Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06
WASHINGTON, January IS, 1861.

WASHINGTON, January IS, 1861.
What an awful set of liars your Republican ed
tors out west are, Their inventive genius is re-
markabe, and they never correct their misstate-
ments. When the South Carolina Commission
ers left Washington they started canard that
they had not paid their rent and board, ard had
actually cheated Prof. Wormley, respectable
colored man here, who supplied their table. The
Professor Immediately published card stating
that the whole story was a base fabrication, and
hoped "no body would believe that he kept com
pany with persons base enough to originate such
a base SANDER Yet not Republican paper
that have seen, has had the manliness to correct
the filsehood.
Again, it telegraphei all over the country
that, in secret session of the Senate, Senator
Crittenden had made speech favoring coercion.
In the Senate last Thursday, Mr. Crittenden de-
nounced the statement as untrue: 80
''Mr Crittenden rose to personal explanation.
In violation of the rule of the Senate, spurious
report had been sent abroad of what he had said
in secret session of the Senate He entirely
disavowed the report He had never read it; nor
would he do SO. He had been informed that he
was charged with fayoring coercion. 1t was not
true"
Yet, not a Republican paper has corrected this
faisehood.
STILL again. they started a roorback that the
Governor of Mississippi had planted "A battery at
Yicksburg to blockade the river and prevent its
free navigation. The Governor has published
letter. in which he states his reasons for the step
he took, entirely different from those assigned
him, and that he has ordered the withdrawal of
the battery; yet the Republican press has neither
published the letter nor retrdcted the falsehood
The Governor says:
Being advised by the Governor of Louisiana
that he had reason to believe that an expedition
would be sent down the Mississippi river to reen-
force the garrisOns of the forts and arsenalsof that
State, sent Capt. Kerr with sixteen of the Jack
son Artillery Company, and ordered Capt III. IL.
Miller to call out the volunteer companies of
Nicksburg and take such position would ena-
BILE him to prevent any hostile expedition from the
Northern States descending the river. Learning
that the forts and arsenals were fully garrisoned
by Louisiana, i have directed Capt. II. III. Miller
to withdraw his forces from the position they had
taken"
They also fail to tell the people that erery
Southern paper is in favor of retaining the free
navigation Of the Mississippi river, and that the
State of Louisiana, in her ordinance of secession,
recognizes the free navigation of the Mississippi
river and its tributaries. also the right of egress
and ingress of its mouth" and "do hereby
declare our willingness TO enter into stpulations
to guarantee the execution of these rights" 1t
is alone by misrepresentation and falsehoods
that Black Republication expects to excite the
public mind against all compromise, and hurl the
nation into the bloody vortex of civil war.
The authoritative and official annuncaton of
the Toronto Leader, the Government paper in
Canada that the English Government has finally
decided to recognize the Southern Republic as
soon as it is formed, has caused great sensation
in this city, particularly among the Republicans.
These gentry will soon wake up to the fact that
England has only been patting them on the back,
and giving them aid and comfort, in order to
bring about dissolution of the Union for the
purpose of getting the whole trade of the South
into her own hands. The statesmen of England
have long been noted for their great abilities,
and unbending devotion to the interests of their