Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-10
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account of his losses:
Several stories being in circulation about our
losses bv Morgans raid. we will state that we
lost Henry rifle. revolver aud watch. be
sides other property taken from residence,
and as nearly as we can ascertain fully S3UO in
cash taken from pocket bOok-in all about
S400 in value. When the money was first taken
we were not aware there was that much of it,
but by reference to our books aud counting up
the amounts had received for three or four
weeks before the robbery we are now certain our
loss in cash was not less than the amount stated
-RELEAsID-The men arrested in Whitley
county by Provost Marshal Hiram Iddings on
Friday morning, the l7th ult. and transported to
Kendalville, hand-cutfed, under strong military
guard, and from thence 10 indianapolis. have been
discharged for the want of evidence against them.
We not any propriety in arrestng and
discharging men in this manner. The principle
is wrong No man ought TO be subjected to the
inconvenences and sutferings of an arrest without
stroug and conclusive proof against him; nor
should any man be discharged without trial.
The arrests made in Whitley county have been
productive of no good; they have only and with
perfect juslness, brought down upon the iustiga
tors thereof the contempt of every honest man
If the men had been guilty of any violation Of
the laws they deserved punishment. and ought to
have been made an example OF; and It, on the
other hand. they not guilty. which their
discharge proves their arrest an outrage up
On them their families and their neghbors, aud
they ought to be reimbursed by the Government
for the loss of time and money expended. We
have no respect whatever for the authorities who
commit such outrages. willingly and knowingly
upon the people, for no other reason than pOlin
cal aniInosity II this be treason. the cowardly
Abolitionists can pu. it in their pipes and smoke
it Gd hbhum Il Columbia City News.
TIE PocKET on BEEcHER We published, a
few days ago, BEEoHER's opinion of the people of
the pocket" The abolitonists down there
have been making great ado over the dstin
gushed negro lion, and he repays their attentions
by freely expressing his opinion Of them. which
is not at all hattering. We suppose Mr.. B
judges the ''pocket" from his knowledge of his
abolition friends there. and so far as they are
concerned he judges correctly. Col. Baker, or
Col. Jones, or some other Republican from the
"pocket." replies to the ISLANDERS of the great
light of the Republican party, through the Evans
vile Journal. We are not all surprised that
BEoHER thinks the pocket" degraded popu
lAton" from his associations there. The aboli-
ton organ OF the pocket" puts it to BEEcHeR in
the following style, and il must not be forgotten
that the pocket gives che heaviest Democratic
majority in the State:
Mr.. Beecher has hitherto had great many
admirers in this part Of the State, who have
shown their admiration by subscribing literally
for his paper. the Independent With what
ANA cement and modification they will read the
above paragraphs containing his opinion of their
origin, patriotism and intelligence. we have no
words TO portray. Not that Mr.. Beecher's opin-
ion of them makes the least difference in the
world or disturbs their equanimitv. but that
distinguished American divine, who claims TO
have lived in the West and in Indiana, should
display to the world an ignorance both OF the
people and of current events in the southern por-
ton of the State that would discredit London
cuckneY. Our people have often smiled over the
udicrous blunders made by the English papers
both regards the geography and biography of
our country; but what say when one
of our "moSt distinguished divine>" blunders as
ridiculOusly in speaking Of the southern portion
OF State in which he claims to have spent sew
eral wears of his lifei
"Mr Beecher knows Indiana we'll having
lived there" and he aflrms that the misconduct
concerning the draft SIS limited to part kl own
as the Pocket Inhabited chiefly by DEGRADED
population derived from the neighboring slave
States and so ignorant that not one in twenty
cln readl'' plain statement of facts, we think.
will fasten the calumny Mr. Beecher has gratui-
tously applied to our people upon himself and
also show that it the reverend gentleman would
take more pains u inform himself, he would less
frequently violate the ninth commandment We
submit, then, the following:
The FIRST Congressional District OF Indiana,
commonly designated the Pocket" !" is one of the
very few districts in the State i'm which there has
been no resistance whatever 10 the enrollmentf for
the draft which is vet TO be made There has
been fastious opposition 10 the enrolment
with one single solitary exception, in which
poor creature was under the influence of whisky.
We may he "deqraded population deriv ed
from the slave States" but Mr. Beecher seems to
have lost sight of the fact that from the same
degraded population derived from the slave
States the people selected their present worthy
Chief Magistrate the President of the United
States DID Mr. Beecher forget the stock from
which Mr. Lincoln sprung when he so ardently
supported him for Presdeu.? or did he regard
the President as the only good that can come out
of Nazareth.
"Not one in twenty can read" afirms Mr..
Beecher and he pretends 10 speak OF his own
knowledge A viler slander was never perpetra-
tel What is the fact? Evansville the CONNER
cal metropolis Of the pocket" j. the only city
in the State that sustains thorough system Of
graded free schools the year round and in general
intelligence our people are, the equals of those
who slander them How pitiable to see one,
picable businessi
Mr.. Beechers communications TO the editor of
the News shows that he was free in the expires
sion OF opinion about part of our State of which
he knows comparatively nothing. A large por-
ton of our population are foreigners or of foreign
extraction. England. herself. doubt not, Is
more largely represented in this county than i'm
any other in the State They are loyal men and
sustain the laws A majority. perhaps Of the
residents Of Vanderburg county are of German
descent. and so of several other counties in The
Pocket"
Another fact may be given: There is more
violent opposition to the draft and other meas
ures of the ministration-especially the eman
cipation policy-in one Of the churches of which
Mr.. Beecher pastor while living in Indiana,
than in any one or all of the Protestant Churches
of this city. We do not pretend to say, however,
That this is case in which "his works do follow
him" Mr. Beecher seems 10 have assumed that
because there were disturbances in this State,
growing out of the draft, they must Of necessity
have occurred in the Pocket, and this was only
another evidence that our people were ignorant
and degraded
| The great resistance to the draft, embodying
/ In the movement scenes Of blo0dshed the most
horrible. occurred within sight of Mr. Beechers
/ spire, and within the sound of the Plymouth
| Church bell IL was among people whom he
helped TO enlighten, and who not bothered BY
n "degraded population derived from the neigh
boring slave States It was among a people
Who have become so intelligent through the ia
/ strumentality of common schools and Mr.. Beech
er's ofatory, that the Woods were powerless to
influence events" Mr. Beecher had not heard
of these riots when he communicated his ISLANDERS
Of Southern Indiana 10 the News Had he not
better communicate aganf