Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-23

correspondence OF the Sentinel.
MIR. Sc ward,s Speech-.The Rumor of
the Invasion of the Capital all Hum
bug--The Action of the Indiana De-
mocratic Convention.

WASHINGTON, January l6 1861.
To the Editor Of the Daily State Sentinel:
Well, Seward has spoken, and has proved him
self not equal to the great occasion. He deals
alone in vague generalites and glittering soph
isms, platitudes and demagogueism. What rem
edy does he propose? None. He treats the
whole movement of the South as ranting buster,
which will cool down in the course of few years
lin his New York speech he said thirty days. and
then he will, perhaps, be in favor of adopting
some amendments to the Constitution
Four States were out when this great statesman
stood up in the Senate; the eyes of the whole
Union were upon him, looking, listening. pray
ing hoping that he would come forward with some
plan of pacifcatiOn or compromise, and OH with
what a sad heart, and responding look, they
turned away when the sound of his voice had
ceased Its last echo was like the funeral knel
of the Republic. His speech was cold, dull and
lifeless. Mr.. Seward was not the man for the
occasion. He had glorious opportunity to send
his name down to posterity laden with the bless
ings and prayers of free people; but alasi his
narrow mind could not burst the bonds of party
prejudice, and raise him to the level of States
man. "In the course of ttoo or three years some
thing might be done, Two or three years. and
in the meantime the fierce conflict between the
contending sections is to go on, and civil war
to be invoked to bring about that spirit of cool
TeUeCtlOu WHICH,, MT. DeWafu says, Is SO lnulS-
pensabe to the consideration of this great ques-
ton! The fact is, Mr.. Stewards speech is cold
blooded, deliberate deception. He affects to be
mild, moderate and conservative but will accept
or offer nothing that will restore peace and union
to the country The question of disunion is set
tied, and the judgment rendered. The only
question now before the American people for de-
csion, is that of peace or war. Shall we separate
in peace, or shall the sun of this Republic set in
raj civil war which has ever vet disgraced man
kind? The solution of this question rests with
the people of the North and the efforts of every
true patriot ought to be exerted to avert from us
the ruin and deSolation of fratricidal parricidal
war.
The rumors published in the New York and
other Northern papers about an attempt on the
Capital, by armed bands from Virginia and other
Southern States, is also the merest and basest
stuff and falsehood. Captain Darlington, of
Know Nothing memory, is the courier of the lie.
He is very DESTROYS of being placed at the head of
an armed banditti, and saw that the cheapest way
TO accomplish it would be under the auspices and
at the expense of Government. Hence, he pub
lshed his card announcing the startling fact that
the Government property was to be seized, and
the Inauguration of Lincoln prevented by an
armed force from the South! A few years ago
Washington City was subjected to ga reign of
terror" by the men he would now arm, and this
same Darlington was then their leader. He wants
to be at the head again of the same cut-throat
band that in those days he ed in their brutal as
saults upon the rights of American citizens. And
from this source have sprung all the rumors of the
invasion of this city from the South,
The action of the Democratic State Conven-
ton at indianapolis, on the Sth inst, meets with
the appreciation of all sound Democrats and con-
sevatiye men here from all sections of the country
1t has had healthy and soothing effect on the
public mind. In no other State, since our present
difficulties, has much sound sense and discre-
ton been manifested. All honor to the sterling
and stalwart Democracy of Indiana. Pen.