Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-06

parent ana cml0, husband ana VIE, the babe at
the breast, the gentle ana delicate maiden, all
prey and temptation to the lawless marauders of
life and honor, who will stalk abroad The war
of coercion will not be conducted upon the ordi-
nary principles of civilized warfare; when brothers
fall out and fight, when men of the same blood
and lineage war, the basest, meinest passions
rule. Demons, ll-hounds light, instead of men
and deeds are done, at the thought of which our
common humanity shudders. Indiana, Illinois
and Oho-nOt the extreme North nor the extreme
South-will be the battle ground the very theatre
OF hostilities, and here will be felt the keenest
ravages and the most bitter concomitants of an
internecine strife. But you have conquered: YOU
have sustained the government; YOU have pun
ished the secedeTs; YOU have preserved the Con-
stitution, Of what avail, | ask YOU, is a conquest
ever brethren at such a sacrifice of blood and
treasure? They are no longer then your breth-
rem; they will be your enemies forever. How i'm
potent and imbecile the government you have
preserved! 1t is no longer then government
such as Americans have looked up to in the past
Stat Rominis unbra. The United States will no
longer exist. Your glorious Constitution, here
tofore the protecting Egis of every citizen at
home or abroad, and the symbol of everlasting
unity, will then be mere worthless parchment
and a rope of sand. You have united all the
South against you, and you are not united. The
Pacific States will leave you. You can not then,
with your exhausted treasury, bind them to YOU
by those iron links which the old Union alone
could furnish. The West, the growing and
gigantic West, will begin to look with hatred
upon the extreme East, and military chieftains,
rising into power and consequence upon the ruins
of the Confederacy, at the heads of their standing
armies, will parcel Out your territory among them
selves. ! trust that NAV never live to look
upon that boodiest picture in the book of time
How, then, the Union be preserved; for
preserved it must and shall be? / answer by con-
citation, compromise and mutual concession.
The word Cancellation is a gentle, healing word.
1t points the way to peace, TO harmony, to Union.
1t is enshrined in the patriotic and Christian
heart. Listen to is enunciation by Him who
spoke as never man spoke: Then came Peter TO
Him and said. Lord, how oft shall my brother sin
against me and | forgive himl till seven timesl
Jesus saith unto him, l say not unto thee until
seven times, but until seventy times seven"
There you will find the foundation, the corner
stone in the temple of Cancellation. And is
there nothing in the Southern host to require at
your hands mutual forbearance and forgiveness?
Oh. let me bring you back to the blessed, golden
memories of former years! Let ne bring back
New York, Massachusetts,, and the rest of the old
Thirteen, to other and better days. When, in
July IVA, Massachusetts in danger, and the
town of Boston was sternly bearing the brunt of
parliamentary indignations, little South Carolina
Drawing the displeasnre of her royal Governor
sent to her the emphatic message, do not pay
for an ounce of the tea, and raised money and
regiments for her assistance, while PENNSYLVANIA,
under the lead of the wise, vet timid Dickinson,
was hating between principle and loyalty 10 the
King. And, sir, the Carolinians were so eager to
aid Massachusetts that Gage declared that "the
people of Charleston were as mad and rebellious
as the people of Boston" Will YOU forget the
labors of Laurens, of Rutledge and of Butler; the
devoted. selfsacrifcing deeds of Marion, the
swamp fox of the Peedee; CT Sumter, so often
beaten, yet never conquere'; of Clark, not less
gallant nor less heroic, whose descendants in In
diana, this day, treasure the memory of his revo-
lutionary fame as their proudest legacy. Shall
we no longer call to mind the sufferings of Gads-
den and his brave compatriots imprisoned in the
filthy dungeons of St. Augustine, after the disas-
trous battle of Camden, which the Delaware and
Maryland troops, and the Virginia Continentals,
yielded only with their lives. Why, sir, the very
women were heroic. There was Rebecca Motto,
who reoiced in sacrificing her beautiful mansion
for her country's sake. There, too, was the no
BILE hearted Miss Elliott who presented to the
brave South Carolnians the stand of colors which
towerel above the battles wreck at Fort Moul-
trie, where Jasper fell. And i'm our own times
can we forget the bravery and impetuous ardor of
the Palmetto regiment at Churubusco, where
Butler was struck down, with the motto of the
regiment on his Gps-"South Carolina expects
every man to do his duty, and to make no show
of it,"
Permit me, sir, to call the attention of the
House to noble instance of Cancellation and mag
nanimity on the part of the South at the period
when the Constitutional convention was in ses-
session. The South demanded that there should
be no restrictions nor regulations upon commerce,
and the North insisted upon them. Dissension
and discord grew rife. 1t was then that Charles
Cotesworth Pinckney, child of the revolution,
who had fought at Brandywine, at Germantown,
and at Sullivans Island, rose and in behalf of
the South generously yielded her claim upon the
patriotic ground that New England's shipping had
suffered severely by the war; And if Carolina
went wrong in 1882, could she neither be pitied
nor forgiven? Was it not, should it not have
been our duty, like the sons of the patriarch of
DID, to cover up the nakedness and shame of In
dana's sister. / have never, since arrived AT
mans estate, heard one word of pity and for
givness uttered for her sin. Bitter taunts and
cutting sarcasm have ever greeted her. i am no
apologist for her past SINS and see no justification
for her present hostile and suicidal course. But
do believe that if our people and our politicians
had pitied and forgiven her first false step, that
State pride and State jealousy might never have
been engendered, which is now dragging her and
us to a common ruin. What honorable sacrifices
Representatives, can we now make which will re
store peace? / answer, party must be sacrificed
individual opinions, political and moral abstrac-
tons must be offered up for the public good
Who of you are ready for the work. The man
who is, who acts and leads, will ever be remem.
bered and rewarded by grateful people. urge
you, implore you to forget party. Bury your
Chicago platform, bury your Democratic plat
forms, bury your American platform in the low
est deep, than which there is no lower, but save
the Union of the States. If hecatomb of living
victims will cause harmony and Union to return
am ready for one to die for my country. There
are thousands who ready to be sacrificed
Danish, / beselch you, every abstract principl,
about the slavery Of the negro when the whit,
mans happiness and the Americans political sal
walton are at stake? With me policy, expediency
the safety of popular Government rise highe
than mere distractions, however right in theory
How admirable, sir, the point was stated in the
British Parliament by friend of England and {
friend of America:
" Sir, think you must perceive that am re
solved this day to have nothing at all to do witt
the question of the right Of taxation. Some gen
tlemen startle-but it is true; put il totally on
of the question. 1t is less thar nothing in IN,
consideration. | do not indeed wonder, nor viii
YOU, sir, that gentlemen Of profound learning arr
fond of displaying il on this profound subject
But my consideration is narrow, confined, anC
wholly limited to the policy of the question. The
question with me is, not whether you have &
rlgnt 10 renuer your people miserable, out whether
it is not to your interest to make them happy L
is not what lawyer tells me, / may do; but wha
humanity, reason and justice tell me ought tc
do. Is political act the worse for being gen
erous one? Is no concession proper but thai
which is made from your want of right to keel
what you grant? Or does il lessen the grace o,
dignity in relaxing in the exercise of an odou:
claim, because YOU have your evidence room full
of titles, and your magazine stuffed with arms &c
enforce themr What signify all those titles, and
all those arms? OF what avail are they, when
the of the thing tells that the assertion
of my title is the loss of my suit? aud that
could do nothing but wound myself, by the ust
of my own weapons"
But those words of power and Cancellation fell
upon unwilling ears. The coercionsts, the sup.
porters of the Government, the men who claimed
20 have the abstract right on their side, you re
member, Mr.. Speaker, needed neither the sublime
warnings of Burke. nor the impassioned appeals
g .lo;- Ard fora