Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-16

The following extract we copy from the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican of January 3lst.
10 give our Republican friends, who entertain
such immense feeling OF admiration and re-
spect for the ''Old Granite State" some idea OF
the estimation in which the ~bi aims of the coun-
try hold our gallant Hoosier State:
.Congress ought to change the name Of the
Department of the Interior 10 the department
Of Indiana" Nobody seems to get into il at
head or tail that does nos hail from that State
and the meanest, after all, in the West and one
of the meanest in the whole free Union. Why
should it hare more fevers and agues and igno-
rance and bad politics Than any of its sistersI
Perhaps because il was settled in great degree,
BY the poor whites and small shareholders of the
South. And yet there is Schuyler Cofax, aud
he favors good deal that is otherwise intoler
able"
The Springfield Republican is probably the
leading paper in the New England States; it GER
tainly has the largest circulation, aud has good
reasons TO claim to be par excellence the organ OF
all Yahkeeiom. Its sentiments expressed
above represent the feeling animatiug the whole
tribe OF Yankees in regard to our State-"tte
meanest, after all, in the West" Ii must be par
ticularly gratifying to our citizens to have this
hattering encOmium pronounced upon us by the
organ OF a Who grinding them in the
dust with their high tariffs. duties, &c; but, OF
COufrt. bcittR NcSEeuutu lIOlU lilc pDOt Nultcc
and small shareholders of the South, I" we are in
capable of approaching the grace with which this
comes from the great and intellectual State OF
Massachusetts, which has been mainly instru
mental ia plunsing intn present difficulties,
adrOitly saddled the burden OF the war upon US,
and is growing rich over our ruin, without
furnishing either men means to any extent to
help US out of our trouble.
Indiana may be afflicted with "mure levers and
i L II u
sachuseits, but its malaria never induced it to
attempt to "shake" itself out of the Union as did
Massachusetts in olden times. its "bad poll
ties drive off, or give a pretext for going, oil
sovereign States from the ailliatOn OF the Union
Indiana. despite her ieS er and ague, las sent
better men, aud more of them in proportion "a
her population, than any other State IN the Union
Massachusetts, with all her uickery her purchase
of California recruits, her eva>iUns and delays
has not yet fully responded to the call Of the
Government for troops, while Indiana has ex-
ceecied the demand made upon her Indana's
soldiers are found upon the soil of every South
ern State; their bones are bleaching upon every
battlefield fought during the war. and the valoI
OF her soldiers are the praise and admiration OF
the country. She has immortalized herself IN
| fighting out a war OF yankee manufacture
and receives her reward in such contemptuous
sneers the one quoted above, from the author:
al her troubles Massachusetts, and all the n ew
England States, have made money out of the
war, and have given less TO sustain it than any
of the other States, and they possess ''braias'
enough, and souls little enough, 10 grow rich out
of any national calamity, to coin money out Of
their country's blood. Aud the immediate cause
of this TRADE against Indiana the fact that two
places in the Department Of the Interior are oc
cnpieI by Ignorant" sons of Indiana. while New
| England has surplus stock of "braiRs" which
she would accommodatingly place at the dispose
OF the country in their places. The charming
GOODNESS and effrontery with which they boast Of
their superior intelligence displayed in their sue
cessful schemes of shifting the burdens of the
country upon their neighbOrs, and mon"polizins
the profits and emoluments to themselves. com
mand our admiration. and must have tendency
10 diminish the feeling in the West for the e>tab
ment of new confederation leaving New Eng
land out in The cold i For' Wayue Sentinel.