Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-09-11
as an Artist

it, we take this occasion to refute and ex'
pose it.
Hammond as an Artist"
Under this caption, the Journal Of this
morning, INDUCES in more that its usual share
of personal reflection and abuse, while pre-
tending to notice the speech of Judge HAM
MoND, at Masonic Hall, of Thursday even
ing.
The cry Of "superhuman impudence," te
the declaration Of Judge HAMMOND, that the
opposition speakers and editors fail to prove
by evidence or argument, the position which
they take in reference to the validity of the
Kansas laws, is not exactly the way to dis
prove Judge HAMMoND's statement. If the
Journal had spent half the time in replying
to the argument made by Judge HAMMOND
in reference to the validity Of the laws of the
Kansas Legislature, that he spends in abus-
ing him, the public would be willing to
give the editor more credit for manlines;
than he has now any right to claim. He
would also have given some proof of hi:
confidence in the position which he assumes,
that those laws are null aud ought not to be
obeyed.
Not one word has the journal to offer to
prove that it is right on this subject, and that
Judge HAMMOND is wrong. The effect Of
Judge HAMMoSD's speech upon those who
heard it, is not to be warded off by stigma
tizing it as "a splendid achievement of dar-
ing im~pudence."
Judge Ii. has justly acquired for himself
the reputation of being one Of the most logi-
81 and argunentatiye speakers in the State.
His candor and fairness in discussing all
questions at issue between the parties, are
commended by hundreds of his political or
ponents, as warmly as by his best friends
The fling Of the Journal at Judge h., as
being a " deserter," is decidedly cool, coming
as it does from one who is not only furnish
ing " aid and comfort" to the enemies Of an
organization, with whom he as well as Judge
H. was formerly associated, but is actually
leading on the traitors against his old friends
and associates. In applying the epithet de
serter'' to Judge HAMMoND, the editor of the
journal stamps the brand, with double in
fanny, upon his Own brow. In the issues in
yolved in the present contest, Judge HAM
MoND occupies the sam ground which he
and every other Old Line Wing occupied in
1852. The Journal, on the contrary, is now
reversing every positiol on the slavery ques-
ton which its party then maintained, ard
Justify joins the motley crew of Free-soilers,
Aboliti0nists and Disunionists in dancing a
saraband over the ruins of the ola National
Wing organization. If the editor of the
Journal can read over that word "deserter, -
and not feel his cheek crimson with the
blush of shame, it is because he is lost to all
sense of that last evidence of manliness and
honesty. He has unwittisgly placed in the
hands of Judge HAMMOND a weapon with
which he might, were he SO disposed, return
the compliment with compound interest.
OF The New Albany Tribune affects to
see a marked inconsistency in the Sentinel, of
September LIST, because we uphold the doc
trine of popular sovereignty" and at the
same time condemn the Kansas a~gitators in
the House of Representatives for refusing to
unite with the Senate in abrogating certain
obnoxious laws passed by the Kansas Legis-
1~fn-o r., III A. -l.- Il III 80
and ourself do not look through the same
pair of eyes. We conceive hat the repeal of
those laws is necessary to give practical effect
to the doctrine Of self-governmeDt as advo-
Gated by us and as recognized by the express
terms Of the Kansas-N ebraska bill and the
Cincinnati platform. The Kansas Legisla-
ture has passed certain laws which restrict
the freedom Of speech and the free exercise
of the right of suffrage. Those laws are
almost universally regarded as ~unconstitu-
tional- Though they have never, in a single
instance, been put in execution, yet to re-
move all cause of complaint, the Senate has
twice passed a bill declaring that they shall
not be enforced. Those bills have as often
been defeated BY the Black Republican
House.
So far from the action of the Senate being
a practical denial Of the right of self-goyern-
ment to the people of Kansas, we regard it
as a practical acknowledgment and enforce
ment Of that right. Instead Of q prohibition,
it is a direct guaranty of its exercise, unmo-
Tested by any outside pressure or interference
whatever. E
In its anxiety to pick a flaw in the position
of the Sentinel, the Tribune has enveloped
itself in a fog, through which it is evidently
difficult to see its way out.
WISCONSIN CoSGREssMEN. "A dispatch
from Racine informs us that yesterday the
Democratic Convention, held at that place,
nominated JACKSON HADLEY, Esq, Of Mil
waukie. The district is now represented by
w. WELLS.
Hon. SAMUEL CRAWFORD has been nomi-
mated by the Democrats of the Second Dis
trict, now represented by Mr.. WAsHBURNE.