Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-28


Dor on railroad and, canal. in the field and the
factory, in the country and the city, in the ship
and on the levee. We speak with special refer
ence to these Northern States, where the num-
blest walk of hard listed industry has its vested
interests, as well rs the highest, and with which
none but a frebraHd, a disregarder of Justice
and an enemy of social order would venture to
uihe.
The story is told. There have been riots on
our levees tor several days. owing to the sup
planting of white by colored labor. Large yes
sells, before employing many white hands in load
ing, unloading, porterage, and the other labori-
Gus duties of river freightage, now come and &C
without one, TO the utter imDOverishment of
many a poor family. To say that these poor
families are exclusively of Irish birth is simply
to utter a ~palpable untruth. Numbers of honest,
thrifty, hard working Germans and Americans
are equally interested in this colored encroach-
ment on their common domain.
1t is also untrue that the trouble in the Thir-
teenth Ward. where poor Burke was shot like a
dog. is to be identified With that OH the levee Just
spoken of. The leyee trouble, preceding the
other, may have helped to precipitate the latter,
and for this reason we speak of it first, as an ex-
p~lanatOry circumstance: but here their connec-
tior stops. One is a question of something to
eat and drink, and something whereon to Law
ones head. The very foxes have their holes,
and the birds Of the air their nests. The other
is a question of morals: the one is a trouble of
yesterday, the other is an old sore. To get rid
of n haunt of infamy at the corner of Culvert
and Sixth streets. where some of the most de
graded of the African race in this city, and. in
deed, some of the most abandoned of the Cau-
cassian type. hold nocturnal saturnalia, has been
a desire of every decent man, woman, and youth
in that neighborhood for years; and not only a
desire, but, we believe, a desperate determination
of the more headstrong.
This determination was Enthusiastically mani
tested on Tuesday night of last week, as we we're
going TO press, owing more immediately we,
learn, to the sallying forth, on the night pre-
vious, of an armed band of despeiadoes. who
disturbed the neighborhood by firing shots about
midnight, one # which broke a window and
enter ed a room where an Irishman and his
family slept. Not one word of all this has
heen so much as alluded to by the Gazette, the
Commercial or the 7inlrs, though, we believe,
they are notorious facts. What fact more no
torious than the complete demolition of one of
those dens on Wednesdiy evening last, when it
burned to the ground? a consummatio devoutly
to be wished, provided il we're done legally by
the proper authorities, but which no self consti-
tuted, nocturnal executive has any right TO per-
petrate. Doubtless the negro midnight lawless-
ness OF Monday and the shooting of an innocent
man on Tuesday, whether by a negro or the
man of the Gazette school whose name We have
got. we will not yet pronounce, are the imme-
date explanation of the incendiarism of the day
after.
We greatly regret the hard feeling against in
offensive colOred people which these troubles
have excited, and the consequent injury to the
windows of their place of worship, situated at
the scene of excitement. And here, again. those
papers are at fault. We have been assured by
eye-witnesses, whom we can believe, that those
vvinlnws "a zorro broke Inv liftla hove and nv no.
body else; in fact. native Americans. IL the
United States Sanitary Commission have taken
special care in their elaborate report to Congress
to distinguish between adopted citizens and
American born sons, now swelling the National
army, counting all the latter Americans" and
all the former rs Germans, "Irish," &c let
us. in the name of fair play, make the same dis
tinction in rascality.
Since the above has been put in type we learn a
significant fact-that no inquest has been held on
the body Of the murdered mani He was shot
about midnight on Tuesday; died on Thursday
morning. and WAS buried OH Friday; YET not a
word OF legal inquiry by the Coroner, or ANYBODY
else in authority. into this cold blooded assassina-
ton, known to the entire city, of a peaceable cit
izen at his fathers door. And if those incendia
~ papers we have named were shot out of exist
ence, they could not 'shut down. On the whole
subject NOR suddenly than they have since the
murier of this innocent man. Our breaking the
silence just now is, to some, We know, about as
agreeable rs the apparition of his victims ghost
10 the assassin.