Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-11-27

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And their pernicious eounsels, who, for wealth,
For power, the pride of greatness, OF revenge,
Would plange their native land in civil wars"
The pirate vessel that ravages the high
ways of commerce with a black flag at its
mast and a grinning death's-head at its PROV,
is in my Judgment a more honorable foe and
less to be dreaded than a political party in
our midst, which, protesting all the virtues,
practices all the crimes, which cloaks itself
in the livery of Heaven the better to serve its
reasonable ambition, and presenting fair
exterior, covers up from view designs OF evil
more black and damning than ever festered
in the heart of Cataline or, developed them
selves in the actions of Benedict Arnold. If
my words sound bitterly, remember that i
speak now of the interested and ambitious
leaders, who, from the county politician up
to the canting, hypocritical, Metropolitan die
tator, are straining every nerve and bending
every energy to run our ship OF State on the
now almost visible reefs of disunion. The
masses in general of all parties are honest In
their love Of native land and home; and upon
this simple fact we base our doctrine of the
capacity and right of American citizens to
govern themselves. But no warfare is too In
tense or unrelenting to be waged against the
willy demagogue, who, in high or low places,
lives and thrives upon the delusion and error
that be is able to beget in the minds of the
people.
Let US turn, however, my fellow-citizens,
from this picture of madness, faction, and
treason, to loftier and more genial theme.
Look out with me.upon the great moral VIC
tory which has Just crowned our arduous
labors. Let your hearts expand and en-
brace all its greatness, and all its glory. ln
every shape in which we contemplate the
Presidential contest Of 1856, It stands un-
paralleled in our crowded and eventful his
tory. Heretofore the question has been hotS
the Government should be administered
but we have just won our victory upon the
startling issue, whether we were any longer
to have a government to administer at all
or whether, like Marius of old, in the midst
of the ruins of Carthage, we were TO sit and
weep over the PROSTATE remains of our onct
hSppy country. Whether we view this con-
{ test with reference to the glorious principle:
| which give vitality 70 the Democratic party
r or with reference to the inevitabls conse
, quences attendant upon the triumph of ou
adversaries, the wonderful Importance anC
magnitude of our national victory becomes
| vividly apparent Seven long, weary year
of privation, suffering, and death, in th'
/ midst of grim visaged war, achieved for ou
9 fathers an honored position among the ma
r tions of the earth, planted new and NOR
: brilliant star in the political armament, ant
\ caused the American constitution in all it
: wealth of wisdom to burst like full rise
# sun upon the delighted vision of mankind
i A little more than three quarters OF a cen
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; Washington and his little bleeding army
II the mistress of mightier power than Rom
Il ever possessed in the proudest days OF he
" Caesars. The progress of our country in a
2 that pertains to national or individual happ
n ness, greatness and glory, has far outstrippe
d the most imperial imagination that eve
IT blazed in the brain of the poet. The su
le looks upon no people SO free or so blessed {