Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-03
BLACK REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
4. Il ND FIZZ e!

Some ten days or two weeks ago. the Black
Republican Central Committee fixed upon the
time for holding their County Convention. and
at the same time determined that the meeting
should be regular rouser." Accordingly,
the following, printed in large handful form,
was issued from the Journal office:
Mass Convention of the Republicans of
Marion County. All persons opposed to the
present Old Line Party; opposed TO the infa-
nous repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and
the Outrages in Kansas consequent upon that
repeal; all persons in favor of making Free
dom National and Slavery sectional, and in
favor OF perpetuatlng our glorious Union and
Republican Government, are cordially invited
to meet IN Convention on SATURDAY, JUNE
%, 1856, at 10 o'clock, A. NJ, TO nominate
candidates for the offices of Senator, Represen-
tatives, Sheriff. Treasurer, District Attorney.
Common Pleas Judges, DC, of Marion county.
Let every man who loves his country and its
liberties. come out, and express his choice for
persons to fill these offices. Let every Repub
lican be at his post of duty. The times demand
it, Come one, come all Let it be day long
to be remembered, and let the numbers and
the enthusiasm be suspicious Of a glorious vic
tory this fall
By order Of the Genital Committee of Marion
County.
Well, the day appointed arrived; the wealth
er was delightful. and every thing suspicious
for the assemblage of avast crowd. But, alas
for Black Republican hopes, and exhortations,
and sympathetic prayers. and reasonable ap
peals 10 the baser passions Of their sectional
and fanatical party, their work was cloves Ia
Dor lost !" for the masses came not-the People
staid at home.
But in the spirit of desperation, the leaders
determined to make the best possible show Of
the crowd they had. Accordingly, they assem-
bled in the Court Honse Square, where pro-
cessiOn was formed, and marched to the State
House Square. The cast assen'6lage was drawn
up in pairs and placed at the very respectable
distance Of ten feet apart. Thus arranged they
made an " aucfnl shOU "a great army OF Union
hating Notwithstanding in silence, as if
they already felt the condemnation which the
honest and patriotic people will place upon
them in October and and November next
We counted the crowd-that is, those in the
prOcession-for every Black Republican in
attendance upon the Convention joined in the
procession-and all told. men, boys. and free
niggers, it amounted to exactly t,po hundred and
forty eight Black Republicans. and more than
Onehalf Of this number were well known to the
citizens of indianapolis.
This meagre turn out, after such constant
drumming, must have been exceedingly hu-
initiating and annoying to the "ieaders."-
They had boosted so largely of the crowd
that would be in atlendance-had made such
extensive calculations, that their complete and
total failure fell upon them like wet blanket.
The f=zie was a complete one. ViUe la Black
RePuJIieanibaIs-ViUe Ia Kansas Humbugs!,
u The following is the ticket nominated by
The Abolitionists and Know Noihings on Sat
urday.
Senator-Dr. BoBBs
Representatves-Dr. GoRDoS, DIR. ToDD.
Sherif-JSo. E. FouDEAY.
Treasurer-JEssE JOKES.
Prosecutor-GEo. H. CHAPMAN.
Judge G. @. P.-DAvID WALLACE
Surveyor-WM. P. CASE.
Commissioner-J. B. Snow.
Coroner-JSo MoFFITr
Every man on the above ticket is now, or has
been, Know Nothing. Yet they now try to
cajole our adopted citizens by the most specious
hypocricy, and professions of love for the Ger
mans and the Irish. Will the foreign born vo
tiers OF Marion county forget the scenes of 1854
and 1855, when they We're beaten from the polls
denounced as emmissaries of the Pope-as
enemies of their adopted eountry-as men not
fit to exercise the privileges of the elective fran
chise ? Will they forget how brutal and vii
lainsus police, backed by Know Nothing City
Council, and by the Know Nothing Lodges of
this city, beat, shot, and otherwise abused their
persons-and under an unconstitutional TEN
perance law confiscated their property, entered
their private premises, ard regardless of the
age, sex or condition of its inmates, in the most
barbarous manner tore from them that for which
they had labored and spent their own means
honestly acquired
How these men can now have the bare-faced
effrontery TO ask a German, an Irishman, or
any other Of our adopted citizens to vote for
and sustain their men and their party, is mat
ter Of the greatest worder to u.s. 1t is, however.
only in consonance with their bare. faced impu-
denee and eanting hypocrisy. They will not
succeed, We are certain. in inducing single
foreign born citizen 10 leave the Democratic
party They have tried that party-proved il
true TO the country and their interests. They
will still trust it-and all the lying ISLANDERS Of
AbolitiOnism-the forged lies of Kansas out
RACES and bleeding freedom" will not succeed
in drawing off single vote from the Demo
cratic ticket. The Germans, the Irish, and al
the adopted citizens understand too well tn
tricks of Black Republican Know Nolhingism
to be caught in trap which may be so plainl,
seen by the most casual observer of the poll
tics ofthe times and the history of trans pirin
events,
IJ The Black Republicans had a torch -ligh
procession on Saturday night. There wer
three hundred AMI seventeen persons in tn
procession, Of whom one hundred and ninety
eight were voters, and the balance little bows. @
from ten to fifteen years of age. The process
sion looked yery &" hq1dso,ae and The to-.l