Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-04

a. much interest in it. preservation. those who
assembled at the same place on the 18Th Of June.
Undoubtedly. ~ proportion 10 numbers, they had
just many sons and brothers lighting under the
banner OF the Union a. those who preceded them.
We know this y the case so far as the delegations
from the county OF Floyd 10 the conventions
j. concerned. and the same may be said OF the
delegations nom other counties OF Southern In
diana. To cay that these men. because they dis
approve of the abolition programme of Wendell
Phillips, Charles Sumner. and VIM Lloyd CARR
son. traitors in sympathy with traitors, Is a
gross calumny upon patriotic, Union loving citi-
zens, intended TO Influence the election and calcu-
lated 10 aid the rebellion.
What possible good can result from such low
charges as .'Bnuernut Democracy" and "COn
vention Of traitors" upon body OF men who
are not surpassed in Indiana or elsewhere for
every quality that makes good and vrtuous citi-
zen=r Such ebullitions of feeling spring from a
mean and malignant party spirt-not from men
who love their country and desire to serve il.
All such attacks have no more influence than the
attempt to beat back the wind with wisp of
straw. Ii comes from class so embittered in
their partisan prejudices that they would revile
Christ himself it he was upon earth, and did not
sing hOsannahs to the Republican party. The
Louisville Democrat, in noticing the misrepre-
sensations of the convention, remarks:
We publish this morning the speech of the
Hon. Z. A. Wicklifie at indianapolis, in order TO
correct sapplehensions created by the telegraph
dispatches. There is "A party North whose mis-
sion 1t Is now TO setd0wn rebels who don't fol
low the dominant party in their radical measures,
or who don't keep silent whilst, under loud pro-
LESSONS of Union, they pursue their radical and
unconstitutional party schemes.
The real friends of the Union are not to be
cheated that way, nor lied out of cOuntenance by
the telegraph.
Mr. Wickliffe is uncompromising Union
man, AS appears in this speech, and he is an un-
compromising opponent OF the radical party
schemes OF the late Congress. Dir. 5 speech
similar to the rest made on that c aston in
tone and sentiment. As far as the question OF
the Union goes they were all right The only
faults were a strong shade of party luminosity.
IL will be the main point with Republican pa
pers TO show that the leaders of the Democracy
of Indiana are opposed TO the war. Parry Re
publicansm has no merit of its own. The coun-
try called for the supremacy OF theCOnstitutiOn and
laws, and the party spent its time experiments
with the negro; costly and radical experiments.
After being thus employed, and losing Instead OF
l
put down the rebellion. They ask to be trusted
now for their zeal in this matter 1t in Congress
they had shown this zeal for the country, instead
OF "A zeal for party alone, we could now give
them credit
We take il that in Indiana all parties are for
the Union and for putting down the rebellion.
Certainly it is not for the interest of the Govern
ment To charge that it is otherwise. This meet
ing was one OF great magnitude and resolution.
liz is at the head of powerful party in the State,
II not majority. 1t will not do to tell the reb-
els that such party exists in free State in IA
vor OF the rebellion. The effect would be to in
spire the rebels with fresh courage, and, indeed,
lead them to feel in the result; for il there
be such party in the free States. the success OF
the rebels is only question OF time.
We hope to see no such charge made for party
purposes. Patriotism iorbids it. We regret that
there are any two parties in Indiana. IL the late
Congress had let its party schemes alone, and
honestly provided for the supremacy of the Con
stituton and the laws, there would have been but
one party.
A perseyering effort has been made to change
the condition of the States To carry out radical
revolutionary doctrines, and this has led neceS-
sarily 10 resistance. We hope both parties in In
diana viii! see the error which the late Congress
committed, postpone all party projects, and make
the preservation of the Union as it was and the
Constitution it il, the great object.