Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-26
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We ask our readers consider and pass their
judgment upon the following allegations which
We find in the Milwaukee Neucs We have read
and considered them, and our judgment is that
every allegation made is proved by the events
which have transpired during the past year:
That the election of the Republican candidates
in November, 1860, was the direst calamity which
could have befallen the nation.
That-the Democracy were right in their predic-
tons that the triumph of sectionalism would Gre
ate civil war.
That the Republican party is the natural enc
my of a free press and free speech.
That Republican Congress is incapable Of
legislating for the interests of the people
That Republican Cabinet is the most cor
rupt Of any which has ever assembled in Wash
iRgtOn.
That the Constitution may be suspended by a
Republican President, with the approval of his
party constituents.
That the greater the thief the greater his
reward at the hands Of Republican Presi-
dent.
That the army could not have been success
fully led except by Democratic Generals
That the Republicans desire the subjugation of
the slaveholding States, and not the restoration
of the Union.
That the military force alone cannot restore
the Union.
That the party in power would substitute negro
labor for white labor wherever the opportunity
is favorable for so doing.
That the public treasury is not safe in the hands
of the present Administration.
That ewEngland manufacturers rule the party
in power.
That so long as the Republican party continues
in power, the people must be enormously taxed
and the laboring population must bear the bulk
of the burden.
That the continuance of the Republican party
in power must perpetuate sectional hostility in
definitely.
That Republican presses and orators can not
be trusted.
That in the future dominance Of national Dem
ocratic principles in Washington and throughout
the country affords the only reasonable hope of
maintaining "the Constitution as it is" and re-
storing 1.-THE Union as it was"
We will add the following:
That in the levying of taxes to support the
Government, the Republican party discriminates
in favor of capital and against labor. by imposing
the burden of taxation on necessaries and useful
commodities of consumption, and exempting cap
ital from taxation.
That the tendency of the Republican policy of
Government is towards despotism in the Govern
meut, by depriving the governed of their consti-
tutiOnal rights, both by legislative acts and as
SYMPTOMS of power by the Executive which are
expressly reserved TO the States and people.
That the tendency of so called RepubIicanism
is to subordinate the civil to the military 20 wer
and to subject the Judicial branch of the Gov
eminent to the Executive. and to center in tho
Executive all the power of Government, thu:
converting the Federal Government into stra
tOcracy like that OF Austria and France which
is maintained by the force Of large standing ar
mics, and in which 1t is made the personal inter
est of military men be the side of the Gov
eminent
That the Republican party is founded not only
on an "irrepressbls conflict" between the North
and South, thus provoking sectional civil con
Aict, but it is founded also on an "irreoressibl,
conflict" between power illegitimItely acquired
and arbitrarily exercised, and populaErights. Th'
whole tendency Of Republicanism. as m tnifestet
by the Republican party. being to centr llize anC
consolidate power in the General Government b.
Withdrawing It from the States and people, ant
thus establishing between the Government ant
people the relations which exist between despot,
Governments and their subjects, in which tb
Government makes itself felt as an absolute
master, and the people are ruled as slaves.