Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04

the country by the Secessionists OF the South,
to maintain the Constitution and the Govern
ment, ant to secure the enforcement OF the laws,
the restoration of peace. the reduction uf the re-
beilion in arms, the protection of each State when
thus conquered in all her rights under the Con
stitution, and to protect the citizens OF every
State in the enjoyment of all their personal
rights and domestic institutions by the power of
the General Government. give you the snb-
stance of that vote.
With this declaration, after the unfortunate
affair of Bull Run. we appealed to the patriotism
of the people for an army to carry out these
principles, with the assurance that when those
principles had been vndlcated, the war was to
cease. Was not that the language addressed to
you when YOU were called upon TO give up your
broth,rs and sons and neighbors and friends to 60
forth with their lives in their hands, upon the
field of battle? Did any then dare to init
mate that this war should not cease until every
slave in the United States was emancipated I
Now we have that the watch word of the Alb
clifton party. | say the Abolition party"
mean to do no injury to any man. ] do not
know how the matter stands with you here, but
in Congress and in the high places of party, the
Abolition party has swallowed the Republican
neck and heels. They may have come to you
and talked about the Crittenden resolution. 1t
Is very well 10 fdlk, Out however well LDeN may
have talked, if they EVER had any patriotism they
did not keep the faith, for when called upon to
vote, like flock of genuine sheep they all fol-
lowed their leader. / put them tot the record for
the truth nf what i say. And when who
called ourselves conservative men, loyal Demo
Gratis and Wings, Bell men and Breckenridge
men, were called upon to come to our aid and
prosecute the war upon the principles upon which
they had declared it, like Billy Bopeep's sheep
they did not come up. We lost quite a number
of our friends just at this point, and some of
them from the State of Indiana. How very soon
those men forgot the Crittenden resolution
When Mr.. Holman of your own State invited
these gentlemen to vote upon these questions,
how did they vote | am sorry that have not
the ayes and noes here so that could show you
how they stood when it came to the test
Yet these men can come here and incorporate
those very principles for which they refused to
vote into their platform They tell you they are
for the CrIttenden resolution-for the carrying on
of the war for the restoration of the Union as il
was and the Constitution it is, giving their
original rights to each State. and when that is
done the army is to be dismissed Yes, and un
I'll the October election they will talk so-unti
the people in their majesty shall speak and say,
we are for the.prcsecution OF this To sustain
the Constitution. restore the Union and invoke
the blessing of God that the past may be forgot
ten-that we may once more embrace each other
as brethren and be once more an united. free and
happy people
They say, as a reason for the position they
take, that slavery WAS the cause of this rebellion
The argument is, that, slavery caused the war
we can not have peace until it is destroyed, and
that the war must necessarily continue unless
both of these two events shall take place. La our
community where friends and broth
ers brought home from the battlefield MANNED
and crippled, many of them to be inferred in the
grave of honor, our feelings necessarily and
easily excited and our condemnation of the course
of the North is not unjustly incensed. And for
myself | feel sometimes that. so help me GOdl if
| could would call forth from the party which
has been the source of this trouble the leaders of
that party and inilict upon them the punishment
which their offenses richly merit
But while was doing that | would like to
have for every one of them an Abolitionist upon
the other end of the rope.
But these men say slavery was the cause of
this rebellion Yes, Sir, it was the cause, just
about as much as the tea which was poured into
Boston harbor was the cause of the rebellion of
l776. 1t was the unhalowed ambition of the
representative men of the South, who saw the
scepter departing from Judah. and the Aboli-
tionists of the North combined, that brought on
this rebellion. | have the evidence before me to
prove that assertion. Dates and facts are impor
tant things when you want the truth. | hold in
my hand the record and resolutions passed nc the
Abolition Convention in New York in 1889
quote not from political paper-it is a religious
paper, and the language was copied from that or
gan of the Devil-the New York Trlbune-that
paper which proclaimed upon my leaving Wash
ington, because was laboring with all my pow
ers to protect the Constitution, and to give this
war its legitimate direction, that | was dagger
Gus man to the country. "Wickliile must be
watchedl' Perhaps. for what am saying here
to-day, | am to be watched, and will take this
occasion now to say that am responsible for
what / say here, and everywhere, and at all times
and call Heaven to witness the verify of nv be
lief in all lave said
In 1859 these men met in Convention i'm New
York. They passed then and there the follow
ing:
WHEREAS, The dissolution of the present in
glorious Union between the free and slave States
would result in the overthrow Of slavery and
the consequent formation of another Govern
ment without the incubus Of slavery; therefore
"ResOIDed, That we invite free correspond
ence with the disuniOnists of the South in order
to agree upon the most suitable means to bring
about so desirable result"
Such were the sentiments and objects of the
AbolitionistS of 1889 while Yancey and host
OF Others in the South were c0ncOcting the mems
by which their infamous purposes were to be ac
compshed And when at length these combi-
ned influences succeeded in South Carolina, you
might have heard Mr. Wright and the Governor
of that State addressing the public. and offering
up thanksgiving to God, but more especially to
the AboltiOnsts of the North, "who, say they,
'.have enabled us to do what we have been try
ing, to do for more than thirty years"
Hence, | say. you have two enemies to con
quer. First, the rebellion. 1t must be put down;
and secondly, put down the Aboltionsts of the
North. care not by what name they may be
called. The leopard is no less leopard if you
call him a bear. In the last Congress of the
United States, every effort that could be was
made to make the negro not only free, but even
better than the white man. They can go in the
army without the countersign or pass, but we
poor white men dare not attempt it. The ne
groes see the change that has taken place, and
say that they have now the advantage FOR the
first time in their lives.
Fellow citizens, let me tell you what really did
this revolution. Ii the contest for
power. The South wanted Government for
herself separate from the East The East want
ed Government separate from the negro, and
for this they were willing to jeopardize the Con-
stitution ard the Union and the lives of thou
sands upon thousands of their fellow citizens. 1t
would be no hard job for the conservative Union
men of this nation to have conquered this rebel
lion. III twenty millions of freemen can not put
down an armed rebellion of eight millions with
out invoking the negroes and arming them. say
get out Of the tcay. and conservative men
Democrats, Republicans and old Whigs-will
do it,
am not here to defend slavery IL is an ex-
pensve article to me, can assure you. l have
been practicing law now for nearly fifty years,
and most of that time nearly all that have made
has gone upon the backs and into the bellies of
my negroes.
But this institution existed in all the States be-