Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-25

les prefixed TO John Millions treatise or speech
% the Parliament of England for the liberty of
unlicensed printing:
ssrhis Is true liberty, when freedom men.
Having to advise the public, may speak free,
Which be who can and viii. deserves high praise,
Who neither viii, may hold his peace
What can be juster in a State than this
and in these few words of Milton himseIf:-"For
this is not the liberty we can hope that no griev-
ance ever shall arise in the Commonwealth: that
let no man in this world expect; but uhen CON-
plants are freely heard, deeply considered. and
speedily reformed then is fe utmost bound Of c;rl
liberty attained that men look for"
"THE USIoS--it must and shall be preserved"
So have the true Union men of the nation de-
creed, but to this end there must be union between
the friends of the Union. The universal cry is,
the North must present TO the rebellion an unbro
ken front. 1t is easy 10 put 1, 9TH this cry, but
not so easy to bring into one solid phalanx, keep
ing step to the music of the Union, the so lately
opposed and discordant elements of Northern
1T has never been easy to turn
men from their many idols to the worship Of the
one true God. All professedly loyal men are
not so readily impressed with the idea that the
preservation of the Federal Government, in all
the integrity of its powers, is the chief end of
war, that they win loosen their hold on the idea
that the war must 90 on, and the Government be
supported and preserved, because of its power TO
carry out certain partisan dogmas, certain sec
tional or personal objects. Men are so much
more easily partisans than true patriots that few
can at once, and without strong effort, merge the
partisan in the patriot.
Attempts have already been made in loyal
States to form Union party, the central idea
of which shall be fidelity to the Union and Con-
sttution above all party organizations and plat
forms. In these attempts where sincerely and
wisely made, We are ready to cooperate; but il
is well for all men who propose to put off the
badges and uniform of party, and to put on the
whole armor of the Union. to first examine and
kn0r themselves. There Is no greater enemy to
truth and right than self deiuslon. Let us test
by little suggest We and wholesome cross
questioning, the men who call for united
North First, let US begin with men of extreme
opinion and question them:
William Lloyd Garrison of the Boston Liberia
tor! are you willing for the sake of the Union.
to take from the head of your columns your
United States covenant with death, and an
agreement with Heli'--and to run up IN its
place, rs the motto upon which you will fight the
battle for the Union-"The Union, the Consti-
tuition and the enforcement of the Lawsl"
Are you Garrison, and Wendell Phillips, and
Gerit Smith, and the thousands of men who fol
low your lead and glority a martyr John
Brown of Ossawatamie, ready to declare with
sincerity of heart that this war is not God sent
war for the abolition of negro slavery, but to
maintain the supremacy of the Union and the
and that you will henceforth be ST.
lent on the wrongs of the slave and the atrocities
of Shareholders until throughout all the land the
Federal laws are freely obeyed?
Will you Henry Ward Beecher for the sake of
the Union, make your church and your pulpit no
longer the theater of political gatherings and po-
litical harangues, by which the people are inham-
ed to take up arms in this war n holy crusade
against the Shareholders of the South? Are YOU
prepared to say. and to verify by your acts, that
tie preservation of the Union and the Constitu-
ton in their integrity is more important to the
people of the United States, and TO the true in
terests Of humanity. than the abolition OF negro
slavery in the United States, and will you con-
sent that the ''Independenf" shall become sim
cere coadjutor of your pulpit in furthering the
same great end OF Union, irrespective of its re-
lations to the wrongs and the emancipation of
the slave?
Will YOU Horace Greedy, and your editorial
followers everywhere, cease 20 use your widely
columns, for the same purpose for
which Henry Ward Beecher now uses his pulpit
and the The INDEPENDENT" and makes your pa
pers no longer the source whence the ultra men
of the South derive their their most potent argu-
ments to Justify their parricidal blows against
the Government that has nursed and protected
them2
Further, are YOU, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, and the men of the Repub-
lican party of every shade of opinion, who elect
ed you to your high Office, content for the sake
of the Union to forget and bury in oblivion the
disputed dogmas OF the Chicago platform, and
Join heart and hand with Douglas men, and Bell
men, and Breckenridge men, in one common eff
fort 'to preserve, protect ond defend the Consti-
tuition of the United Statesf" and to this end,
are You willing to cease to inquire in your APP
pointments to public patronage. whether men are
for you against you in your election but to ask:
:" Are they honest, are they capable" are they
faithful to the Union, the Constitution, and the
laws? .e r.-r IS .i.rrs
Followers of John c. Breckinridge. are you,
as you enter the ranks OF the men of the Union,
ready to cease asserting your construction of the
law of the bred Scott decision. and the discus
sion of the rights of shareholders in the national
territories, until those territories once more
subject to the undisputed authority of the Fed
eral Government under the Constitution
Conservative remnant OF the Wing party
who, with John Bell and Edward Everett at
your head, bore the banner of 1.-The Union,
the Constitution .>and the enforcement of the
Laws" through the great conflict of 1860. do
your chief, still respond to the motto you bore
in the battlefield, and are you willing by that
sign, and by that alone, to conquer peace for
the Union! - f.i.-..
Democrats of the North, whom the dauntless
and lion hearted Douglas led through his last
great but disastrous campaign, under the banner
of popular Sovereignty, "are you willing, while
your hearts yet bleed over the defeat and death
of your heroic and patriotic leader to say, as you
muster in hundreds of thousands of stalwart men
in the army of the Union. that you will rise above
party as he rose above it, and under the COM
mand of Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet and his
generals, strike manful blows to maintain the
sovereignty of the nation under the Federal Con-
stituton, until the dying injunction of Douglas
shall be realized, and all the people of the Uni
ted States shall "obey the laws and support the
Constitution of the United Statesl'
Finally--ye loyal men enrolled for the Union,
are you ready to cease to criminiate and re
crimnate? Are you ready to cease denouncing
AS patriots loyal men, who perchance do not 60
about the streets breathing out threatnings and
slaughtery Will YOU frown upon and put down
by your precept and example mobs and mob law,
and mob leaders. and maintain the freedom of
speech and the press, SO that every man faithful
to the Government may freely speak and write the
truth as he understands it? Are you ready to
admit Dy so DOING tnat our great strength as a
Government lies in keeping the issue between
freedom and despotism, pure and simple? And
that peace and unanimity of sentiment brought
about by a de<potism where the bulwarks of civil
liberty are broken. are simply the quiet of death
before corruption begins its work? And are you
determined to carry on this war in tie spirit of
justice, humanity and mercy, nos as a war OF sec
tons. nor a war to abolish slavery, nor to blot
out or subvert the sovereignty OF States, nor
in the spirit Of conquest to subjugate their people
but to compel them by the stern power they
have rashly invoked, to lay down the weapons of
their rebellion, and return to their allegiance and
to the exercise and enjoyment Of their political
rights and powers as coequal States in the Fede-
raj Uuionl aafa .s ~ -saa
When all the people shall have examined
themselves, and be prepared riyhtfuly to answer
these trufl.-seeking questions. then indeed will