Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-21
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2l, 1861.

sacred right Of freemen TO be tried in court for
any dharges brought against them. else to en-
JOY their liberty-American freemen tciH not right
in sucl a cause.
What was it that made the prodgious rally of
three months agol 1t was the love for the old
United States, It's Constitution, and its Govern
ment in its integrity. Why can no such rally be
made at the present dayf 1t is because the CON
duct of the Administration has been psofgate,
and thas shey have sought to turn the holest i'm
pulses of patriotism to the special and selfish ad
vantage Of an anti national and minority party
What can we dol" First Of all declare that
anti slavery ide1s-in Sates in Territories, or
anywhere in the bounds Vt the old Union-are 10
have no influence, and to meet with no favor, from
this Administration If necessary to this end
dismiss the Cabinet that has proved an acknowl-
edged failure and select Cabinet entitled to the
respect of the country. Do you say this is to
dismiss your friends, and 10 akeOurs2 No. We
will name men very few OF whom have been such
as, in ordinary times, we would like to see thus
advanced We would abandon deep antipathes
to the good Of the whole country. In time like
this, we would say: Avoid the extreme States,
and make a Cabinet from the great central States,
that have most at stake in the Union. Take
Crittenden or Guthrie from Kentucky, William
G. Rves or Col. VIM. Peyton from Virginia,
Reverdy johnson from Maryland Chief Justice
1ldlltN HOul AtOibI OdOlilht +hVmoo LIVING
from Ohio, Mr.. Dallas from Pennsylvania, Com
modore Stockton from New Jerse', and Fillmore
from New York. Wecoud vary he programme;
but we give these as specimens q the material
that, however personally obnoxious some OF them
would be to US or to others, are tie class of men
that would give satisfaction to thewhole country.
There is not one Of them that codd refuse to ac-
cept day Cabinet place, even unter Lincoln, in
such critis of the country. Letsuch a Cabinet
be chosen, or let the present Cabiet conform to
such national action the genthmen we have
named would be sure to insist on.
If the Executive wishes the country to sustain
it, il is bound to conform to the known sentiment
and principles of the country; if sets this
tment and these principles at dehnce, let it not
wonder if the country suffers it perish for its
treason to the true Overeign-thepeople.
"What can we dog' Direct tie Generals in
the field to propose armistice fer six months.
/ Next propose and call National Convention of
all the States to see what, in this great crisis We
as a people ought to do. 1t is an utter usurpation
of power for he President or for Congress to at
tempt to deal with such vital questions as have
now arisen. Neither the President nor Congress
is constitutionaly qualified, norwas either elected
/ in view of any such condition Of affairs.
War continued, can do but Dne thing-cm the
\ Union by the sword and blow il to fragments by
gunpowder 1t was Union Of consent, made by
/ freemen with arms in their hands. Itcan be con-
tinued only by consent. If, after protracted con
sultation and endeavors, it befound that the de
scendants of those who, by the Constitution made
by the Union, have so degenented that they can
not live together, then the UnDn is, for the time
being, an impossibility. Thatthe North can die
tate terms 70 the South, or the South to the
North, or that in any such manner Union
worthy the name or true to American traditions,
can be formed, is an absurdfy that could find
lodgment only in the narrow head of bigot and
an imbecile. We must plunge along, deeper
and deeper in the mire till tlDse accidentally in
control learn that peace is tie first necessity in
order to any project of reconstruction of the
/ Unon-Nelc York Freeman Journal.