislature, and
which the Senate proposed to repeal, had
never been enforced or sought to be enforced.
Upon that statement the Journal took issue,
stating that they had been enforced in the
ces at Lawrence, and in the arrest of ROBIN
SON, Brown and DEITzLER, for treason, and
asking us to prove that it was not upon vi
olation of those laws that those proceedings
were based. And yet, forsooth, this very
manly, high-minded editor has not asked
us to prove negative, and, moreover, very
Indignantly styles us an "intense FOOL" for
suspecting such a thing. Now, too, he car
ries out the artful dodge, to which we, in
former article, alluded.
Speaking of the destruction of the Hotel
and Printing offices, he asks" If it was
not done under the territorial laos, what laws
did authorize it Pr There is slight differ
ence, we apprehend, between this general
term" territorial laws'-and the particu-
lar term, "obnoxisus laws" which, in all
that we have heretofore written, have been
so clearly specified that no one could be mis-
led, and about the enforcement of which
this whole controversy originated. Though
we have not, heretofore, denied that these
proceedings were enforced under authority
of laws passed by the Territorial Legisla-
ture, yet we might have successfully done so.
The indictments against ROBINSON, Brown
and DIETsLER, are for treason against the
United States, and were found we suppose,
under authority conferred upon the District
Courts of Kansas by the organic act itself,
which grants to those courts the same juris-
diction in all cases arising under the laws
and constitution of the United States, as is
vested in the Circuit and District Courts of
the United States"
The destruction of the Hotel and PIin-
ting offices at Lawrence, were not authorized
by any order or writ issued by any court for
that purpose, nor, SO far as we have ever
learned, by any legal authority whatever
Judge LECoMPTE, some time ago, denied ever
having issued such writ, and more recently,
in communication to Hon. JAMES A. STEW
ART, of Maryland, he ieiters ties this denial,
and shows, furthermore that the act was com.
nlitted without the least shadow of Terrific
rial authority. His language is as follows:-
The Grand Jury sitting at the time made pre-
sentiment of the presses and of the hotel in
Lawrence as nuisances, aud that presentment
still lies in Court. No time for action on it ex-
isted-none has been had no order passed
no decree made-nothing done, and nothing
ever dreamed of being done, because nothing
could be rightly done but upon the finding of a
petit jury.
The letter Of Judge LEooMPrE is in reply
to the speech Of Mr.. CoLFAx, in the House
of Representatives, and is full and CON-
piete vindication of his official conduct
against the false charges showered down upon
his devoted head, like hail stones, in the
electioneering speech of the member of Con-
| gress from Indiana.
He says that only three or four murders on
each side, have occurred, only as they have
taken place in consequence OF, or in connec-
ton with, the revolutionary movements that
have caused all such outrages. In all these
instances, except in the case of McCREA, the
: circumstances have been such as to render il
impossible to reach the perpetrators.
The President in his reply to the National
Kansas Committee who called on him few
days since, to ascertain his policy in refer
ence to Kansas, confirms the statement oil
Judge LEcoMPrE, as to tho destruction oil
the Hotel and Printing Offices at Lawrence
According to the report published by that
Committee, the President informed them
: that "the outrages at Lawrence were com.
mitted without any authority"
Having abandoned its first position, anC
now finding itself attacked in its second, will
the Journal bring forward some kind Of ar
gument to sustain itself, or will it continu,
!, to resort to an alternative which seems to b,
more congenial to its tastes, and better suitet
| to it's capacities, and crawl off under a clou,
!, of personal abuse and blackguardism, ant
Q thus escape further notice. Let him remem
e Der that calling us "NoaRs Gowd''-"Mos
' ueritalk Sol0n"-"intense FOOL" dc, DC
S does not make good his assertion that tn
: obnoxious laws of Kansas are answerabl
b for the destruction Of property at Lawrenc,
It and the arrest of ROBINSON, BRowN an
!. DEITzLER, for treason.
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