Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-07

countrys trial, its motto il, il ever has been,
ITO maintain the Constitution and preserve the
Union" a party whose whole history Is thus
signallv illustrative OF patriotism, party that
has thus sacrificed all mere partisan prejudice and
feeling, for the sake Of the Republic, needs no
defense at our hands against the malignant
saults OF IL enemies, and IS entitled TO be heard
with thoughtful attention when il prociaims It's
sentiments.
And the time has come when. in our judgment,
that proclamation should be respectfully but dis
tinctly and earnestly made.
little over year ago. Congress, with an
almost entire unanimity, solemniy declared that
Congress, banishing all feeling of mere passion
and resentment will recoIect only its duty TO the
whole country; that this war is not waged on
their part in any spirit of oppression, for any
purpose of conquest or subjugatOn, or purpose of
Overthrowing or interfering with the rights or es
tablished institutions of those States, but TO de-
fend aud maintain the supremacy of the Consti
tuition, and to preserve the Union with all the
dignity equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired; and that soon these objects are
accomplished the war ought 10 cease"
We need not remind you with what satisfac-
ton this declaration was hailed in the loyal
States: how il served to fill the ranks Of the ar
my, to strengthen the hands OF the Government,
and to inuse spirit and fortitude into the breasts
of the loyal men of the South who vet chung to
the hope of seeing the Union restored in all its
pristine vgor and supremacy. And had there
been no departure from the spirit of this declara-
ton: had no doctrines been advanced in high or
influential places subversive Of the most cherish
ed Liberties guaranteed by the Constitution to the
peopler had there been corruption mon
strous as TO appal the nation by its magnitude,
and were there no danger to our institutions to
be apprehended in the future and to be carefully
guarded against, it would not be necessary for US
now 10 address you.
But the powerful and persistent efforts that
have been and are yet being made to convert
the war into a mere crusade against slavery
the fearful strides taken by Congress at Its
present session. in that direction, and the yet
more alarming measures proposed and warmly
advocated; the audacious attempts TO overawe
the President whenever he hesitated to yield to
the demands OF the radicals; the unmeasured
abuse that has been heaped upon almost every
Gen eral in the field. however meritorious. who
has declined to become an emissary of Abolition
ism; the daily PRONUNCIATION of doctrines utterly
destructive of the Constitution and of civil lib
erty, and the incessant denunciation of every con-
servatve man, however loyal, who does not sub
scribe to them; all give warning that ought not
to pass unheeded by the people, and require of all
who desire To see the Constitution maintained aud
the Union perpetuated an expression of their sen
tments.
We, therefore, the representatives of nearly or
quite 900 600 voters of the State of Ohio, who
have as deep stake in the welfare OF the country
and in the preservation of the Union as any other
equal number of men. in the exercise of our duty
ard constitutional rights, and with the desire of
UNFOLDING instead OF weakening the just powers
of our Government. and anxious to unite all men,
without regard to their former party associations
who agree with in opinion, and to treat all
loyal men who honestly differ from us with be-
coming respect, do hereby declare our opin-
ions and those of our constituents, as follows:
1. Resoicsd, That we are. ever have
BEEN the devoted friends of the Constitution and
the Union, and we have no sympathy with the
enemies Ut either.
. That every dictate of patriotism requires
that. in the terrible struggle in which We are Ell
gagged for the preservation of the Government.
the loyal people of the Union should present an
unbroken front, and therefore all efforts to oh
tain or perpetuate party ascendency by forcing
party issues upon them that necessarily tend TO
divide and distract them. as the Abotionists are
constantly doing, hostile to the best interests
of the country.
3. That the Abolition party. by their denunca-
ton of the President whenever he has mani
tested conservative spirit by their atrocious
defamation of our Generals who were exposing
their lives for their country, and who needed
and merited its hearty support, by their acts
and declarations tending to promote insubord-
nation in our armies, and want of confidence
in their commanders, and by their persistent
representations of all conservative men in the
loyal States as sympathizers with the rebels, have
given immense aid and comfort to the rebel
cause, and encouraged them to hope for ultimate
success.
4. That we have seen with indignation the in
of ba of hat
that State will be slow in furnishing her quota of
troops unless the war be carried on for the pur-
poses of emancipation. When the nation is strain
ing every nerve and pouring out its blood and
treasure like water TO preserve its existence,
it is monstrous that conditional Unonsm
that places Abolitonism above the Constitu-
ton, and the success of party above the in
tegrity of the republic, should thus rear its head
in high places and seek to dictate the conduct of
the war.
s. That while we would mete out merited
and legal punishment to the plotters of and
leaders in the rebellion, We are opposed TO the
contemplated sweeping and indiscriminate acts
of con6scation and emancipation by Congress
sional legislation or Executive proclamation be
cause:
LIST. We do not believe that such acts would
be constitutional.
ID. We believe that by driving the rebels to
desperation, converting OHOH intu at tne
South into rebels, they would have the effect TO
indefinitely proong the war, afford pretext for
foreign intervention and rerder the restoration
of the Union next to, or quite impossible.
Sd. Because, if practicable and carried out
they would engender feeling of bitterness be-
tween the different sections of the Union that
would not be allayed for generations to come,
and that would he an ever present cause of dan
ger and disturbance to the public peace source
of perpetual weakness in the Government, and
an ever present incentive to foreign powers to
interfere in our domestic concerns and to pro-
mote a disruption and overthrow of the republic.
4th. Because they would destroy, in a great
degree, if not entirely, for many years to come,
the industrial interests of large section of the
country, and most injuriously effect the interests
of the whole people.
5ih. Because the immediate and ndscriminate
emancipation of the slaves would be an act of
inhumanty to them.
9th. Because such an emancipation would
throw upon the border free States AMI especially
upon Ohio, an immense number of negroes to
comeeie with, and underworld, the white laborers
of the State, and to constitute, in various ways,
an almost or quite unbearable nuisance, if suffer
most unjust to our gallant soldiers to see them
compelled to free the negroes of the South aud
thereby fill Ohio with a degraded population to
compete with these same soldiers upon their re
turn to the peaceabe avocations of life.
8. That. raining these views, we cannot
too strongly condemn the refusal of our General
Assembly TO prohibit by law the immigration of
negroes into this State.