Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-03
From the Shelbyville Volunteer.
AbOlitiOnisrn i'm DiSruise.

As was expected, the radical Republicans and
Abohtionsts have issued call for Union State
Convention, TO assemble at indianapolis on the
18th OF June next Men are asked to abandon
political associations and affiliate with Abolition
lists, the lie lorg traducers and revilers of the
Union and the Constitution
As a specimen of literary mendacity and cant
ing hypocrisy We annex the call. and ask the peo-
pie To carefully observe the ambiguous phrase
ology of the same. 1t will be observed that no
proposition is made 10 censure the astounding
aud unparalleled corruptions practised upon the
soldier and the people under the present admins
trati0n. The present UNANIMOUSLY weak and i'm
beetle Congress is not to be censured-the treason
able assertion of Ben W ade and his sympathizers,
that the Constitution has ceased to be of binding
effect Is in fact indorSed. The movement may
be cloaked, masked and concealed with all the
ingenuity of political wire workers--and slimed
over with expressions of coincidence for the sol
der and love for the cause in which he is sacr-
hcing comfort, health and life, and expletiyes
against lOyal men-men WHO reverence the Con-
stitution and abide by its provisions-whosed evo
ton To the Union has never wavered or been
questioned. Ii is immaterial was guse the op
pOnents of the Democracy may assume, the same
shameless corruption and imbecty that now
characterizes nearly every branch of the civil
Government will continue-the same men, or
their exact prototypes, will wiggle themselves
INTO place on cap Trap issues.
The cant abou. sustaining the Government and
crushing out the rebellion is the merest bosh--
sickning puerility and only worthy of political
knaves and Government thieves. 1t is the De
mocracy who have sustained the Administration
and strengthened the arms OF the Government
from the first day of the commencement OF the
present depor..5e war. We have nearly or quite
six hundred thousand men in the field, and the
fact is patent that the rebellion is rapidly sinking
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is therefore the duty of those left at home to de-
fend the Constitution, which they have gone
forth TO renstate over a rebeOuS cOmmu
nifty. from the reasonable assaults of fanatics at
home
The people are TO be the arbiters of their own
fate. by permitting their synipathes to be
worked upon and their passions excited by the
appeals OF carping demagOgues, they unwttlngly
elevated sectional Administrat on TO power
which has proven itself TO be both weak and cor
rupt. The present Congress is a stencil in the
nOstrils OF every upright citizen, and thieves in
fest every branch of the Government Sapping
the very life blood of the Republic under the
plea OF patriotism" The success of this new
tangled Union" movement will fetch no reform,
but perpetuate the evils under which the country
is already groaning. Here is the call:
Over sixty thousand of the citizens of Indiana
having voluntarily taken up arms for the defense
OF the Government, and the preservation OF the
Constitution and liberties of the people it is un.
: becoming those who remain at home 10 array
themselves in partisan warfare aganst each other,
when the probable consequences must be to pre-
vent the resources of the country from being APP
piled To the support and maintenance of the army,
to enscnder strife and discord TO withhold supplies
from re war worn soldiers, and ecruits from the
ranks thinned by battle; and may terminate in the
decentralization OF the army, and the overthrow OF
constitutional liberty.
Therefore, most earnestly depreciating all ef-
forts 10 keep on foot party influences, preiudices
and discipline, all persons. electors of Indiana.
who are in favor OF the vigorous prosecution OF
the war Tor the preservation of the Union and the
maintenance of tie Constitution. and opposed to
the diS!oyal Convention of the 9Th of January
last are without respect to past political asSocia-
tons. invited 10 meet in Mass Convention, at In.
dianapolis. on the 18th OF June next. for the
purpose OF nominating candidates for the Offices
of Stie. to be voted Tor at the next general
election
And TO the end that Indiana NAV continue 70
enjoy the high position with the other States which
she has in the present war hitherto occupied. and
that al the energies of the State may unitedfy he
put forth tor the efec,uai suppression OF the re-
bellion. that the Constitution NAV be respected
it, authority acknowledged, and law and order
once more established all over the land. it Is
earnestly hoped that all good citizens WILL for the
time. put aside party, and unite for the country.