Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-01
A Card.
S. E. PERKINS


CAPTAIN:-Like Mephibasbeth, am 'TIame in
my feet" though to less degree than he, and like
many other men of my age and weight, am rather
wheezy under any, except the most moderate ex-
ercise. Nevertheless it is my desire to become n
private in your Company-the Silver Greys.
would have taken measures to secure this honor
at earlier day. but for the fact that / frequently
understood from the conversations of men around
me, of that grade of intelligence which con-
POUNDS party fealty, and patriotic allegiance with
each other, that one main duty of home military
organizations would be to do military execution
upon traitors at home. | know of none such,
and therefore could foresee no duty. That fallacy
has had its brief day and has passed away, and
as il is barely possible that the homes of my
neighbors may be in danger from foreign invasion,
or from domestic broils, am DESTROYS of place in
the Silver Greys, with view to domestic de-
tense.
Captain, among some of our high strung patri-
OTIS there appears to be disposition to suspect
many persons of sympathy Ioah the South" /
wish to define my position i'm that regard and that
such definition may be considered as to its suiii-
cheney, before my name is inscribed on the roll of
your company:
lst / believe that under the Constitution of
the once United States, any citizen had right to
immigrate into any Territory with his slaves, and
to be there protected in the enjoyment of his prop
erty, including his slaves.
ID. believe and knO,o that Southern members
of Congress, with single exception. by voting
for the Kansas and Nebraska act, and for the
Cincinnati platform, ENTHUSIASTICALLY waived
this right far to leave the protection of their
slave property in the Territories to the Legisla-
lures thereof.
81. believe and know that these same South
ern members of Congress, and other Southern
politicians, soon ignored this compromise, and
made stern demand of their rights int most ex-
tended sense, and in the most exceptionable man
,ner-Senatorial dctation, arrogant individual
menace, and overt declarations adverse to all
compromise Nor have /, by correspondence,
been able to bring of them to attempt ex-
PLANTATION of their regeneration.
4th believe that this dishOnorable flinching
operated our Democratic defeat in 1860; and that
by many Southern politicians it was intended so
to operate to make secession certain.
5th believe that the Southern masses have
been and are being led to wish secession, and 10
believe it necessity, by the course and false
clamors OF their tricky politicians. | do sympa-
thize with the suflerngs (prospective) of these
masses. Bat can SyHlpGthize arith their pOldi
clans rhO haze miSled them, and induced aR un
natural contest?
9th. / am a lawyer, claiming to be expert il
the laws of nations, of nature, and in an under
standing OF common law, personal allegiance and
of American constitutional and patriotic allie
President of the United States upon every mat
ter is OF no consequence. In reference to sup
pressing Instruction, enforcing the laws and car
rying ON n war declared by Congress, the Consti
tuition has vested in him extraordinary powers
and in the exercise of these powers he will always
have any aid in my power to give him-the NOR,
willingly rendered that kaoIc him to be an hon
est and pure man, incapable of cruelty. Al
hesitancy on this point of duty ought to be made
null by the declared purpose of the Representative
men of the Southern C0nfederacy to refuse nj
Cancellation or compromise.
It'll. | cannot close this note without pointiL.
out, as the only traitors IN the North, known Il
me, that miserable selvage of a man, "Old Buck >
and his six or seven hackers among Northern
Senators of 1S57-60, who by countenancing tn
"LecOlnptoH iniquity" and by encouraging South
ern members of Congress i'm their after though
and unreasonable demand of release from thei
! pghted faith of 1854 and 1856. They are tin
real ministers of the evils of the hour. | believ
they did their work Of party treason, not i'm IA
triOtism. but in self will and ambitious maiie
! nifty. If hate anybody, these are the principa
objects of my Indignation. But for them m
country would this day, have been united an
happy; for am satisfied that but for them tn
unconscionable political demands, above stated
would never have been made by Southern polit
! clans.
Captain, please have vote taken on nv nd
mission as a member of the "Silver Crews. an
let your Sergeant notify me, if | should be elect
ed. | will, in that event, be present at th
first roll call. Very Respectfully,
Cart. JAMES BLAKE. w. W. WICK.