Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-30
For the State Sentinel.
Judge Cisypool In Response to the
Journals charge Of Treason-.-He
Convicts the RepubiIcao organ of
COpperheadssm and Malicious
Lying upon its own AdmissiOus


Lying upon its own Admissions.
EDIrpR SESriNEL:-My attention has Just been
called To the following in the Journal OF the 7th
inst:
The Evansville Journal says that Union
man of Sullivan county lately had seven stacks
OF hay and i've or six hundred bushels of wheat
burned by some Copperhetd neghbOrs, whose
tracks we're trtcel close enough home to identity
them. Oh course any criminal prosecution would
be a mere waste of time in that county. With
6v-sixth of the population, and the Sheriff and
TIE Prosecutor. Copperheais snd the Judge CLAY
pool) traitor as undisgused as Vallandigham
Outrage a Union there stands a CAPT.
tai chance 10 be rewarded with a verdict served
him right
The editor who reproduces this slanderous
article. il the same fellow who about year ago,
wrote aud published article in reference to the
rsirOaG collision which caused the death OF Pro
fe~sor Fletcher. in which he said:
I'VE learn from other sources that the evi-
dence is almost conclusive, that the collision was
apremeditsted act. ami that the parties concern
ell IA causing Il a'e known If
murder nten led by this devilish act no one
can fail to see who was meant To be the victim.
and whence emensied the motive Governor
Morton was know AL along the route. as we have
learned since. 20 be- on board that train
Sullivan IL, AID has been A
nest of most vioieat rebel symp,th'zers. Union
men have been l,nche there. Uni n continents
have been suppressed by violence and more than
once. il hi. been seriously consderei by the
State authorities. whether armed .osce would
not he necessary to protect loval citizens For
weeks after the attack Fprt Sumter the trai-
tors Of Sullivan taking the cue from the Senti
mel, which denounced the war and refused To
hnist tie Union ~, kept secession Il x fyiug
IRON pole IN iul sight OF every passing train.
IL has been notorious aud disgusting hole of
treason Gov Morton has been one Of the
efficient OF all the pub ic officers of the country in
preparing the people meet the rebel army and
crush u. The intent OF that collision
was to kill Gov Norton"
If there vas any truth ia any of this, IL is more
likelv that those traitors" took their cue"
from the Journal ss will be seen.
but gentlemen of the editors own party adj
dressed him a letter in relation 90 this article in
wh CT thew told him. that the ch ,rges contained
IN the article Co 'sIy the least basely If not
mticiously false" and when the editor himself
VAS At the instance OF that Copperhead Prosecu
tor" sub paied before the Grand jury Of that
"Copperhed county" 10 testify IN relation to
what he knew about the killing Of Prof Fletcher
snd 10 give the other sources" from which he
''lesrned the evidence almost conclusive that
the COLLISION was preme,iit ,tcd for the purposes
stated by him he sai he knew nothing at all about
tIemtter Thus virtually swearing that he had
published deliberate fal-ehOod and that he was
whit he is. a base liar once knew man who
WAS such notorious liar. that his neighbors
thought it morally impossible for him to tell the
truth. 80 much 81. that when any thing was gen.
erallv believed among them and be should say il
vas true. they began 20 doubt The editor of
the Journal is another ofthat kind
There are cases spoken ofin law books Of per.
sons q p,rends sine. who. being indicted for
crime. nave successfully defended upon the
groun Of moral insanity. such a. an rresi-Ii
bic inclination ~ commit murier. or some other
particular onense Should the editor OF the
Journal ever be indicted for perjury "a thing very
probable. II any bpdy should ever again have ~
little respect Tor court or iurv. as TO suhpnna
him tn testify. he c,n successfully defend on
the ground OF an Irresistible inclination 20 lie
A. for the editor NJ Evansville am no, certain
that know him. but IL he il the fellow |
think ne Is. he and the editor At the capital are
twin brothers in b,seness both reproaches 20
humanity. satanic devices got up a. malicious
parodes on MN the envied favorite OF God or
II Of divine origin. they created 10 illustrate
the doctrine OF total depravity
The burning spoken OF above was not done bv
some "cop-ethesd neighbour but by an "un
conditional uuion man" Who has already been
inflicted through the energy OF that "copperhead
prosecutor and copperhead grand jury, aud az.
Tested by that "copperhead sheriff. and. AZ the
next tef m of the court he will be tried and con-
victei should the evidence be sufficient TO prove
him guilty. unless before then he should be
commissioned Minister 81 Russia la that event,
the 'copperheads of sullivan will bon with be
coming submission 10 the military racessity
But uhy i such language usesl about the
county Of Sullivan Simply because al every
election she gives large m,iority Tor the Demo
cratic ticket There be no other reason for
H. IL cannot he because she has not done her duty
IN furnishing Tor the army In this she has
done A. much. II hot more. than any banner
county of Republlcani.m in the State She IA.
given her spn- freely and IA great numbers tor
the var bat the thing most desif.d voting the
Standardization ticket. she omits. therefore the
osatisa Of Asr ssns 10 msssisss ef ~has are