Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-28
Persistent rIisrepresentatlons.

The Republican papers are persistently and
w%ilfully misrepresenting the position of leading
Democrats. The Terre Haute Express for seve-
raj weeks past has repeated the following in ref
erence to Mr.. VOORHEES,, which we copy from
that paper:
Hon. d W. Voorhees,. alias the young chief
said in his first speech in Congress that. whether
the revolution should succeed or fail, the condi-
ton of every human being in the South should
remain unchanged. He meant, by this, that,
when the question came up as to which should
perish, the Union or slavery, he was for letting
the Union go. and holding fast to slavery"
The Goshen Times, another radical Republican
sheet, repeats the charge OF the Express, and ut
tiers its condemnation of Mr.. VOORHEES, in the
following words. WIKI h we copy just as it appears
in that print:
There can be. says the lamented Douglas,
but two classes during this war. PATRIOTS
and TRAITORS-thOse who sustain and those
who oppose ito which class do the men he.
long who say that the condition Of erery human
being in the South shall remaia unchanged though
the Union fall. though the Mutton perish"
The Republicans of all grades will not deny
that the Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD is now. as he
has been since its organization. the leader of the
Republican party. He is now the premier of the
Republican Administration OF course no Re-
publican will doubt his orthodoxy. The Terre
Haute Express says that the man who utters the
sentiment ''that whether the revolution should
succeed or fail, the condition of every human
being in the South should remain unchanged" is
''for letting the Union go and holding fast to
] cla - apd the Ts.noe ploip1v spdio.ta, fb.f ba
who avows such a sentiment is a "traitor."
Now for the facts in the case. The idea and
language quoted did not com from Mr.. VooR-
HE'S, but from Mr.. Secretary SEWARD. If the
extract referred to means that the author would
rather see the Union perish than slavery, then the
great leader of the Republican party occupies
that position. That we may set this matter
right. and show up either the ignorance, or the
wilful Misrepresentation of the Republican press
in regard to Mr.. TooRHEEs, We copy the fol-
lowing extract from the first speech of the latter
in which the Objectionable sentiment occurs:
On the 22d day of April. 1861, Mr.. Seward,
writing to Mr.. Dayton, our minister at the court
of the Emperor Napoleon. and treating of the
subject OF the present rebellion, said:
Il uCCl nOL It'll CitDOFdlC buC DIODOclblOll
that the revolution is without cause; it has not
even a pretext.
at is just as clear that it is without an object.
Moral and physical causes have determined in
hexibly the character of each of the territories
over which the dispute has arisen, and both par
ties after the election tremendously agreed Oh all
the Federal laws required for their organization.
The Territories will remain in all respects the
same, whether the revolution succeed or shall
NAl TlA ~ - 1.-2- , I'll -.
States will remain Just the same whether it sue
coed or fail. There is not even a pretcxt for the
complaint that the disaffected States are to be
conquered by the United States If the revolution
fail; for the rights OF the States and the condition
Of eUery human being in them riH renain sHbyect
to eractly the same lgts and forms Of admin
~iStrdtion trhether the rer0Luti0R shall succeed or
fail. In the one case the States woald be fede-
rally connected with the new Conlederacy; in
the other, they would, as now, he members OF
the United States; bat their constitutions and
laws, customs, habits. and institutions in either
case will remain the same.
at is hardly necessary to add TO this incontesti
BILE statement the further fact that the new Presi-
dent, as well as the citizens through whose suf-
frages he has come into the administration has
always repudiated all designs whatever and
whenever imputed to him and them of disturbing
the system of slaverylas it is existing under the
Constitution and laws. The case, however,
would not be fully presented If l were to omit to
say that any such effort on his part would be un-
constitutional; and all his actions in that direc-
ton would be prevented by the judicial authori
ty. even though they were assented to by Con
gress and the people"
We turn Mr.. SEWARD over to the tender mer-
cies of the rraducers of Mr.. VooRHEEs. Will
they have the manliness, the decency to retract
their ISLANDERS upon the latter?