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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
Republican Morality.

The accomplished and well informed Indian
opOlis correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
in his letter to that paper published yesterday,
"wednesday makes the following comments upon
the high standard of morals announced pro tormG
by the Republican leaders of Indiana:
| have already in this letter spoken of the pub
lie printing. / can not refrain from giving you
and l have considered whether l ought to do it
Mr.. Sherman's speech, a Black Republican of
Laporte, the question 1t is reported Uerbatiml,
and it develops the Black Republican policy upon
this as well as upon all other subjects where Off
ces of honor and profit are concerned. 1t is as
follows:
Il vote for indefinite pOstpOnement upon princi-
ple-upOn the fact that to the victor belong the
spoils. Two years ago, when the question came
here to abolish this Office, after the election of
John G. Walker, then voted against it, and
shall vote against it now, more especially as the
Printer we have elected is under a tcriften pledge
to submit to due restrictions uheh his friends may
prescribe. voted against abolishing this Office
two years ago, believing that the time was not
far distant when we would have control of il.
And not we have got it. 1t seems to me to come
with a very bad grace from that side of the House,
the moment we have got it, to ask US to abolish
it. | distinctly say to the House, that | be-
result in saving $4,000 to the State. The Office
now belongs to the Republican party"
i need not say, Mr.. Editor of the Enquirer,
that that was conclusive speech, and that the
italics are mine but ask you to note that Col.
John c. Walker. J. j. Bingham, or any other
Democratic State Printer, never gave such pri-
rate pledges as the Hon. Mr.. Sherman says Mr..
Public Printer Sulgrove gave in order to attain
his high and lucrative position.
Mr.. Sulgrove is really gentleman and schol-
ar, and l am truly sory-in fact, i weep, emphat-
ically, on a bandana, and blow my magnificent
nose, alsO-that he has thus dsgraced himself, in
my painful estimation. as Mr.. Sherman, Black
Republican of his own kind, says he has. / am
almost inclined to call Mr.. Sherman out, am
so mortified for my free niger friend on this
count But | won't do il, after sober second
thought, for fear Sherman might be shot in the
neck, and his female friends and connections then
censure me very severely.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
The Hegira of Wr. Lincoln.

The alarm of Mr.. LINCOLN and his friends in
reference to his passage through Baltimore ap-
pears to be entirely unfounded. The rumors of
intended violence came from irresponsible sources.
There is not doubt but that Mr.. LINCOLN would
have been treated with respect, as much so as any
where on his route from Springfield. WASHING
TON, in whose footsteps Mr. LINCOLN promises to
tread, and 'Old Hickory could not have been thus
intmdated. They wouldno have given council to
their fears and passed oyer the route disguised
in ga Scotch plaid cap and very long military
cloak" so as to be entirely unrecognizable But
Mr.. LINCOLN is not a soldier-never smelt gun
powder--and is therefore excusable. he has
demonstrated that he is for peace and we there
fore must conclude that his policy will be pacific.
We sincerely hope that it was not fear of per-
sonal injury that induced Mr.. LINCOLN TO take
his flight from Harrisburgh to Washington dis
guised, but that the public exigencies demanded
his immediate presence at the Federal Capital.
1t cannot be supposed for a moment that a
husband and father would permit his family
to pass over a road and on a train of
-
travel upon. Certainly Mr.. LINCOLN could not
occupy so unnatural position. We know that
selfpreservation is the first law of nature, but a
mans family is part of himself We are un-
willing to think so unkindly of the President elect
and in charity will attribute his sudden flight to
some great public necessity, which doth not vet
appear. 1t will be humiliating to the country to
place any other construction upon the motives
which influenced him. In addition, we do no de-
sire to think meanly of man whose policy
we NAV have to defend in a very short time
against the assaults of his present apologists
and who will probably turn upon him with
all the vindictiveness of partisan hate. We read
that nation may be born in day, and we shall
not be at all surprised if revolution in the pub
lie sentiment of our own country almost equal tC
that should occur within short period. We have
an account of one SAUL of Tarsus who met witt
very sudden and marvellous change, and il
would not be surprising if the scales should droI
as suddenly from the eyes of ABRAHAM LIScoL,
and he should look out upon the political horizon
with new and different vision. Watch and pray
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06

When the President elect harangued the five
thousand at Steubenville, on Thursday, he asks
the pertinent question, "If the majority should
not rule, who should be judge. We must be all
bound by the decision of the American people;
if not, then the minority must control. Would
that be right, just, or generous? Assuredly not.
repeat that the majority should rule" Now,
certainly the votes cast at the last Presidential
election show that Two-THIRDs were against Mr..
Lincoln? How, then, by the populor vote, can
he claim to be other than the head of a decided
minority? If so, do the majority whom he STYLES
the American people, rule? Is not the nation
to be actually controlled by the minority, which
he virtually deprecates? The majority of this
nation are Numerically opposed TO the princi-
piles and programme of the Republican party,
Accordingly. he should act directly contrary to
the policy of that party, if he really intends to
be bound by the majority decision of the people
When the ballots are two to one against a per
son, it can hardly be said he is in a majority; al
least. Thomas Jefferson's IDEA would not have
agreed with such an exposition of his favorite
principle?-Boston Post.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
The United states Circus--Our Clown.

Allow us to introduce Mr.. LINCOLN, Black Re-
publican President of the United States, who will
90 through some Of the most entertaining per
formances. We have the honor of showing how
he saved the country at New York and other
points, where he saw them and they saw him:
very tall man was here presented. The
President elect looked at him from head to toe,
which attention was returned by a hearty stare.
Mr.. Lincoln remarked al guess top you an inch
or two
Two ladies from Illinois were the next corners.
Mr.. Lincoln said. al will. shake hands with the
ladies; their hands don't hurt me-"
Quite tall man came up somewhat close, as
if to measure hight with Mr.. Lincoln, who quickly
said
"He's making a question with me-" Ito the
man, ''stand up"
Mr. Lincoln and the stranger quickly put them
selves back to back, when roar of laughter fol
lowed on it being perceived shat the former was
the tallest of the two by about an inch. The
stranger went Off laughing.
Mr.. Lincoln-"I saw he was stretching himself
and making question"
To refusal to shake hands with a Young man
Mr.. Lincoln added the remark: "If you had a
sister here I'd shake hands with her." Laugh
ter.
On seeing an extraordinary tall man approach
ing, the Mayor excited considerable fun by say
ing Here's a tall fellow; he'll take YOU down.
Mr.. Lincoln shook hands with the big stranger
and said: IL give it up now" Laughter.
The Mayor-"You ought to get his name.''
Mr.. Lincoln answered by repetition of his
former remark. The stranger was six feet six
inches in hight. Mr.. Lincoln said that he him
self was a little less than six feet four inches tai
without his boots.
ANOTHER TALL MAN.-Shortly afterwards, on
seeing another tall man coming, the Mayor said
Here's another" After the man passed, Mr.
Lincoln remarked: I'D make it question with
him." lie had just amused the bystanders by
stretching himself up alongside of the stranger.
Speaking of Mr.. Lincoln's hight to the by
standers, the Mayor remarked: There's a gooC
deal of stretch in him.
Mr.. LincOn-"0utcOme | call it."
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
From the New York World


The following extract is from private letter,
written by distinguished literary gentleman OF
South Carolina, and is decisive as to the starva-
ton stories circulated so assiduousy by the not
an-inch, no compromise journals:
"ln the press of company, which has filled my
house for more than two months this winter, /
have had scarcely an hour to myself. We have
been seating from twelve to sixteen per ons daily
at dinner for some eight weeks, and it is only
within few days that l have been left to the
quiet enjoyment and cOmpanionshp of my own
family. In these hard, starvation times in South
Carolina, according to the report of Northern
journalists, you may we'll ask how have pro-
vided for all these people. Now, let me tell YOU.
l have killed, and am now smoking, fifty five head
of hogs, which will weigh from six to seven thous-
and pounds net. | have killed four steers, and
have two more to kill in the next month, and
have besides, eighty head of cattle / have three
thousand bushels of corn in my granaries, have
made four barrels wheat and two barrels rye -four,
and one hundred bushels of rice. l say nothing
of such items as peas and potatoes. l have got
sown and growing one hundred acres in rye and
oats; have fodder and hay cured to last sixteen
months; and am the least successful planter in
my neighborhood. Judge how far am prepared,
and how far our people are prepared, against
famine and blockade. By the 4th of March we
shall plant corn, while you are only planting
Black Republican. Presidents. BY the 4th OF
August i shall have made four thousand bushels
more of corn, and mr. hogs will have increased
from two hundred to five hundred. We won't
speak of vegetables and eggs, butter and poultry
BY the 10th of September always with Gods
favor) | shall have my cotton to pick, and trust
that shall make one hundred and twenty five
bags at fifty dollars each; ard all my people are
doing better than myself. | have still few bags
of cotton OH hand, for which | wait British ships
to take away. Britain and France must have
cotton, and none but European ships will be al
lowed to carry it, or our own. Judge for your
self, my friend, what the North has lost. and will
lose, in this carrying trade alone. Count up
the cost of freight on 100000 bags of cotton
alone. When the North shall realize what she
has lost by brutal and barbarous fanatic faction
what will she do with their leaders,"
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
Honorable Jeff. Davis.

Few men have led life more filled with stir
ring or eventful incidents than jefferson Davis
A native of Kentucky, born about 1906, he went
in early youth with his father to Mississippi, then
territory, and was appointed by President Mon
roe, in 1922, to be a cadet at West Point. He
graduated with the first honors, in ls2S, Brevet
Cd Lieutenant, and at his own request was placed
in active service being assigned to the command
of General (then ColOne) Zachary Taylor, who
was stationed in the West In the frontier wars
of the time young Davis distinguished himself in
so marked manner, that when a new regiment
of dragons was formed he at obtained a
commission as Lieutenant. During this time a
romantic attachment sprang up between him and
his prisoner, the famous chief, Black Hawk, in
which the latter forgot his animosity to the people
of the United States in his admiration for Lieut..
Davis, and not until his death was the bond of
amity severed between the two brave men.
In 1885, he settled quietly down upon cottO
plantation, devoting himself to a thorough and
systematic course of political and scientific educa-
ton. He was married TO 4 daughter Of Gen.
Taylor
In lS43 he took the stump for Polk, and in
1915, having attracted no little attention in his
State by his vigor and ability, he was elected to
Congress. Ten DAYS after he made his maiden
speech Soon the Mexican war broke out, and a
regiment of volunteers having been formed in
Mississippi, and himself chosen Colonel he re-
signed his post in Congress, and instantly repaired
with his command to join the corps darmee under
General Taylor At Monterey and Buena Vista
he and his noble regiment achieved the soldiers
highest fame Twice by his GOODNESS he saved
the day at Buena Vista. Wherever fire was hot
test or danger to be encountered, there Colonel
Davis and the Mississippi Rifles were to be found.
He was badly wounded in the early part
of the action, but sat his horse steadily
till the day was won, and refused to delegate
officers.
In 1913, he appointed to fill the vacancy
in the Senate of the United States, occasioned by
the death of General Speight, and in 1850, was
elected to that body almost unanimously for the
term of six years.
In 1851, he resigned his seat in the Senate to
become the State-right candidate for Governor,
but was defeated by Governor Foote.
In 1883 he was called to seat in the Cabinet
of President Pierce, and was Secretary of War
during his administration. In 1857 he elect
ed United States Senator for Mississippi for the
term of six years, which Office he held until his
resignation, on the secession of Mississippi from
the Union.
Personally, he is the last man who would be
selected as "fire- eater" He is prim, smooth
looking man, with a precise manner, stiff, sol
dierly carriage, and austerity that is at first
forbidding. He has naturally, however, genia
temper, companionabe qualities, and DISPOSE
ton that endears him to all by whom he may be
surrounded. As speaker he is clear, forciblt
and argumentative; his voice is clear and firm
without tremor.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06

Here is an extract from speech by Henry
CLAY that some who profess great reverence for
the memory of the Great CommOner would do
well to read:
There are persons who are very wise in their
own esteem, who viii reject all compromises;
but that is no reason why a compromise should
not be attempted. 1 20 for honorable compro-
mise when occasion calls for it. Life itself is
but a compromise, until the Great Destroyer
finally triumphs All legislation, all govern
ment, al society, is formed upon the principle of
mutual concession. politeness, comfy, courtesy,
upon these everything is based | bow to you
to-day because YOU bow to me. You are respect
full to me, because am respectful to you. Com
promise is peculiarly appropriate between the
members of a Republca as of one common family
Compromises have this Recommendation, that il
you concede anything, youha something con
ceded to you in return. Treaties are compro
mises made with foreign powers, which is not a
case like this. Here, if you concede anything
it is to your own brethren-to your own family
Let him who elevates himself above humanity
above its weakness, its infrmit;es. its wants
its necessities, say. if he pleases, never will
COMPROMISED but let no one, who is not above the
frailties of our common nature, disdain compro.
mise.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
1gs which spring from
hey tend to render allie
Iught to be bound tog
ion.
Again he says:
Liberty is the basis
Iur independence and
Difficulties i'm a Tariff Adjustment.

The following extract from late speech of
Senator DOUGLAS places in pretty strong light
the difficulties that lie in the way of proper ad-
justment of a tariff on imports:
A tariff involves two conflicting principles,
which are eternally at war with each other.
Every tariff involves the principles of protection
and of oppression, the principles of benefits and
of burdens. Every duty levied upon the impor-
tation of foreign article which comes in compe-
tition with home production is a protection to
that extent. Every duty levied upon a raw ma
teral which we do not manufacture here is a tax
upon the manufacturer of that article here Thus
you find that by protecting one interest perhaps
you will oppose another. For instance, if / am
engaged in the manufacture of pig iron, | want a
duty that will protect my interest. You give it
to me, and then man engaged in another branch
OF the iron business comes and says that the pig
iron | manufacture is his raw material and by
protecting me and my manufacture of this article
you put tax on his material, to his injury.
He has been injured to the same extent that |
have been benefited and then he wants protec-
ton on another point, to make up for the loss on
the raw material. Thus, when you attempt to
discriminate for the purpose OF beneftting one,
you are striking blow at another. The great
difficulty is so to adjust these conflicting princi-
Piles of the benefits and burdens as to make one
compens tie for the other in the end, and give
equal benefits and equal burdens to every class OF
the community.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06

ity?-and they must know their own business
best. o
But there is something else in connection with
this business which the Republican journals have
not published, and that is, that they know of
still worse conspiracy which exists in Washington
to blow up the whole Capitol during The inaugur-
alton next Monday, and everybody in it, including
both President and Vice President, thus getting
rid Of the latter official also. Therefore we ad-
wise the ladies and other timid persons to keep
away from the ceremony, and indeed to clear out
of the hotels at once, and abandon Washington
altogether. The best way, however, TO ward off
this terrible tragedy would be for Congress to pass
law without delay removing the capital and the
Inauguration ceremonies to New York The
President elect will be perfectly safe here. We
will inaugurate him in magnificent style at the
Academy of Music, and will guarantee him against
all plots and conspiracies. He may leave his
Scotch cap and long militay cloak behind him in
Washington, for he will have no need of disguise
in New York.-N. Y. Herald
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06

How forcibly WAsHINGroS pictures the ere
publican" party of the present day, its history,
growth, progress and results. He says:
In contemplating the causes which NAV disturb
our Union, it occurs matter of serious concern
that any ground should have been furnished for
characterizing parties by geographical discrim-
nations, northern and southern, Atlantic and
western, whence designing men may endeavOr to
excite belief that there is real difference of To-
cal interests and views. One of the expedients OF
party to acquire influence, within particular dis
trcts, is to misApresent the opinions and aims oI
other districts. You can not shield yourselves
too much against the jealousies and heartburn
ings which spring from these Misrepresentation
they tend to render alien to each other those who
ought to be bound together by fraternal affec-
ton.
Again he says:
Liberty is the basis of the glorious fabric ot
our independence and national character; and
whoever would dare to sap the foundation OIL
overturn the structure, under lchateuer speciou,
pretert he may attempt it, will merit the btterest
execration and the severest punishment which car
be inflicted by his injured country.
There we see the Republican" party plainl,
daguerreotyped. "Under the specious pretext'
Of benefting the negro, this party really seeks tC
get us back to the British system of class distinc
tions. Its leaders and its presses are all in har
mony with the hereditary policy of the govern
ment that hunted WASHINGTON for eight Ions
years to hang him as traitorl And yet they
hypocritically pretend to be friends of american
liberty.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06
What Mr. Buchanan Proposes to do
on the Fifth of March.


''E. b. writes from Washington to the New
York Express as follows of the closing days of
Mr.. BUcHANAN's administration, the reflections in
which he indulges, how he proposes to ride with
Old ABE to the Capitol on Monday next, and then
go home to Lancaster and join the church. The
little sketch of "E. B. is pregnant with instruc-
ton to those in high place, who unnecessarily.
abandon lifelong and tried friends to gain some
trivial point of trihing Importance:
1t is popular to abuse Mr.. Buchanan. for he has
now no power, and but few friends. The Repub-
cans delight to call him tyrant, knave and rogue
and Democrats denounce him as an idiot, rogue
and an imbece. But in sober truth he is none OF
these, but one who after over forty years of pub
lie service has made and lost more friends than
perhaps any man who ever before held public
office in the country. In six months after his
election he uuarrelled with some of mis- best per
sonal and political friends, and later with thou
sands more. Of party of thirty five lifelong
and attached men with whom he dined in Phila-
delphia after his election and before his Inaugural
ton, not one remains now to call him friend, OF
to feel an interest in his future.
The genius of the President seems to have been
in repulsoE rather than attraction, and hence nc
one h0nors the setting sun. Mr.. Buchanan has
and 10 his credit be 1t spoken--felt all these
changes of personal fortune, much less than tho
sad condition of the country, which distinguishe:
his administration above all which ever preceded
it. Intimate acquaintances have seen for thre,
months past that a real sorrow has been wearing
upon the mind and heart of the President HI
has declared for many weeks here that he should
the President elect inaugurated, hear his oatl
to support the Constitution, and then go to hi
home.
In the midst ofthis great excitement and threat
ened danger here, he has said: 81 shall ride be
side Mr.. Lincoln, from the White House to tn,
Capitol, even if it rains bullets. | shall then e
to Lancaster, pass my days in retirement, anC
seek to find consolation and religion in the church
Bitter sorrow has taught me that happiness cal
be found nowhere else" Mr. Buchanan, there
fore, purposes at once upon his return to his OLE
homestead, to become a member of the Presby
terian Church in which he has usually worshipped
He feels, and let US attribute it rather to goo'
than bad impressions, as deeply sorrowful for tn
condition of the country as the rest Of u.s.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-06

WATCH AND PRAY.-That is what old Abe told
his friends and neighbors in his late parting with
them at Springfield, Illinois. They have no
doubt devoutly done as the President elect wished,
but they must have omitted one of the divine in
functions applicable to him in these latter days of
the Republic, to wit "Let not your flight be in the
winter" C)-Ciereland Plain Dealer.