Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
rhe ..union morement.


The call for the 'sUnon State Convention" is
a confession of Republican weakness-is an ac-
knowledgment that Repubhcanism is failure.
The Republican party is to be abandoned, cast
to the dogs, and in its stead Union party" is
to be formed The new organization will be
controlled by the same men that figured in the
Republican party in all the parties that have OPP
posed the Democracy, with the addition of now
and then a recruit attracted by the allurements
of the spoils. The Union party" movement is
only a revival of the old dodge which the
opponents of the Democracy have resorted
to for success. The experience of the past
eight years is evidence of this. In 1854
and 1855 the same men who we're fgur-
ing in the Know Nothing" organization.
in the Temperance party, in the Peoples party,
are now the leaders in the proposed Union
partr." They succeeded then by deception and
fraud, and men were placed in power who, either
from incapacity or dishonesty, were detriment
to the public Interests. Fanaticism and fraud
characterized their administration of the public
affairs, and so palpable and gross was this NAL
administration that 10 1856, they were forced to
take new name to be relieved from its odium
Then, as in 1860, it Republican. And what
has been the result of the success of this organi-
zation at the last State and Presidential elections?
Look at its fruits. A gigantic civil war, in which
one section of the country is arrayed against the
other; official corruption which has no parallel,
and which is burning disgrace to the nation;
public debt, which will amount to not less than
one thousand millions of dollars, and a necessary
system of onerous taxation, so nicely adjusted,
to use the language of Republican member of
Congress, that its thumb-screws will reach the
bones of the poor industrious, and its clamps will
be brought about the industry and resources of
the country with crushing power
We ask the people of Indiana TO calmly and
earnestly reflect upon the career of the men, who
now, under new and speciOus guise, again ask
your confidence and support. Is there a man in
the State who desires pure government, the pre-
servation of our free Institutions and constitu-
tiOnal liberty, wise aud economical Administra
ton OF our public affairs whether. with the his
tory of the past and present staring him in the
face, with all its corruptiOns and evidences of
incapaeity, they will be willing to continue the
destinies of the State and the nation with those
who have proven themselves SO utterly unworthy
of public confidence? Madness may rule with
some, but we can not believe that the good
citizen, that those who desire topreserve the Con
stitution and the Union. they came to us from
our fathers. cOnsecrsted by their wisdom and
virtue, and to restore the Government TO the
purity of administration and that just regard 70
the rights and interests of all sections of the
Union. which distinguished the better days of the
Republic, viii permit themselves to be again de-
ceived. and continue the ship of State with the
men, the party, who have wei nigh hopeiessy
wrecked her.