Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-20

sion that their public acts have turned the people
against them, during the first year of their power
Already the popular sdenand has driven one
member of the Cabinet from his place But how
reluctantly do the leaders yield, and not until the
Government is topping on the verge of ruin
nor even then. without honoring the offending
Minister with foreign appointment of high grade.
The writer Of the article talks freely Of trea-
son and traitors in the North. and of their iniu-
ence inencouraging the enrebelliOn- That
is-well. Traito-s should be denounced; but We
must be sure we hit the guilty men, The peo-
Pile regard the piunderers of the public treas
ury as the most dangerous foes 10 the country-in
the sentiment of Senator HALF, their campaign
has been successful and ruinous, and men that
encourage mobs now, had better look well to IT,
that they do not belong to that odious class
Public indignation is but smothered, and when it
bursts forth it may overwhelm them. The
eyes Of a patriotic and plundered people are upon
them.
The writer says that in the Convention, Mr..
HEsDRIcKs charged that the war was brought
about by the Republicans, and that it is unneces-
sary and wicked" He does not dare TO quote
Mr.. .HKsDRIOKs's language. which would have
proven him falsifer The language Of the
speech speaks for itself. Upon the subject Of the
war it is as follows: 49,,
"a civil war is upon u.s. For its existence the
Democratic party is not responsible. For many
years we have admonshed those who favored a
sectional party of its danger-in the sentiments
of Washington's farewell address, that the great
est danger TO be apprehended to our country was
the formation. Of geographical parties-we have
advocated "those doctrines which we believed
fair and equal to both sections; and which could
have been adopted Without wounding the pride,
or stimulating the arrogance of either" Our APP
peals were dsregarded. Sectional pride, preiu-
dice, and hatred in one section. produced the
same sentiments in. the other; and Of this sec
tional strife was begotten our present troubles.
This war is upon us-"wickedly provoked on the
one side, and in folly and sin, aud without suffi-
Gent cause, commenced ON the other" With
secession upon the one hand, and sectional inter-
ference with Southern rights upon the other, we
bold no sympathy. Our most earnest desire is
for the restoration of the Union, upon the basis
OF the Constitution, and, for myself, / will give
an honest support to all constitutional and proper
measures, adopted by the Administration to that
end; and will as earnestly oppose all acts in
violation of the Constitution. and i'm suppression
of liberty, because. of my generation for that
solemn compact Of our fathers, and because such
policy renders the UniJn impossible, by oblitera-
ting the Union sentiment of the South, and Civ
ing aid and comfort to its enemies. 80
The writer goes on to say that, "if the speeches
and resolutions Of this Convention are true, then
our Government is entirely in the wrong, and the
rebels entirely in the right"
What resolution, or sentiment in any speech
justifes this assertion? The tenth resolution is
as follows:
10. That we will sustain, with all our energies,
war for the maintenance of the Constitution and
of the integrity of the Union under the Coastitu-
ton; but we are opposed to a war for the emanci
patton of the negroes or the subjugation of the
Southern States. a
If the war is to be waged "for the emancipa-
ton Of the negroes, or the subjugation of the
Southern States" as the Aboltionists demand
then the resolutions do not sustain it. but, ON the
other hand, "for the maintenance of the Consti-
tuition, and of the integrity of the Union. under
the Constitution the Convention pledges all the
energies" of the Democracy of Indiana to its
support. Who is the writer, that undertakes to
speak for the Republicans of Indiana, in saying
that this resolution places the Government in the
wrong and the rebels in the right? -.
preserved Constitution and an unbroken
Union is the object which Democrats conserva-
tive Republicans, and all Union loving men de
sire, and for that object the resolution pledges all
the energies of the party But tho writer saye
the resolution places the Government in the
wrong--then it is because he would not have the
war prosecuted to maintan the Constitution. and
restore the Union, but for the purpose of freeing
the negroes, to which the Abolitionists seek to
peryert it. BY what authority is it that he un-
dertakes to say that the war is prosecuted, not
for the Union and the Constitution, but to accom-
plish the dangerous and destructive designs of
the Abolitionsts-that it is not for the Union of
the States but for the mad schemes of fanatics,
that the people are putting forth their energies.
and receiving burthens which they and their chill
dren must continue to bear? Whoever enunc-
ates such startling propositions must be prepared
to show his authority. -. j -
In closing we feel it proper to admonish the
people that every effort viii be made to deceive
them in relation to the position Of the Demo-
cratic party--ambitious men feel that the current
of popular opinion is turning against them--that
they are going down before the "second sober
thought of the people'-and they will become
desperate and reckless in their efforts to hold on
TO the power of position and to the public spoils
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