Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-03-03
For he State Sentirel.
Liberty OF Conscience an America
10 tke Ediiors of the Sentinel:


To tie Editors Of the Sentinel
Permit me az a friend TO occupy a small space
in the columns Of your valuable paper. IL seems
as If new and most terrible question has pre-
sented itself 70 the American people. refer to
the late convention OF radical preachers and in
fdels, in which convention were presented reso-
lutOns 10 amend the constitutions of our beloved
state and the United Ststes, respectively, 40 as
to hIstianize this country; aye, to revoluiiOnize
i'll IL is plain land experience Is positive prooi)
that IN the midst Of this most terrible civil war
extreme views and extreme heads can never rule
this land.
What would these men 7 I do not know the
magnitude of the convention From all accounts
| understand it TO have been not large. Would
they reYiss-these holy ~ men who pretend to
prophecy, and TO know the cause of our present
troubles being the omission in our constitution OF
the saviour OF certsin sect-ihgt sacred instFu
ment which Was framed by the sise and hOnored
sagfs OF the republic, and then knowing that il
was not yet complete. several years after It's orr
gin amended IL TO the effect: That the freedom
of religion be respected. and liberty OF conscience
be not hindered; so Also" says that glorious
document, all men are possessed OF lie, libeT
ty, aud the pursuit of happiness" And now these
men. iew petty radical preachers, pretend to
show is right, what tho fathers OF the republic
expressly declared vas wrong; TO declare the na
ton under any religion whatever. Would they
begin anew in this. the nineteenth century, eteE
nal strife in the land, when our present troubles
are not yet ended Would they recall to this
bright land the horrors off Cromwell 2 Would
they instigate here the terrcrs Of French revo-
of Spanish inqGisitionf Even all these il
seems would they sanction, ave aid in their
execution. But let me remind those men that
those horrors we're not without their followers
Charles Was avenged, Robespierre and Marat
ended their days on the guillOtino and the assss-
sins knife. and the inquisitoFs OF Hispania have
the succeeding history OF Spain to br and them in
| all ages with infamy Aye. Spain then the most
| powerful on earth. now lies hors du combat al
the feet OF England, France and Austria She
cannot cope successfully with the Lilpuiau
powers OF South America. God has sent his
curse upon her; proud and haughty CASTLE, for
The blood spilled in What these Den. would pro-
| hbt sgsin to-day--the liberty of conscience 70
! the Jew. Tmid men, indeed, who would fear
| the power Of the few. Radicals rule the day
and radicals, | solemnly believe it, have freed
| the African ignoramus to eusave the conscience
of tie Jew.
| The speech OF one of those men, contained the
words. that. 'if the Jews are stricken with blind
ness and will not recognize Jesus Christ. il is not
| our fault" Vain and coDceiied man. who fears
theef l would say Jew. but il is not; il is the
wealth OF the economical, enterprising lsraete
| That is what they fear. for certainly none oi
wealth extreme were in that wise and august!
sssemblage.
| They had also an argument that the Jew ii
not loyal. WhyI Because they are mostly fol
lowers Of the principles of Jefferson and of Jack
son. Not loyal? 1t these men, the entire body
OF that convention, had done for the benefit OF
the soldier. the army and the nation. what even
one single Jew. who, of course wealthy, had done
for this country. then it would be well for them
20 act. Why, to day our bonds in the Golfers oil
I Rothschild in Frankfort, o. T. NJ. are worth
even more than in the loyal cities of New York
| Boston and Philadelphia. Gold for gold, $685.
| 900 QUO, in the hands of the Jews of Frankfort
Have any OF these holy ~ men who would COM
| pei the Jews of this natien to take dctestabls
oath, done even the millionth part of thisf
Again. have the Jews not shown on every &C.
casion their liberslity and devotion to the ma
ton? These men blame Us with the name OF
a Benjamin. Well and truly did co religion
ist answer IN the convention: where Benjamin is
named a stain upon. Judaism. He count TO one
for u. triple the myrisds of Xefxes for them
Too much cannot be sad against such move
nent. and hoping YOU will give room for this
communication, that Israel may see what is
threatening them during abolition and fanstical
rule. To-day, abolition; to morrow. know moth
ingism. and lastly upon the freedom of the negro
comes the enslaving Of the conscience of the
Jew. These are the opinions and feelings of
A SoS CT lUpEA.