The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-21

let and bayonei, and worse than Bel
shazzar who degraded the sacred vessels of
Gods temple; worse than vandal hordes
whs destroyed the monuments OF Rome's
civilization, the radical party with lying
professions of devotion to the institutions
of the country, sought by every devilish
device to retain power by destroying the
affairs and the shrines of liberty. We know
there are questions of finances to be dis
cussed and settled; we know that the la
Dor problem is even now taxing the abili-
ties of the profundest thinkers of the
land; we know there are questions
of tariffs and taxation to be settled, but as
the Boston Post opportunity remarks there is
one great and overpoweripg issue that sur
passes all others. Shall the great national
wrong be righted? Shall the people be per-
united to choose and inaugurate president
'of their choice? Shall fraud and crime be
allowed to supplant popular sovereignty
and destroy the very fountain of all politi-
cal action? Shall men exalted TO the high
est stations by the aid of conspirators,
though by them now denounced as per
jured rascals,' escape with their common
plumber before the gaze and by consent of
an indignant people? These and kindred
questions are the real ones before the coun-
try, and which in 1850 are to loom up in
their true magnitude and importance. We
have first to settle the fact whether we are
ito have any government at all before de-
'termining by what measures it shall be
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DUNG an open revolt. The next effort
required will be to rescue it from cor
'ruptiol and usurpation. 1t is evident
also that the people will have a difficult
work On their hands. All that practised
conspirsors can do to count out men
fairly elected and count in those whom
the peopl, at the polls rejected, will be at
tempted sSsin. All that money can accom-
plush to poison the public mind, seduce
voters and BUY up returning boards is to be
prepared foi once more. All that despoil-
'ers OF the people under Grants sdmInistra-
'tions can do o get their unholy hands into
the treasury sgaln will assuredIy be done.
From accomplishing their purpose there
will be no bar Sut by a vigorous and united
effort to vindicate the montrous wrong of
1876, and by preventing its repetition in
$780, The democrats have no energy to be
wasted by divisions on subordinate issues,
and should keep their eye first and foremost
on tie great duty OF first rescuing the gov
eminent from those Who under the forms OF
law have revolutionized it,
The radical party is massing its strength
for the last Struggle. 1t must vim or die.
To achieve vicory now the radical party is
ready for any blasphemous preceding.
1t has hell brood of conspirators ready
to duplicate the iorgeries and perNries
of Florida and Louisiana. John Sherman is
as ready now as then to bargain for perjuries
and promise federal offices as the reward. J.
Madison Wells and his congress, for a con-
sideration, would burn the gospel, erase the
statutes, insult the cruci6x, and set the gull
lotine at work more actively than Robesplerre
ever dreamed of, il thereby he could en-.
throne another fraud in the office of presi-
dent, and receive as his reward a federal Of
fee. This party is to be defeated in Indiana
1t will require hard work and continuous
work from now till the last blow is struck
and the polls are closed