Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-05
Laying Down the Partisan.

Our distinguished and comprehensive Gov
ernor, in his war speech at Cincinnati last
Wednesday night. remarked. which we copy
from rerbatsn report in the Cincinnati COmmer-
ciai:
When this war began, and undertook to COM
prehnnd the whole issue, felt il was my duty,
and the duty of every man, to lay down the par
tisan on the altar of his country until peace had
been restored; and | can appeal TO my course
since this war began, in evidence OF my sincerity
and good faith
Now then for the Governors own evidence of
his abnegaton of all partisan feelings. Right on
the heel of the foregoing this follows:
] appointed Democratic Senator to ill
cant seat III Congress, and nearly seventy thou
sand men were received in Indiana for military
service indifferentiy from all parties. | think,
therefore, / have succeeded in laying down the
partisan and that ] am entitled to speak freely,
and if what | say is offensive to any man, be he
Republican, Democrat, Abolitionist or American,
il il not because he belongs to this or that party,
but because he is doing things which | think lie
should not do, under existing circumstances.
The sum and substance of the Governors
anti partisanship is the appointment of man to
the United States Senate upon the condition that
he would repudiate the party who had heaped
unmeasured and unmerited honors upon him.
and had received, "indifferently from all parties"
nearly seventy thousand men in the military ser
vice of the country. Good heavens what act
of grace is the latter To receive Democrats in
the army to fight the battles of the Union is the
Governors comprehensive idea of laying down
the partisan upon the altar of his country. Tell
it not in Gath publish il not in the of As
kalon." His Excelency's patriotism, according
to his own showing, is a ware of the cheapest
kind.
The Governor does not, in evidence of his no
partyism, state that he has appointed Democrats
TO civil positions, even in those cases where they
have been vacated by the incumbent
Democrats entering the military service OF
their country. Nor did he apologize for
the telegraphic dispatches to the Cincinnati
Republican papers, which emanate from his Office
and which day after day revile the best men in
the State for no other reason than they do not
happen to have the same political views as the
Governor, yet would do at least as much for the
country His Excellency if by accident they
had been placed in the same position to do so.
We will give the Governor credit for meaning
well, for energy in the discharge of his official
duties and for the intention of dropping the par
tisan. But the fact is that the party screws have
been brought to beardpon him with great power
and tenacity and while desiring to break loose from
all party restraints, he has not had the moral
courage to break the letters which bound him
and rise to that standard of patriotism which he
claims for himself in his Cincinnati speech. To
illustrate the influences brought to bear upon the
Governor, we will state that prominen Repub-
lican in this State. who processes to be in favor
of the very vigorous prosecution of the war,
said if he had been its Chief Magistrate
not a solitary Democrat should have had posi-
ton above the ranks in the army. Surrounded
by such pressure, the Governor perhaps de-
serves credit for doing well as he has, but GER
tainly not enough to entitle him to his self
heralded no partyism