Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-15
Law and its defenders,

II one word, at this time is pre- eminent over
another word it is that word Law. Since its COIN
age il was never so much of value as a thing
it is now and here; and as here, 30 elsewhere all
over this land; South, North, East and West. a
command that seems to be rs from God, is, stand
by the constituted authorities they bear on the
flag of the country, from that symbol of law, the
badge of the constable that is in our streets, up
ward to the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, and
because law is to be indicated Now the
import, its full import, IS seen, Is realized, of
"HoOkers great EulOgy of Law, that her seal is
the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of
the world; and why all things in heaven and earth
should do her homage; and what the very least
had when they were feeling her and how the
greatest were not exempted from her power. 1t
is one of the most simple, commonplace, every
day of savings, that, on soil, respect for law
makes part of our character; but when before was
il 50 terrfcally demonstrated that both angels and
men, and creatures of whatever condition sOever,
though each in different sort and manner, vet with
all uniform consent, ought to admire her as the
mother of their peace and JOY. When the cloud
has passed, the new world will have learned the
Justice of not only admiring the law the mother
of peace and joy, as Hooker magnfcently has it,
but of venerating her their savior. The time
has come like the revolutionary time when united
countrvmen will welcome ministers III the sacred
desks, not to say one word that might even so
much as tend to bring servile insurrection on our
betrayed, unhappy countrymen,-On the beauty
of the SOuth,-bu to urge support always of the
laws of the land; to tell what weeping and wall
ing there are to wiring the heart because portion
of the children that once called Washington the
common Father have elected to 20 out from the
pale of Law.
If unmndful before Of the wealth Of law, the
sublime rising of men in arms demonstrates that
the people are mindful of it now. Magnificent
is the energyl 1t seems to be an age in organ
izng, but still the organization is going on rapid
ly; in history it will be marvel that this organ
ixation was so efficient so soon. The power of
man over the elements of destruction is well
nigh marvellous, and which side has the most of
this will do the most work and now is demanded
and commanded for the country its tremendous
business capacity, which must stand behind the
citizen sodery This the Union cause has got
How loud the vail of England in the terrible
Crimean struggle, because its Offices we're filled
Too much by nepotism and not by merit; by nepo-
tsm, too, of the feeble sort. How the London
Times thundered it over the heads of men in
power because of the misery that this absence oi
business capacity brought on her noble men in
arms. Here as it rises in its msgniicence see
the difference. Political America, here at the
North. is basel on her business capacity; the mer
who do the private business do the public bus
ness; and in the great issue opened upon US, moth
ing will be more wonderful than this promptness
And it must be- to ensure success a steady, long
tug with which the business energy of the NOrtl
will supply modern enginery of destruction. Her,
is the money; and soon not too soon, however
American built law, in peculiar degree th'
mother of our peace and ioy as our savior, vii
have about it the requisite strength to restore t
our land the priceless boon of security; and thi
simply by maintaining the supremacy of the law
How glorious is the rising for such noble,
IL
the bulls eve, are the burning words that Ste
| phen A. Douglas just uttered with giants force
as though he hal gathered up the whole energ
| of the mighty North West and driven il agains
| this most unnatural rebellion. Standing on tn
border between Virginia and Ohio. lie uttsre
| the proclamation, that the Divine Law whic
united the great valley of the Mississippi, mus
never he broken, These are the words that nov
are things. Here is a reading of law that cam
from the bosom of God. 1.-The Almighty, - ar
his words, has arranged the mountain and. tn
/ plain and water courses, as to show that it
His will and design that this valley in all tim
| shall remain one and indissoluble Let no ma
attempt to sunder what Divine Providence ha
rendered indivisible. "Amen," and cheers
The nerves of this great valley center in unity
| We are bound to have the right of travel of in
tercourse. of transit free to all the ports of tn
Atlantic, and to all the ports of the Pacific an
the Gulf of Mexico, without having custom
| houses, or passports, or tax gatherers, or bayC
nets to impede us" Plain talk thatl And her
is another death dealing stroke at secession: 81
is question of order; of the stability of tn
Government of the peace of communities. Th
whole social system is threatened with destrut
ton and disruption Truer words never fe
from human lips. And what response the nobI
Northwest will give to the regular Rhoderc
4 Dhu: Unite rs n band of brothers and rescu
your Government and its Capital. boston Pos