Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-28

because every effort is resorted to drive of the
the border States, and because, even with the
aid of the border States. there has not yet
been vigor enough in the Administration to
seriously cripple the rebellion. They behold an
entire year of warfare under this particular poll
icy barren in results. lives sacrificed by thousands.
hundreds of millions of dollars gone forever,
heavy taxes staring the people in the face, an ir
redeemable paper currency upon all sides, and yet
the war no nearer an end than it was in the begin
ming. They see that railway tickets, postage
stamps, shinplasters, are resorted to for small
change-the very state of aifAirs which we sneer
at in the Confederate States. They know, as
every intelligent man of every party knows. that
a great financial Revision isat hand. that foreign
Intervention is imminent, that the rebellion re
quires short work or it viii be successful. YET,
with all this. they see the party in power compla
Gently intriguing for partisan supremacy-BES
WADE disappearing the Constitution, JACK CHAN
DLER assaulting with petty abuse Generals who
differ from him in politics, THAD STEVENS boldly
defending treasury leeches and public thieves,
and Secretary STANTON scanning the public press
to discover who deems him incompetent, who de-
mands a better man in the War Department.
Such faulty and imbecility, such desperate crimi-
nality, was never witnessed before. NERO is a
thousand times repeated. A whole party play
their fddles over a falling country. If, under
this policy, any good result had been achieved,
these men might be excused; but no such result
can be shown. On the contrary, every event
which has been beneficial to the country has been
derived from conservative episodes, so to speak,
in the administration of affairs. The Abolition
advance upon Bull Run in July nearly drove ev-
ery border State out of the Union. The Presi-
dents rejection Of FRENoSr's emancipation order
secured Missouri, Kentucky, Western Virginia
and Maryland to the Union. The present Con-
gress, however, have undone this work. All these
States are now in jeopardy. Worse-for the first
time during the war, the free States are appre-
hensiva of invasion. Guerrilla bands swarm up
to the very borders. Congress at every step have
planted seeds of rebellion, because Congress have
deemed their party more entitled to their allegi-
ance than the Union.
1t is time now for the dominant party to de-
eide whether they intend to suppress rebellion or
to prosecute a political campaign; time for the
country to know whether their rulers will stop
short in their partisan career, abandon their
schemes of partisan aggrndizement. and push on
the war with vigor, by making the supply of
men and money the sole scope and eud of their
action. All the power of the Government can
not make Democrats Republicans. TIL latter
may triumph in the fall elections, as they did
two wears ago What would it show nowH
We distinctly affirm that it is now-as it has
been from the beginnlng-in the power of the
dominant party alone to make this a non parti-
san war; that ABRAHAM LINCOLN alone can unite
the people, and preserve their union in that har
mony of action which is necessary, indispensable,
in fact. to success in the struggle; but he must
not ignore. as he has ignored in all the high
places of the Government, the l 1865, 976 men who
voted for STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS