Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-21

A a for Reformers.
It j. time that some of our radical reformers
directed their attention 10 Il new subject. They
are siugululy neglectiul OF the inter eStS OF the
Oppressed human race ia parts of the world with
winch We have very close relations. They hold
TO the doctrine that they are bound 10 reform all
sins OF human laws which operate to Cypress or
demOralize the hum IN race, or any portion OF it;
md believing themselves TO he specially inspired
with an ability to discern right aud wrong in the
acts OF Others (t not in their own acts they
claim the right OF interfering. with their reform
.det>, among all those people, States and nations.
who. beng less enlightened than they, are there
lore subjected To their superior judgment.
he same principle on which they are impelled
To interfere with slavery in Sta e. which. rs 10
'lave laws. are wholly foreign To them and the
country they inhabit, ought To impel them at
un,e to enter the field to which we new direct
Their attention.
Just across the water from New England are
the islands ct Great Britain. including Old Eug-
aud. Common ancestry and consequent blood
relationship, n common language and u proleS>el
lie, otion TO the same general principles OF liberty,
commercial and literary corr Independence aud in
tere>Is binding Us together, all these surely are
reasons why the phildntrOpis, OF the North should
III ect his attention across the sea, II lie deals IN
Ioleign sins at all. Aud then. re.ariing TIE
motto which has been assumed 10y the leading rad
cal newspaper of the day, in Boston. since it de
clared the American Union gone. ''Our country is
the world, our cOuntrt men are all IN lnklnd. we
10 not zee that thoFe gentlemen can show any
superior obligation directing their attention 10 tie
South. over that which requires them to proceed
in the work of reforming England.
An examination OF the recent English news
papers must convince any rejecting mind that
there are some grave aud serious moral Sius VIII h
Attach D.. III, ,a.tia a., FL ~ Vxhn .ra a-,...l
in the Institution OF matrimuny. To use the radi
cAl expression. marriage is the cause OF hOrrib,e
sins and crimes IN that country. NJ TX that tlIi,
is not our expression. The Radical logic is that
because a fact would not occur but tor an exist.
my institution. therefore the institution is the
cause OF the fact. As for example, "it there
where no slavery, there would have been no war,
ergo slavery j. the ctuse of the war" We refer
To the London Times of Nay l3, tor a report OF
the opening of the Central Criminal Court ia
London and the charge OF the Recorder To the
Grand Jury. Among the cases To which he call
ed their attention were some which he thus de-
scribed:
As regarded the other charges to which he
I'D alluded, OF wounding with intent to murder,
il appeared ia the first of them the prisoner was
charged with shooting his vie. aud HE evidence
would go 10 show that the prisoner htd repeated
" threatened his vile. and that he had IN tJe use
OF violent language tn her on the day ON which
the occurrence took place. and almost imneii-
ttely afterwards a shot w.ss fired at the pFUSeCu-
tnx. In the second case. il also appeared that
the husband and wife lived on bad terms, ana
that upon the occasion oil the quarrel taking
place between them the prisoner attacked his VIE
with an axe and inflicted very serious injury upon
her. The thiri case wes one OF the same chdrdc-
ter, and according TO the depo>itionS the pr soner
appeared to have been guilty OF most gross
ani extraordinary violence. In the first IN
It nee lie seemed TO have knocked her down
ami he then commenced beating her with the leg
OF a chair aud also struck her with a h,t iron aud
the last thing that appe rel to be remem,ei cd
by the unfortunate womtn was that the prison
er se Zed her aud threw her over the staircase.
nj became insen>ib e. and knew nothing mcre
81 what happened until she found her-ell IN bel
in tie hospital In the fourth case of the same
x nj the prisoner was charged with Il lDbIng his
vie, AMI II appeared that III consequence OF the
mani er ia which lie had treated her upon former
occt Isl, rs she htd le { IA m, AMI he had urged her
tIteturu AMI 1--we with him. tut She refused TO do
-. and WAS about 20 away, and 1T the same mo-
meIt >he iet Il severe bow. and il turned out
that she had received two stabs from a shOema-
kers knlle. These were the principal facts upon
which this class Ot Gases was sought TO be sup
ported. and il appeared To him That IL tine fact
should he made out as he had stated them it
would toe Their duty to return "A true bill with re-
gard To each OF the charges.
We agree with the Recorder that il appears very
much a. u tue bills ought 10 he found IN these
cases; and the question then arises whether. the
radical logic beng applied. a British and Foreign
AIT -Slavery aud Anti MatrimOny society cannot
be surred up by the members OF the American
RaIc. al party who are now their close cores
pOAden 5, (ind who il Is understood are United
with them Ia the support OF an aIu Union and
/ Constitution preaching and declaimiug place IN
NeS York. J aud whether they Cannot hnd 4 lt
tie spare lime to devote TO a removal of the cause
OF these crimes, which are only "A specimen list
Trombone DAYS reprrt OF a London court. Ii
these reOp.e had never been marriei. they would
never have had these numerous sreneS. Tat
i the line of argument. OiNhich any radical man
can see the consequence.
For the iui ther consideration OF the same Brit
ish and American RsiOrmers Ne annex n para
graph which We clip from the London Tunes. a
Lew DAYS later than the above:-
.ILLhcr.NAr CHILDREN - The number OF
children bum out OF weiioCk ia England during
the wear leo Was - .693. being Ga per cent. of
the whole number OF children born. ln Culn0er-
land. where the proportion aro>e 10 IT'S maximum,
il was double that amount; in Norfolk II was
1917: IN Nesimerolahd 1916; in Shropshire 3 o;
in Nottinghamshire y !. Ii was also high IN
Bediordsh.re. Suffolk. Hereford hire, Lincoln
shire, and the North Riding of Yorkshire. The
Registrar General thinks that the proportion OF
illegitimate children born in LOudOu| : per
cent. in the t,b;eS-is very probably underStated.
There i much greater facility for the suppression
OF facts ia large cities than in smaller towns and
village"
There i certainly work for the Duchess o.
Sutherland ard he> merican correspondents aRd
aliie>. on English soil.
One migLt inn. cine fnom this that the Anti.