Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-13

The following extract we copy from the
Springfield Mass Republican of January 3lst.
To give our Republican friends, who entertain
such an immense feeling OF admiration and re
spect for the 'Old Granite State" some idea OF
the estimation in which the brains of the coun-
try hold our gallant Hoosier State:
Congress ought to change the name of the
Department OF the Interior to the Department
OF Indiana" Nobody seems to get into it nj
head or tail that does nOs hail from that State
and the meanest, after all, in the W. est, and one
p OF the meanest in the whole free Union Why
should it have more fevers and agueS and ignO-
rance and bad politics than any of its sisters
Perhaps because it was settled ia great degree.
by the poor whites ami small shareholders of the
South. And vet there Is Schuyler Coliax. and
he favors good deal that is otherwise ntoler-
able
The Springfield Republican is probably the
leading pager Ia the New England States it GER
talaly has the largest ejaculation. and has good
reasons to claim To be par excellence the organ of
all 1aukeeiom It's sentiments as expressed
above represent the feeling animating the whole
tribe OF Yankees in regard To our State-''tle
meaneSt, after all, IN the " est" Ii must be par
tlcnlariy gratifying Ia our citizens to have this
hatterng encomum pronounced upon by the
organ of race " no are now grinding them IN the
dust with their high tariffs. duties Sc but OF
course. being descended from the '.poor whites
and >mall shareholders of the South, we are in
capable OF approaching the grace with which this
comes from the great aud intellectual State OF
Massachusetts, which has been mainly lnstru
mental in plunsing int" present difficulties
adroitly saddlcd the burden of the war upon US
aud j. now growing rich over our rum, without
furnishing either men means to any extent 10
help Us out of our trouble.
Indiana may be afflicted with "more levers and
nd 10 nH had th.u Mas-
sschuseltS. but It's malaria never induced il to
attempt to shake" Itself out OF the Union did
Massachusetts in olden times, nor its bad poll
ties drive Oft, or give "A pretext for going, OF
soyereigu States from the utilization OF the Union
Indiana. despite her lie, er and ague, has sent
better men, and more OF them in proportion u
her population, than any other State in the Union
Massachusetts,, With all her lrickery. her purchase
OF California recruits. her evasIons and delay :
has not yet fully responded To the call OF the
Government for troops, while Indiana has ex-
ceeded the demand made upon her. Indiana 5
soldiers ATE iUuud upon the soil OF every South
ern State: Their bones are bleaching upon every
battlefield fought during the war, and the valor
vi her soldiers are the praise and admiration oi
the country. She has immortalzed herself in
fighting out u war of ~ ankee manufacture
and receives her reward in such contemptuous
sneers as the one quoted above, from the authors
OF btr uoubie> Massachusetts, anu all Tie y 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 brains
enough. and souls little enough. To grow rich out
of any national calamity. TO coin money out OF
their country blood. Aud the immediate cause
of this trade aganSt Indiana, the fact that two
places in the Department of the Interior are oc-
cupied 10y ''ignorant" sons OF Indiana. while New
England has surplus stock of brains" which
she would accommodatngly place at the disposal
OF the country in their places. The charming
GOODNESS and eifrontery with which they boast OF
their superior intelligence. displayed in their sue
ceSsiul schemes OF shifting the burdens of the
country upon their neishbors, and monOpolizng
the profits and emouments 10 them-e elves com
mand our admiration. aud must have tendency
to diminish the feeling in the Test for the e>tab
ment of a new confederation leaving New Eng
land in the cold Forr Wayne Sentinel