Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-03
Special correspondence Of the Chicago Times.
From Washington

The Position Of the Democratic Members OF the
House-The Great Struggle Initiated-The
Restoration of the Union on One Side-AboE
tiOnism and Emancipation on the Other
WASHINGTON, Feb. 81
As the time has arrived for the Democracy Of
the United States to clearly define their position
in reference the war, its objects and the results
to be fought for it may not be uninteresting to
the readers of the Times TO peruse few lines
relative TO the position of the Democratic men,
bers of the House of Representatives in Con-
gress.
All Democrats in that body, every one of
them, in favor of the prosecution of the war
for the suppression of rebellion and for the resto
ration OF the Constitution and the Union.
They more than any other men have been edu-
Gated to respect obey and defend the integrity of
the one and the preservation of the other. The
Democracy always guarded with sleepless vigil
lance the every line, precept and letter of our
American Magma Charfa, and to day they are,
where they were in all past time, planted upon
the immutable principles of that instrument, and
struggling for its mantanence Our armies were
raised, avowedly, for this purpose, and tor no
other. The war must be prosecuted for this pur-
pose, and no other, unless admit that the troops
we're raised and the war begun under false pre-
lenses.
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in the estimation of Lovejoy, Sumner, Chandler
& Co. by declaring that voting first tor an hon
orable compromise of our difficulties and differ
ence with the South in preference to crying for
"blood letting" and slave instruction as Chand-
ler Wilkinson and other malignant and small
minded Republicans did. For this Democrats
have never been forgiven, but venal and truck
ling press has been constantly employed to Will
/ fly and defame all prominent and active Demo
Il
sionlsts at heart and therefore unworthy of pub
lie confidence and esteem. The objects of such
attacks have been many, but prominent advan-
| tage hoped to be gained by it was to attract at
tention from the patent treason that AbolitiOnism
had preached for years, and the fruits OF which
are now ripened in the practice of war by jeff
Davis & Co. They preached that the Union
could not exist part free and part slave He,
their convert illustrates the experimental religion
of AbOlitionism by rebellion. Lovejoy knows
this to be true; Sumner Wilson, Wade, Greeley,
! Hickman, ct ID omne genus, looking out from the
national Capitol, beholding devastation, ruin and
death upon every hand, must and do hear 1.-The
still. small voice" whisper in their souls, "IheSe
are thy lcOrks"
As the long tried strategy of thieves is to cry
louder than all other men ''stop thief" so these
primal and original disunonists and traitors, look
ing and pointing at the Democracy, now cry out
| TRAITORS. 'ulSunOniStS, ''SeceSSlOnStS. FOR
a while this deceived the mass of the people. but
the day of illusion for the masses has passed.
And these fathers in the church of disunion and
Abolitionism being dragged from their COW
erts and branded they should be.
Yesterday, in this House, a most unwarrantable
and cowardly assault made upon Mr. Vallan-
digham by Hickman, the notorious, of Pennsyl-
vana
1t was too much to endure, and was met as it
should have been promptly and well by the ac-
cused, and not only by him, but by gallant "0Id
Dick of Illinois, who, rushing into the fight.
struck out fearfully and deposited sockdolager
upon the black and soOty phiz of AbOtiOnism
that will not soon be forgotten. The fight has
already begun. Democracy is the army and the
restoration of the Union is the battle-cry upon
one side; emancipation and Aboitionism are upon
the other, and disunion forever is the tocsin of
the ebony cOhort.