The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-21
$1.0O PER ANNUM.:
THE PAPER FOB THE PEOPLE
PROSPECTUS FOR 1850.

The coming presidential year promises to be
the most eventful and thrilling in a political
sense that We have ever witnessed, and viii
determine questions of the most vital import
ance 10 every citizen of the State and nation
II is not improbable-indeed, il is almost GER
tain that, upon the determination of these
questions, VIII depend the perpetuity OF our
present system of free government.
These questions Will be thoroughly discussed
during the present session Of Congress.
The Sentinel has arranged for a first-class
experienced special correspondent al Wash
ington, and, in addition 10 giving s. true ac-
count of ali the general proceedings in that
body, will give the leading speeches of our
most prominent statesmen, and without de-
priying our patrons OF the usual amount OF
contain a supplement-, making in AL sixty
Columns of composition.
In word, 1t is the purpose OF the Sentinel.
as SteRdfaSt Waterman Of public intelligence
to do its whole duty in affording information
to its subscribers upon all these topics of such
vast moment
Asin rs so in 80 Indiana will be called upon
to take first position IN the front OF the great
contest, and upon the success or failure of the
great aad gallant Democracy OF our state Will
depend the fate of issues the most Ortentons
ever submitted TO the arbitrameDt of a free
people:
day to day, as occasion may require, to an en-
tirey n eW Phase in the politics of our State
We mean the forced emigra ton for temporary
partisan purposes of p3uper negroes from the
South into Indiana. Tire managers and lead
ers of the Republican party, in our State and
iOus work, and are attempting by every
means In their power to promote its advance
ment They have failed, utterly failed, 10 con-
vince our people of the correctness of their po-
htical principles by reason or argument;
their appeals TO hatred and prejudice nave
fallen harmless: their lavish and corrupt ex-
penditures of public and private moneys have
proved wholly futile. They propose now by
an African invasion of worse than a vandal
horde OF beggars and mendicants to override
the voice OF the people of the State, and to
drown the Democratic majority. The last
resort, the forlorn hope. the assaultiBg party.
the picket 6Ssailing corps OF RepublicaniSm IN
Indiana, is thus maze up-not from the
Hunters, HarrisOns, Heilmans or Shacklefords
of the State: not from the intelligence or
ability of that party, bat is composed of a
motley, parti-colored gang of wretched field
negroes from the South. The froth and scum
OF this worthless importation are made use OF
TO destroy the free franchise of resident citi-
zens, and to tax our means of home labor and
domestic subsistence for the support Of the
political tSne Is OF q defeated faction.
The sleepless Sentinel, upon the heights OF
popular rights and popular liberty, predicts
that this movement viii also be a failure.
With respect to this before unheard of
method OF manufacturing party msjorities in
State, we shall at all times give the latest and
most reliable Intelligence.
The American Democracy, the Federal
Union, the rights of the people and the States,
one and inseparable-now and forever.
The merits of the Sentinel as general news
paper are so well known among the farmers
of this state, especially those of the Demo-
cratic persuasion, that commentator of it
as deemed superfluous. We will add, however,
that the management has arranged and fully
determined that no paper shall furnish so
great practical value TO its patrons for the
money.
In its news, its editorials, its literary and
mlscellany-in word, in its general reading
II shall not be surpassed by any paper circu-
lated in the State.
1t VIII be particularly adapted TO the family
circle. We do not believe that any reading,
thinking man in the State can afford TO do
without the Weekly Sentinel at the small cost
at which it is furnished.