Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-13
VINO is Re.ponsibIel

The editor of the Journal can congratulate
himself on at length reaching that slower depth
of infamy for which he has been so laboriously
striving for years With an impudence and au-
dacity that would make the "cheek of darkness
pale" he labors to shift from his own shoulders
and those of of his party friends, the respon
sibility of the duel between Messrs. HEFFREN and
MooDY. Well may he and they exclaim: ''Our
responsibility is more than can bear;' but this
does not excuse them from theinfamous and base
attempt to climb out of it Oil the shoulders of
others, and we say to the editor of that sheet,
are not the goat in the well, on whose back he is
to escape from the tight place in which he and
some of his friends are placed. This community
has not forgotten the relish with which, at the
opening of this session Of the Legislature, he mis-
represented its proceedings in order to hold uphis
friends there aweing and cowing the Dem
ocratic members. Day after day his paper teemed
with such articles, while the Sentinel was either
silent, or merely contradicted its falsehoOds. A
few quotations from these articles may not be
amiss to refresh his memory, and stamp the re-
sponsibility upon his forehead.
The first quotation we make is from the Jour
nal OF the 10th of January, the day on which the
Legislature met, in which, in his comments on the
Democratic Convention the editor foreshadows
the course to be pursued by the Republicans in
the Legislature, and Kisses them on to assail the
Democrats as TRAITORS" "enemies to the couu-
try" &c. Listen:
% The spirit of the whole affair was really as
hostile to the Union as it is, as any meeting ever
held in Alabama Mississippi. II was, IN es-
sence and fact, disunion meeting. There was
not a speech from first to last, that did not JUS
tify the secessionists by placing all the blame of
the present crisis upon the North. And the reso-
lntons, through stately parade of platItudes, re.
peat the falsehood in every form of verbose ma
Lightly Whatever could be done to encourage
rebellion by sympathy, by exculpation. by accu-
satiOns of those who resist it, was done by the
meeting. Consequently n Northern
Democrat is making himself traitor to his State
and the Union for the mere pleasure of being
mean and false, when he charges the blame of the
/ present crisis upon ANYTHING but slavery. =
1t is as real encouragement to treason as if il took
shape in dollars, and bullets, and blue cockades."
Day after day were these attacks upon Demo-
Gratis repeated in the Journal, and the charges
rung upon them. The object was to incite its
party friends in the Legislature to institute there
not only political tyranny by virtue of their
large majorities in both Houses, but personal
tyranny; not only to vote down all Democratic
propositions their right, but also to crush
out and disgrace the Democratic minorities BY
the effort to compel them to submit to insult and
wrong. Thus the moment the Journal had sue
ceedel in working its party friends up to the
scratch of assailing the Democratic members, it
took good care to havethe Republican DULLES and
loafers around town on hand to applaud these as
saults and il was not aniss in recording the fact
From the Journal of the 18th of January we
quote
APPLAUSE IN THE LoBBrEs- yesterday while
Messrs. Craven and Melett were addressing the
Senate on the question of Union or disunion
sprung upon that body by the report of the Com
mittee Federal Relations their patriotic word:
were several times loudly applauded by the peo
pie who crowded every inch of the floors of the
. Hobbies. The Democratic Senators suggeste.
that the Hobbies be cleared, and the President
warned the crowd to keep order Democratic
speakers could elicit no applause in uttering the
remarks sympathizing with disunionists and trail
tors.
No man can be deceived in the meaning of al
D this. Thearticle speaks plainly to MELuErr CRA
/ VEN & Co. 1t said: "Go on, gentlemen, anC
e abuse and insult the Democrats as much as yo,
D please; have the force on hand to support yol
D and crush out the Democrats if they attempt Il
D resent the insults heaped upon them" The hin
G was not lost.
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