Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-08
The Coming state ElectiOns-Thc Is.
sue i'm New York.

The coming State elections and particularly
the election in the State of New York are preg-
nant with such tremendous consequences that if
the people could only understand them in all their
length and breadth. there would be such revo
| luton ut the polls would 20 far to arrest the
rapid progress of the republic to dissolution and
anarchy. Upon the Stale of New York, more
| than upon any other in the Federal Union de
ponds the fate Of the country for veal or for woe
Yet We fear that, owing to the amount of money
that will be brought To bear. the operations OF
| the army contractors and other corrupt iutiu
ences. together with the fact that the people are
not yet fully alive TO the nature of the crisis
| through which they are passing the candidate Of
the destructives will be elected, and the cOnser-
yatives will awaken too late To a sense of the
real condition OF the country. The success of
General Wa,!swnrth in this State would he the
success OF the Puritan Roundheads, who pre-.
sumo dictate morality, religion and legislation
to the whole continent, and it would be the pro
longation of the till the army and navy con
tractors bled the North to death and destroyed
the South by the same process.
Ii Wadsworth succeeds let expect reign of
terror. such rs he intugurated at Washington.
when he arrested even the Officers of Justice, in
violation of the Constitution and the laws of the
land, to the disturbance of the white population
and the confusion Of the poor negroes, who could
Military Governor of the District of Columbia
Ii Wad-worth succeeds every man who differs
with him in politics will be arrested, and ii des
pOtsm will be established in this State such as
has not existed in modern times in any nation
pretending To free Institutions The truth is that
WadSwOrth IS an aristOcrat OF the trst water, and
claims his position not from any merit of his
own, but from the wealth of his ancestors, de
rived from the oppression of human beings far
superior To negrues II Wadsworth is elected
LEI the people OF this State look out fora tyranny
such as has not been experienced in any other
country in modern times. It, unfortunately, he
should be chosen Governor of this State he
would have all his political opponents arrested
and consigned IN dungeons. and their property
seized and cOnhscated under the act OF Congress
The issue made by his organs is that every man
who votes against his election is traitor, and
consequently is liable to be stripped of all the
worldly goods that he possesses. together with his
liberty, il not his life.
III, therefore, the candidate f the revolution
arv radicals should be successful we are n pproach
ing IA Period like that OF the Roman prescriptions
in which Marius and Syla. Cesar aud Pompey.
in turn ostraci>ed the whole people and contisca
ted their property. The success OF the radicals is
therefore the ruin Of the country Ii is bOodshed
and civil war without end.
On the other hand the success of the conserva-
tives in this State would shorten the war. bv re
storing the Union through the operation of the
Magma Charta of American liberty-the Consti-
tuition of the UrIted States-the only shield in
this hour of the nations peril against the double
danger of anarchy and despotism. The Presi-
dent desires To save the country bv clineing to
the Constitution rs the anchor of hone during the
next three months. after which the revOlutionists
expect a saturnaIia of blood and crime which will
make our po>terity blush till the last syllable of
recorded time 1t is the part o. conservatives to
strengthen his resolution to stand by him to the
last. and to rescue him from the hands OF the
radicals in his Cabinet. and the hands of the
base wretches outside. who. in this hour of the
nations weakness, are lowering over the spoils
and plumber like greedy buzzards and vultures.
utterly regardless of the tate of the Republic.
which so recently was 1.-The envy of surrounding
nations and the admiration of the world. "-Ne,r
York Herald.