Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-26

proved impracticab'e under the plastic hands Of
the military authorities within her borders The
political incubus that rests upon the county will
not IN all probability be removed until the Tex
Presidential election. when We may hope IL will
be consigned 10 political grave upon which no
resurrection morn shall ever dawn
What ~ the meantime i 10 be the fate Of our
unhappy country
do not believe any people ever chung with
more tenacity To- their Government than the peo-
pie of the loyal State. and in no part OF our
population has this death lying sentiment been
more manifest than in the great body of the
Democratic party in those States. The attitude
Of that party throughout this contest has pre-
scented one OF the mos, sublime spectacles this
world ever saw or the pen Of the historian has
ever recorded.
Dissenting from every measure of civil policy
that has been inauguratesl or adopted BY the pres
ent Administration. thew have stood firmly by the
Constitution and the Union. and so far as men
and money have been required 10 save the Gov.
eminent from overthrow. they have contributed
literally and bled freely. Excluded from anT
voice in the counses of the Government they
have done no more than warn the people of the
evil tendencies of those measures which they had
power to defeat: and under the most CALLING
denunciations, hurled against them by malig-
nant and INSCRIPTIONS party-their loyalty i'm
peached their motives misrepresented and the
leading men slandered-still, ia the face of this
storm of invective. they have been unmov ed
their steps keeping time to the music of the
Union"
Before hostilites commenced, the Democratic
party bent all is energies 10 avert them. When
the blow fell, il ranged itself on the side of the
Government, and strove to bring about restora-
ton of the broken Union. not by war alone, but
by every means, civil and military. that would
conduce 10 that end. Impressed with the belief
that the Union of our fathers could only be re-
stored through the agency of a "Urion party in
the Southern States" il has insisted on so con-
Quoting the war that the hands of the Union men
in that section should be strengthened. In the
Crttenden resolutions il recognized the true
policy. For one, | believe il the principles of
these resolutions had been made the rule of nc
ton in conducting the war; ii they had been EN-
braced in Presidential proclamations and incor-
porated into military orders. aud enforced in all
military departments, the victories of Mill
Springs and Fort Donelson would not have been
barren of results, but in less than NINETY DAYS
from the fall OF Fort Doneison the Southern
army would have wasted away.
The men of the South who had been induced
TO take up arms for tie defense of their rights
would have thrown them away when they found
that there would be no invasion of those rights;
and the rebel leaders would have been left alone
To fall into our hands, or compelled to fee the
country To escape the just punishment of their
crimes. But the short lived hope OF which this
resolution was the promise. faded AWAY before
the ultra Abolition measures of the last session
of Congress. and the faint effort of the President
to stand by conservative measures gave but IA
momentary check to the onward sweep OF that
Abolition torrent, which has opened wide and
deep, the gull between the two sections. until all
hope of restoration of the government under
the auspices OF the Republican party has van
ished. and il now remains To be seen whether
there Is vitality enough in the government to out
live that party ii there Is there is hope and it is
this hope that anmates the Democratic party.
The recent elections will 90 far to
keep alive the latent fire that shoulders
in the bosoms OF the Union men of the
South. and as the ball rolls on their strength and
numbers will increase They will recruit from
the ranks of those who are tired of this unnatu
raj war, and who would be glad to lay down their
arms il any reasonable pretext was offered or
promise held out, and in time restore the broken
bond. But such restoration can only take
place over the common grave of those "twin
heresies, Northern sectonalism and Southern
secession"
La the meantime let us illustrate our devotion
to the Constitution and the Union by a course OF
conduct that shall stop the mouth of the Sian
derer. Let us show that We are for the country
the whole country-and while we stand by AID
support the Government in the future as in the
past. let Us insist that all proper means
shall be employed, civil and military in
the Cabinet and in the field. in just measures
of adustmen, as well rs by the strong arm of
power TO hasten the day when the constitutional
authority OF the Government shall be recognized
and obeyed throughout the land. Let our motto
be mo for the subjuqasion of STATES or the
emancipation of slares. No peace,fhae looks 10 a
a dismembermenf Of the Republic This broad
land was made for one people and one Govern
ment, and when the madness which has ruled the
hour shall have passed away, they will come
together again. Therefore. let all tie ends We
aim at he our country s-our God's-and truth !"
aud then let the result he what it will. we shall
have the proud consciousness of having per-
formed our duty we'll
After the close of Mr. McDoNALp's address
the Hon. SAMUEL II. BusKRK. who was present,
was called out, and he responded in a few able
and patriotic remarks upon the present condition
of public affairs and the duty of the Democracy
in the present crisis of the country.
The association adopted a resolution request
ing Hon. THOMAS A. HENDRIcKs to deliver an
address at lis regular meeting OH Tuesday night
next. TO which time the association then ad
journed.