Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-09

people. Yet Mr.. Gordon Is a traitor If he
calls a fool fool.
FREE SPEECH VERSUS sToNEwALL JACKSON
No. sr-freedom of speech Is not quite
gone. II still lives" in Boston. This mean
prosecution i MOTTO affect it. The respecta-
BILE members of the Republican party think
and say plainly what they think about it.
Those that happen to know of them are gen.
tlemen They do not agree with me in politics,
when politics existed, but they do agree with
me in now despising that petty prosecution of
laborers and mechanics for their opinions,
which was the reproach of the old Wing par
tv. and which was one of the causes of its fall.
as great and respectable as that party was
They say with perfect truth that the whole
moral effect of our unanimity depends upon
its notorious freedom from constraint, and
that it would be used against us with tre-
mendous power, if it could be shown for one
moment to be produced BY fear or force.
And | agree with them most fully II we
cannot hold our own against one or two seces
sionsts IN a whole State here without force,
what are we TO do with the armies of Stone
wall Jackson.
ABOLITION SPIES, INFoRMERs AND THUGS.
The man who attends to every other mans
affairs, whether his own are attended to or
not, Is almost exclusively Massachusetts,
nuisance. To Massachusetts, society. meddling
is indeed scourge so great. that it may be
doubted whether it does not fully counter
balance every comfort and blessing concen-
trated in this favored country Puritanism,
which exalted the manly English spirit TO fa-
naticism on the one hand degraded it on the
other to espionage, its churches were mutual
assurance societies for the morality of their
members. Its doctrines are forgotten. But
the evil which the Puritans unconsciously did
lives after them, and churches which detest
their memory and deny their teachings are
managed on their principles. New England
to-day is covered with societies in which the
best of men and women conscientiously but
reluctantly, and the worst of men and women,
eagerly and with devilish delight perform
the part of spies and informers upon each
other. To say that such a g gigantic system of
mutual espionage does not tend to degrade
character, is simply to say that caves dropping
and tale bearing are not low and mean occu-
pations. Under Its influence nothing is known
of a mans real character or disposition.
Habtual watchfulness on one side, awakens
habltual hypocrisy ON the other. And 1t Is
only when the little saint of Boston expands
into the gigantic villain OF New Orleans, or
or San Francisco, that you can tell how vast
a benefit you derived from his emigration
The wickedness looked little here, because
we saw but little of it. The enormous pres
sure of universal listening and peeping had
driven it deep in the innermost fbres of our
society. So pressed, it produces smelling
committeeS-it elects Hiss Legislatures. Ii
brings such men as Deacon Palmer to associate,
out of fear, with men like Mr.. Washburn,
whom they receive into their cellars and dis
miss through back doors. Nobody viii deny
the fact, or its application here, who is not
prepared to deny the existence of the Rev.
Mr.. Kaloch. or his church member, Mr.
Hayes, who peeped after him, and black
mailed him, and then exposed him. 1t is Mr..
! Hayes turn to-day, il. may be Alr. kalloch's
turn to do that dirty Uosk tor- Ars Hayes to-
morrow. It's Mr.. Washburn's turn now. 1t
may be the Gordons' turn by and BY. But
be the turn whose it may, the system of a
barbarous age and people, applied to the con-
troll of civilized menkind, awakens the fiercest
resentment. Men have put up with the sava-
gest task-masters. They have endured the
/ bloodiest tyrants without resistance for many
years They have submitted to the King of
Prussia-to the Czars-to the House of Aus
tria-and even to the Turks But a Govern
ment of meddling philanthropists they cannot
bear. 1t resembles the Government of ver-
min more than any human despotism. Indi-
vidually vile and odious, but quite insignif-
cant, when collected. they are all-pervading,
all-devouring, appalling, ioathsome to every
sense, and intolerable to the strongest BODY,
and firmest mind Thus the Government of
the R0bespierres the Marats, the Washburns,
IL L IL, IL IL
which maketh the wise man mad, Ii made
the Gordons mad when it was first applied to
them, and what they uttered under its infiu-
ence was temDer-not treason.
\ WHICH WOULD MAN PREFER?
Yet there was sense as well as temper--if
they preferred jeff Davis to an abolition
Government As / understand an abolition
Government, a man might endure it. A man
might endure the Government of Mr.. Phillips,
for he is a gentlemen--or of Mr.. Garrison,
for, whatever may have been thought of his
: sanity, his integrity was never questioned; but
the abolition Government which they under
stood was the inqusitorial-the cellar--the
sink and ceSS-poOl committee which stood be-
fore them, ordering them to put out a flag
and | think there is no man of spirit with that
in his mind who would not prefer the wolf
ishness of Davis to the pediculousness of a
Wa-hburn.
The Gordons have done no wrong. They
do not hate their native country, though they
cannot like It's imbecile Government. A
Government which has everything given to it
by generous people, and which does nothing
but waste time, make proclamations and feed
contractors, cannot be liked or trusted until
it alters its course. Itmust continue suspected
and unpopular, if it is, with every advantage
and opportunity, unable to secure peace OF
make war; These sentiments | understand
them to express. They have a right, moral
as well as legal, to express such sentiments
They ought to express them; and wo to the
fanatic who shall NEEDLE with them, or with
any one else in this way hereafter.
The commissioner then delivered his opin-
ion. He said there was no case proven, and
dismissed the complaint The crowd in the
courtroom burst into applause which nobody
checked and many persons went up and shook
hands with the Gordons.