Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-11
Laying Do,vn the Partisan.

Our distinguished and comprehensive Gov
ernor, In hls war speech at Cincinnati last
Wednesday night, remarked, which we copy
from uerbatm report In the Cincinnati CONNER
ciai:
When this war began. and undertook 10 CON-
prehnnd the whole issue, | felt IL was my duty,
aud the duty Of every man, TO lay down the par
tsan on the altar OF his country az u peace had
been restored; and ] can appeal 20 my course
since this war began, in evidence Of my sincerity
and good faith.
Now then for the Governors own evidence Of
bis abnegation of all partisan feelings Right on
the heel of the foregoing this follows:
appointed a Democratic Senator 10 fill a va
cant seat IN Congress, and nearly seventy thou
sand men were received In Indiana for military
service. indiiierently from all parties. think,
therefore, have succeeded In laying down the
partisan. and that am entitled 10 speak freely
aud II what say Is offensive TO any man, be he
Republican, Democrat, Abolitonist or American,
il Is not because he belongs TO this that party.
but because he Is doing things which think he
should not do, under existing circumstances.
The sum and substance of the Governors
anti craftsmanship is the appointment Of man to
the United States Senate upon the condition tina,
he would repudate the party who had heaped
unmeasured aud unmerited honors upon him,
and had received, "ndfIerently from all parties
nearly seventy thousand men in the military ser.
vice of the country. Good heavensl what an 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. Tel
il not in Gath, publish IL not in the streets Of AS
kllon." His Excellencys patriotism. according
TO his own showing, Is a ware Of the cheapest
kind.
The Governor does not, in evidence of his nc
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 oil
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 as His Excelency 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 bear upon him with great power
and tenacIty and while desiring to break loose from
all party restraints, he has not had the mora
courage to break the letters which bound hin
and rise to that standard of patriotism which h,
claims for himself in his Cincinnati speech. TC
illustrate the influences brought to bear upon th'
Governor, we will state that prominen Repub
lican in this State, who processes to be in favo
of the very vigorous prosecution of the war
said if he had been its Chief Magistrate
not solitary Democrat should have had posi-
ton above the ranks in the army. SURROUNDED
by such a pressure, the Governor perhaps de
serves credit for doing as well as he has, but Ger
tainy not enough to entitle him to his self
heraded nopartyism.