Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-09
Supporting the Government.

There is and has been ever since the war
broke out, very great difference in practice
whatever may be the difference of theory, in sup
porting the Government. The duty of the citi-
zen is too plain to need explanation or to require
argument in its defense. Heowes to his Govern
ment steddfast support. But what is support?
| The theory of the radical papers has been
abundantly shown by the course they have pur-
sued Does the President pursue plan which is
according to their notions of correct policy they
applaud and uphold him? Does he revoke
| Fremont proclamation or Hunter order, they
| denOunce him with unmitgated severity? Is the
war progressing successfully and the promise of
victory bright, they are in ecstacies of delight
with the Administration and no bounds are set to
/ their praise. Is there reverse, misfortune of
war. blunders or an unforeseen catastrophe, they
pour out the vials of Indignation Oh Generals and
Cabinet officers, and the President comes in for
his share of the abuse. Radicals support the
Government when they like it, and vify it with
out stint when they do not like it, They go fur
ther, and set traps to catch the President, sur
round him with radical pitfalls and lead him con-
stantly into dilemmas from which they think it
impossible for him TO escape without taking their
views and ndorsing their mad plans.
The only valuable support which the Govern
ment has received during the past year has been
from the conservative men of the country. This
has not been ftiul, vacillating uncertain. The
President pledged his honor to sustain the war on
the principles of the Constitution, and the con-
servative lovers of the Union accepted the pledge
and have been confident that it would not be be-
trayed. If the true history could now be written
it would appear that nine tenths of the men and
nine-tenthS of the money have come from con-
servative men, while all the heavy contracts and
fraudulent of money have enured to the
benefit of those who are attached to the radical
wing of the Republicans.
The support which conservative men have
given the Government has been moral as well as
physical and pecuniary. They have resisted every
tendency to dissatisfaction and discomfort which
the Abolitonists have provoked. They have
encouraged the masses of the people to trust in
the great strength of the Constitution, and to
stand firmly and Loyalty by the constitutional Off
GERS of the nation. They have not joined in the
Outcries OF fault finders If they have differed in
opinion from the Administration, they have
reasoned calmly They have rot given promi-
nence to the frauds and fOlies of the radical side
| They have rather labored to keep in the dark
those disgraces to the American character which
have been brought to light by party quarrels at
Washington among the members of the dOmi-
nant party. They have not sought to find
fault with officers of the Government when
the war has gone against us The National
Republican, dingy radical paper at Wash
ington, said the other day, that the Jour
nal of Commerce had asssiled the Secretary
of War for Banks's defeat. The accusation was
ridiculous. All the Republican and abolition
journals hereabout have fercely assailed him,
while the Journal of Commerce, and conservative
men generally, have been absolutely silent on
the subject, attributing the misfortune to no one
in particular, but taking it of the reverses
of war which must sometimes come We appeal,
with perfect confidence, to the record of the past
winter, and history will so determine the fact,
that amid the whirlwind of anti-slayery mad
ness, and the varying, shifting, uncertain and
untrustworthy impulses. advice, counsels and de-
mands of abolition radicals, the President and
his cabinet have had no solid and safe reliance
except on the conservative men md conserva-
tive journals of the day. Even now, when Mr..
Lincoln revokes Hunters order for the very pur-
pose Of showing the nation that he intends to
permit no interference with constitutional rights,
the leading papers of the radical wing at the
North, instead of aiding the President in his de-
signs, and holding him up to the North and the
South, as the defender of the Constitution, are
arguing and Illuminating their declarations that
the President does not mean what he SAYS, that
he is radical at heart, that he intends to attack
the Constitution himself some day, that abOli-
tionists trust him and conservative men can
not, in short that he has been pursuing hypo-
critical course ever since he took the chair, and
that he is only waiting proper moment to lead
grand rush INTO anarchy. And this is what
those papers call supporting the Government
N. Y Journal of Commerce.