Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-04

va. Que Of The most ~intry days Of Tie -e,sou
A second Letter Addressed to the 10y a q
citizens OF indiana.
IsDIAxAroLls, March ,, 1862.

lsDfANAPoLls, March =, le62.
We beg to address YOU second letter. setting
before the lovers of my country and their country
facts. without a complete knowledge of which II
Is really an imPossbiity tor them To be true and
skilled guardians or governors for their various
inheriianceS beueathed TO them by General
Washington and their own brave and persev ering
fataers
Gentlemen, these letters are not only addressed
T. the loyal citizens OF the State of Indiana but
~ this class OF citizens Of the United States
Now. fellow country men. unless you do awake
from your iethargs. shake on all idleness AMI
Danish all intemperance. N short, purify your
selves ready a holy. bloodless fight. assume
the rens OF Government entirely IN your own
iron clutches hurting all cowardly. vile. miser-
able Inconsistent traitors from their seats. bid
them defiance with the scepter of truth, for you
wnl then have, As in-former days. freeiom OF
speech aud freedom Of the press liberty, and
Union. Otherwise the once proud though now
troubled country of Washington and yours will
be no more, it will have become bankrupt and
sold 20 pay the costs Will its property be made
slave by lOrdly rulersl Gentlemen YOU have not
forgotten that | stated al nay other letter that
cruel and unconstitutional war was now waging
between part of my Northern countrymen and a
part of my Southern friends The Northern
men have. by an unwise and improper agitation
of the institution of slavery. that dreaded curse
of all countries into which il h been introduced,
aud by seeking the removal of it unconstitution
ally declared themselves public enemies to all
law and order. causing the sltvehOlding States
TO disregard their country's rules; also proclaim
ing themselves al independent people, and to de-
fend their lawful property they have appealed to
arms against those who were formerly their
friends and associates.
As all genuine statesmen have already per
ceIved the greater number of diSiOyalists of the
North have long since become acquainted with
their folly; enrolling themselves in self righteous
ness, they are undertaking TO amend that which
they have undone For this they do not deserve
any credit whatever. After being instrumental
in rendng asunder the Union, destroying the au
thority of the Constitution. and degrading all
law. they have at last determined to stick the
broken fragments OF the Union together again.
if they sill stick and heal their bleeding nation,
if it can be healed Ny God, What, such men
as these deserve praise? No sir. Gentlemen,
they deserve punishment from the fair climes OF
America. E
Youask, Who are the loyal men? Have they
any interest in this present war? None only
their country's interest. How could they rescue
their bleeding country from the unruly hands of
traitors if they did not take partl They could
do nothing most assuredly otherwise.
All Washington men labor only to set their
country free from the hands of traitors and to
restore the Union.
Let those persons believing slavery to be a
moral and political evil. who have resolved to do
all they can to put this institution out of exist
ence, perform their labor constitutonally and re-
ligiously. Then there will be no room for com
plant
believe that we will have peace and order re
stored again in the course of month or two If
we do not relax our energies. Some people seem
to think that to insure peace must actually sub
due the South. What simple. singular idea! Sub
due your neighbor in order TO have union in
friendship with him. Gentlemen. it would have
been one hundred fold TO our advantage im every
way had We never allowed this ungrateful war to
have been Why diG you submit to those men,
as you have ANONYMOUSLY done? We can have
no peace nor no Union, whilst one neighbor
stands with drawn sword over another neigh
bOr's head.
Gentlemen release all prisoners on both sides.
unless there some traitorous ones among
them, who have been the main cause of this war,
for they are your brethren Let the warriors re-
turn home. Establish the Union again. Let US
have peace once more and forever.
Yours, JONI HoRNADAY.