Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-15

Why does the President go 70 hear Mr. Greeleyi
Because when he speaks the great West hangs
on his words. Mr.. Lincoln stands hesitating to-
day. Whyl Because he j. Honest Abe" The
speaker believed that the President believed that
the result of this would be abolition of slave
~. But the President was not a leader Under
Republican Government like ours. il was debut
fn If leader could ever fill the first place in the
Government. Mr.. Lincoln was a second rate
mantle servant Of the people, he says-and
he stands asking. "W hat do you want me to dot"
1t the Union is saved. we owe il TO John
Ericsson. and not to Abraham Lincoln; he is a
leader. What is the present official voice Of
American We are under the government of a
minority Of men in Congress whose inteilects are
OF the lowest type. Sumner. Wade and Love
JOY are about the only men there who do not rep
resent minorities President Lincoln. when every
hour IS risking the integrity Of the Union, knows
no other power but what comes from the halls OF
Congress, and majority OF those in Congress
represent the doughfaces Of the North. What's
the remedyg The remedy is in doing away with
the district system of choosing. Boston should
not be confined to choosing a Representative
from among her own citizens There should be
no limit of locality If Massachusetts don't like
Charles Sumner, a million of men the country
over may elect him. If this theory had been
carried out, the Orations which Theodore Parker
from Washington to the whole nation instead OF
Congress to-day made up of men who repre-
sent nobody-who have no opinions-we should
have body truly representing the anti slavery
sentiments of the NortherD people
The Representatives from the Border States
say to the President advance one step towards
the Hunter proclamation, and we leave you.
The Republican member, looking at his constit
uency, just saved from voting for Benjamin T
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Courier aud the defamation of Mr.. George /
Curtis dares not do it. The Government wants
three hundred thousand men, we must say to
him, You cannot have a man or dollar until
you proclaim a policy" That will open the
eyes of the President and the Cabinet to the true
sentiment of the North. Fremont has been de
graded by the Border States; but let as hope that
like Charles the Second, he may die on his right
full throne.
| do not said Mr.. Phillips, think that a ma
jOrity of the North ready TO accept the policy
OF emancipation, but | think that President Lin
coin knows that he can take any step in that d
rection. and millions OF the North will follow
him. What they want is leader. Republican:
in the saddle; let them say to the Border
States, 1.-The war means Hunters AMI Fremontt
proclamatons; vote against it, if you dare
Jefferson Davis does less to break up thi:
Union with his armies than Lincoln in his infdel
lty anu delay 10 proclaim emancipation. APP
plause. Mr.. Curtis might well decla II
against the east wind as against New England
character and purpose. out of which have grown
the anti slavery enterprise. New England, fol
two hundred years has lived under the infiuenc,
of ideas. The slavery system crossed her path
and she marked it infamous and nailed it e
the counter.
| was a Unonist for sixteen years. The Abo
lition enterprise was started in 1881. Until lS4t
we thought it was possible to kill slavery anC
the Union; then said, cover the ruins o.
the American Church and the Union is the ONLY
way to freedom" From '46 to '6l we preached
that lesson. In April, 81, the guns sounded
from Fort SUMTER and the whole North started
TO its feet. We found that we had all along mis-
taken the sentiment of the North-that it was
for liberty. Applause. Fourteen months. Ill
to-day. we have supported the Government with
our whole moral influence. The news goes tC
Europe to day that we are deteated-that tn,
North is standing at bay, unequal to the con test
How soon, then, will Europe interfere? If the
Union is saved. John Ericsson has saved it. Il
Congress can do nothing more than il has, We
should thank God if Cromwell appeared