Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-13

changed; the democrats were 10 De Hsuiteu on
all occasions; and rather than fail in carrying
out the conspiracy, falsehood must be invented
to furnish shadow of cause for the disreputabe
and most indecent onslaught.
The next step to urge the Republicans on to
the work cent out" for them, was to show that
the Democrats were rather a cowardy set. This
would help materially to steady the nerve of the
faltering Republicans. SO the Journal gives an
account of the Dunn and Rusr affair, in its issue
of the 29th January. in which it depicted Mr.
Rusr as being very easily satisfied and adds:
'If Mr.. Rust had chosen to press for further
satisfaction, he toOUli hare got It. without doubt
for Mr.. Dunn, though unscrupulously just, is I'M
finchingly firm"
The same paper contains low assault upon
Mr. COBB, of Lawrence, and the next paper, JAN
uary 80, assailed Mr.. CoSLEY in the same manner,
and denounced his speech as containing "sympa-
thy for treason
We come now to the Journal of January 3lst,
which was exceedingly war-like, breathing blood
and thunder in every line. We are first treated
to puff of Mr.. DEHARr's speech. and the ex-
crutiating manner in which he administered upon
Messrs. RAY, COBB and WOLFE, who huttered and
squirmed in such a manner as to show "they were
hurt in the way they scratched" The next arti-
Gle is headed 'lvely," and reads thus
"LIvELY-Y esterClay, while Mr.. Wagner was
addressing the Senate ON the subject of Fsderal
Relations, he took occasion to denounce the sen
tments of Democratic Senators, declaring they
were in sympathy with traitors, and the utterers
of such sentiments were traitors at heart and
traitors in fact. This assertion brought Messrs.
Cobb and Ray to their feet, who inquired ii he
was personal in what he said. Mr.. Wagner re-
peated his assertion, and said if it fitted the gen
tlemen it was personal, and he was responsible for
his sentiments They disclaimed such sentiments
as their own. Afterward, in the exchange of in
terrogatOries, Mr.. Ray said the Democrats of the
North would stand between the South and Mr..
Lincoln and the Republicans, if the incoming Adj
mnstration attempted to coerce the seeding
States. Mr.. Wagner denounced this declaration
as trait0rOus and every man who uttered such
sentiment a traitor. Mr.. Ray did not resent it
further than to say that If what he had said was
treason, Mr.. Lincoln and the Republican party
could make the most of it,
The spirit of this incendiary article is too plain
to be misunderstood 1t exhibits in clear light
the outrageous attempt TO insult and degrade the
Democratic members of the Legislature. even
though it was necessary to coin falsehood for
the purpose.
The Journal of the next day, February l, fol-
lowed up the onslaught in the same belligerent
style:
a SEVERE DRUBBING.-In the debate yesterday
in the Senate on the proposition to appoint com
missioners to the border State convention, Mr..
Mellett, of Henry, gave Mr. Ray, of Shelby, a
most unmercifu scoring. He openly charged
him with treason, and caused Mr.. Ray TO squirm
under the severe castigation. He pictured him as
ready to yield his freedom, to surrender his man
hood to spit upon his hearth stone, to spurn his
home, to desert the section of country in which
he lived, and march with shouldered musket,
der the black flag of treason, and meet his friends
and fellow citizens. who were loyal TO the Const-
tuition and obedient to the laws, at the point of
the bayOnet. Mr. Ray sprung to his feet several
times to explain, but the more he explained the
worse he made it-receiving hot shot, copiOusly
discharged, as long as he continued to make his
Interruptions. Finally, getting tired of being re-
peatedly worsted, he subsidized into his coat-colar
and cushioned chair, and remained silent until the
vote on the proposition was taken. He was a
pitiable looking object, and made his case worse
by trying to make it better. The conflict of
words was fun to outsiders, but it was death to
Ray.
We quote now from the Journal of the I'd inst:
"The Sentinel Of Yesterday dsclaimed that Mr.
Raw was severely handled in the Senate Wed
nesday last by Mr.. Wagner. The fact that Mr..
Ray squirmed under the castigation received. and
the manner in which the Sentinel attempts to
place him in better position than he already oc-
cupied, proves that he severely felt the blows
that were dealt him. Mr. Ray has been de-
nounced in the Senate by both Messrs. Wagner
and Mellett, as traitor and it is useless for the
Sentinel to deny the fact for the Senator from
Shelby"
The same paper contained an infamous attack
upon Mr.. Packard, of the House, charging him
with saying that if war came he would be found
on the side of the South, and then on this false
hood calls him traitor, and that he has no bust
ness in the Legislature, sc.
Now the editor of the Journal must have known
that the Democratic members of the Legislator,
would not quietly submit to have such insults
Haunted in their faces, unless he proceeded OF
the hypothesis that they were a set Of coward,
who would silently swallow insults and injury
an assumption which, we opne, he has found ex
tremely hazardous. Stirring up his party friends
by these incendiary appeals and boastful accounts
of their own valor and the cowardice of the Dem
ocrats, they went on, at his bidding, heaping in
suit upon insult until they reached the poin
where "forbearance ceased to be virtue anC
some of our friends, goaded by these assaults
and singing under these insults, turned upol
their assailants. Yet even then the Journal dix
not lower its braggadocio, warlike tone. In it
issue of the 4th inst we are told that the Sentine
and Mr.. HEFFREN may learn before long that the
have made slight mistake in their victim Mr.
MooDY) :" and adds 1--WE do not feel impelle
80 say anything in defense of Mr.. MooDr, for h
can take care of himself, and Mr.. HEFFRES know
it well enough to avoid experimenting in that di
rection." Now what does such language mean
Why, clearly that "before long" Mr.. Moop
would challenge Mr.. HEFFRES. 1t could have n
other meaning.
The same number contains the following
''plucky" and warlike article:
There was little scene in the House on Sat
urday, created by the personal explanation Q
! Mr. Packard, of Starke, whose inflammatory ma
ture took fire at the alusion to his sympathy wit
Southern men in the Journal of that morning
ant famed out in a fierce denGnciation of III
member who gave Us the statement about him a
liar, and divers other unpleasant and otfensiv
: tnlllgS. MI. feaglef, oil de halD, rose and SAL
that he the man who had given the informa
ton to the Journal, and that Il ioas true, and h
hurled back the lie to the gentleman from Starke
There the matter stopped for the time. and for a
time, We presume, Mr.. Packard did say wha
was charged, and it can be proved. He prObabl
does not want any further exposure. Mr.. Felgle
is quiet, unobtrusive, working member, but Ia
is pluck all over and the way he came back
the South Carolina gentleman from Starke wa
altogether more exciting than eiifying to ths
individual"
After writing these and other incendary art
ces, stirring up his party friends to assail, Wifi
and insult the Democrats of the Legislature; aft,
himself piling Pelion upon ossa, in the way
q haunting. jeering and sneering at the Democrat
4 ascowards; after exhaustig the English vocabulai
t for pluck" words in which to depict the courae
8 and valor of the Republicans; now, when Il
!. matter has been brought to a head, and that "b
fore long" which he threatened, has come upc
Il US the editor ofthe Journal would fain skulk fro
: the responsibility which rests upon his shoulde
d as the prime moving cause Of the difficulties.
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