Indiana State Sentinel

James M. Hanna, Esq., democratic nominee

for State Senator in the Vigo, Sullivan, and Clay district, has published appointments for speaking extending up to the election. He will visit all the counties and canvass them thoroughly. This is right; a large majority of the people are naturally democratic, and when democratic principles and measures have a fair hearing, our party and its candidates are almost always triumphant.

No anti-slavery whig can have, so soon as this, forgotten the treachery of Caleb Smith and Dick Thompson, to the professed anti-slavery principles of the Whigs. Their memories, we will venture to think, are a little better than the Journal's. Nor can they possibly mistake the reasons for that treachery. They know that it was the price exacted for places at the "public crib."

They cannot have forgotten, though the Journal may, the denunciation of the free soil whigs by the National Intelligencer, which at an early day intimated that Gen. Taylor would "frown down" any attempts which they might have the temerity to make against slavery extension. Their "confidence" cannot but have been shaken, though the Journal's may not, at the hasty attempt of Taylor to "compromise" the slavery question out of the way, by trying to exert an outside influence upon Congress, even before he was inaugurated. They know, if the Journal does not, that his Cabinet contains a majority of slavery men, and that they can and will vote down the old man, even if he should not agree with them, as we have no doubt he will.

Knowing these things, and having good evidence of the false-heartedness of the whig leaders, in this as well as in other States, demonstrated by recent developments, it will require something more potent than appeals to their generous confidence in old Zack, on account of his supposed military services, to induce any honest free soiler to desert his own banners adhered to in times of tribulation, for the poor honor of swearing allegiance to Taylor and Slavery, and to give aid and comfort to that cause by voting for whig candidates for Congress upon the fallacious idea that the non-extension of slavery is a whig principle.

But the appeal of the Journal is "too late!" If it be operative at all, it can only be so upon individuals. The mass of free soilers know how little trust is to be reposed in such professions. The recent attempt to induce Mr. Cravens to become treacherous to freedom for the sake of whig votes, speaks volumes,-demonstrating, beyond all cavil, the insincerity of the Whigs, and the utter impossibility of a union between them and the free soilers, except at the cost of moral and political destruction to the latter in the eyes of the world.