Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-20


partments. uses the following strong language
When the history Of these times shall be writ
ten. il will be question upon whom the guilf
will rest most heavly-upon him who has con.
spired TO destroy, or upon him who has proved
incompetent 20 preserve the institutions bequeath
e. 10 Us by our fathers
IN IL : no wonder that the public treasury trem-
bies aud staggers hike a strong man with TOO great
burden upon. him. Astrong man ia at air ex.
hausted receiver j. not more helpless TO day than
is the Treasury of this Government beneath the
exhausting process 70 which il Is subjected
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= Already the satler-that curse Of the camp.
l. following the paymaster as the shark follows
the ship, buying up for four dollars eyery FIVE
dollars of the wages Of the soldiers, paid to them
in Treasury notes
III tits impossible that the Treasury of the United
States can meet, and continue to meet, this state
OF things sixty days longer; and ignominious
peace must be submitted to unless we see 70 II
that the credit of the country is sustained. and
sustained too by the conviction going forth from
this hall 70 the people ofthe country that we will
treat as traitors not only those who are bold and
manly enough 70 meet US face TO face on the field
OF strife. but all those. also, who clandestiney
and stealthily suck the life blood from US in this
mighty struggle.
VI These things now known and believed by
the people and il there is that remnant of public
virtue necessary for the support of free institu-
tons, they will demand that they be freely dis
cussed, and remedies be applied. and that the an
thors be driven from place and power. LET us
talk plainly, it is interest to do so, and it is
yours to hear" The Republican party has lost
the confidence of the North. IL dare not again
ask the support of the people. Its leaders know
and feel this, and intend seeking 20 continue their
power 10y charge Of name-a palpable comics
sion that their public acts have turned the people
against them, during the first year of their power
Already the popular demand has driven one
member of the Cabinet from his place But how
reluctantly do the leaders yield and not until the
Government is topping on the verge of ruin
nor even then. without honoring the offending
Minister with foreign appointment OF high grade
The writer OF the article talks freely of trea-
son and traitors in the North, and OF their inlu-
ence in encouraging the Southern rebellion. That
IS well. Traitors should be denounced; but we
must be sure we hit the guilty men, The peo-
pie regard the plunderers of the public treas
ury as the most dangerous foes to the country-in
the sentiment of Senator HALE, their campaign
has been successful and ruinOus, and men that
encourage mobs now, had better look well to il.
that they do not belong to that odous class.
Public Indignation is but smothered aud when it
bursts forth it may overwhelm them The
eyes of a patriotic and plundered people are upon
them.
The writer says that in the Convention, Mr..
HENDRIcKs charged that the war was brought
about by the Republicans, and that il is unneces.
sary and wicked tie does not dare TO quote
Mr. HESDRIcKss language. which would have
proven him a falsfer The language of the
speech speaks for itself. Upon the subject of the
war it ia as follows:
4 "a civil war is upon us For its existence they
Democratic party Is not responsible. For many
years We have admOnshed those who favored n !
sectional party of its danger-in the sentiments
OF WaslIngtOns farewell address, that the great
est danger To be apprebended TO our country. was
the formation of geographical parties--we have |
advocated "those doctrines which we believed !
fair and equal to both sections; and which could
have been adopted without wounding the pride,
or stimulating the arrogance of either" Our ap- /
peals were disregarded. Sectional pride preiu- /
dice, and hatred in one section produced tbe
same sentiments in the other; and of this sec |
tional strife was begoten present troubles |
ms war Is upon uS-'wickedly prov oked on the /
one side, and in folly and sin, and without sufh 4
cent cause. commenced on the other" With /
secession upon the one hand, and sectional inter
terence with Southern rights upon the other, we
hold no ~ mpathy. Our most earnest desire is /
for the restoration of the Union, upon the basis /
oil the Constitution, and, for myself | will give |
an honest support TO all constitutional and proper
measures, adopted 10y the Administration to that |
end; and will as earnestly oppose all acts in
violation of the Constitution and in suppression
OF liberty, because of my veneration for that /
solemn compact of our fathers and because such
policy renders the UniJn impossible by oblitera- I
ing the Union sentiment of the South and Civ |
ing and and comfort TO its enem es
The writer goes on to say that, IF the speeches
and resolutions of this Convention are true, then
our Government is entirely in the wrong and the
rebels entirely in the right"
What resolution, or sentiment in Any speech
justiies this assertion? The tenth resolution is
as follows:
10. That we will sustain, with all our energies.
war for the maintenance of the Constitution and
of the integrity Of the Union under the Constitu-
ton; but we are opposed to for the enamel
patton OF the negroes, or the subjugation of the
Southern States.
N If the war is to be waged "for the emancipa-
ton of the negroes, or the subjugation of the
Southern States" rs the Aboiitionsts demand.
then the resolutions do not sustain it; but on the
other hand, "for the maintenance of the Consti-
tuition, and of the integritysof the Union, under
the Constitution" the Convention pledges all the
energies" of the Democracy OF Indiana to It's
support. Who is the writer, that undertakes to
speak for the Republicans of Indiana, in saving
that this resolution places the Government in the
wrong and the rebels in the right?
\ preserved Constitution and an unbroken
Union Is the object which Democrats conserva-
tive Republicans and all Union-l loving men de
sire, and for that object the resolution pledges all
the energies Of the party. But the writer says
the resolution places the Government in the
wrong-then it is because he would not have the .
war prosecuted to maintain the Constitution, and
restore the Union, but for the purpose OF freeing
the negroes. 10 which the Abolitionists seek 10
pervert it, BY what authority is il that he IN +
deriakeS to say that the war is prosecuted, not
for the Union and the Constitution but To accom- 4
pliSh the dangerous and destructive designs of
the AbolitiOnists-that il is not for the Union of
the States. but for the mad schemes of fanatics 4