The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-14
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THE PAPER FOR The PEOPLE
PROSPECTUS FOR 1855.

The coming presidential year promises 20 be
the most eventful and thrilling in politica
sense that We have ever witnessed, and will
determine questions of the most vital import,
ance to every citizen of the State and nation
1t Is not improDable-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 q first-class,
experienced special correspondent at WASH
ington, and, In addition to giving a true
body, will give the leading speeches of our
most prominent statesmen. and without de-
Paine The % sntin uSuS OF
contain supplement-, making In all sixty
Columns of composition.
m %6fos II rs tne purP8se OF the Sentnea
to do its whole duty In affOrding information
to Its subscribers upon all these topics of such
AS In 70 so in so Indiana will be called upon
TO take a first position In the front OF the great
contest, and upon the success or failure OF the
depend the fate of issues the most portentoas
ever submitted TO the arbitrament of free
people:
We shall also specially call attention, from
day to day, as occasion may require, to an
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
ment. They have failed, utterly fsiled, TO con.
vince our people of the correctness of their DO
htical 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 by
an African invasion of worse than a vandal
Uorde OF beggars and mendicants to override
the voice of the people Of the State, and TO
drown the Democratic majority: The last
resort, Inc doIiorn nope, she ssss1ting party
Indiana, Is thus maae up-nOt from the
Hunters, Harrisons, Hsilmans or ShsckIefordn-
ability of that party, but is com posed of 8.
motley, parti-colored gang of wTeJched field
negroes from the South. The froth aud 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 a defeated faction.
The sleepless Sentinel, upon the heights OF
popular rights and popular liberty, predicts
that this movement will also be failure.
With respect to this before unheard OF
method of manufacturing party majorities In
State, we small 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 1nseparable-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 superhuous. We will add, however,
that the management has arranged and fully
determined that no paper shall furnish so
great practical value to It's patrons for the
money.
In its news, It's editorials its literary and
mlscellany-in a word, in its general reading
IL shall net be surpassed by any paper circur
lated Ia the State.
1t win 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 II is furnished.