Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-18

aid and assistance to Greece against Turkey.
We encouraged in many ways Hungary against
Austria, and sent national vessel 20 bring her
refugee rebel chief TO this country, and here we
openly caressed and made much of him. In the
Late revolt in Italy, our whole sympathy WAS in
the movement and with It's leader, Garibaldi.
With the repeated rebellions in France, we have
rejoiced- We sympathzed with and in many in
stances gave active aid to all Central and
South America in their revolts against Spain
and Portugal; and we have more than once,
either directly or indirectly, sought TO
induce Cuba, the Queen of the Antilles,
to rebel. How soon and how readily after Texas
revolted with but small population, and with
but pale, sickly and fickering emblems of gov
eminent or nationality did we acknowledge her
independence, and extend over her the broad piano.
ply of our protection, disregarding the murmurs,
complaints and protestations of Mexico, from
whose parent trunk she had been forcbly torn?
:" As you do unto others, so you may expect they
viii do unto you" Oar action and our course of
conduct having been thus, is it strange that the
nations of the earth do not sympathize with in
this, our great calamity
You ask me what, in my opinion, will be the
result and end of our present difficulties. Had
you asked me what wish it would result in,
could more cheerfully answer, and it would be
from nv heart that no one surpasses me in rev.
by these green letters suspended above me, and
in front of this stand, UNION, and for its flag,
the Stars and Stripes, majestically waving beside
me. have often sworn to support the COnsti-
tuition, and / now regard those oaths obliga-
tory as when they were taken, and earnestly de-
sire to see the Union reunited and cemented in
affection and love, with one national flag waving
in peace and triumph over the whole of our ter
ritory; Union OF hearts and o. hands cordial,
and enduring till the solid rocks shall become dis
ntegrated and crumble TO dust. And to accom-
plsh so desirable object, it is your duty to
struggle and labor rs your Government shall d.
rect, remembering that it can only be secured by
equal and exact justice to all sections of the
country. But YOU still ask what is my judgment
as to the result, and am forced to answer that
my judgment is we shall never again have such a
Onion. Senator Wade, of Ohio made a speech
in Maine in 1856, and said the Union was then in
fact dissolved. That there was no two people on
the earth who more cordially hated each other
than those of the Northern and Southern States.
Ii this is true, and continues to be So there can
be no lasting or profitable Union of them 1t
will be an anomaly in the history of the world, if
such am extent of country, with its resources and
vast population, shall he reduced by war to love
and kindness towards their conquerors, or to sub
mission to any other laws than those of their own
making. Yet hold it is your duty, under the
order of your Government, to try to restore the
Union if possible; and should you be successful,
no one will more sincerely rejoice than |.
But il is said the President has violated the Con-
sttution in many respects. The rebels make this
complaint with a poor grace; and if the President
has not strictly speaking, the constitutional right
to increase the army and navy, incur debts or
liabilities on the nation suspend the writ of ha-
beas corpus, and incendiary newspapers, and to
suppress incendiary speeches and speakers, either
in the pulpit on the rostrum, say if be has not,
strictly speaking, this power under the Constitu-
ton, he ought to have it both in peace and in
war. And the country will never have peace,
quiet and order till that power is given to the
President. He exercises it now in war and the
power is no less necessary in time of peace to pre-
vent bringing on war. And if the acts of the
President in these respects shall form precedents
for other Presidents to follow both in peace and
war, | shall be satisfied. In my judgment, if all
incendiary preachers, speakers and newspapers had
been suppressed years ago, by authority of the
Government, this would not now be on hand
to trouble us. Ii is impossible to imagine the
extent of the injury done to the country by
the Ignorance and arrogance of some news
paper editors. Some of them as soon as
they have sloughed their swaddling cloth,
and before they have read page much
much less book, upon the rights and duties of
man, aggregate or single, formed into govern
ments or in his native State--mount the editorial
stool and with dash of their intuitively learned
pen, sweep away or denounce as folly or wicked
ness, the wisdom and acts of aged Presidents,
venerable Cabinets and sage Supreme Courts,
and hold all as chaff before their potent wisdom.
They remind me of the account Push-mat aha,
an Indian chief, gave of his origin. He said he
had neither father nor mother, but was thus pro-
duced: 1.-The clouds lowered, all above was por
tential, the rain descended. the lightning flashed,
the thunder rolled, mountain oak was rven and
out sprang Push-mat-a- ha full grown and armed
for the fght,'' Much of the evil this country has
suffered and is now suffering has, no doubt, been
brought about by ignorance and fanaticsm, and
shall hail the day when they are both put under
surveillance and not allowed to speak, .uncon-
trolled, to mslead the country. The war is,
however, on our hands. and it is our duty to sup
press it, and in future take warning against the
causes that have in the least degree tended to
produce it, and in your exertions to do so, you
have my cordial sympathy and earnest desire for
your complete success.