The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-03-31
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INDIANA wEEK1y
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LOO PER ANNUM
ME PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE
PROSPECTUS FOR 1859.

The coming presidential year promises to bS
the most eventful and thrilling in a politica.
sense that we have ever witnessed, and will
determine questions of the most vital import,
snce TO every citizen OF the State and nation
IL Is not mprobable-indeed, it is almost GER
tain that, upon the determination of these
present system of free government
These questions will be thoroughly discussed
during the present session of Congress.
The Sentinel has arranged for first-class,
experienced special correspondent at WASH
ington, and, in addition to giving a true 40
count OF all the general proceedings in that
body, will give the leading speeches of cur
most prominent statesmen, and without de-
priying our patrons OF the usual amount OF
reading matter. The Sentinel win hereafter
contain q supplement, making in all sixty
Columns of composition.
In a word, 1t is the purpose OF the Sentinel.
as steadfast Waterman of public intelligence
to do its whole duty in affording information
TO It's subscribers upon all these topics of such
AS in 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 and gallant Democracy OF our State will
depend the fate OF issues the most portentOns
ever submitted to the arbitrament of a free
We shall also specially call attention, from
day to day, as occasion may require, to an en-
tirely New Phase In the politics of our State
we mean the forced emigration for temporary
partisan purposes OF pauper negroes from the
South into Indiana. The managers and lead
ers OF the Republican party, in our State and
tous work, and are attempting by every
means In their power to promote its advance
Vince our people of the correctness of their po-
litical principles by reason or argument:
their appeals to hatred and prejudice nave
allen harmless: their lavish and corrupt ex-
penditures of public and private MONEYS have
proved wholly futile. They propose now Dy
an African invasion of worse than a yandsl
q0rde 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 assaulting party,
the picket assailing corps of Republicanfsm In
Indiana, Is thus maze up-nOt from the
Hunters, Harrisons, Heilmans or ShackIefords
ability OF that party, but is composed of q
motley, parti-col0red gang OF wretched field
negroes from the South The froth and scum
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 tenets of q defeated faction.
The sleepless Sentinel, upon the heights OF
popular rights and popular liberty, predicts
that this movement will also be failure.
method OF manufacturing party majorities 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-
Is deemed superfuous. We viii 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, it's literary and
miscellany-in word, In its general reading
1t 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,
without the Weekly Sentinel at the small cost
at which Ii Is furnished.