Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-11-06
A Good Union speech.

A large mass meeting was held in New York
on Monday night last to consider the present
crisis of the country. Among the speakers was
the Hon. NATHANIEL WoLFE, of Kentucky. He
was received by the audience with shouts of APP
plause, although some Of his remarks were dis
tasteful to the ultra Republicans present, and
they manifested their disapprobation by Kisses.
Mr. WOLFE addressed the immense assembly as
representative Of the Union men Of that gallant
State, now engaged in the b~itterest portion of the
conflict, around their own homes, and this fact
gives Specification to his remarks. The speech
of such a man, on such an occasion, is worthy
of profound regard. 1t was no idle harangue.
The meeting which he addressed was called to
ratify local nominations for Office, and be had no
personal interest to serve, no political clap trap
to exert. His speech is national in its character,
and addressed TO the mind o. the nation. Stating
the origin of the war, he says:
will not exhaust YOUR patience BY tracing mi
nutely the causes which have led the people of
this country to the very verge of self-destruction.
Fanaticism has contributed her share. The grace
less z%ellot. urged ON by false philanthropy, sought
the abolition of slavery at the expense OF the very
existence of the white man. The advocates of
abolition should lay their faces in the very dust.
Ii l. u them that we owe, in a great measure. the
misiUr:sneS of our country. 1t isincomprehensi-
BILE to a rational and rejecting mind. that a class
OF tnen should exist in this enlightened age, whose
vocation seems to be to pull down everything
wisdom established. They may rest assured that
their doctrines and their labors can result in no
good to our country. Sooner or later their mad
career will drive the men of the Slaveholdinc
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Cove nmeut-a Government which should en-
circle ia its maternal arms all the citizens of the
great Republic But ii the Aboiitionist is the
dire eneinv of our institutions, so is the Seces-
sionist. His is a heresy, which the combined wis
dom of the nation has united in conforming.
Secession is a principle which is at war with all
good government; it is the prolific source of every
evil with which society could be possibly afflicted.
War, murder. rapine. robbery. arson, in short.
every crime known in civil society, are the legiti-
mate fruit of that horrible heresy.
He states the views Of Union men in Kentucky.
which he may be supposed to know, as the only
views ON which we can expect to retain that brave
old State in the Union
Kentucky has proposed terms of peace. They
were rejected-and pity it is. It's so. The guar
antees OF Save property which she proposed are
reasonable, and they will be insisted upon bv her;
And although she is mistaken in her fidelity to
all her constitutional obligations, she will never
consent that the institution of slavery in the
States or the Territories shall be injured or de
stroyed by the action OF the General Government.
The proclamation of Fremont. emancipating the
slaves; would probably have lost as the State, if
the President had not modified IT, Kentucky Noes
not, and viii not, object to the confscaton of
slaves or any other property, owned by persons in
rebellion against the Government, but she will
never consonf In emancinafion accomnauviu