Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-03-03
WHOLE NO. 1,182.


silent.
An army. however, of six hundred thousand
men now stands banded together under the stern
control of military discipline. In that, suppose,
the object of conservative pledges Is accomplish
ed and the time has arrived for the fulhllment oil
the purposes of this war, according To the views
of Abolitionists. They demand now that all
these pledges shall be broken. They demand
that the faith of the Government shall be dis
honored They demand that the present Ad-
ministration shall be disgraced in the eyes OF all
the world by abandoning its own Deliberate con
struction of the Constitution-its own boldly and
openly marked line of policy. They demand
that the army shall be deceived; that the prom
ises by which il raised shall be proven false;
that the soldier shall now fight and die IN the
prosecution of purposes which were concealed
from him when he enlisted and which ne a0-
hors. They demand that the people shall be
betrayed, and their hard earned money taken to
support this war, conducted on principles which
they utterly repudiate. And, above all, they de-
mand that the Constitution be ruthlessly viola
ted; that the laws be stricken down and that the
old Union, such as our fathers made 1t, shall
never be restored. Had they avOwed their pur-
poses at the opening of this war, and appealed to
the country TO support the atrocious doctrines
which they now avow; had they made their de-
mands then, no proud army would now line a
thousand miles of border; but. rather. as my col
league Mr. Dunn has well and truthfully said
this floor, our army would have been com
posed of a small and deuded band, such as fol-
lowed John Brown to Harper's Ferry. Let these
demands be granted now, and the appalling fact
will stand confessed that stupendOus fraud has
been practiced the nation, and that the army OF
the United States has been obtained by FALSE PRE-
TENsEs. Let these demands be granted now. and
no American Uuon will ever more bless the eyes
of men. No more
'wil bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
Or the stricken eagle SOAR
Mr.. Chairman, represent, in part, the people
of great State. Indiana may point proudly to
her escutcheOn. 1t is gemmed all over with
honor. She did not want this She for
compromise and peace, and is now, when they
can be obtained, as they once could, with honor
and upon the principles of the Constitution. But
once cast into the conflict, though by no act Of
hers, she has welded her name to victory
every battle field where her troops have drawn
the sword. Go and ask her sixty thousand sol
diers now in the field, encircled as they with
halo of gallant achievements, whether these de-
mands shall be granted, and listen to their an
swer. That answer will be, that they are fighting
to restore Union of equal and hOnOred mem
bers," that they have encountered the perils of
to restore the Constitution exactly as il came
from the hands of Washington, and to enforce
all the laws, TO uphold all the Institutions to pro
tect and defend all the rights of every person and
State under that Constitution, and that if such
is no longer the policy of the Government, they
will turn their faces hOmeward, deceived and be
trayed. Go and ask the tax payers and the voters
of that noble State for what they toll and pour
out their money. They will answer that they live
on the tributaries of the great thOrOughfare of
their trade and commerce, the Mississippi river;
that their fortunes forever linked by nature
and the great laws of geographical formation
with the States which are washed by its descend
ing waters; and that by virtue of and in strict
accordance with the Constitution they intend to
secure free passage to the Gulf of Mexico: and
that they will everywhere uphold the rights of
Others well their own; that they labor TO
maintain and preserve the laws, and not 10 tranl
pie them under foot, and that they seek a recon
struction of the Union ON precisely the same
basis on which it was made by the founders of
the Government They want no four millions Of
slaves set free. They have no money with which
to purchase territories for vast schemes of colo
nzation. They are opposed to gigantic standing
armies with which to hold, from year to year.
and through all time to come, degraded States
in subjectiOn. In this hour of triumph, the true
friends of the Union everywhere demand that
policy for the reconstruction of the Government
be proclaimed from here which shall insure for
the future a Union of "equal and honored men,
bers." Let our kindred and countrymen" of
animate our councils, and that the spirit Of ven
geance, intolerance, and spoiaton has no place
in cur midst. In this day of victory let the her
aids of the Government 90 before our armies,
and proclaim peace and Union, on the basis of
equality, on the basis of the Constitution and on
the basis of the laws. Let them announce that
the pledges of the Government so freely given in
the early part of this struggle will not be broken
at the mad behests of Abolitionism; but that the
condition of every human being in the South
shall remain unchanged. whether the revolution
shall succeed or fail
Sir, to NV mind it is an omen of evil that the
spirit of AbolitiOnsm, like lurking fend of mis-
chief, MephistOpheles of iniquity, should boldly
stalk in here, and in such crisis as this, assume
to control American legislation. Its croaking
raven-cry is b2leful sound TO the cause of the
Union. Its arrogant and defiant demands fill
the future with gloom. 1t no longer comes in
here the skulking and despised miscreant that il
once was, but with the elevated mien and swag-
gerng port of a cODqueror, it strides forward
over the mangled form of constitutional govern
ment. 1t no longer hides and covers, and denies
its name and its nature and assumes false shapes.
like Satan in the garden of Paradise, with which
to beguile and deceive, it did few short years
ago. The yelled prophet CT Khorassan has
vealed himself, and his hdeouS face is al
most enough to alright union and concord from
the land.
Why comes this fell spirit here now accom-
panied by its train of horrors? lt has no merit
in the past entitle it TO control the present and
shape the future 1t cannot point to good act
that it has ever accomplished The cause of Alb
oltOnism is barren of benefcent results. No
State, no territory has il dedicated to free
dom, and no slave has it ever set free except IN
violation of law. 1t has never had the sanction
of the great and good names which. like stars in
the clear upper sky, adOrn and illuminate our
history. On the contrary, il has been the object
of their incessant maledictions from the hour of
its birth Its presence in the Halls of Congress
was their adherence, and they prognOsticated
''evil and evil only, and that continually" from
its influence in public affairs.
Why comes it here nowI 1t never was friend
to the Union, and it is not to-day. 1t never
wanted Union with slaye States, or fellow
ship with shareholders, and does not now. 1t is
at war with the Constitution; it is an enemy TO
the Government; it is the twin monster to the
doctrine of Secession; and like the withered and
hateful hags on the blasted heath of Scotland,
the two together cOncocted the hell broth of the
present civil war. Let the spirit of the Union,
born of the Constitution, rise up between them,
like bright angel and Danish them both for
ever. Then will the nation renew its mighty
youth, and 90 on again in its swift fight of pros
perity and renown. Then will kindred and
countrymen" once more assemble under the same
flag, and, obeying the command of the Prince of
Peace, Glove one another"
Secretary Stantons order.
The following order has been issued by the
Secretary of War in reference to the publication
of army intelligence:
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