Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-07


ssTrifIinR with Serious Matters.r
The Journal Of Thursday charges US with ga
wilful and malicious lie, manufactured to injure
the reputation and business OF this (the JournGi)
Office" for stating that it had. on the first of
April "issued an extra purporting to contain the
latest news from the seat of war" That was the
impression of the public, as it was ours. The
Journal news boys sold the extra aud cried it
through the streets as the journal extra" 1t
was purchased by a large number of our citizens
as a journal extra" The Journal, in its issue
of Wednesday morning, admits that the extra
"was got up as nearly in imitation Of our Qts)
extra as the type would let it. was evidently in
tended to be taken for it, and in most cases tcas
taken for it, OF course our (ts) Office
was sadded with the fact 1t also says that
some of the news boys Thought it a genuine
news sheet" This is the Journals own repre-
sentation of the matter The public believed
that the extra" was issued from the Journal
office, we believed that it was and the Journal
admits that it was intended to be taken for it and
in most cases tcas taken for it." Yet, after ma
ding the admission that the extra was ''swin-
die" that in most cases pds taken for the genuine
article, it has the efrontery to characterize with
great affectation of injured innocence, what
we said in the matter, and which we we're JUST
fed in saying by its own admissions, as being a
malicious, unjustfable and biseless lie, that
never had parallel. 1t says, in addition,
that the extra" is as much its property as its
presses, and that we have just as much right
to injure press, as TO damage the standing of
an Extra" and in this connection threatens to
apply a legal remedy to redress its wrongs, which
ithas since done. If we have no right to dam
age the standing of the Journal Extra" if it
is just as much its property as its presses, it GER
tainly has no right to damage the standing OF
the Sentinel, which is just as much our property
as our presses. A few weeks ago it charged the
Sentinel with forgery. Had it right to thus lin
jure the business and reputation of this Officer
Even in its issue of yesterday. the very one in
which it complains of US for publishing the
charge that it had issued a spurious Extra"
there appears communication charging US with
disloyalty to the Government-with treason
the highest crime known to the law. Has it a
right thus to "injure the business and reputation
of this Officer" Are not the proprietors of that
print liable to heavy damages therefor? The
Journal has ever exhibited towards the Sentinel
mean and malicious spirit-an vious feeling
long entertained, which has now eliminated in a
suit for damaging it in some way, but for the
life of US we cannot imagine how. The public
will be duly advised of the amount of damages"
the journal Company" RECEIVERS in its attempt
to establish character by legal remedies. We
shall certainly take advantage of the opportunity
that is thus forced upon US to ventilate that es-
adjustment from stem 20 stern.
We gan not help asking our Republican friends
if they are not ashamed of their organ. Like a
cowardy urchin who gets little worsted in a
rencontre with one of his play mates, as punish
ment 1t threatens tell its "ma." IL gets little
pat upon its nose which perhaps starts the blood
but instead of manfully showing fight, even If il
has not the strength to conquer, like cur il
drops its tail between its legs and yelps out
threats of legal remedies We can not imagine
any thing quite as diminutlve, as little, the
| position of the Journal Ii it is not namby
pamby, puere, il is impossible to comprehend al
| idea of feebleness. We advise the JoaTnG
/ Company, if there any in the associa ton
tor the sake of the great Republican party, il
they have not enough respect for themselves, tC
try to exhibit little manliness, to be somebody
or something, to be men or mice, or, if they can
do better, long tailed rats