The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-21
July 18th, 1852.
From the Indianapolis Journal. I
SeUarA Gard

From In6 indianapolis journal.
A Severe Card. = 81
To THE EDITOR OF THE SENTINEL Sir
You are citz3n of the United States. For
more than forty years it has protected you
iI the ruJvyInont of your rights voa h~-e
been permitted to enjoy life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness ucdisturbed-
save, perhaps, by the impertinent investiga-
tions of State Printing accounts, the re-
quired payment of debts, or the meddlesome
rabble, in doubt of your loyalty, swearing
you into the military service of your coun-
try. Equally as Abolitionist, and believer
in the divine right and political supremacy
of slavery, you have been allowed to per-
vert the truth, and befog the minds of those
simple enough to look up to you for light.
To what Government do you owe alIegi-
ance then2
You call yourself Democrat. am little
versed in politics. Will you be SO kind as
to tell me which of these questions you are
fighting for or against now: National
Bank, Sub-Treasury, Protective Tariff. In
ternal Improvements, Assumption of State
Debts Distribution of the Proceeds of the
Public Lands, or allowing the People of a
Territory to fasten on their posterity,
Slavery, Polygamy or any other social
monstrosity
You call yourself Democrat. Democ-
racy, l am informed, means the rule of the
people, determined by majorities A con-
stItutional majority elected Dir. Lincon.-
The Democracy of the South encouraged
by small faction in the North, refused to
submit to the rule of the majority. True
Democrats by thousands broke all party
ties, and gave their hearts and their lives
generously to their country. They or you
have forfeited all right to the name.
Yon eharge your former friends, the abo-
litionists, with being the cause of a rebel
lion for the perpetuity of slavery. A bur
glar entered my house by the window and
plundered it. ! only am guilty of crime
because | put locks and bolts on my doors
Why not state the truth once, that you
helped to canse it by persistenty asserting
for effect in the South, what you knew to
be false of the principles and designs of the
majority in the North-by declaring the
dominant party in favor of the political
and social equality of niggers with white
men, when you never saw a man who was ?
If you love your country, why do you
call its too cautious defense against those
who would destroy it an "abolition WARP"
Why do you harp on It's expenses, and
croak atO1t coming financial ruin When
the Government is in its agony, needing
the heart and the hands and the means of
every man, why is your sole aim to distract
its counsels, to destroy confidence in its Tu-
lers While others connt it their duty and
their glory to make sacrifices, is il your
highest snbiton to make mischief? When
all true patriots have said, " we will be one
while our country is in danger from armed
traitors" who can dissent but traitor
Who will keep up party organizations but
a coward, who dares not share the fate of
his brother traitors in the field
Do you. believe tn existence of the Dem
cratic party is more desirable than that of
the United States? L
Do you believe that the preservation of
slavery is more important-to our interests
and those of the human race than the pres
ervaton of this Government
Would you be willing to make peace
with Jefferson Davis, on his own terms, TO
save the Democratic party and slavery
Then go where you belongl
Mothers, wives, sisters, daughters of In
diana, who have sent your nearest and
dearest to face danger and death, because
you loved your couury-bfave, noble, self |
sacrificing meu-before them Treason ar
rays her armed legiens behind them is
Joseph J. Bingham. Remember him
MARY.