Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-21

tanned. There we're four kinds of influence; so
cial, intellectual, religious and political. This
pulpit was not potent because OF the members
which it attracted, but because it the place
where unpopular truths found utterance, and
where hunted freedom found refuge. The New
York Tribune was strong, not because OF its edi-
tors but because it moulds opinion to stand be
hind it. The EUening Post and Tribune furnished
the constituency of Owen Lovejoy. When Greeley
speaks, hundred thousand persons listen. and his
words falls on them with the power of a leader
Why does the President go to hear Mr. Greeleyr
Because when he speaks the great Test hangs
on his words. Mr.. Lincoln stands hestating to-
dav Why? Because he is Honest Abe" The
speaker believed that the President believed that
the result of this war would be abolition of slave
~. But the President was not a leader. Under
Republican Government like ours. it was debut
ful if leader could ever fill the first place in the
Government. Mr.. Lincoln was a second rate
man-the servant of the people, he says-and
he stands asking, "What do you want me to dof"
If the Union is saved, we owe it to John
Ericsson. and not to Abraham Lincoln; he is a
leader. What is the present official voice Of
American We are under the government of a
minority of men in Congress whose intellects are
of the lowest type Sumner, Wade and Love
Joy are about the only men there who do not rep
resent minOrties. President Lincoln. when every
nOuT Is flShlhS TIC lltcSTt9 vi buc y hiOh, hhO"o
no other power but what comes from the halls OF
Congress, and majority OF those in Congress
represent the dOughfaces of the North. What's
the remedyI The remedy is ia doing away with
the district system of choosing. Boston should
not be confined to choosing Representative
from among her own citizens. There should be
no limit of locality. If Massachusetts don't like
Charles Sumner, a million of men the country
over may elect him. Ii this theory had been
carried out, the oratons which Theodore Parker
delivered in Music Hall would have been spoken
from Washington to the whole nation; instead of
a Congress to-day made up of men who repre-
sent nobody-who have no opinions-we should
have body truly representing the anti slavery
sentiments of the Northern people.
The Representatives from the Border States
say to the President advance one step towards
the Hunter proclamation, and We leave you"
The Republican member, looking at his constit-
uency, just saved from voting for Benjamin F.
Thomas, Just saved from being deuded by the
Courier and the defamation of Mr.. George T..
Curtis, dares not do it. The Government wants
three hundred thousand men; we must saw to
him, "you cannot have a man or a dollar until
YOU proclaim a policy" That will open the
ewes of the President and the Cabinet to the true
sentiment of the North. Fremont has been de
graded by the Border States; but let hope that.
like Charles the Second, he may die on his right
ful throne.
/ do not, said Mr. Phillips, think that a ma
iorty of the North are ready to accept the policy
of emancipation, but think that President Lin
coin knows that he can take any step in that d-
reciion. and millions of the North will follow
him. What they want is a leader Republicans
are in the saddle; let them say to the Border
States, 1.-The war means Hunters and Fremont's s
proclamations; vote against il, if you dare.
jefferson Davis does less to break up this
Union with his armies than Lincoln in his infdel
ity and delay to proclaim emancipation. Ap-
pIause Mr.. Curtis might as well decai IN
against the east wind as against New England's
character and purpose, out of which have grown
the anti-slavery enterprise. New England, for
two hundred years, has lived under the influence
of ideas. The slavery system crossed her path,
and she marked it infamous and nailed it to
the counter.
i was Unionist for sixteen years. The Abo-
ltion enterprise was started in 1881. Until 1876
we thought il was possible to kill slavery and
save the Union; we then said, cover the ruins of
the American Church and the Union is the only
way to freedom" From 46 to 81 we preached
that lesson. In April, 81, the guns sounded
from Fort Sumter, and the whole North started
to its feet We found that we had all along mis-
taken the sentiment of the North-that il was
for liberty. Applause.l Fourteen months. till
TO-DAY, we have supported the Government with
our whole moral influence. The news goes to
Europe to day that we are defeated-that the
North is standing at bay, unequal to the contest.
How soon, then, will Europe interfere? If the
Union is saved. John Ericsson has saved it. If
Congress can do nothing more than it has, we
should thank God if Cromwell appeared.