Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-11

not the Government, they are not the country
They are, for brief period, the instruments OF
the affairs of the Government and the
country. The power of the sovereign people is
only partially delegated for special purposes. How
absurd and peposterous, then. is the clamor, that
when venture to censure these agents of the
people we are arraying ourselves against our
country.
The No-Party State Convention in
Ohio.
A no party State Convention assembled in Co,
lumbus, Oho, on Thursday last, the delegates
it being of all shades of former polit
ical opinion and association. The candidates were
selected equally from those who were formerly
identified with the Republican and Democratic
parties SO far as the division of offices is con-
cerned the Convention was liberal and impartial.
We commend their action to our Republican no
party friends of Marion county and of Indiana
generally. Radical Republicanism was ignored
by the Convention, and even the State and Ma
tional Administrations were passed over Inin.
dorsed and undefended. The Ohio Statesman
makes the following comments upon the proceed
ings of the Convention:
The platform ignores all the dogmas of the
Republican party entirely, and for all that APP
pears in it, no one could say that we ever had an
''irrepreSsbe' in Ohio. 1t declares for vigor-
Gus prosecution of the war, not with view to a
subiugation OF the Southern States, but to put
down rebellion and assert the national authority
and it opposes any compromise with those in arms
against the Government.
The denomination of Judge Scott, for Supreme
Ind FL.
nation and re election of Judge Brinkerhooff last
year, and an Endorsement of Judge Swan in the
celebrated Oberlin cases of 1859.
Thus is Abolitionism completely Quashed in
Ohio, and the former managers of the Republi
can party in this State are most signally rebuked
Mr. Tod, and his Democratic associates on the
ticket, have been raised in the strctest school OF
the cd Democratic party of the real pot metal
cast. while Mr.. Stanton and his Republican col
leagues on the same ticket have been schooled in
directly opposite faith. 1t is not to be expected
that these men can harmonic on matters of poll
CIV, principle, or administration, and hence, should
they be elected, discord must reign in the admin
istratiOn of our State affairs.
Parties for the hour can not be relied upon
The history of the late Republican party is la
mentable evidence of this truth. 1t is but little
more than five years since it was inaugurated
and it Immediately possessed itself of and has
ever since held the State government. Much has
been promised in its behalf but such has been its
shortcomings, such the it has brought upon the
people of the State, that on the 9Th of Septem
Der, 1861, in large Convention, where Republi-
cans predominited, no man was bold enough &c
name it as living institution
1t has passed away, and we now have no
party party proposed in its stead. If the people
are wise, they will put the substitute out of the
way on the second Tuesday in October, and turf
over the STATE Government to the representative e.
of the old Nltional Union Democracy; a party
with record in the past which is a sure guaran
tee of its necessity and exaltation in the future.
The Political Question of the Day
The New York Journal of Commerce, o
Wednesday las, in an article discussing the pres
ent aspect ofpubc affairs, presents the following
thoughts and suggestions upon the condition o
the country, which we reproduce as eminentl,
worthy of consideration at the present time:
In fact for tae present the day of parties and
party politics is past. We look around US to -da,
for the old party lines, but in vain. One CRANE
interest, absorbing for a while all questions o
minor Importance, has seized on the public mind
sweeping away the barriers which Democrats
Republicans Americans, had erected aroun,
themselves, and the citizens of the United States
forgetful of The ordinary issues of political cam
paIgns, ask solely this, Hop shall the Union b
sustained and our Government be restored TO Il
sea icide poiceT.
We recognize the question as the only politica
question of the day. Ii comes to US as to a MAJ
who has been wandering in the deserts of Afric
for a year, AMI who suddenly returns to find hi
country convuked by a civil war 1t is not
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cause and seeking thus cure We have drifte
lar beyond that. The future of our country is /
the hands of God and under Him in the hands o
wise rulers and patriotic people.
We find the country plunged in a vast, expen
sive, desolating war. We find the hearts of me
trembling in view of the darkness before them
and in such times God foibid that we should ad
to the overwhelming gloom. On the contrar
we promise ours elves that so far as in US lies, W
will endeayor to cheer the hearts of our country
men. and to find in the future sources of encou
agement, by which mems souls may be strength
ened and restrained in the conflict before US. FL
il is in vain To conceal that the conflict is befor
There is now no prospect of peace, nor ca
we see any opening to-day for such prospec
We shall watch for the opening as "those ths
wait for the morning. but we shall not hold GU
to our readers any delusive hopes of the dawr
To-day the country might have peace if the ma
ton were willing to consent to the alternative {
dissolution of the Union. But there is n
more prospect at present that the mind of th
Northern people will consent to such peace tina
that the stars will fall We know that there is
very general, we may say universal, desire in tn
country that the war should end by a settlemer
of some kind. But the ideas of men on the sui
ect are vague; and when the distinct issue
presented, shall it be at the expense of a divide
Uniong The answer is at once and firmly-"N
never Nor can any one well devise treat
of dissolution. The questions relating to Eas
ern Tennessee, to Western Virginia, to Missou
and Kentucky, not to mention suchas the mouth
of the Mississippi and the Gulf forts-these que:
lions present a difficulty to the mind of think
ing man, which at once discourages him from an
attempt to devise treaty of pc zee based on
dissolution of the Union. 1t must then be RI
garded as n fact that peace, as the expense of tn
Union, will not be accepted by the people of th
North, and is, in effect, impracticable
What, then, is left for US? We arScitizens {
n noble Government Its name has been frs
on the roll of nations To be an American hs
been more than m old days il was to be Roma
citizen. To have the shadow of Americanisn
to have slept under the protection the Amer
can Egis, was enough to entitle man to d.
livermce from captivity even by the voice {
! American artillery. That day must come again
The Government, represented by the Presider
and both Houses of Congress. undertakes to effe,
| it. We are in their hands, and whatever we ma
think of the original error in this undertaking "
can look nowhere else for leadership and govern
ment The powers that be, are ordained of Coz
and the citizens must recognize their authority.
| We propose, therefore, for ourselves, to suppo
] the Government as good citizens in iesitimai