Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-05
From the ShelbyviIle Volunteer.

As was expected, the radical Republicans and
Abotiouists have Issued a call for a Union State
Convention, to assemble at Indianapolis on the
18th of June next. Men are asked to abandon
political associations and affiliate with Abolition
lists, the liiel org traducers and reyilers of the
Union and the Constitution.
AS specimen of literary mendacity and can't
ing hypocrisy we annex the call, and ask the peo-
| pie to carefully observe the ambiguous phrase
| oiogy of the same IL will be observed that no
proposition is made to censure the astounding
and unparalleled corruptons practsed upon the
soldier and the people under the present admins
tratiOn. The present UNANIMOUSLY weak and i'm
beetle Congress isnot TO be censured-the treason
able assertion of Ben Wade and his sympathizers
that the Constitution has ceased to be of binding
effect is in fact Endorsed. The movement may
be cloaked, masked and concealed with all the
ingenuity of political wire workers-and slimed
over with expressions of coincidence for the sol
dier and love for the cause in which he is sacri-
fciDg comfort, health and life, and explosives
against loyal men--men who reverence the Con-
stituton and abide by its provisions-whose devO
ton to the Union has never wayered or been
questioned. 1t is immaterial was guise the op
ponents Of the Democracy may assume, the same
shameless corruption and imbecility that now
characterizes nearly every branch of the civil
Government will continue-the same men, or
their exact prototypes, will wiggle themselves
into place on cap-trap issues.
The cant abou. sustaining the Government and
crushing out the rebellion is the merest bosh-
sickning puerility, and only worthy of political
knaves and Government thieves. 1t is the De-
mocracy who have sustained tile Administration
and strengthened the arms OF the Government
! from the first day of the commencement of the
present deplorable war. We have nearly or quite
six hundred thousand men in the field, and the
fact is patent that the rebellion is rapidly sinking
under their vigorous and determined blows 1t
is therefore the duty of those left at home to de-
fend the Constitution, which they have gone
| forth to renstate over a rebelious commu-
nifty, from the reasonable assaults of fanatics at
home.
The people are to be the arbiters of their own
fate. BY permitting their sympathies to be
worked upon and their passions excited by the
appeals OF carping demagogues, they unwittingly
elevated sectional Administrat on to power,
which has proven itself to be both weak and cor
rupt The present Congress is stencil in the
nostrils of every upright citizen, and thieves in
/ fest every branch of the Government, sapping
the very life blood of the Republic under the
plea of "patriotism." The success of this new
tangled "Union" movement will fetch no reform
but perpetuate the evils under which the country
is already grooming. Here is the call:
Over sixty thousand of the citizens of Indiana
having voluntarily taken up arms for the defense
of the Government, and the preservation of the
Constitution and liberties of the people, it is un
becoming those who remain at home to array
themselves in partisan warfare against each other
when the probable consequences must be to pre-
vent the resources of the country from being ap-
piled to the support and maintenance of the army
| to engender strife and discOrd to withhold supplies
from the wary worn soldiers and recruits from the
anks thnned by battle; and may terminate in the
decentralization of the army, and the overthrow Of
constitutional liberty.
Therefore, most earnestly depreciatng all eff
forts to keep on foot party influences, prejudiceS
and discipline, all persons, electors of Indiana
who are in favor of the vigorous prosecution oil
the war for the preservation of the Union and the
maintenance of the Constitution, and opposed to
the disoyal Convention of the Sth of january
last, are, without respect to past political assoca
tions, invited to meet in Mass Convention, at In
dianapolis, on the 18th of June next, for the
purpose of nominating candidates for the Offices
of State, to be voted for at the next general
election
And to the end that Indiana NAV continue to
enjoy the high position with the other States which
she has in the present war hitherto occupied, and
that all the energies of the State may unitedly be
put forth for the effectual suppression of the re
bellion. that the Constitution may be respected
its authority acknowledged, and law and order
once mora established all over the land, it j:
earnestly hoped that all good citizens WILL for the
time, put aside party, and unite for the country.