Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-09
TO the Arrest OF Deserters
i'm Indiana,


nlereidl to the Indianapolis journal, seem deter
mined to make lying their stock in trade One
and all make il a business to wilfuly misrepre-
sent, with the hope of proonging the life of a
rotten cause. The telegraph is likewise used and
abused to spread misrepresentation over the coun-
try, until the unrelabiIity of that source of in
formation has become proverbial. All the ave-
nues truth and fairness, and Justice are blocked
up by the party in power. Under the head of
"resistance to the arrest of deserters in Indiana
we find the following batch of falsehoods tee
graphed to the Cincinnati Commercial from the
Governors Office in this city and which appeared
in that print of yesterday:
On Friday last, a small squad of soldiers was
sent TO a village named Waverly, Morgan coun-
ty, to arrest some desertsrs. Upon their arrival
they were fred upon by some of the citizens, and
Informed that the deserters would be protected,
and under no circumstances would they be sur
rendered The squad being too small to effect
the arrest returned to this city and reported the
facts to Col. CarrngtOn, who sent twenty five
cavalry after the offenders with orders to arrest
them, dead or alive. The cavalry arrived there
about noon on Sunday, and were fired upon by
about forty mounted men. The cavalry mmedi
directions, throwing away their arms. The cav
airy captured nine of the cowardly .ascas, with
two of the deserters, and marched them to this
city, where they are how IN close confinement.
Colonel Carrington will send hundred cavalry
after the balance to- morrow.
1t is rare to fnd bitch of lies in so small
compass, and we copy it to show the means en-
ployed to prejudice the public mind. There was
by the citizens OF Waverly. The cavalry were
not fired upon ''by about forty mounted men. and
we are credibly informed that the citizens
rested and brought here are as innocent
of resisting the military at Waverly as are the
editors of the Commercial or Governor MORTON.
Neither has Col. CARRINGroN sent hundred
cavalry after the balance. nor did he order the
cavalry to arrest the deserters, dead or alive.
There would have been no disturbance at Wa
verly if the military had confined themselves
solely to the arrest of deserters. One of the so
called deserters paroled prisoner. He was
absent by permission of an officer of his com
pany for the reason that he could not be com
fortaby provided for in camp here and he was
ready TO return whenever it was necessary for him
to do so. Ifthe private property and the rights
of citizens had not been interiered with. if citizens
had not been abused for opinions sake we should
never have heard Of trouble in Morgan county,
or shall we hear again of difficulties elsewhere
between the military and citizens, if such out
RACES are not repeated.
1t seems strange that the Abolition party so
entirely misapprehend the sentiment OF the people
of Indiana. The politicians are not leading or
teaching the people but otherwise the popular
sentiment is far in advance of the so called po-
litical leaders, and the people are fully capable
ing, and acting. The idea of the Cincinnati
Commercial and the Indianapolis Journal char
acterizing the outbreak at Waverly as a rebellion
in Indiana" is hugely absurd. There is but one
lesson in the whole affair, and that is nothing
more or less than that the people are sensitively
Jealous of their rights, Of their liberties and that
they are determined to maintain and preserve
them. So far as the Democrats are concerned,
they ARE pre- eminently law abiding citi-
zens. They are most distinctly for law and
support the rightful authority of the Government
This has been the teaching and the record of the
party from the beginning. And knowing and
approaching the rights of the citizen it has ever
had the courage to maintain them The Com
nlercial intmates that the "Copperheads" of In
diana wish to naugurate war on their own soil
This charge everybody knows to be the merest
Cannon. The Democracy have illustrated their
patriot m in standing by the Government when
they had every reason to believe that stupid
and weak Administration was bent upon its ruin
Administration faithless to all its pledges and
whose entire history has been Signalized by hypOc
rsy AMI deceit. These things the honest yeomanry
OF the country we'll understand, and so palpabeare
they that the commonest intelligence fully com
prehends the folly and wickedness of the party in
power And if the Republican leaders had
particle of practical sense. long ere this they
would have appreciated and Needed the revolution
in public sentiment which will sweep ON until a
new and totally different policy and rulers guide
the destinies of the nation There is one thing
certain. lying will not save the Republican party
and leaders from utter disgrace and these acts of
folly on their part present the evidence of the
recklessness and desperation of men who know
and feel that power is rapidly sliding from under
them and that it will leave them in hopeless dis
grace.