Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-25
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At-otlaton. VAS ueiNeifo W Dt<ton on w t1bes-
day evening. at the Music Hall. by WxxpKLL
PnuIiPs Hon. CHARLKs SuxsER, Hon L.
GooDHIcH. Hon. SrErnrS FxIrBxxKs.RH DsSA.
Jr., Esq. WILLIAM WHITING. Esq, and other
Distinguished gentlemen. had seats upon The plat
form.
La the course OF his address. Mr.. PHILLIPS said.
Let Mr.. Lincola perpetuate this war. aud hand
IL down 20 bis successors N anything like Us pres
ent guise. and IN the canvass that begins eighteen
mouths hence YOU will see a candidate on the
Other side of the mountains one plank IN whose
platform will be that the West desert the East
and join her natural ally who holds the mouth OF
the Mississippi. IL the Democratic politicians Of
Albany have their way, there is more danger OF
an alliance among twenty States, leaving New
England ont in the cold, than there is of an ALI
ance among twenty States, leaving the Cotton
States out of the Union. Understand me:
think We live in generation which ought not To
regard with dsmay. but as our fathers did. lac
cording to Mr.. Seward.) with hope and favor, the
ripening Of this conflict OF the two elements that
underlie our State We have To day in our hands
the strength. il only have the will, to crush the
viper which has given Us the right and hands us
the weapon. Applause This v nv idea OF the
future that is before US No compromise can
ever bring Us into safe permanent relations again.
This revolution not produced by Calhoun
nor Garrison; il was produced by the seventy
years which have produced Calhoun and CARR
son Rome was not destroyed by Caesar; il was
destroyed by the hundred years that wrought out
a Cesar; and TO day, the ripening of events, not
the energy or the policy OF men, places Us where
are. The past is our lesson to Judge of the
future.
If it were possible to take from us every
tongue and to gag our children. the very soil
upon which We live. the very necessity OF New
England, coming her granite and ice into bread,
would make her dangerous neighbor for the
arisiocracy of the CarOlinas. Applause The
South does not wish for compromise. She spurns
Horatio Seymour. She despses the Democrat
who crawls at her feet Applause. She knows,
with the instructive sagacity which danger con
fers that her only policy to day is to correct the
mistake of 1881. TO ally herself with inferior
races for breadth of base. and then by tempta-
ton TO draw from the North what she can. You
might as well try to tempt the devil back To
heaven as South Carolina into the ne!ghborhood
of New England. Laughter and applause
This being So there j. no remedy left. except III
the North's lifting the gauntlet which the South
throws down % her
The negro lifted up his arms and said: "Sons
OF the Plgrimsl trust God and do me justicel
And the fathers, with averted faces. said W ait
we dare not trust GOdi Wait until the long
WEAKNESS OF a seven years war is over, until the
famine and poverty appeased, until the
Union. grown strong and rich is able to be just. y
And the slave sat down in his chains and waited
The South in 1897, agreed To abide the issue
but, defeated at the ballot box, she flung it down
aud took up the bullet The North said "Grant
il; we will try that. lt is a fair play. an honest
game Beaten, Massachusetts, to be whip
ped hound; her system was To be second rate
slavery cit in the chair and dictate the
ha Tn hos bul xarEs IN kpa
her safe. Very we'll; the battle has gone against
her. and what il TO be the result? The North Is
20 march down with her institutions and wipe Out
Carolina. Appl use My method is to re
plant the South. You can only abolish slavery
in the Carolinas by planting them with freedom
That IS the method which think it is the right
and the duty of the nation to adopt trust The
President will adopt IT, Loud applause How
much there is IN him let every man Judge
believe there is everything in him that is pos
sible in man born in a slave State. But trus
the President for all that He is the only nstru
ment we have got. Step from his platform anC
there is anarchy. The worst state tina. ever ex
listed is better than that; the worst King that eve
existed is more hopeful than Cromwell dispensing
Parliament.
/ am not going to criticize the President / be
lieye that to day he has turned the corner, ant
recognizes the fact, not simply that the slaves o
rebels, bu, that slaves, must be freed. APP
piause How shall that proclamation be carried
outI Well, Burnside is advancing to Richmond
God bless him! Enthusiastic plaudits w,
have him aud Hooker at the 'front.' renewed ap
plause linen who, If defeated. will rise stronge
from defeat aud if victorious, will not 60 tC
sleep ON the field of victory. fGreat applause
In the field of battle, doubt not, we are TO o'
swift stern successful: but that is not victory
You can conquer the South not by cannon. bu
by carrying Northern civilization there. W.
have got in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe, TIVE
counties totally under our guns. Let the Gov
eminent cOnhscate those counties Applause,
break them up into farms of one hundred acres
and sell those farms TO the sons of Vermont anC
New York. with deed from the Union guaran
teeing the title. and guaranteeing compensation
il the owner be evicted, aud you have commenced
a State. The Virginia that was, the Virginia Of
Lee that could not admit a peasantry except n
chains; the Virginia of Mason, with his naughty
imperous insolence, is gone. and the germ of a
Virginia that bOrrows its character and future
from Plymouth Rock is commenced. Their
again, further South. | would take General,
Hunter and Butler, and put ten thousand armed
negroes with the stars and stripes over them, and
the Union uniform on into Alabama. Mississippi
and Georgia. not 10 hsht-though | believe they
will hght-but tn proclaim the proclamation
One hundred. two hundred. thousand will gather
around them, and the deserted plantatorS viii
call home the white soldiers from Virginia tC
take care of them.
In order TO do this | want to remove the snae
at Washington. The President. | said believe
in; | do not believe in his Cabinet. We are not
obliged to take anything more than Kentucky
born President upon our shoulders. There stand:
at his right hand TO day the man responsible for
the last four months of the administration of Blu
ehannan. There stands nj his right hand Sec
rotary of State who gave the broad seal OF the
Union to- a traitor who had betrayed the secret.
of the Cabinet 10 Carolina when she mar
shaling round Fort Sumter. and sent him to Por
tugai. There stands at his right hand man who
never vet, since the first cannon was fired, ha:
lisped any other word than compromise | do not
believe in Seward. Applause.I want thai
Cabinet eviscarated Leave as many of them rs
you please. | care not which you turn out. onl,
put in one man with a will and head like Thad
deus Stevens or Ben Wade. and he will drag thai
Cabinet 10 his own purpose do not say he j;
a traitor do not say that Mcclellan Is a traitor
90 not TOR the motives of one single mar
in the twenty missions that make no our popula
ton. Hearts nothing 10 US. conduct i every
thing. Whether George b. Mcclellan were
traitor or not. there j. not traitor in Jefferson
Davis Cabinet who could have acted better fol