Indiana State Sentinel

We lay before our readers the following pressing warning and appeal, concocted by the Indianapolis Junto, and sent to the faithful throughout the State:

INDIANAPOLIS, May, 1843.

Dear Sir—The undersigned, Whig State Central Committee, placed as they are by the Whig party in an all-important position, feel called upon, in the discharge of their duties, to address to a number of Whigs of the State, yourself among the rest, the present pressing warning and appeal.

We fear, sir, that the Whig party is too supine and too indifferently organized. (1)

We know that our opponents are fully disciplined, and active to desperation. (2)

And we know, too, in our bitter experience, the disastrous effect of over-confidence and tardy action.

Allow us to presume so far as to call your attention to these points:

The Locofoco party have everything to gain and nothing to lose in the present struggle. (3) If they acquire power now, the contest will be final and certainly will be terrible in its consequences to our party throughout the Union. (4) As inducements to action, they have the overwhelming motive for ascendancy to give them an influence in their approaching National Convention: to garrison the Capitol with State officers, to operate upon the Presidential campaign: to complete their triumph in the United States' Senate, and, it is to be feared, to re-organize the Supreme Bench. (5)

Information has already reached us, to satisfy our minds that they are making an exertion unparalleled in our party conflicts. They are employing a prodigality of money (6) (in which they are no doubt aided by politicians abroad:) their leading men are banded together by a correspondence which can, at any moment, and at any point, call forth simultaneously their talent upon the stump, and secure the insidious circulation of floods of fallacious and deceptive documents. (7) To these efforts they are also stimulated by the hope of our lukewarmness, schisms, and an abolition influence which (although, as a party, violent in their abuse of that interest, and bent, as a party, upon the annexation of Texas to the Union, for the purpose of strengthening the free trade portion of their leaders.) they still hope to secure—but to denounce and to betray. (8)

This is to raise alarm! Let the defeat of Corwin in Ohio, learn us witness that it is no false alarm! (9) Organization there, more action and less records, would have obviated that disaster—would have prevented the gross fraud by which she has lost her Congressional representation and ascendancy in the State councils. (10) Here, there, a powerful under-current is at work. Here, as there, party leaders preach moderation and practice unrelenting faction! Here, as there, regrets will be all in vain, when they shall come too late. (11)

Forewarned let us be forearmed! A struggle, if needless, costs but a discharge of duty—but, if needful and unperformed, the responsibility will be terrible (12) upon those to whom the party, as to you, has a right to look for action. The undersigned feel no disposition to subject themselves to such consequences, and hence they urge you not to pass this matter by for a more convenient season, nor to impose the requests of this letter upon other shoulders. (13) 'What is everybody's business is nobody's;' and it is to gentlemen like yourself, throughout the State, that the cause looks with confident expectation. (14)

What we have written to you of the management of our adversaries, is the result of a close examination of the operations of their leaders now, from all points, in attendance at the Capitol upon the different courts, and from an extended correspondence. Suffer us, therefore, to make the following requests.

Is your county thoroughly organized? If not, will you see to its immediate organization, in such a mode as may best suit your position and insure the greatest activity? If organized, please address us as to its mode of organization. Particularly as to the documents in circulation among the people. (15) and the names of your candidates for the Legislature.

Will you correspond with us every two weeks as to demonstrations in your county?

Can the party look to you to address the people at such points and at such times as may suit—not the lethargic action of the mass—but your own vigilant notions of necessity? (16)

Will you aid in the circulation of a newspaper—the Spirit of '40—printed here, now at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS until the close of the campaign! Which we desire, to do good, to circulate fully at once.

Will you open a correspondence at home and abroad, with such persons as you may deem it expedient to stimulate in this work?

We have thus warmly importuned you in behalf of a cause in whose aid you have rendered signal services, and whose success, at this critical moment, depends upon the same energy—without which we must be defeated! The responsibility thrown upon our shoulders must pardon the zeal evinced in its discharge. With active exertions we must and can succeed. (17)

Your fellow citizens,

NOAH NOBLE.

T. J. BARNETT.

GEORGE W. STIPP,

J. S. BOBBS.

A. W. MORRIS.

S. V. B. NOEL,

JOHN S. DAVIS.

HENRY COOPER.

CALEB B. SMITH.

JESSE CONARD,

W. B. BUTLER.

1) You do fear, then, notwithstanding your lying boasts through the coon papers. And well may you have reason to fear. The People are awake, and are determined to have an account of your stewardship, in reducing the State to her present degraded condition. No wonder you fear. The guilty always fear.

2) Well may they be. Plundered, swindled, impoverished, and goaded by a set of blood-suckers who have battened on the life-blood of the people—well may you suppose them active to desperation. We hope you are right.

3) This is a precious acknowledgment, and should be kept before the people. The Federal Whig Junto acknowledge that the Democratic party have

Every thing to Gain and Nothing to Lose!

4) Keep it before the people, that the Indianapolis Whig Junto acknowledge that if the Democrats succeed now, 'the contest may be FINAL, and certainly will be TERRIBLE in its consequences to OUR PARTY throughout the Union.' Well do they know that the abuses practised on the people of this State will be exposed, and that thereafter whiggery will stand no chance with an honest people—that the triumph of Democracy will be final.

(5) Mere humbug, to gull fats.

6) This is a base falsehood, and we demand the proof. Every signer is involved in thus publishing such a charge—one which they neither can, nor will attempt to prove.

7) More humbug. That we have 'talent on the stump' is true: and we are glad that Noah Noble & Co. have thus acknowledged it.

(8) We wish abolitionists and anti-abolitionists to notice the last paragraph particularly. The 'schisms, lukewarmness,' &c. is a necessary attendant upon a party that would cut each other's throats for an office.

9) You are very right, gentlemen. Your alarm is well grounded. By the first Monday in August, it may abate somewhat. You see we are trying to keep up your courage and tell the people your awful condition. We are very well aware that yours is no false alarm.

(10) It is really funny to hear a pipelaying, intriguing, set of coons talk about elections being carried by fraud!

11) What are the party leaders of the whig party in Indiana doing! Gov. Bigger is neglecting entirely the duties of his office, and begging the people to place him back in an office which he solemnly pledged them he would hold but one term! The Treasurer of State is moving heaven and earth for the success of his party, that he may retain his office! And where has all the money been raised, in this county, (according to your other private circular, which we shall publish next week, more than has been raised in the whole State beside)! What is the Auditor and Secretary of State doing? Talk about money! Are you afraid to have the Democrats get into power for fear they will discover how it was raised! The people wish to know, and they WILL know, by electing Democrats to ferret out these abuses. See the Treasurer's letter in another column.

(12) Very Terrible, no doubt.

(13) They want to keep themselves out of the scrape, but it will be no go! The people will have their fingers on them, and their hides must come off! What a pity it will be to let all these rich office-holders lose their teats!! To have them go to work!!

(14) It is to GENTLEMEN like yourself! Do you suppose that the 'Whig cause' could have anything to do with the common people! O no! It is only gentlemen who know how to tell the people how to vote! We don't send our letters to them, nor do we let them know what we are about to keep ourselves in office! See Treasurer Dunn's letter on this subject. He writes to another gentleman, and wants him to give away five copies of the Spirit of '40 to the common people. Keep them awake, and we, the office-holders, can easily manage to blind them with such stuff as that paper and Smith's humbug!

(15) Yes: let us know what documents the people are reading. They must not be permitted to choose for themselves, but they must read such as we prepare and select for them. This is what the Junto mean.

(16) There it is again! The lethargic action of the MASs! The people are only the mass, and these gentlemen must fix matters as they please. What do the Junto care for the MASsEs! Nothing more than to make them AssEs!

(17) The last paragraph is all sufficient. The acknowledgment is certainly a candid one, and we hope the whole circular will be republished by every Democratic paper in the State. Let us help the poor devils out with their groans.

This Circular is of immense importance. Its tendency should be to keep our friends active and wide awake. We have before us another private circular, issued and signed by the same clique, and which we shall publish next week. It shows that an immense amount of money is contributed to sustain the falling fortunes of whiggery. Whether this money is raised by private subscription or in that of the people, is not known as yet. Should the Democracy succeed in August, no doubt look out for important developments on this subject. Let the care be as it will, that the money is raised and expended in electioneering, we have from their own documents. It remains with the freemen of Indiana to say in August, whether they think there is still office-holders ought to be kept in longer, or whether a change will not be for the better. With the developments making daily, we believe the people will be false to them, rivers and false to the best interests of their country, should they, by seating a whig legislature, vote to keep them in power longer. Their voices in August must settle the question.