The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-15
The Meeting at Indianapolis.


There has been large meeting recently
hold at Indianapolis, Indiana The OBJ
.ject Of the meeting was to organize against
the radical measures Of the Black Repub.
lican Congress. 1t is reported to have
been the largest meeting ever held in
the State, numbering $4,000, and was adj
dressed by Chas. A. Wickliffe, ofKy., Car
Isle, Of Va, Richardson, of Illinois, and
others. We submit the report OF Car
isles and Richardson's speeches;
SPEECH OF THE RENEGADE CARLISLE.
The notorious renegade, John s. Car.
Isle, then addressed the meeting
He said he had felt no alarm for the
safety Of the country until tho last session
of Congress, when he saw the controlling
party in that body enforcing the radical
measures Of Phillips and Garrison on the
country. Az time when the whole coun-
try is one vast hospital. they from their
places declare the object OF the war shall
be diverted--the people South OF the Po-
tomac exterminated, and the negroes set
free. The policy inaugurated by them
will continue the war forever, and bring
you undera military despotism." Congress
spent nine-tenths of its time in freeing
and elevating negroes and nine-tenths OF
its pi opositions looked to its liberation, if
that is liberation which frees a man from
one master to make him the slave of ell.
Carlisle insisted that Giddings, Phillips
and Greeley, were Representatives Repub-
licans, and read foolish letter of Gid.
dings, in which he proposes that the con-
trabands in South Carolina proceed to re-
organize the State government, and elect
loyal men to Congress.
The subjugation or determination of
/ the South was impossible. A year ago
large Union element was there; now
there wes a solid sentiment of permanent
dissolution; and why? Because Con-
gress, by its legislation, diverts war into
an unholy and gigantic crusade against
the institutions of the South. He declar-
cd the man who said slavery and the Gov
eminent were incompatible virtually pro.
nounced the Government failure. libell-
ed the wisdom of its founders, and was
traitor to it. The Republican party, now
in power, and now waging the war, had
so pronounced through its hostile legis-
lation to the Constitution. If slavery and
the rights of States must go down; it at
the dictation Of these men you surrender
constitutional right, and deny or take
from State the right to hold slaves,
"how soon may you be called upon to
surrender others2 They make negroes
competent witnesses now in the District.
How soon will they demand that it be
done in Indiana? If you again give
| these men your confidence, and return
them to Congress, you will all be made
the slaves of centralized government,
and no one will pity or sympathise with
you. Carlisle said the interests of the
Western States were with the South
There was their grain market" you have
q Northern market, the Same as ever
but your corn is rottening in your grain
aries, and you walk on the ruins of your
prosperity. The wicked of the North
and the South have deprived you Of your
market, and these Northern men wan
to wage war that will forever deprive
you Of it. Freeing the negroes won
make one. Free negroes, exterminat
. the whites, and give the land 10 tn
Yankee Norway rats, and you'll neve
! have market there. Indiana was NOR
| interested than slave.owners themselves
in perpetuating slavery in the South
: To free four million blocks will be t
keep up taxation, increase debt, rui
: property, degrade our children, and max
+ the country second Mexico.
SPEECH OF HON. VIM. A. RICHARDSON.
Hon. w. A. Richardson, Representative
from Illinois, followed IN tho Same strair
;. charging the Republicans as being tho
. oughly abolitionized, and their Congre
. . sional representatives as one.idea nigge
!, men, incapable Of administering the a
= fairs of the government and utterly will
' out craftsmanship. There were no col
=, servatives among them; all were for
- verting the war into abolition, for arm
4 ing slaves, and not only traitors to til
u" Constitution, but towards, and never il
tending to go into the army. If the R
publican party is retained in power Il
30 government is gone forever. Only in col
ar servstive men is there any safety. I
- denounced the Presidents emancipatie
rs scheme as calculated to enslave the viii
10 while freeing the black, and insistil
70 that New England was making all II
or money, holding all the contracts, ar
y, - escaping with fewer soldiers in the feel
II and lighter burdens of taxation than IL
he West. I've are made their hewers
I'D wood and drawers OF water, while tn,
~ run the niger exclusively for money"