Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-31

the ayes and noe here - that could show YOU
hos they stood When il cane 70 the te-t.
Va these men can come hete aud incorporate
q sc YER principles for shich they Reused %
vote .nto tier platform The, eel you thes Are
lor the Csuenden ressiUtion-tor the lrryug on
OF the war Tor tie reservation OF the L atom Il
was an the Consultation a. IL - giving their
Or gina. right- 10 escl Stale. and when that Is
done the army j. q be dismissed. Yes. and un
Ill the October election they witt tslk so-unu
the people in their majesty shall speak and saw,
We are for the prosecution OF this war 10 sustain
the Constitution restore the Union and invoke
the blessing OF God that the past may be forgot
teu--that we may cnce more embrace each other
as brethren and be once more an united. free and
happy people.
They say, As a reason for the position they
take that slavery was tie cause Of this rebellion.
The argument -, that. slavery cau-ed the war
We can not have peace until IL u destroyed. and
that the war must necessarily continue unle-s
both of these two events shall take place. la our
community where we see our irieiris and broth
ers brought home from the battlefield mtimed
and crippled, many OF them to he inferred in the
grave OF honor. our feelings are necessarily and
easily excited aud our condemnation of the course
of the North IS not unuStly incenSed. And for
myself. feel sometimes that 20 help me Coo If
/ could would call 10th from the patty which
has been the source OF this trouble the leaders of
that party and inhict upon tins N the punishment
winch their offsnses richly merit
But while Was doing that | would like to
have TOR every of them an Aoolitonst upon
the other end Of the rope
But these men say slavery was the cause Of
this rebellion. Yes. Sir. 1t the cause, just
about as much Nv the tea which was poured INTO
Boston hArbor was the cause of the rebellion of
l. Iii, to-
representative men of the South, who saw the
scepter departing from Julah. and the Aboli-
tionists OF the North combined. that brUu- hi on
this rebellion. | have the evidence before nue. 10
prove that assertion Dates and facts impor
tant things when you want the truth. | hold in
nv hand the recor1 and resolutions passed At the
Abolition Convention in New York IN 1859
quote not from a political paper--it Is religious
paper. ana the language was copied from that or
gan OF the Deyil-lbe New York 1'r,tune-that
paper which proclaimed upan my leaving Wash
ingtom, because WAS laborng with ali NV pow
ers to protect the Constitution, and TO give this
war it, legitimate direction, that was "a dagger
Gus man TO the country. 'Nickliie must he
watchedl'' Perhaps, Tor What 1 am saving here
to-day, am to be watched. aud will take this
occasion now 10 say thtt | am responsible tor
what say here, and every where. and at all times,
and call Heaven 10 witness the verify OF my be
liei ia ali have said.
In 1883 these men met in Convention in New
York. They passed then and there the follow
IN:
"WHEREAs, The dissolution of the present in
glorious Union between the Tree and slave States
would result in the overthrow of slavery, aud
the consequent formation OF another Govern
nent without the incubus of slavery; therefore
"Resoired That We invite "a free correspond
ence With the di>unionists OF the South. III order
10 agree upOn the most suitable means to bring
about - desirable II result"
Such were the sentiments and objects of the
AbolitioniSt- OF 1859, while Yancey and host
o. Others in the South were concocting the mems
by which their infamous purposes were to be ac-
c0mpished And when NJ length these cOuibi-
ned influences succeeded in South Carolina, YOU
might have heard Mr.. Wright and the Governor
0f that State addressing the public, and offering
up thanksgiving % God hut mIre especially to
the Abotionists of the North. "who, say they,
have enabled us to do what we have been try.
ing TO do for more than thirty Years"
Hence. | say, you have two enemies to con
quer First, the rebellion 1t must be put down;
and secondly. put down the Abolitionists OF the
North. ! care not by what name they may he
called. The leopard is no less a leopard If YOU
call him bear. In the last Congress of the
United States. every effort that could be was
made 10 make the negro not only free. nut even
better than the white man They can 20 IN the
army without the counters IN or PASS, but we
Door white men dtre not attempt it. The ne
grOes see the change that has taken place. and
say that they have now the advantage for the
first time in their lives.
F. How citizens. let me tell you what really did
cause this revolution. 1t the contest for
power. The South wanted Government for
herself separate from the East The East want
ed "A Government separate from the negro. and
for this they were Nilling tn jeopardize the Con
stituton and the Union and the lives of thou
sands upon thousands of their fellow citizens. 1t
would be no hard job for the conservative Unior
men OF this nation 10 have conquered this rebel
lion. Ii twenty millions OF freemen can not put
down an armed rebellion of eight millions with
out invoking the me- rueS and arming them. say
get out oC the r1y, and We conservative men
Democrats, Republicans aud old Whigs-will
DO It,
am not here to defend slavery 1t is an ex-
pen>ive article to me, can assure YOU. have
been practicng law now for nearly fifty years.
and most of that time nearly all that have made
h IS gone upon the backs and into the bellies OF
my negroes.
But this institution existed in all the States be
fpie TIE Union commenced, and all but one when
the Constitution was framed; and notwithstand-
ing this fact YOU sht hear this man Lovejoy,
preaching that the Constitution rec sgnizes the
negro n the equal of the white man. and that
the declaration therein contained that all men
created free and equal embraces the African
as well as the Caucasian race. Why. sir. look
AZ the history Of your country and the deeds OF
your ioreiathers. When they dared oppose the
power of Great Britain and poured out their
blood like water. what were they conteuding lOrl
FOR negro equalityg No, No, The liberty oi
the negro? Ne. It was the right Of represen-
tatiun IN the Parliament OF Great Britain and
the principle of no taxation without such repre-
sentation That and none Other WAS the cause
which they struggled
They declared ''all men were born free and
equal In that declaration they Let up doc
trine directly contrary the doctrines and the
practices of every deSpot in Europe; to all that
kings and potentateS had practiced upon. They
believed and proclaimed that the white race we're
born free and equal. and il they conquered and
gained that freedom and established free Gov
eminent upon American soil, il 10 be free
dom and Government for the white man, and
not for the negro Why. sir. If they intended to
include the negro in that declaration IL they in
tended that the negro should stand shoulder to
shoulder with the white man at the billot box.
they the greatest set ct fools IN the world
that they did not say So Why did not they then
declare that the slaves in Massachusetts and in
Virginia and Maryland. and in New York. free.
il they believed that they were so created? DID
they do So. Not one word of il. Ii the
white man who their equal. and who then