Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-11

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ceyei with demonstrations Of regard. he COM
menced his speech by saying that it was a lonz
time since he had adire sed popular assemblage.
He had been engaged in duties that prevented
HIN from meeting bis fellow citizens in public a.
sembages he pictured the condition OF the
country. The people bad never before been cali
/ esi Upon 10 consider measures so important
now No man living could tell what month
might bring forth. Revolutions followed each
/ other in r. Did succession He al uded 70 the po-
liticAl organizations and deprecated all such
we're used to advance personal or private inter
ests They were a curse and not blessing.
Two years ago he had left his home to attend
Convention. Then a small dark cloud Wis
be upon the horizon. That cloud had grown
and had burst upon the country and had over
spread the entire land with It's dismal fold The
war in which the country is engaged has con.
tinued for year and half. and IL has been the
most sanguinary the world ever saw. The
I European wars we're bloodess compared with il.
\ The loss Of life was terrible. What was the
cause of the war; This question opened up a
| field for discussion. One man would say that IL
was slavery, another that il was Ab0litlonlsm, but
4 there is a cause far beyond either. In one sense
slavery was the cause, but IN very remote one.
i Their. might be 10 some extent difference in in
tere~t between the slave and the free States. he
contenied that no act had been done TO interfere
in the slightest degree with the interests of the
South and more particularly with its pet lnstitu
ton. No nan could point TO an act OF Congress
or an Executive act that the Shareholder could
! object to. They had the control OF the Govern
ment almost from the time of its organization. in
their own hands They had the Supreme Court
up to the hour of the rebellion. The North did
nothing to incte the war. The South seized the
forts and the Government property, aud several
States declared themselves out of the Union be
\ fore Mr. Lincoln assumed the relns of power
| Fort Sumter was attacked and fell Mr. Smith
dwelt at length on the attack Oh the small gar
rison of Sumter, and the circumstances attending
the attempted provisioning ohits garrison. What
would you have the President do under s,ch cir
/ cumstances? Just what he did dol
This the commencement, but if you want
| 10 find the cause OF the war YOU must 90 back
twenty five years and then il will be seen rs clear
as a sunbeam at MONDAY IL is found in the doc
tFines of Calhoun. lt was plotted long before
any act had been done at the North to impair the
/ institution of slavery, and almost before word
had been spoken Objectionable to that institution
| Now they say that such men as Phillips. Carl
son and Others agtate the question OF domestic
servitude. When was Government ever before
held responsible for the opinions of individuals?
! The Government hadkept aloof-no act was done
! OF which thew could complain. What was the
motive, then, that imFeled them to such treason
IL was the same motive that led Satan to rebel
IN Heaven lust of power. uuhOly ambition.
Mr Smith contendel that the people of the
South were forced by their leaders into rebellion
He did not believe that any one State not even
excepting South Carolini. had a fair vote of the
people been taken, would have left the Union.
The Yanceys. Davses, Benjimins, Slidells and
other ambitious leaders had forced their opinions
by mob power that they artfully created. The
unbiased choice of the people would have been
for the Government of their fathers
He reviewed the events of the war-pictured
the battlefelds. and dwelt eloquently upon the
deeds of the Union soldiers and feelingly spoke
OF the anguish that had visited 80 many hearth
stones in the land. He paid glowing tribute to
Indiana for her exertions in the gre struggle.
Ii was a struggle to test the power or capacity of
people To maintain republican forms of govern
ment. For eighty years the Republic had main
tanned its integrity against foreign and depostc
jealousy aud the shock of foreign wars, and now
the more severe test of internal discussion was
being tried. The experiment of republican
form OF government would succeed. This re
bellion must be crushed, and will be.
There was no danger of foreign Intervention.
England and France-England particularly
| looked with Jealous eyes upon Us, but would not
interfere. She hated our Institutions. and would
give all the aid she could by furnishing arms and
| ammunition TO the rebels. but she would not in
tervene-she dare not. The clouds that threaten
| III. "A
| Intervention, but we have nothing to hope from
her sympathy. She would like to see US crushed.
We were her commercial rival. She wanted to
| see Southern COnfederacy not for the sake Of
otton, for that she could Get elsewhere, but for
the sake of a market for her fabrics 1t was the
market for her manufactured goods she wanted,
and not the material to make them Of
He stated that extensive preparations were
making in Canada to deiraud customs by
were they of being able to evade our laws, that
an insurance Office had been established which
guaranteed the landing of goods for four per cent
Mr. Smith was eloquent in his denunciatiOns OF
the stealthy and underhand dealings of the Brit
ish aristocracy. who hated us because they loved
the old mOnarchies and arstocratic institutions OF
| their own land.
Mr. Smith then spoke of the burthen of taxa
ton that the mighty struggle in which we are en-
| gagged would impose upon the people. What
ought We TO do? What can We dOg Shall We
| submit to oppressive taxes, or Nv to evils We
know not OF The life of the Nation is at stake
When mans life is at stake he will give much
of his means. nay, all. to save it. We are not
asked To give all to save the life of the Nation
and what il called tor will be freely given The
manner of taxation will not make it so burthen-
some, after all. A few cents on the pound oil
coffee. and a trfe OH other luxuries. De com
pared our tax bill with that of the South. and
our draft to the rebel conscription act, making
them both appear mild. compared with the op
pressive edcts OF the Davis Government
He then spoke of the peace party of the North
He had heard great deal OF It. Men cry peace
peace. when there can be no petce. No man
would rejoice more than he would to see signs oil
peace on terms that we could hail. But how art
We to get it! By withdrawing our armies and
leaving our borders open TO the depredations of
our enemiesl That will not bring peace. ID the
Withdrawal of our armies would restore the Gov
ernment and re unite the States he would consent
bu, rather than acknowledge the independence
of the South, he would wage this for twenty
FIVE years or while We could maintlin an army
A separation never A peace on these term
would only be perpetual war. A portion of tho
population OF Maryland. Kentucky and Missouri
are strongly tinctured with seceSsionism. Agita-
ton would commence at once. We could not
hold Washington and loose Maryland We mus
have a war to hold il, and so of Kentucky, and sc
of Missouri.
; will be had. There men in Indiana, IN Ohio
ami in Illinois who would advocate the policy o
going with the South. In Pennsy lvanis there i
J large class who say ii the Southern COnfede
racy is acknowledged they will go South. Thus
We would have perpetual war.
He did not contend that We could or would
hold the Sputh as subjugated provinces as Rom,
did. But could enforce the laws and give alt
to the Union sentiment there which had beer