Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-08-19

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guised levy Of revenue by which the taxpayer
pays 90 Government the duty on imported goods,
and sometimes to some individual or corporation.
tue amount Of the duty when not imported, IN
the shapc Of price for goods, wares, sc. The
tribute 20 Government We may chceriully pay
but protest against tribute TO the over-grown
fortunes of the Lawrences and Eastern fac
tories.
The present tariff being almost prohibitory in
is character, the tribute and the tax under II Is
almost exclusively paid 20 individuals. The sig
nihcan facts that we 90 10 the East for all large
lOans-that the interest on money there Is but
about one-half what II Is in the West-that the
factories are realizing larger profits and dividends
than ever before, whilst our staples are dwarf,dn
value-that we pay more for nearly every article
in our shops and stores and Get so much less for
our products, tells the story of partial and I'M
just legislation and vet their fabrics excluded
from Southern market, rs well as our bacon,
-four, &c; and II your members of Congress are
30 ignonant of the science of political economy,
or guilty Of that infdelity 10 equal justice as 20
allow the East the markets of the world as against
your products, ard deny You like liberty as
against theirs. they not tit TO represent YOU in
the councils of the nation unless gOH desire by
stress of legislation money TO be filched from
your pocke:s TO enrich men much richer than YOU
are. The reasons urged for the protective
system do not rise TO the dignity of arguments.
The West must be and predict will be an unit
upon this question If reason does not bring
this conviction, their impoverishment will open
their eyes TO Republican misrue.
My friend Owen, whose eye like the poets
Gin fine phrenzy rolling, gances from earth f" if
not "to heaven" 10 Footprint" on its confines,
is out for emancipation ever true to his worship
OF chimeras for human happiness. l do not
ques ion his motiyes-but save in and by revolu-
ton where is the warrant of power in the Federal
Government against a loyal STAKEHOLDER TO
manumit his slaves The crime of treason NAV
work foferure but where is the power TO AL
nul State laws not in conflict with the Federal
power! II may be in bayonets, or il may be in
the sayings of Senators, that in war laws are
silent in other words, to defeat revolu ion we
must resort TO revolution; to protect, we must
violate 10 preserve, we must destroy.
No one will pretend that adds TO or sub
tracts from the Constitution, and where will you
find power in Congress or the President 10 WELD
the army in time of peace Tor war; to destroy
slavery in the States, and vet the Tribune and
kindred papers say that the war will not terni-
until slavery, its exciting cause, Is abol-
ished.
Are all constitutional limitations upon power
aud all guarantees 10 be blotted out under the
cloak of enforcing law against rebel subjects.
Let me ask YOU ii there is much loyalty
in fighting to preserve legal institution as TO
overthrow it,
Is not the argument. of the Secretary of the
Navy and late Secretary of War, for manning
our ships and garrisoning our forts south with
negroes, because the climate deadly TO the
whites, an argument for their use in cotton and
rice fields! Does the character of the allotted
work vary the crime of seryitude! Is there
much less danger or less deSp0iiSm IN one than
the otherl Ii the necessity of the to negro
labor is felt by Government, where is the abstract
right and wrong oft! Asacommander lwoulduse
negroes for servile labor. but do not degrade
soldiers TO the peershiD of negroes nor risk the
censure of history bv that savage and indiscrim-
mate slaughter of men, women and children of
which the slaves of s.. Domingo were guilty. In
vain does history teach by example, if we do not
profit by its lessons There some other lessons
ofthe French revolution written in blood, which
the ''multitudinous seas" will not wash out.
Whatare they that Lafayette, Mirabeau, Barnave
and the GirondiSts fell BY the power they invoked,
and like Action were devoured by their own
hounds All liberty destroyed by her own
pretended worshippers. The barricades of law
were swept away and the dogs of anarchy
gorged themselves with blood and pillage. Be
lievng as | do that all liberty must perish with
the liberty of speech / shall only Weld il with
my life-and believing that the great stake i'm
periled by this war looks to the enlightened pat
rioiism of the land, denounce that despotism
which stiles it. l will not stoop 10 mask my
political speeches uiIder war Speeches-nor 10
ask nv servants in the White HOnse or in Con
gress for liberties enthroned higher than they are
in the Constitution itsef--and If | believe that
this cry of no party i but the mask Of party TO
swell it, muster rolls and affiliate Democrats
with Abolitioni>ts aud thereby perpetuate theirrue
Il will tear off the mask and defy the gratuitous
advice 10 leave the vessel OF State with crew
competent to save it, We Democrats were
try of its dangers--as Union savers and my
hope is that may it from Union wreck
ers North and South, and purge the land to
prcsinc health" BY conquest OF secession
South by and abolitionism North, az the
baot-boX.
Democracy shouts for the Constitution as it is
aud the Union it was and what have we to-
day by telegraph Martial law proclaimed and
the writ of hGbeds corpus suspended. know not
what public exigencies in Indiana exists to give
10 police officers in every village in the land the
Interpretation of what i loyalty and what is aid
aud comfort to the enemy, with power over the
liberty of every citizen. and substitute the wis
dom of these "Dogbcrries" former skilled in tue
law-militarv courts for civil ones, with Jury
of our peers-a power SO liable to abuse from
the ignorance or mslice of informeTs or police
mems novel chapter at least IN our history.
Some of our pious Abolitionists hold IT trea-
during a war The skillful mariner, amidst
storms and dangers, studies his charts for safety
and our perils are a greater stimulous for patri-
otc cxertions: and if the people have not virtue
and intelligence enough for selfgovernment, then
our Republic is played out.
And trust. in conclusion, that If the voices of
Washington Jackson Clay and Webster, speak
ing from the grave, have not been sufficient 10
warn Us against sectional controversies, that the
bitter fruits now experience will teach u the
wisdom of their counsels.
Now, fellow citizens, the questions discussed
have bearing upon the war. have not noticed
its expenses, which threaten TO engulph your for
tunes for the sacrifice seems necessary; but par
tsan sheets even wish TO shield thieves from that
withering scorn which is the due OF men who IN
the crisis of the nations fate will rob her Treas
ury; and "A partisan press is willing 10 make the
war itself an instrument of partisan triumph.
MANY even desire thar the army itself shall be
the instrument for the abolition of slavery and
the triumph of their doctrines, and deluge the
North if not with black aborers with black pau