Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-06-26
Declines the Honor

Hon. ROBERT G.. WINTHRoP, having been
invited by the freedom shriekers of Boston,
to attend one Of their meetings at FaneuiI
Hall, and solicited to permit his name TO be
used among the list of Vice Presidents there
Of, respectfully declines the honor in letter
which has been published. lie says that
while he would co operate, with the utmost
=easerness, with those who may be ready to
propose and to sustain any just, practicable
and constitutional measure for arresting the
progress of civil war in Kansas, and fer re-
storing to the sons and daughters of Massa-
chusetts, and of every other State, in that
devoted Territory, the security of peace and
freedom which they are entitled to enjoy
he has no hope that violent speeches, angry
resolutions, or infiammatory appeals, will do
anything towards accomplishing such result.
Its no time, in his humble judgment, for in
dulging in sweeping denunciations, indis-
criminate and insulting reproacheS, or clam
orous challenges and defiances towards other
sections of the Union" "On the contrary, .
he says
Beyond almost all other periods in our his
tory, since we have had history as a united
nation-unless we are willing 10 see that histo-
ry brought to bloody close and the volume
shut fOrever-ii is time for the ealmest, wisest,
most collected and best considered words of
which any man is capable. But unfortunately,
though by no means unnaturally, after the agi-
tating events which have so recently occurred
and which are still in progress, we are hardly
IN condition either to utter anything or TO lis
ten to anything which is not angry, violeit and
yindictive. l ann not sorry, under these cir
eumstances, that it has not been in nv power
10 speak at all in relation thereto There NAV
be time for iuster views and wiser utterances
while as TO any taunts TO which silence may
have subjected ME, they pass by me like the
idle wind, Of which they are composed
Mr.. WINTHRoP, it will be recollectel, ap-
plauGed the sentiment of RUFUS CHOATE,
when it was uttered few months AGO: " We
join ourselves to no party that does not car.
ny the flag and keep step to the music Of the
Union" For that he was immeasurably de-
nounced, and it appears that for his silence
in regard to Kansas affairs he has been the
object Of taunts at the hands Of some of the
freedom Shriekers. These, he assures the
Faneuil Hall meeting, pass by me like the
idle wind, Of which they are composed"
EsCAPED-A female slave who was attending
her mistress while on a visit 10 this place, es.
capped from the ST. Louis Hotel on Thursday
night last. anil has not since heen heard OF II
IS supposed that some Of the negroes in this vi.
entity assisted her to get away, as she had
been visiting among them during her stay
There IS certainly no white man in this mart
of the country who would steal the servant
OF lady. IL is surmised that the wires of the
telegraph lines were cut to prevent her being
VineeHRes Gazette
Oh, no Black Republicanism itself could
not rake up iohite man mean enough to steal
the servant Of lady-of course not Its ia
natical trainbands neuer do such things