Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-31


kindred blood, he prostitutes his time in
the base and ignoble pursuit of materials on
which to found systematic and elaborate calum.
nv The slandcr Of States of historic ren0wn,
and uaimpeached devotion to the laws, be rolls
as sweet morsel beneath his tongue. He is
eminently gifted with that qnalky which would
drag angels down. not that he has the power, or
even the desire to soar into their places, but be
grows pale in the envy Of superior excellence,
and delights in the abasement of virtue. Not
satisfied with eliminating States, and denying
their equality, he reviles statesmen of spotess in
tegrity and approved wisdom, and seeks to i'm
pair their usefulness, by casting a blight over
their fame. Nor do the dead escape his fangs
He prevs with accursed ayidity on those great
and good names, whose possession is the nations
truest wealth and brightest glory. He drags
them from their dread abode, and consumes the
mig ght and wastes the day in torturing their vir-
tues into frailties for an indecent exhibition Mil
tiades died within year after the battle Of Mara
thon, of a gaDgrened wound, and in prison
where his ungrateiul countrymen had placed him,
but the seditious citizen Of the United States in
the august assemblage of Senators, declares
Washington pirate, in the practices of his do
mestic life, Madison barbarian, jackson, Clay
and Calhoun robbers and foes to Christian civili-
zation. Ingratitade and injustice to the living is
an evil sufficiently deplorable, but the wilfu
SANDER of the dead is the lowest depth of base
ness to which the mind of bastard can descend.
If the sesiitious citizen visits foreign lands, he
goes not as the generous patriot, whose home
sick heart bounds with proud emotion when he
sees the ample folds of the flag of his country
hoa ing in undiminished splendor. he goes rather
the carping defamer of American institutions,
and wins his way to the ante-ehambers of despot-
ism by pronouncing American freedom failure
He ransacks ancient libraries and burrows among
the curiosites of literature, to find strange ma
terials with which to embellish and adOrn a ma
icious libel against the land that gave him birth.
He digs up the forgotten opinions of men no
wiser than himself. and faunts them in the face
of the world the conclusive evidences of truth.
And to what end is all thisi For what purpose
are all these labors? There is but one answer
To create sectional enmity, to beget animostY,
to degrade the citizens of this government in the
eyes of another section, and thus destroy that
sense Of American equality, which alone can
preserve the Union of the States, are the NOUN
ful and calamitous objects on which the citizen
fastens all the powers of his will, and toward
which he summons all his energies and intellec
tual resources. His chief delight and the most
gratifying consequence of his labors, is to en-
ploy in sanguinary strife, the brethren of one
race, one language, and one worship History
has given over to an infamous immortality, the
names of few citizens of Jerusalem who played
the same part in the hour when danger Of mortal
extremity assailed the CITY of David. When
Titus enyironed the city with the deep squad
rOns and long drawn out legions of Rome,
when the walls we're broken by day, when famine
gaunt and frightful, sent its devouring pangs
amidst the beleaguered hosts within, when the
dead lay piled upon the dead, and the holy rites
of sepulture were abandoned, when fire burst
from the gaping earth, when unearthly sounds
were heard, and unearthly visitations experien-
ced. when the Jew and the Roman stood still and
paused by mutual consent, in their work of
slaughter, to gaze in awful amazement at fiery
squadrons charging each other in the clear vaults
of Heaven above them, when the doom OF the
Jewish nation, and the fulflment of prophesy
were betokened with marvellous certainty, yet, in
the midst ofal this the seditious citizen traversed
the streets, usurped the places of authority, and
inhamed bitter warfare, revolving scenes of car
mage, between tribes of the same covenant, ex-
posed to the same destiny. The historian of
remote periods, when carefully collecting
the materials for the history of the
present age of the American Republic. will
preserve its seditious citizens as a species of
the same God d-defying madness-the same shock
ing specimen of cruel and insane fanaticism
Though dangers environ the Union and encOm-
pass the Constitution on all sides, though the
laws are broken down. and scorned beneath the
foot of the traitor, though brother has lifted his
hand against brother, though society itself, is me
naced with violent disruption, though "the Gus
tom of fell deeds seems prevalent. though edo
mestic fury, and fierce civil strife threaten TO
pervade all the confines Of this hitherto happy
country; yet with a felOn's voice hear him invo-
king more and more the bitterness and sectional
ism which have already produced this startling con-
diton of public affairs. In the name of liberty
France was smtten with curse, and Arnold call
ed upon her name to justify him in his infamy,
but the seditious citizen of the American Govern
ment of the present day, with the same sweet
sound upon his polluted tongue, seeks to inaugu-
rate scenes of deeper horror than those through
which Madame Roland passed to the scaffold;
and TO perpetrate treason in comparison with
which the treason of Arnold would become COM
mon place and insignificant We are told that
the Ancient God Ixion. in seeking the embraces
of Juno embraced a cloud, and from this un-
natural embrace the Centaurs sprang in their
malice and their deformity. We see something
similar in this practical age without seeking it in
the pages of Grecian Mythology The sedtious
American citizen who holds public station, en-
braces corrupt and stormy fanaticism, and
brood Of frightful and depraved theories and re-
voting actions instantly spring up, and
''with wide Ceberian mouths full lOud'
harrass and shock the patriotism of the country.
And against the evil tendencies of the present
hour what have we to opposeG What is our
remedy for principles more pernicious than the
plaguef Where is the patriots house of refuge?
Reason, argument and peaceful remonstrance are
thrown away upon the authors of sedition. We
can appeal to the patriotism OF the country, to
the popular sense of justice, to the law abiding
spirit of the citizen who loves the insttutions of
his fathers. We can hold mp to our countrymen
the sacred Constitution, halowed by the sublime
"reminiscences Of the past and gathering increased
glory and consequence in view of the approach
ing future. We can point them 20 the rents which
the thrusts of sedtious citizens have made in
that holy instrument, and appeal to the lovers of
their country wherever they may be TO revenge
the desecration. We can oppose wise counses
TO the rawlings Of fanaticism, and brotherly love
to sectional strife. We can appeal to the Amer
lean citizen 70 allow the house which bis fathers
built to stand forever--that though divided il
may be in its domestic economy, vet it Is not di
vided unto its fall. We can do all this and we
can hope that our labors will bring forth the
fruits Of peace. But if the evil hour must come,
il patriotism is to be Inundated and treason ex-
alted, if the schemes of the seditous citizen are
to triumph and civil strife and commOtion are 10
cumber this fair land, then may some Brutus
avenge the cause of liberty in the Capitol and
may the authors ofour ruin be the FIRST TO sup full
of its horr0rsl
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