The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-08-29
"HOn. Geo. w. Julian"


gentleman, our opposition has been styled
a mere personal o1e-growing out of his
refusal to assist Us to office. This allegation
is entirely false and without foundation.-
We have never been on such intimate terms
with him as to ask or expect a favor at his
hands. This much we deem it proper to
say, in this connection, in reference to our
self personally; because, neither asking or
expecting any thing on this score, We have
no cause for disappointment. and. therefore,
no spite-work or factious, petty malice to
give ventto. Our opposition, feeble though
it may be considered by the friends of this
"hon.' gentleman. has been dictated by q
sense OF his total unftness, because of his
ultra radicalism, and one -idesism, on the
subject of enancipating the slaves IN the
States where that institution exists, through
the Intervention. aud by act Of Congress-
In his speeches made 10 1860, be disclaimed
all intention to interfere in this way with the
subject, and so anxious was he to convince
his constituents that he had not nor would
not thus interfere, that he offered one thou
sand dollars to any one who would convict
him Of holding precisely the same sentiments
he nO,o advocates in his ''cause and cure"
speech. delivered during the last session Of
Congress. So far as the pouer Of Congress,
under the Constitution. to legislate on the
subject is concerned. if the rebellion was
crushed out to morrow, and peace declared,
the same barrier to legislatng by Congress
on the municipal institutions of the States,
would be found in that instrument Moth
ing has occurred to weaken the binding
force Of the oath each member of Congress
takes "to support the Constitution" and
the puerie plea the "hon." NJ. c. m ade in
his ''cause and cure" effort, that, because
President Lincoln had violated the Consti
tuition in calling out seventy five thousand
men. therefore, Congress could also violate
the Constitution and the members their
oaths, with the same IMMUNITY. is one of the
strongest reasons that we could urge Of his
unsa:eness and unf'ness. to represent the
law-abiding people of the Fifth Congress
sional District any longer. He totally mis-
them when he breaches this sort
of damnable heresy.
The 'bon.' M. c. in his card, issued on
the eve Of his leaving Washington City for
home, refers to his speeches delivered in
Congress. clearly defining his positions;
and, hence, we refer to that index with far
more certainty than the Irishman did to the
Of the flea, that impartial his |
tory declares-"when lie put his finger on
him. he wasn't therel" Suppose the "sweep-
ing policy" advocated by this NJ. c. had
been adopted. and law had been enacted, |
unconstitutional as the gentleman himself
it to be, in the speech referred !
to above striking the shackles from every !
slave in the land--declaring this to be the
sole object Of the war, would we not
have placed ourselves in the same category
with the rebels, as oath breakers and Con- I
'tituton violators? Could we say to them,
IS we now can do, proudly and conscien-
iously, that we were battling to ''defend
md maintain the supremacy of the Consti-
ution, and to preserve the Union as estab-
ished by our patriot fathers. with all the
lightly, equality and rights of the several
States unimpaired?"
Had the course advocated by the NJ. C.
rom this District, been adopted. where
would have been the Border Slave States
o. day. In what condition would Kentucky,
and Maryland have beenl In
tead Of these States being saved to the
Union, and furnishing their quota Of men,
o help put down the rebellion, they would
lave been found arrayed in solid phalanx
against the Government. Instead Of about
so, 900 Union soldiers from Kentucky alone,
low fighting Cor ''ths Constitution-the
Union. and the enforcement Of the laws"
his number Of the gallant "hunters Of Ken
ucky," with all the able bodied men in that
State, would have precipitated themselves on
he free soil of Indiana, and the battle-felds
would have been right in our midst, and,
Instead OF witnessing the comparative pros
'erity and happiness now surroun ding US,
very where would scenes of devastation
nd ruin meet the eye. This is no over
rawn picture-it is reality; but our wise
nd noble President. under the guidance of
n Omnipotent hand. avoided the rock on
'hich our prosperity would have been
,recked--av oided the breakers on which
be glorious old Hoosier State would have
cen dashed, had the counsels of such men
5 ''hon. Geo. w. Julian" prevailed
hank God the denunciations from the
ps OF such man, that President Lincoln,
y pursuing straig ht-forward, conciliatory
curse. ",ras gieing all the aid IN has porer
TIE rebellion" that what had been done,
, keep the Border States from uniting with
lie Cotton States. was "a practical esponsaii
f'tte cause Of the rebellion BY the 4dmin-i
'tr0tion,'' fell harmless at the Presidents
'et. They are only remembered. to show