Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-18
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. TUESDAY MORNING,

vious night, should have killed two men, I
am glad that did not have them; for God
knows that do not want to shed the blood OF
fellow creature.
Brave men do not, fifteen or twenty of
them together, attack single unarmed man,
whether they wear soldier-clothes, shoulder
straps, or have held seat in Congress
Cowards only are cruel to the weak and de-
fenseless.
remained publicly at Mr. vosaw's till az
ter dinner. BY the advice of friends. whose
counsel it was my duty to respect did not
90 back to Portland, but came home in the
evening. arriving there before dark.
As to the contemplate hes about John
Bowden, in the article:
sold him farm in jay county three
years ago last March He has paid but about
$50 on it; and has had the use of it for four
crops, worth 500; and has sold off and de-
stIoyed the timber. He promised me year
ago, when took judgment for 81 ,0s6 92 of
the purchase money then due and unpaid,
that he would pay s4OO by Christmas, and
agreed to wait a year for the balance without
security, if he made the payment; and it was
so entered in the record of the judgment
He did not make the payment, and l sued
out execution, and il was returned no property
found. In May last he promised me TO pay
$500 by harvest, or surrender the title bond
without costs or trouble. He did not do it,
and l wrote twice to him afterwards, and
could get no answer from him, nor the bond.
About the first of September, 1 had an offer
for the land at loss to me of only about $500,
and the offer was to stand open till Christmas
/ again wrote TO Bowden, reminding him of
what he had promised, and requesting him to
surrender the bond, or l should take steps at
the fall court to sell out his equity. He failed
to answer, and about that time volunteered.
| brought the suit went out to take my de-
cree to sell out his equity, and get my property
into my possession, which had clear legal
and equitable right to have. He, with the
assistance Of two others, got up the mob, re-
sulting as above stated, notwithstanding the
court and all its officers were present-the law
was powerless in protecting me in my legal
rights, and afforded me no protection. Bow
den got the decree rendered, giving him to
July next. before sale of his equity can be
made, ,cithom his gicing any security ,chdteuer
for the purchase money, all being due. He
will not pay it, nor cent of it, and is utterly
insolvent and worthless, will get nearly an
other years use of the farm, making $500 in
all. | lose sale, and by that time, the farm
1
is due me including the costs which he has
compelled me to make. Thus he effected
the object he had in raising the mob. Had |
dreamed it possible he could have so succeeded,
| should have gone back to court, though
should have been thereby put under the ne
cessity of killing three or four persons and
perhaps of losing my own life. And now, in
addition to all this. to try to cover up these
gross outrages perpetrated upon me, this tor
rent OF abusive falsehood is published to over
whelm me if possible
| had no personal hostility to Mr. Shanks
had political hostility to him for two reasons:
1st. He is wholly unqualified TO fill seat in
Congress. 2d. He sustained- measures in
Congress utterly subversve and destructive
of the Constitution and the Union, both OF
which l am very anxious to preserve for my
posterity as | have enjoyed them. And
when my country's all is at stake as it now is,
In choice between its interes's and personal
friendships, hesitate not moment TO take
my stand for my country.
Gross and groundless as these are to me
personally, sorrow less for them on that ac-
count, than because they add another 10 the
many evidences we have of the rapid speed
J with which the Constitution and the laws are
being overturned and des royed and anarchy
internecine strife, and the reign OF terror, are
being inaugurated in our beloved, but unhappy
: country. The result of the recent elections
} gives me a CLEAN of hope that daylight is
: coming. Had abolitionism succeeded again
, in the elections this fall, our beloved Union,
and the Constitution that forms it, and the
Government would have been hopeleSsly
: gone. The abolitionists and the seceSsonists
are but the two blades of the same pair OF
/ sheares, that have been, aud are, shearng this
Union and government to shreds. Either
without the oher would be powerless and
harmless. But together, how potent for mis-
chief they are, and have beep This i have
: said and warned my countrymen of for years.
: And it is now shown by what an intelligent
S rebel officer, taken prisoner at the battle of
? Antietlm. recently said, as reported in the
4 Boston Courier, an old line Wing paper. He
said:
: Il tell you there is not one thing old Jeff
: prays for so much as to have Wadsworth put
4 in Governor of New York. | was in Rich
' mond when the papers with the nomination
{ came, and they all said there could not have
D been a more lucky nomination.
) The abollionsts have got control of the North
t Just as we have of the South, and they don't
want us any more than we do them and what
have. Ii WadSworth should be beaten, and
4 Andrew should be beaten, and the res. of
a them, it would just show that majority of
the North want Us back in the old Union, and
there are so many now in the South who want
> the same thing, we should have TO come back.
2 But tell you, the abolitionists will have it
all their own way, and your Northern old line
d Unionists and their relatives down South will
D have to cave in."
4 Thank God, the abolitionists have not had
1 it all their own way so far, and every patriot
t and true Union man prays God that they may
J, not have IT all their own way In the elections
1 to come off next week, so that old line
3 Unionists, of whom am proud to know that
:. am one, and always have been, will not have
. to cave in either North or South and our
e glorious Union, and the Constitution, formed
$ BY the futhers of the Revolution, and sealed
1 with their blood, and the Government created
, by that Constitution, will be saved from their
d present extreme peril, and handed down to
G our posterity as we received them from our
;, fathers. And rejoice, that i, even 1, in my
!, humble and obscure private position, "am
q counted worthy to suffer shame" for being an
{ old line Unionist, and trying to bring about a
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