Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-27

Congress may unite in--we mean an agreement
to let the people of the country speak for them
selves on the subject To do less, is to deny to
them the exercise of their plainest and dearest
rights--to persist in running the country without
giving to them an opportunity to approve or dis
approve the action of their Representatives. In
their name we demand that they be permitted to
speak upon this disunon question. They are
misrepresented, in many instances, in both
branches Of Congress. and have no means of de-
clarng their opinions excepting at the ballot box.
Shall this be denied them? Let the members of
Congress from New York. from Pennsylvania,
from Connecticut and from other Northern States,
where the popular majority would now declare by
thousands in favor of an honorable adjustment
answer
If the Peace Conference can agree to no other
settlement, it ought, at least, to unite upon this.
and recommend to Congress an immediate sub
mission of the question to the people We will
be content with that appeal, and we confidently
believe it would result in a triumphant vindica-
ton of the position of those conservative men.
who have sought to meet the South with honora-
BILE concessions and to stay the tide of secession,
BY reason and not by force. Dare the Sectional
lists refuse this trial? Have they the hardihood
to reject all plans of adjustment, and withhold
from the people the right to speak for themselves.
The Telegraph a Partisan Machine.
One of the largest and most imposing Conven-
tons ever assembled in Indiana, composed of the
most prominent and best citizens of the State,
irrespective of past party affiliations, met in this
city on Friday last Its action was of general
interest and the result, of its deliberations was
looked for with great solicitude by large num-
Der of the people OF the State and other portions
of the country. 1t was, however. too small an
affair for telegraphic notice. If it had been a
Republican gathering. the telegraphic wires would
have given it prompt attention, and if need be.
magnified it into due Importance. That we may
do the telegraph operators no injustice, we will
state that it did thus manifest its partizanship.
On the same day there little gathering of
old soldiers and those who had been engaged in
the Mexican war. That meeting was diverted
from its object and it passed mere partisan reso
buttons. For that reason we suppose very full
report of its proceedings transmitted by tele-
graph over the country. Why the difference?
Why the fayoritismg A full report of the
Union Convention was furnished the opera
tor here, at his~request, but it never saw
light. He says he transmitted an abstract of the
resolutions to Cincinnati. If so, why was it sup
pressed there Is the telegraph to be converted
into partzan machine If so, it is time the
country knew it. A meeting, numbering about
one hundred, had the special attention of the tele
graph, but State Convention that filed Metro
poiitan Hall to overflowing, unworthy of
notice We notice that the telegraph even mag
nifes the former meeting twenty fold. The
Louisville papers have it that the resolutions
adopted by vote of .s22 for, to AZ against
By the time the report got to New York, we sup
pose the number present was magnified in pro-
portion to the distance telegraphed. We notice
that the Republican press are charging that the
Union Convention was failure. because the tele-
graph was silent about it. Did the telegraph
operators suppress report of the meeting, that
such an impression might be made by the Re
publican press 1t certainly has that appear
ance. If these failures of the telegraph were not
habitual, we might believe an omission OCCASION
ally accidental and unintentional.