Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-10

the Constitution. What assurance 80 doubly
sure as the restoration 90 power of that ancient
organized consolidated Democratic party which
FOR sixty year did secure the property rights and
liberties Of the States and of the people. and
thus did maintain the Constitution and preserve
the Union. and with them the multiplied blessings
which distinguished Va above ali other aatonsf
To restore the Union is 20 crush out sectional
ism North and South. To begin the great work
OF restoration through the ballot-box is 20 kill
Abolition The bitter waters of secession flowed
hrst and are fed still from the unclean fountains
OF AOOlitOnism. That fountain must be dried
up. Armies may break down the power of the
Confederate Government in the South; but the
work Of restoration can only be carried on
through political organization and the ballot in
North and West. In this great work We cordially
invite the CO operation OF all men of every party
who are opposed to the tell spiri of Abolition.
and who, in sincerity, desire the Constitution as
it il and the Union as it was. Let the dead past
bury It's dead. Rally, lovers of the Union, the
Constitution and Liberty, to the standard OF the
Democratic party, already in the field and conf
dent Of victory. That party is the natural and
persistent enemy Of Abolition Upon this ques-
ton It's record as a National organization. how
ever il may have been at times with particular
men or in particular States, is clear and unques
tionable From the beginning of the anti slavery
agitation to the period of the last Democratic Ma
tional Convention, il has held but one language
in regard to it. Let the record speak
"ResOIDed, That Congress has no power under
the Constitution TO interfere with or control the
domestic institutions OF the several States. and
that such States are the sole and proper judges of
everything app, raining to their own affairs not
prohibited by the Constitution; that all efforts
of the Abolitionists or others made to induce
Congress to interfere with questions of slavery
or TO take incpent steps in relation thereto
are calculated to lead 10 the most alarming and
dangerous consequences. and that all such efforts
have an inevitable tendency to diminish the hap
piness OF the people and endanger the stability
and permanency of the Union, and ought not TO
be countenanced by any friend OF our political in
stitutiOns
Upon these principles alone, so far as relates
10 slavery, can the Union, as it was, be restored:
and no other Union except the Unity of Despot
ism can be maintained in this country; and this
last we will resist, as our fathers did, with our
lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
NO ADMINISTRATIONS is 1.-THE GOVERNMENT"
But il is said that you must disband the Demo
cratic party Ito support the Government" We
answer that the Democratic party has always
supported the Government; and while it was in
power preserved the Government in all it, vigOr
and integrity. not by force and arms, but by wis
dom. sound policy and peace. But it never did
admit, and never will, that this Administration,
or any Administration, is 1.-The Government" 1t
holds, and ever has held. that the Federal Gov
ernment Is the agent Of the people OF the several
States composing the Union; that it consists OF
three distinct departments-the legislative, the
executive and the judicial-each equally part
OF the Government, and equally entitled to the
confidence and support OF the States and the PEG
pie; and that 1t Is the duty OF every patriot to
sustain the several departments of the Govern
ment in the exercise of all the constitutional pow
ers of each which may be necessary and proper
for the preservation of the Government in its
principles and in It's vigor and integrity, and
To- stand 10y and defend To the utmost the flag
which represents the Govern ment, the Union and
the country.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS ALWAYS AND WILL
NOW SUSTAIN THE GOVERNMENT.
In this sense the Democratic party has always
sustained and will now sustain, the Government
against al foes. at home or abroad, in the North
or the South, open or concealed. in office or out
OF Office, in peace or in war.
II this is what the party mean by supporting
the Government il is an idle thing to abandon
the old and tried Democratic party, which Tor so
many years and through many trials support
ed, preServ ed and maintained the Government of
tiic Oitpn DNl u tuelT real purpose DE 10 ala
the ancient enemies of the Democracy in sub
verting our present Constitution and form of
government, and. under pretense of saving the
Union, To erect a strong centralized deSpotism OH
Its ruins the Democratic party will resist them as
the worst enemy To the Constitution and the
Union, and to free government everywhere.
We do not propose to consider now the causes
which led to the present unhappy civil war. A
filter time will come hereafter tor such discus
sion. But We remind you now that compro-
mise made your Union, and compromise fifteen
months ago would have saved it. Repeated
efforts were made at the last session of the
Thirty sixth Congress to this end. At every stage
the great mass OF The South, with the whole
Democratic party, and the whole Constitutional
Union party of the North aud W est united in favor
of certain amendments TO the COnstitutiOn--and
chief among them the well known "Crittenden
Propositions, which would have aver;ed civil
war and maintained the Union. At every stage
all proposed amendments inconsistent with the
sectional doctrines of the Chicago Platform were
strenuously and unanimously resisted and defeated
10y the Republican party. The "Crttenden Prop
ositions" never received single Republican vote
in either House. FOR the proof we appeal TO the
journals of Congress and to the Congressional
Globe
We scorn to reply to the charge that the De
mOcratic party is opposed to granting aid and
support 10 the 1 euefal government IN MAINTAIN
Ing It's safety, integrity and constitutional supre
macy. and in favor of disbanding our armies and
succumbing to the South. The charge is libel
Gus and false. No man has advocated any such
proposition. Democrats recognize it their du-
" as patriots to support the Government in all
It, constitutional. necessary and proper efforts 10
maintain its safety, integrity and constitutional
authority; but at the same time they are iniexi-
bly, opposed to waSing against any of the
States people OF this Union in any spirit of OPP
preston or for any purpose of conquest or subju-
cation. or of overthrOwing or interfering with the
rights or established Institutions of any State
Above all. the Democratic party will not sup
port the Administration in any thing which looks
tends TO the loss of our political or personal
rights and Liberties. or a change of our present
demOcratical form of government
But no. Democrats, il Is not the support of the
Government IN restoring the Union which the
party in power require OF YOU. You are asked TO
give up your principles, your policy and your
party. and 10 stand ~ the Administration of the
party in power, in all its acts. Above all, il is
demanded OF YOU that you yield at least a silent
support To their whole policy, and to withhold all
scrutiny into their public conduct of every kind,
lest YOU should "embarraSs the Administration "
\ ou are thus asked To renounce one of the first
principles arV. the chief security OF a Democratic
Governmeut-the right to hold public servants
responsible 10 their master the people, TO render
the representative accOuntlble.to the constituent:
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