Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-20


same time. indorse the ~reunion OF the Union,
and agree to stand up TO the National pledges to
the SOUTH Surprising melancholy as y the
fact. We must ansser, No That platform de-
c.pred:
That tie acts OF Congress, known as the
compromise measures of 1880. were wholly in
adequate 20 ere settlement OF ire questions OF
which they are claiued to be an adjustment.
Nhyl The following resolutions, which sc copy
FROM the platform xglain:
% That slavery ! sin against God. and a
crime against man. which no human enactment Or
usage can make right: and that Christianity. hu-
mainly aud patriotism alike demand ia abolition.
Il This resolution strikes at the National Consti-
tuition.
l. That the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is
repugnant 70 the Constitution. 10 the principles
of the common law. 20 the spirit Of Christianity,
and to the sentiments OF the civilized world We
therefore deny IT, binding force upon the Ameri-
can people. and demand is immediate and total
repeal.
u. That We inscribe on our banner. free soil,
free speech. Tree labor. aud tree men. and under
II will light on and fight ever until a triumphant
victory shall reward our exertions "
Those resolutions violated the faith solemnly
pledged to the South, opened up again the sec
tiona strife supposed TO have been so happily and
endurngly put to rest; announced the rrepressi-
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yet raging; they. indeed. most ueterminedly. il
not soemnly. threw into the territory of the
South the 'bloody spear" and this, too, while
the South WIS faithfully adhering 10 the reunion
of the Union They were the FIRST sound of the
bell that tolled the starting of the funeral pro
ceSsion OF the "ConstituiiOn "a t Is and the Union
as il was" Aud we may just ask in passing.
what the cause of this declaration OF war;
Certainly slavery just a. money j. the cause OF
robbery aud murder, when committed by the
highway man, in order to take money away from
his victim
The above platform. il may be here observed.
expressed the views OF Mr.. Seward. now Mr.. Lin
coins Prime Minister. We assert this on the
authority of his declared opinions and the fact
that his biographer in the Cyclopedia above cited
states that he opposed to The wing platform
on which Gen. Scott stood aud which sanctioned
the "reunion of the Union" by the compromise
plan. IL was in opposition to that plan that Mr..
Seward made the speech in which he declared
that there was "A higher law than the Constitution
10 govern his action Oh the slavery question, and
which speech. Mr. Clay said. lost him, as il ought
TO. the respect OF almost all men. and 20 which
speech Jen Cass at the time replied II think
the Senator from New ork has a very strange
way OF showing his support of the Constitution,
by pronOuncng il immoral. and denying the va.
lidity OF it, obligations. Ii would last scarcely
day, If that Senator, with his avowed principles
OF action, had the direction o. the Government
do not say that il would be dissolved immedi-
ately, but the seeds of dissolution would be sown,
and would ripen into a harvest of misfortune as
speedily as the rankest vegetation gains mlturity
under tropical sun '--l6 Bent Deb al Was
the propecy of Gen Cass true or falsel Mr.
Hamiin also. the Vice President, il may be
here added, voted all the time with Chase and
Seward and the other aboitionists. against the
"reunion the Union, by the compromise plan,
and against living up to it after Il was made.
Thus we find that, of the present administration,
] Hamlin, Chase and Seward are men who, with
Hale. Julian. Sumner aud all that class have
opposed and labored TO break up the peaceful re.
latiOns established in 1850 between the North and
South They found TO be the men, in the
language of MIR. Clay, malignant enough to at
tempt 10 do il.
| And here let rs pause moment, and re state
the exact position of parties. and the questions
between the North and the South We find a
confederation existing. originally formed by
union OF free and slave States. We find the States
adhering together and increasing. each kind
equally. in number. for a half century. We find,
ut length, hostility springing up between them,
growing out OF opposite views on the institution
of slavery, threatening TO rupture the Union
" find that, in 1880, an agreement "A compro
mise sOlemny made, for forever terminating
the hostility, and re establishing the Union in
perpetuity We find that the South gave up her
numerical equality, and power OF self protection
upon the faith of that compromise which pledged
TO her non intervention by the General Govern
ment in the slavery question. We find that at
the first Presidential election which occurred
afterwards, Chase. Hale. Julian, and the other
leading Republicans, organized sectional north
ern party upon "A platform, in direct violation of
the pledges of that compromise. and for the
avowed renewal of hostities and aggression upon
the institutions of the South. Remember, right
here, that the compromise included the principles
that
The South should have right to settle with
their slaves in the common territories
That they should have fugitves returned.
That slavery should not be abolished in the
District of Columbia
That it should not be interlered with in the
States and.
That the northern people should let the South
alone on the subject.
Now, how did this party, organized at Pitts
burg in 1859. upon platform hostile to the ere
union OF the Union" of 1850 progress IL met
again in sectional convention at Philadelphia, in
1856, was in that year presided over by Henry
). Lane. of Indiana. Republican Senator
under Mr.. Lincoln The convention nominated
Fremont, now the favofte of the radical Repub
licans, and general in the army by appointment
of Mr. Lincoln. for Presi ent. and DAYTON. also
from the North. for Vice President, and adopted
a platform, in direct violation of the compromise
OF 1850. in favor of prohibiting the South to sci
tie with their slaves in the common territories.
By this time the little Pttsburg squad had be
come a great Northern host but stlll not quite
equal to success Ex President Fillmore de
nounced this sectional organization in hostility
to the f" reunion OF the Union" in speech at
Albany. IN \ } in July. 1856 After referring
To the great compromise +" which restored peace TO
an a-Itated aud distracted country" and the
subsequent disregard of il. among other things,
he said: But this is not ALL sir We see po-
litcal party presenting candidates for ne Presi-
dency and Vice Presidency. selected Tor the first
time from the free States alone. with the avOwei
purpose Of eleetng these Candidates by the suf-
TRACES of one part of the Union only, to rule over
the whole United States Can IL be possible that
those who are engaged in such measure can
have seriously reflected on the consequences
which must inevitably follow in case of success !
Can they have the madness, or the folly, TO be
eve that our Southern brethren would submit 10
he 90" erned by such a chief magistrate :" Sup
pose that the South, having majority of the
electoral votes, should declare that they would
only have shareholders for President and Vice
President and should elect such by their exclu
sive suifrages TO rule over u NJ the North. d.
YOU think would submit TO il. No, not for q
moment And do YOU believe that your South
err brethern are les sensitive on this subject thar