Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27


So can the Republican election judges.
The learned pig of the Journal can philoso
phize upon those specimens, and advise us how
these new voters got into Lake and Jasper.
The Causes.
The Journal charges that we have been seek
ing the causes CT the defeat of the Republican
party in Indiana, but it thinks we avoid the right
one. There is no installing the reasons for the
revolution in public sentiment which have just
found expression at the polls in the three great
States of Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania. And
it is but the beginning of the end 1t is but the
turn of the tide which will sweep out of power the
last vestige of Republicanism. The Republican
party was not defeated alone by those who voted
with the Democracy la 1860. The overthrow
was aided by those who had been its friends.
The Democracy are indebted to thousands of
honest and conservative citizens who in 1860 had
cast their votes for Mr. LINCOLN, relying upon the
pledges of the Republican party to reform
the alleged abuses, corruptions and extravagances
which were charged upon the Democratic Ad-
mini stration. Eighteen months of Republican
rule had satisfied this class that there was no
hope for maintaining the Government unless by
the return of the Democratic party to power.
The Democracy owe their recent victories 10 con
verts from Republicansm-to voters for Mr..
LINCOLN in 1860 who had utterly Inexperienced
the purposes OF the Republican party and Its ca
pacity to govern the country. Never before did
a political party more signaly fail in the appli-
Of Al
the Government. These facts the people appre-
eiate and they have caused the defeat Of the Re-
publican party. The New York Herald, in an
editorial upon the popular revolution at the polls,
thus forcibly sums up the causes thereof:
Now what are the causes of this wonderful
revolutionI There had been little or no canvass,
the press and free speech had been under rigid
restriction and censorship The influence
of money and contracts was all on the Re-
publican side Yet the people voted on the op-
posite side, and that of their own accord, and
without persuasion or inducement of any kind
Why have they done so? Because the Republican
party which ousted the Democracy from power on
the ground of its corruption, has proved itself ten
times more corrupt, while at the same time its
tyranny and utter incapacity for rule have brought
the nation to the verge of ruin. The venality,
ignorance and despotsm Of Congress- violating
by its acts the cearest provisions of the ConStitu-
ton, and the Incompetence OF the War, the Navy
and the Treasury departments has filled the peo
pie with intense disgust and alarmed them for the
safety OF the republic.
And these revelations have been made by the
Republicans themselves, one set of them laying
bare the iniquties of another set Witness the
reports of the investigating committees, in which
the frauds and extravaganza at St. Louis. under
the auspices of Fremont, were exposed the
shoddy and shoe contracts; the denquences of
Senator Simmons of Rhode Island the course
of Secretary Welles in giving a Two and half
per cent JOB to his brother Flaw, amounting TO
some 100000, for doing what could be executed
equally well without charge by some officer OF
| the navy the failure of the Navy Depart
ment to co operate with General McClel-
Ian in his advance on Richmond the mis-
management and blunders of the War De-
partment in causing premature movement of
the Army of the West before the advance of the
Army of the East; dividing the Army of the Pc
tomac, and afterward failing to effect junction
of the discounted corps mt the critical mOment;r re
fusing to send reiniorcements to General McClel
Ian; the appointment to important commands of
such incompetent Generals Fremont Hunter
and Phelps; the neglect TO provide the army with
clothes, shoes and tents and sufficient surgical
attendance for the wounded. and medical care
and other necessaries for the sick-all of which
has been duly communicated by the soldiers let
tiers to their friends at home, producing most
decided effect. Add to these causes of the pop
ular revolution the suspension of habeas corpus
in the loyal States the summary arrests and ar
bitrary mprsonmenis without trial; the pro-
gramme of universal emancipation and servile
Instruction in the S nth, and the determination
of the whole people; the apprehension of the
Northern States being 0verrun with the negroes
Of the South; the abotioniziDg of the Republican
party and its rapid development a party of
blood; lastly, the breaking down of the financial
schemes of Secretary Chase, partly through
lack of practical acquaintance with such business,
and partly through wilfu disregard of measures
which would have prevented disastrous de-
rangement of the currency, amounting to de-
probation OF thirty per cent; and no person need
wonder at what has happened at the polls In
deed, the wonder might well be if the result were
different
For the honor of the country and for our hopes
of its future ali who value free institutions will
hail with JOY this great movement of the people.
1t will cradle the President who is honest to
carry out the conservative policy which he had
contemplated from the beginning, and to apply
the proper remedy to the evils we have enume
rated Heretofore he had been inundated by
assaults upon his family. For instance in the
proceedings of Hickman's Congressional commit
tee. He had been cOerced into various measures
under threats of depo sition by revolution and a
proven by the elections that the ra icals are pow
erless. and that he has the people to stand by him
in defense of the Constitution, he can get rid of
his imbecile Cabinet and appoint another which
has the ability to rule and the will TO carry on
the Government in accordance with the spirit of
our institutions. He will be in position to wage
the war with single view to the restoration of
the Union. and to put down the rebellion by force
of arms in the hands of white men on the battle
field, and not by negro instructions or by proc
lamations just as intellectual as the Pope's bull
against the comet
tB- The Louisville Journal. in announcing
the great Democratic victory in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. says: 1--WE do so with light
er heart than we have carried in our bosom for
many weeks"
~ The New York World, a conservative
Republican journal, refers TO Cassius NJ. Clay as
that "shining apostle Of the higher law, who
draws the salary of Major General, and spends