Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
The Object.

The "Union party" movement is the work of
Republicans. The call for the 'Urion Conven-
ton" was gotten up by Republicans. 1t was
printed by Republicans and was sent out by the
Republican leaders. The movement is a Repub-
lcan cat in a meal tub, and the schemcrs hope
the disguise may deceive and cntrap the honest
and unsuspecting portion of the people.
The operators in the Union party" are the
same who engineered the Know Nothing party,
the Maine Law party, the Peoples party, and the
Republican party. The call reads just the same
as those which brought the others into existence.
The "good citizens" without respect to past po-
litical associations" are invited now, as then,
to meet to organize new party. Fanaticsm,
maladministration and gross corruption we're the
results of the success of the other organza-
tons in both State and National Governments
The history of the past eight years furnishes
ample evidence Of the truth of these charges.
And if further testimony be needed Of the rot
tenness of these organizations we point to the
fact of their abandonment, and one which is full
of meaning. After success not one of these or.
CARNATIONS dared to make an appeal to the peo-
pie upon the issues under which they triumphed.
All were failures. So utterly corrupt were they,
that they stunk in the nOstrils of the people.
And now the Republican party has gone into
liquidation. Its failure is a concession of the
utter ncapabiity of the men who controlled it, to
successfully, honestly and wisely administer the
Government. Every time they have been tried
they have been found wanting Do the "good
citizens of Indiana desire TO try another
pertinent with the leaders of the Know Nothing.
the Maine law, the Peoples, and the Republican
parties? Corruption has marked their career in
Indiana. Under their administration the public
debt and the taxes have been largely increased.
Instead of diminishing they have added to the
burdens of government. They have had posses
sion of the National Government little over
year, and with what result? We will let Re-
publican witness tell the story. Mr.. DAWES,
Republican member of Congress, and who has
had ample means of knowing the truth of his
statement, says:
The gentleman must remember that in the
first year of Republican Administration, which
came into power upon professions of reform and
retrenchment, there is indubitable evidence
abroad in the land that somebody has plundered
the public Treasury well nigh in that single year
as much the entire current yearly expenses of
the Government during the Administration which
the people hurled from power because of its cor
ruption.
The party who stand responsible for these
gross, Infamous, and gigantic corruptions. now
ask the people, under new colors. to continue
them in power. That is the object to be accom-
plished by the proposed "Union party" 1t is
union not for the Union, but for power and
spoils. They are mo party" patriots just now,
but it is that quality of patriotism which Mr..
DAWES so elOqueptly and truthfully portrays.
An indignant and betrayed people will not be
again deceived by professions of loyalty, devo-
ton to the Union and reverence for the Cons itu-
ton. No matter what name they may assume
the Republican leaders will be swept from power
as the whirlwind marks its progress. They feel
the coming storm, and will use every subterfuge
and all the powerful agencies at their control to
avert it. But, thank God, the second sober
| thought of the people is right. They know that
the only way to maintain the Constitution and
save the Union, with all their countless blessings,
is to take the power into their own hands and
place the administration of the Government With
honest and capable men-with the pilots wno
have safely guided the ship of State when dark
ness and storms, and dangers have beset her.