Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-01

above paragraphs containing HE opinion Of their
origin. paiFlotlsm ard Intelligence. we have 10
words 10 portray Noi that Mr. Bescher. opin.
on Of them makes the least difference IN the
votld or disturb- their squsnimity. but that q
distinguished Amercan divine. Who claims 20
have lived IN the West and ia indisna. should
display 10 the world an Ignorance both OF the
people and OF curent events ia the southern por'
ton Of the State that would diseredit London
coekney Our people have often smiled over the
udcrous blunders made by the English papers
both u regards the geography and biography OF
our country; but what can ne say now when one
OF DOR most distinguished divlnes" blunders n
ridiculously in speaking Of the southern PARTON
Of State IN which be claims 70 have spent sew
eral years Of his life
"Mr Beecher knows Indiana we'll. having
lived there" aud he afarm. that the misconduct
concerning the draft "is limited 10 part h Own
~ the Pocket, inhabited chiefly by degraded
population derived from the neighboring slave
States: and 80 ignorant that not one IN twenly
can readi" A plain statement of facts, We think.
will fasten the calumny Mr. Boecher has gratui.
tousy applied 20 our people upon himself. and
also show that IL the reverend gentleman would
take more pains % 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 in which there has
been no resistance whatever ~ the enrome Tor
The draft which il vet 20 be made. There has
been no iastious opposition to the enrolment,
with one single solitary exception. In which a
poor creature vas under the influence of whisky.
We may bee "degraded population. derived
from the slave States" but Mr.. Beecher seems TO
have los, 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 Presiden.i or did he regard
the President IA the only good that can come out
! Of Nazareth
Not one in twenty can read" afirms Mr.
| Beecher. and he preiends 10 speak OF his own
knowledge A yler Islander was never perpeira-
| tel What is the factl Evansville the CONNER
/ cial metropolis of the pocket" il the only city
| In the State that sustains "A thorough system oi
graded free schools the year round, and in general
intelligence our people are the equals Of those
| who Islander them. How pitable to see one
| wearing the livery of heaven, engaged in so DIES
| pcable busincssl
Mr. Beechers communications To the editor OF
the News shows that he was free in the express
sion OF opinion abouta part of our State OF which
he knows comparatively nothing. large p0r-
ton of our population are foreigners or Of foreign
extraction England. herself, we doubt not. i:
more largely represented in this county than in
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 specially the enan
| cpation policy-n one OF the churches of which
Mr.. Beecher was 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 a case in which Ibis works 90 follow
/ him" Mr. Beecher seems TO have assumed thai
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 embodyinc
| in the movement scenes OF bloodshed the mos
horrible, occurred within sight of Mr.. Beecher'
spre. and within the sound of the Plymouth
| Church bell. 1t was among people whom h,
helped to enlighten, and who are not bothered by
degraded population derived from the neigh
boring slave States IL was among people
who have become so intelligent through the in
strumentality of common schools and Mr. Beech
ers oratory, that the Woods were poweress e
| influence events" Mr.. Beecher had not hearC
of these riots when he communicated his slander
of Southern Indiana TO the News. Had be no
better communicate again.
The radical aboltionsts will act wisely b'
keeping their righteous apostles of emancipation
at home. Conway acted the Ounce in his CORES
pondence with Mason. and Henry Ward Beeche
seems disposed to do likewise in vilifying sec
ton of his former native State IL public senti
ment in England is to be put right by such teach
ers, we are fearful that like the demoniac th'
last state of that people will be worse than thu
first