Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-02-17

that our trade and commerce are paralyzed; that
our revenue has fallen OF over $50 600 600; that
by 1863 our national debt, as estimated BY Mr.
Chase, will be 1897 ,372 SOP; not enough that we
pledge $50 300 600 this wear OF taxation to meet
interest and expenses; not enough that my own
State pays One-tenth Of this; is il not enough that
our currency Is to be vitiated, and bankruptcy 10
overwhelm Us; not enough that our highways are
closed, our flag insulted, our sovereignty derded,
our whole nationality in peril; not enough that
dictator is openly threatened; not enough that it
is declared here that the Constitution shall be
Overslaughed the plea of necessity; that all its
limitations shall be oyerleaped. ruthlessly and
ainIlesslyl Are we not to have added the horrors
Of an endless war Of hate; the hoPeessness of all
reconciliation; the prospect and fact of divided
North; the burdens of taxation only eqnaled by
the monarchies of EurOpeT Heaven Forbid If
God in his mercy would strike down, not only po-
litically but physically. the marplots who
ring on their own Administration and Govern
ment, it would indeed be blessing compared
with this prospect
Wemay differ here about our interior govern
ment; we may have our parties of Administra-
ton and opposition These differences of opin-
ion are privileges of constitutional sanction and
individual conscience Matters may 20 on in
our Government as to which we may have a sad
and painful reticence, and to which may
withhold our denunciatiOn out of regard to the
common veal. Even patriotism may for time
be silent in the eclipses of a mismanaged admin
istratiOn of good Government. The national
feeling may still be paramount, and all may 90
well Thousands of our people now regard With
dampened spirit and sad silence the condition of
our country; and they are almost dismayed by our
terrible present and still unpropitious future; yet
not altogether deSparing, but seeking in the unity
OF the people, vet loyal, the hope Of restoration.
They will be patient in paying taxes, in trusting
to the war and their daughters TO the lab0rs of
beneficence.
But what shall be this sad yet undismayed pat
iOtism if the hopes of the Unionare to be quench-
ed by this persistent and unreasonng fanaticisml
Are not such schemes fraught with the very vital
and permanent principle of mischief? If so, will
not the very essence of national existence be ir-
recoverably lost by their success? We shall lose
our place among the nations. our relative import
ance on the globe, our Ihyscal independence,
weight in the equilibrium of powers,
frontiers, alliances and geography. These make
uD the immortality of nation. They are above
the changes of Administrations and Outlive dy-
nasties lie who remains silent when such in
teress are at stake is treacherOus to his land and
to his God
IL is in this most vital point that these move
ments here in Congress, which are the continue
ton of FremOnt's cOntumaciOus fanaticism, will
do their mischief To succeed In its bad schemes
it undermines the young General i'm command,
derides the movements of the army, creates i'm
patience, distrlst and GOODNESS and will rejoice
in our ruin. On behalf of the tax payer, the
soldier the citizen the patriot, the section rep
resent, and the very physical and moral relations
of our Government, protest against that dan
gerous and horrible malyersation of our Congress
sonal office which would usurp the power of the
States over their own institutions, seek through
the army the further disruption Of the Govern
ment, destroy the last vestiges of our confedera-
ton, and stop its magnificent career among
tiODs