Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-26
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whose intense Abolition >ruti mruts were Tar in
advance OF the great body OF tie party they pre-
teudei - represent. And II here AMI there
man Of more conservative type was elected, his
feeble voice VA ha-hesl bs the cIasnor raised by
those who claimed lead the Republican col.
umn With this class of men IN power in the
Federal Government and in all the non slave
holding States. the storm Of civil war broke over
the land. and for more than eighteen months il
has ragei Nth fury unknown 10 modern war
fare The FEDERAL Governments has Ia that time
called into the field over 900 600 Of her vOlun
teer soldiery. OF this number Indiana has fur
nished over 100 900, out of a voting population
Of less than 300 900 The rebel States have not
been idle The proportions OF this greatest Of
modern rebelll0ns have grown in a corresponding
degree with the magnitude Of the pressure that
has been brought to- bear against il, until the
Southern States are now one vast military camp,
In which assembled majority of their fight
ing men.
Battles have been fought that would have
overthrown any dynasty In Europe. and tbey
have marked and mauei the pages Of history
with an indelible stain Of blood. As vet there
have been fruits but those gathered by that
irresistible conqueror Death, aud are swallowed
up by the grave. OF the men of Indiana who
have gone forth 10 battle. az least 10000 this
day sleep beneath the sod the sleep that knows no
waking. Some have died in the ho-ptas-some
There is not battle field. the first ut Bulls
Run, that is not stained with the best blood OF
Indiana. Their graves are scattered where the
unknown dead are buried over frontier of more
than 1000 miles Let them not be forgotten
Their devotion TO their country has been sealed
with their blood. and although they may have
been the victims of the blunders of the men in
power, or what Is worse. of the cool malevo,ence
of that blind spirit Of fanaticsm that knows no
attl herr zip tita;r
memory is dear 10 the State that claimed them
as her Sons. Let the Representatives of Indiana
see to il that some suitable memento be de sised
10 preserve their names and their deeds from the
rust of time.
Such is but an imperfect outline Of the great
sacrifice the people have made to put down
rebellion which threatens the overthrow Of the
Government Why have not these mighty efforts
been more successfully
IL il because they have not been sustained BY
that kind of civil policy which would tend to re
unite the country. The building up and sus
tanning a Union party in the South is no part of
the plan OF the Republican leaders Their whole
policy IS contained in the term, Crush out the
rebellion" In their judgment. the time has
come when the Federal Government must extend
over States that are ''a one thing or all another"
Il them this is to eliminate that dangerous
heresy which lies ut the foundation of their party
organization. that there "is irrepressible con
fiict between f.. e labor and slave labor between
free States and slave States which renders a
Union between them impossible; according To
their view slavery" and not the "unwise agita-
ton Of the slavery" question, is the cause of all
our troubles, and therefore long as they are in
control they are compelled to prosecute the war
as war of conquest and subjugation. and with
an eve single To the destruction of the institution
of slavery: for such is the logical consequences OF
their political creed
The scope OF Republican policy embraces one
of two results. Either the Southern States must
be subdued and their institutions overturned, or
failing in this, the INDEPENDENCE of the South
will be established. This war cannon be con
tinued for all time An end must come They
would suppress the rebellion it by doing so they
can lay the South at the feet of the Federal
power. and as conquered provinces remoddle
their institutions and their laws under Federal
dictation. But il this cannot be done, then they
are for a separation. Or in other and palmer
terms. for dsunion They do not intend that
the Southern States shall ever again be repre-
scented in Congress upon the old basis of the Fed
eral Constitution. 1t is their liked purpose that
when this ends, there shall be no single Con-
gressional district composed of slaveholdng
electors with the right of representation in the
Federal Congress They not for "the Con
stitution us il is and the Union as il was;" their
dream is of empire. composed of States
but little above that of countries controlled and
governed by strong central government with
imperial power.
II these men and this policy continues to con
troll the Government what must be the result?
Can YOU conquer the South No; my iudg
ment Is you cannot. / do not think that history
has recorded single example OF the conquest OF
eight millions of people firmly united together by
any kindred race, however numerous or powerful
suffer more. Their country may be overrun bv
armies and desolated, and yet until YOU can
change the minds OF the people-unt they can
be made To look once more upon the Federal
Government as blessing. disasters in the
field, no destruction of their property no laying
waste OF their country. will compel their subms.
sion. Look. now, AS our armies move even over
the soil OF Kentucky State that has never nj
tempted to throw oft her allegiance. and YOU see
their parting waves close up behind cur columns,
and our communications have 10 be kept open by
an armed force even in "A loyal State The dream
OF IA servile insurrectOn ought Ia be banished
No one NOW believes that il will take place and
the time will come when we will rejoice that tao
such aid came To our side in this great strug
gle
Ii the Republican policy of ''crushing out the
rebellion Is TO prove failure, what then is To
follow Maniestly il other ideas and principles
are not brought To the foreground and placed in
the ascendant, the Union is gone forever
But can slavery be at this time abolished? |
do not believe il Ii the time should ever
come when this can take place, it is not now.
Neither race is prepared Tor il. Tie blacks are
incapable OF rational freedom. and the white race
will not accord To them political equality and
We have no intermediate place in our social or
political system to Toe occupied 10y them. These
facts that every day making their imp ess
upon our soldiers in the field. aud the most cas-
ual observer must have been by this time struck
with the fact that The army is all the time be
coming less anti slavery in sentiment: and the
great question that forces itself upon all cOndi
tons OF our people, and was put with much
force and earDestness by President Lincoln to the
Chicago Committee, What shall we do with
theml-how shall We feed aud clothe such null
titndeT-remsius unanswered. Popular i'm.
stinct shrinks back appalled, fIom the ideas that
arise like dim ani musty shadows from the fath-
Ome>s depths OF this mOmentOus inquiry The
result will be that the negro viii be leit at
the close of ths war where the commencement
of hostilitieS found The very army which
has suffered ami blei To uphold the Dag of the
U-iOn will compel the negro to return 10 the con.
citson OF SerVitude
All these facts are thrown away upon the Re
publican leaders; wrapped up in tanat.cisn that
- imperious To any impressions from without
entertaining no doubt Oi the correctness o. their
own dOgmas. they have not disco yered ard " IN
not. that the people are losing confidence IN
them. aud that many who have been de uded INTO
following thus far are now falling off from them