Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-27
what Holm van Buren saws.


john VAN BURES said in his recent New York
Speech
We have already, as have stated to you, car
fed on this war at this frishtful loss of human
life and this great destruction of property: we
have come to a state Of things when the widowed
mother calls upon you 10 stop at the first honor
able point; when the wife, whose husband goes
out to battle for the Union and the Constitution;
when the sister, who finds no brother coming
home; when the betr0thed, who parts from Der
future lord and master, dedicates him to the ser
vice of the country; wheR the bride, who sepa-
rates from her groom at the church door to 20
forth to battle-all appeal to you not to stop the
war dishonorably. With firm lips they tell YOU
to 90 forward as long as honor and Justice re-
quire it, but when you come 10 point where
peace can be properly made, then to make it.
And at this time and in this condition of the
country, we are asked to disband the Democratic
party
People who are making none but political ap-
pointments, who are turning Democrats out Of
custom houses and the various Offices i'm the
United States, invite us TO disband the Demo-
cratic organization Why7 Has il not great
and glorious historv2 Has il not added empire
to the Confederacy? Has it not carried success
fully through three foreign warsG Have we not
had jackson, who was the first living man who
ever paid a national debt, and Pierce who was
second that again paid the debt of TIE United
States? Has not the cause of freedom been pro-
NOTED by it, and an independent Treasury estab-
lished by itI 1t would take me hours TO rChearse
to you the glorious career of the Democratic
party-my inheritance-which ! have always
regarded as one of the chiefest portions of
property that belongs to me A voice
1--WE had Van Buren, then, but we have
shinplasiers now" Laughter. And now. at
time when the traditional opponents of the De
mocratic party come forward 70 support it-when
the last Wing candidate for President, General
Scott, declines to oppose the Democratic ticket
when Willard Fillmore, the last Wing President,
supports the Democratic ticket-when the last
Wing Governor, Washington Hunt, takes the
field AID plants himsel: upon Democratic princi-
ples-when distinguished lawyers all over the
State, such as Nixon, of Syracuse; ex-Jutge
COmstock, of the Court of Appeals; and when
Mr. Briggs and VIM Duer of OswegO-leaders
in the Wing party-come forward and say to you,
all that can save the country is the support of
your organization. Where would have been the
country now but for this organizationl Where
would Gen. Mcclellan have been now but for the
Democratic partyl Where would he be 10 NOR
if You disband this organizaton2 ThJse
who know the influences which it exercise, can
answer this question.
We propose to stop stealing for ninety days
laughter and have the money raised by taxa
ton applied to pay the soldiers, to feed and
clothe them. and enable them TO support their
families while they are in the field. Applause
| want that tried for just ninety days, for these
contractors who have stolen all they could lay
their hands could last for over ninety DAYS
while we carried on the with the money. 1t
strikes me there might be prospect of bringing
it to a termination before the Presidents procla-
nation could take effect. TCheers
Ii is our purpose to overthrow this Republican
party, and the political sharks that follow in its
wake to devour what they throw overheard.
Laughter and cheers. We propose, if we can.
TO Illustrate that party, because, in what observa-
ton have been able TO give to the subject, in
looking at all the Governments that have exist
ed-patriarchal, ecclesiastical imperial despotic,
monarchical, aristocratic, simple or mixed--in
much foreign travel, in considerable personal OBJ
servati0n, and after a deal of careful reflection,
il is my deliberate judgment that the most con-
temptible failure in the shape of a Government
is the Government of the Republican party Of
the non-slaveholding States of North America.
lGood" and applause