Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-09


Joshua DYE. T. Malone
Z WFILs-B. NJ Eikin~. Joseph Meredith.
! NHiTE--jona Hari,ott X Timous
NHirIfY--A j Douglas, III. ID. Wilson. 4.
". Myers. z " Brown
i Hon. John O. Davis, in the absence of the
Committee on Resolutions. was called upon to
address the Convention he said he felt honored
by being thus invited by his fellow citizens. bat
If he was unequal to the task Of doing justice TO
the subject. perhaps the inability might arise be
cause of his recent visit to Richmond. Va. by
way of HopknsviIle. Ky. Laughter Ii he
had known beforehand that he about to take
that trip. he would have been happy to have been
bearer of dispatches from Democrats OF the
North to their friends in the South. Cheers and
laughter II he had made that trip. he proba
biz would have it in his power to state that his
old personal friend, JEFF Davis was in good health
and sent his kind regards to his many friends in
Indiana, whose names perhaps il would not be
prudent to mention. for he did not want them
hung. The worthy President of the Convention
might be one. and could not spare valuable
a spoke from the wheel of Democracy
He (Mr. Dayie) had been abused by the press
his life threatened by the black abolition party.
He dehed them. There we're .uf two parties IN
the county. the Conservatives and the Abolition
lists. The battle being waged between
the friends OF the Constitution and the Union ON
the one side and the Aboiitionists on the other
Threats could not intimidate him tie intended
10 speak his sentiments. They might burn his
property, might take him to the block-he would
ascend the scaffold with firm step--but IN de
fiance of them all he would express his opinions
on matters relative 10 the good of the country.
He was charged with being secessionist, because,
iorsooth, he was not an AboIitiOnist. The stan
dard bv which the Republicans judged a man was
this: III YOU were friend Of Old Abe and his Ad
ministraiion you we're good Union man. but If
YOU sought to maintain the Constitution and the
Union YOU were a secessionst. The Southern
men were much to blame IN this controversy.
They had done many things which had tended 10
bring upon the country this dire calamity. But
the blame did not all rest with them The ground
taken BY the Abolition party of the North the
corner of all difficulties. If they had
let this slavery question alone the sun would to-
day have risen a tree. prosperous and united
people. This party, last winter IN Congress,
could have settled our difficulties If they had been
disposed They weighed the Chicago platform
and the Union one against the other, and conclu-
ded to take the Chicago platform and let the
Union slide,
Every of the peace propositions coming
from tue South was voted down by sohd Re
publican vote in both branches ia Congress. In
view of the dangers which stared Us then in the
face, with civil war IN prospect, these Republi-
cans came MP and voted solidv against comprO-
mise against concession. against agreement with
brothers. Dissolution OF the Union the con
sequence and all the dire calamities OF dissolution
are now upon US
He had said in some of his speeches during the
summer that this would cost $500 600 900
per annum. For that he had been branded rs
demagogue. He now believed il would cost
more than 81 900 900 900 per annum Who
pays the Government this money! Ii comes
out of the hard earnings of the tax payers. The
interest alone on this sum would. AT 10 per cent,
be SIO.0OO,000 per annum After exhausting
all the other resources of the Government there
would remain of this immense sum 81 900 ,0OJ,
0G0,) $40 900 900 TO be raised by direct taxa
ton. Indi;nas share of this would be some
81 600 900, to be raised, he repeated. by direct
taxation. How is it TO be paid, looking at the
depreciation of propertyI-ot the value of horses.
corn, wheat lands. Does not this thing. with this
enormous depreciation of property look like com
ing down with a crushing weight upon Us?
He had predicted war with England when our
troubles began For this he had been denounced
as demagogue. Ii it had not been for the cow
ardice of those controlling the Government We
would now be involved in war with England.
The capture of Mason and Sdell had been in
dorsed by the Republicans everywhere. Yet in
indorsng Commander Wilkes, when the Bri
fish lion roared this miserable croucbing, corrupt
Administration quailed--backed down.
He no advocate OF the recognition of the
Southern Con!ederacy, but the surrender of Ma
son and Sdell was more humulia9ng than would
be such recognition. These ASolitonists are
brave at a distance: brave about hanging honest
men and mobbing printing presses; but when the
British lion roared they crouched
What did these AbOlItiOnlStS recommend.
What did Camerons report, before modified by
the President, recommend? The arming of the
slaves for the slau.hte of their masters. And
, vet this man retained by Lincoln in his Cabi-
net OH for one hour of General dickson At
Washington. Tremendous applause Wouldn't
there be rattIiug OF ~. TONES among the pick
and steaers and pludesers of the people there
. congregational
Not one-half of the money poured into the
;. public txeasury by the people goes 10 defray the
expenses of the war. 1t is stolen by the cormo
rants at Washington. Would Jackson have toll
!, Grated these thieves! Would Jackson for one
I hour permit a man TO remain a member of his
N Cabinet who had recommended the rising of the
f slave TO cut his masters throat John Coch
s. rane, who holds n commission under the Secre
tary of War, had avowed like atrocious senti
w. ments. Neither he nor Cameron nor any Other
Z malignant abotionist was removed bv the PreSi
dent; and all these things proved con,lusivelN
7 that the ultimate intention of the Republican
party the liberation ofsthe slaves of thu
h South. He predicted the success Of the Democ
racy if the right kind of platform was adopted
He would vote for no platform endorsing this Ad
! ministration. He would vote for no platf5gr
A. which would pledge the people to an ypcondi
tiondi prosecution of this He never intend
cd to endorse anything which came ont of tina
, miserable Nazareth, this Republican Administra
ton. You might talk to him about the honest,
of Abe Lincoln--about his conservatism on tn
, slavery question. He was as corrupt as thos
- who surround him, and. unfortunately the small
= est toad in the puddle He was, although at tn
time he might be polite, corrupt Simon
u Cameron, who oughtto have been hung when h
;, was a little boy They might talk about hang
ing him Davis for expressing these sentim, Slt'
but let them first 20 and hang the editors of lhei
= own papers who had said the thing.
he would lay down his life for the restoration
of peace and prosperity to the country. He wouI,
u lay il down on this spot. But lie did not beiev
the Union could be preserved by coerciou--b
force. lie was for preserving the Union by prop
ositons of peace. Hesstood in this regard o.
b. Andrew Iackson's eut,nd But they said Their
: was nobody to compromise South. Lincoln ha
}; said majority of the people there Uuio
pa men. Ii the Crittenden Compromise hid bee
aslopted these would TO-DAY have been no sue