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

spirit of concord, divine messenger Of good
Will towards men, say to the waters of section
al strife, apeace, be STILL" and upon tbs geo
graphical line now inaugurated by me fell
purpose of disunion, drop tear aId blot 1t
cat forever.
NY fellow citizens of noble Indiana: No
language OF figure of speech that can pOssi-
bly employ can exaggerate the danger to us,
to our children and to our children's children,
which lies embedded and wrapped up in such
an organization as the Black Republican party
mas proven itself to be. The Constitution,
that instrument so hallowed in every heart
that Is American, that has come down to US
stained and dripping with the blood and tears
of the Revolution, that great charter OF hu-
man hope and human happiness has been the
fortress to which, in the blasphemed name OF
Reuubicanism, they have laid seige. The
Constitution of our fathers guarantees to each
member of our cOnfoderacy tie unmoiested
control of its own domestic laws. This eoc-
trine has been assailed with all the ferocious
and vindictive fury which marks the assaults
of the highwsyman who fights for plUnder.
In the name of religion, and invoking Gods
holy ordinances, the high priests OF this foul
temple Of discord have smote with poisoned
dagger at the heart of our dear and cherished
Union. In the name of peace they have fes-
tered, created, and proclaimed civil war, and
armed the deluded fanatic with the sword OF
cruel and obdurate fanaticism on our West
ern frontier.
In the name of the sovereign power of Con-
gress they have attempted to cleave down
the sovereign rights and powers of the citi-
zen. Hostility to principle in government
identical with that which caused the first
blood to be shed at Lexington and at Bunker
Hill, and as old as the birth day of liberty
herself, is made the pretext for darkenlng all
the land with fierce and bitter strife. Claim
ing to be the peculiar and chosen guardians
of freedom, their whole desperate and un-
scrupulous struggle has been to crush out the
first great fundamental principle OF free gov
eminent Protesting with hollow and I'M
pious mockery to revere the grand and sub
lime political faith of Washington and JEFF
ferson, they seek to ostracise and cut of from
us by line of hate and dismemberment the
sacred soil where their dead ashes repose. In
the name of law, many of the daring leaders
of this desperate and reckless party swore
their followers to commit treason. In the
name of justice, they have repeatedly storm
ed her very citadel and rihed her of all her
loveliness by judicial corruption. They have
told US in loud tones that the ballot-box was
pure in their sight, and was the only safe
guard to freedom; yet, the Goth and the Van
dal, the untamed Barbarian of the North was
more scrupulous in his regard for the rights
and liberties of the Roman citizen than has
this Black Republican party been for the pu-
rity of the elective franchise. They have
boldly and unblushingly polluted 1t with
frauds more damning to liberty than the I'M
disguised usurpations of despotism ITSELF In
the name of order they sought to paralyze the
military arm of the Government. They asked
for the army to keep peace in Kansas, and in
the name of consistency, struggled to take
away from the soldier his means of subsist-
ence. They denounced laws as q disgrace to
the code of Draco, and voted time and again
to retain them in binding force. They de-
claimed and convulsed the land in reference
to alleged violence and outrage in one OF our
territories, and in the name of the Prince of
the Gospel of peace, invaded that same terri
tory with an organized band of lawless ad
venturers, beside whom the scandinavian
madmen of old will stand fair upon the pa
ges of future history.
Yes, history will look back with wonder
and horror at the spectacle presented by such
party. Years cannot efface its effects, or
wipe out its debauching tendencies from the
popular mind. 1t is a fearful commentary
on the credulity and unsettled state of the
minds of a portion of our people that such an
organization, based upon such principles, can
present the formidable array of numbers that
it does. A load of guilt for all this. howev-
or, lies upon the souls of its reasonable foun-
ders more crushing and harder to be answer
ed for than that which furrowed and burnt
the brow of Cain when he went forth from
the face Of God and man.
Remember thsm, the Villains, righteo cas- heaven,