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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
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The Republicans are resolving and eresolv-
ing that they are for a vigorous prosecution of
the war. The National Administration. Con-
gress, nearly all the State administration and
Legislatures. are in the hands of the Republi-
cans. Every demand of the Federal Admins
tration for men and money to vigorously prose-
cute the war has been promptly responded to by
Democrats, as well as its political friends. Who
then to blame if the war is not vigorously pros
ecuted? Surely the fault must be with those who
selves periodically and energetically to that OBJ
ject, and that alone. they have been busy in
e%nriching political and personal friends with fat
army contracts. And / it seems as though the war
would last as long as money can be raised thus to
prosecute it. That has been the difficulty from
the beginning. How often have the people
been promised by the Administration that the
war should end, or the rebel armies dispersed, in
sixty, thirty and ten days. but instead of that
wished for result the rebellion has been constant
ly assuming more gigantic proportions, and our
armies in the field have not yet been equal to the
task allotted to them. The Administration has
never yet risen to a just comprehension of the
magnitude of the rebellion or the means neces-
sary for its suppression. That's where the blame
must rest for the prolongation of the war. and its
enormous cost in blood and treasure, not with the
people who have nobly responded to every call
upon their patriotism.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

date, on the Slower fraud. you state that it has
not vet been denied that Governor Morton urged
upon the Loan Commissioner the ~propriety of
placing the unsold war bonds in the hands of
Hallett for disposal as the Agent of the State.
Please say 20 your readers that Gov. Morton
has at no time suggested or urged the undersign-
ed to place any bonds in the hands Of Hallett or
any other parties, either for hypothecation or for
sale. Very respectfully,
j. j. BRowN, Loan Commissioner.
indianapolis, June 20, 1862.
1t will be noticed from the foregoing card, that
Governor MoRroN's voluntary witness, 81. j.
BRowN, Loan Commissioner" Queensware. &c,
does not deny that His Excellency was wined,
yachted, and so forth, by HALLET. 1.-THE Governor
has any more cards or certificates, negatively or
afirmatively vouching for his official integrity,
We will with pleasure publish them. We have no
doubt he can get a thousand or two very respect
able gentlemen to say that they never saw him
riding with HALLETT on the fashionable drives
around New York city, wining with him at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, yachting with him on the
splendid bay of New York, or taking advantage
of his official position to put money in his purse.
When a man feels it necessary to procure eyi-
dence of good character, it generally excites the
suspicion in the public mind that there is some
thing "rotten in Denmark"
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
mr. voorhees, and Taxes.

The Wabash Express says that D. Webster
VOORHEES,, Esq, who recently made such a
flaming speech in Congress, complaining Of the
increased taxes, &c, has lived in Terre Haute six
years, and has never paid a cent Of taxes.-La-
fdyete (IRdiGna) Courier.
We have seen the above going the rounds of
the Republican press for some time. and they
seem to imagine that it is a very smart answer to
Mr.. Voorhees, speech. In fact, the paragraph
is both foolish and false. If the statement was
true, if Mr.. VOORHEES, had not paid a cent of
taxes in six years, would that relieve him of his
responsibility to his constituents, to endeavor to
obtain a fair and equal tax bill on their account.
The people of his district are taxpayers; they
are taxed largely, and Mr.. VOORHEES, is their
Representative in Congress. 1t is a duty to look
out for their interests, and not his own. He spoke
in their behalf, and if the charge against him was
true, it would only prove that he looked more to
the interests of those who elected him than he
did to his own, and that certainly is an excellent
characteristic.
But Mr.. VOORHEES, is a tar payer, and to a con-
siderable amount, beyond ali question. He wears
Jared broadcloth clothes, has a taxed rat, wears
taxed shirts and has a taxed watch and iewelry.
He drinks taxed tea and taxed coffee and eats
taxed sugar, and. in fact, is taxed upon almost
everything that he buys and consumes. His
name may not be upon the tax-list ut Terre
Ldutt, Out uC paws us lui NudiC ~ tt ruPfoit
of the Government, nevertheleSs-prObably con-
sidering his means, as much, if not moIe. than
some very rich and wealthy persons
1t is a very mistaken idea to suppose that the
poor laborer pays no taxes. In fact, nearly all
the taxes come from those whose names are not
on the tax list. The owners of houses pay the
taxes upon them, but in a large majority of cases
the tenant pays it back in the shape Of extra
rent-the taxes being an element considered in
the renting of the tenement The burdens of
taxation fall upon the many that are poor, and
not upon the few that are rich. Many men OF
moderate means consume more luxuries and i'm
ported articles, and pay a higher tax upon them
therefor, than some millionaires of simple habits
do. There is no evading taxes in this country.
certain as death and taxes" is a popular
progerb, and it is a correct one. The tax gath
erer, in some Of the forms of his appearance,
reaches all, and there is no escape. Mr.. Voor-
bees is a tax payer. aud probably a very heavy
one.-CiR. Enquirer.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
The Pledge.

Recollect that the Republicans of Indiana have
solemnly avowed and pledged themselves that
the war now existing is not for conquest or sub
j~ugation, or for overthrowing or interfering
with the rights or institutions of any of the
States; but that its object is to defend and main
tain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to
preserve the Union as established by our patriot
fathers, with all the dignity, equality and rights
of the several States unimpaired. This is the
gist of the 18th of June platform. Now we ask
the Republicans to redeem these declarations of
sentiment, by uniting with the Democracy in re-
sisting all schemes of emancipation and c~onisca-
ton, every measure which will not maintain the
supremacy of the Constitution and preserve the
Union as established by our patriot fathers. or
which will impair the dignity, equality and rights
Of any Of the States. This IS all the conserva.
tive sentiment of the country has ever demand
ed, and we call upon the supporters of the 18th
of June Convention to insist that the Federal
Administration shall prosecute the war faithfully,
theoretically and decidedly. for the purposes
enumerated. and that every scheme foreign thereto
shall be regulated. This it is declared is our
duty to the whole country, and we ask that it
shall be periodically fulfilled. regardless of all
former political differences. Let the whole peo-
pie of Indiana demand. in fact they do demand,
that the President, the Administration and Con-
gress shall prosecute the war in the spirit and for
the purposes set forth in the CRIrrESDES resolu-
ton adopted by both the 9Th of January and the
18th of June Conventions, and that when they
are accomplished it shall cease. If the 18th of
June Convention. representing the Republicans
of Indiana, was honest in this expression of
sentiment upon the objects for which the war
should be prosecuted, its voice should be Needed
by the Republican Representatives from this
State in Congress We will see if they will re-
deem this pledge, the platform of those whom
they renreSent
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

troops have been called out under false pretences.
Some of the finest regiments of New York troops,
composed of men of wealth and high standing,
rushed with alacrity to the field, because Stanton
telegraphed that "the enemy, in stirling force, are
marching on Washington, and the capital is in
danger" Those regiments are now discontinued,
because they find they were deceived and played
upon, and because they have to perform mere
police duty at Baltimore, and are not even allow
ed to come to this city.
To return to the camp of instruction: Any
Administration which had a prooer appreciation
of the nature of the war in which we are engage
ed, and of the number of troops it will require,
would have established this camp a year ago, and
not only this one,. but one in every loyal State;
and would have invited to these camps, for mill
tary instruction, only young unmarried men, be-
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty. Then,
by this time, if these camps had been under the
charge of proper military officers, we should have
had now a reserve corps of half a million sol
diers. who would not, indeed, be fit TO form into
regiments by themselves, bat who would consti-
tute just the material that is now needed to fill
up our broken, shattered and decimated regi-
ments now in the field. Something like this will
yet have TO be done. The hard fighting of the
war is not over yet, by a great deal. 1t will be
necessary to keep in the field an army of 700,
600 well trained troops for more than a year get
and to keep this number always full it will re.
quire constant ~infusions of fresh blood, in the
shape oil new but not raw recruits.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
The Omissions of the 18th June Con-
VenfiOn.

The Louisville Democrat, in noticing the plat
form of the 18th of June Convention, regards
the resolutions, as far as they go, unexception-
able. 1t notices, however, the following material
points now at issue which the Convention failed
to notice. These omissions show the dishonesty
of the Republican leaders engaged in it, and that
the Union" scheme is nothing less than a DELHI
crate attempt upon their part to deceive and hum
bug the people for the single purpose of perpetu-
ating power in their hands. This is so evident
that it seems to US impossible that any honest
Democrat or conservative citizen can be led
astray from the path of duty and patriotism or
place confidence in a party which is constantly
violating its own platform. The Democrat says:
1t will be recollected that this Congress has
twice refused to pass the substance OF this first
resolution. for reasons best known to themselves.
The overwhelming majority of the people will
pass it, and do so in good faith.
The ground of debate in our neighboring State
will not be upon this resolution. The rebellion
is to De put down Internationally. The legiti-
mate power of the Government must be sus
tanned. And in doing this, the Administration
must be sustained WITH all the liberality needed
to accomplish that end. before the people, how
ever, there are material points net touched that
90 TO the very issue of the contest.
What are legitimate and appropriate means to
put down this rebellion, and what are not2
Was it necessary to put down the rebellion 10
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia?
Is it necessary to put down this rebe lion to
tax the people of the whole Union to pay for the
slaves that States may see proper to emancipatel
Is ii necessary to put down this rebellion to
get up negro schools in North Carolina, and sup
port them at the Government expense; or, in
fact, TO get them up at all at any ones expensei
Is it necessary to put down the rebellion to bur
den the Treasury with millions to support runa-
way slaves?
Is it legitimate for a man with straps on his
shoulders to proclaim martial law over two OF
three States, and assume 10 abolish slavery?
Dues the Constitution allow as a punishment
for treason 10 confiscate property at all?
Is a general confscation consistent with hu-
mainly If it were constitutional?
All such means, in our opinion, are calculated,
if not designed, to strengthen the rebellion, and
not restore but divide the Union.
AL parties in our neighboring State are united
in a determination to put down the rebellion.
There may be here and there a man whose wishes
are otherwise; but he will count nothing in this
contest. Better not charge that the men who
support the 9Th of January ticket are sympathi
sers with the rebellion. II the rebels believed
that it would inspire them with more hope than
any military success, and if it were true. il would
nullify all the effects of victories on the field OF
bastle.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

The Journal attempts to relieve its master, in
its issue of yesterday, from completely in the
{" Stouer fraud" We have given Governor MoR
TON and his friends every opportunity to explain
his connection with that affair. but as yet he has
failed to satisfy the public that be has acted with
that sagacity and straightforwardness which
should characterize the Chief Magistrate of q
powerful State. Ii is evident, if clear from all
indiscreet connection with the sxindIe, that be
has been oyerreached by the sharp operators who
we're engaged in it, The facts developed show:
LIST. That one Of the parties to the fraud, by
h~attering attentions to His Exceliency, secured
bis confidence and good will; and that the Cover
nor made an effort with one of the Loan Com,
missioners to have them place in the hands Of
the said party the unsoId war bonds to dispose Of.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

rT- The Journal charges that We were "com
PEELED to eat our words" because we made some
corrections in the statements of a correspondent
in regard to the "STovER fraud" Unlike that
print, we never wilfully do an opponent injustice,
and unlike it, also. we are ever willing to correct
an error. By representations from a friend Of
JAMES NJ. RAY, Esq, we were satisfied that our
correspondent Inexperienced that gentleman in
his statement that Governor MoRroN was wined
and yachted by one of the parties to the swindle
after his knowledge of the fraud, but that it was
before. 1t is not yet denied but that the winning
&c, did occur, and that the Governor recon-
mended that the unsold war bonds should be put
in the hands of one of the said parties to dispose
of, but the only mistake was as TO the time il
took place.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

We have examined "HAwEs's Indiana Gazet-
teer" and find that the author of the following
communication is or was a respectable chinaware
or crOckery merchant of New Albany, and there
fore publish il, as it is evidently intended for
the public eve. We do not know or care whether
Governor MoRToS suggested to ri. J. BRowxl
place any bonds Of HALLEr or any other par
ties either for hypothecAtion or for SALE" but if
Governor MoRroS will say over his own $ gnature
that he did not suggest to Mr.. JAMES NJ. Ray,
whom the people of Indiana know to be a skilfull
f~nanceer. the ~pFopriety and advantage Of placing
the unsold war bonds in the hands of HALLErr or
jerome "for hypothecatiou or for sa,e,' we will
with great pleasure give him a place in the col
umns Of the Sentinel to so advise the public.
Governor MoRToS and bis confederates having
for prudential considerations ceased charg
ing the Democrats party with the response
bility Of the "SrovER fraud'' we have no
desire TO continue the controversy; but. if
. personal controversy Is desired, we may be
induced to illuminate the affair for the edifcation
of the public, and the materials are at hand. As
every respectfully. j.. j. BRowS, Loan Commis-
sioner" and queensware dealer. is anxious to get
bis name in print. free OF charge. "a sharp dodge
to advertise bis ware gratis.) we give him the
ventilation be desires. By his own card it APP
pears that Governor MoRrox did not estimate his
financial abilities Of sufficient importance to even
consult with him about the "hypothecation or
sale Of the unsoid war bonds" We wonder
whether His Excellency has got any more cert
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Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
The Negro Philanthropy of n Adj
miuistratiOn.

The New York Tribune of Wednesday last
states that Gen. FREMoSr's army is suffering Sc
riousIy for want of supplies. The same paper
advises that the Government has returned Mr..
CoLTER to North Carolina for the purpose of re-
opening the "colored schools" all of course
at the expense of the Federal Treasury. Our
armies are suffering for the supplies necessary
for a vigorous prosecution of the war, yet
the Administration is literally appropriating the
resources of the Government to the education of
negroes, and the support of a lot of lazy, worth
less contrabands in idieness. Is not this an in
reference with the institutions of the States?
What sense in such a policy, such schemes of
negro philanthropy, when every dollar is needed,
and all the energies of the Government to sup
ply the gallant men who are fighting the battles
of the UniOnl
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

MURDER IN Boone CoUSTT-Onl last Tuesday
night week, Mrs. Piner was brutality murdered,
by some unknown fend. Her husband went to
the war that morning. and left his wife what
money he had to support his family in his alb
sence. In the night the house was entered; she
was very badly beaten and her money taken.
After she was beaten she sucked her small child
and walked to a neighbours, about a mile distant.
She never spoke after the affair took place. Five
persons were arrested on suspicion, but we are
not informed as vet of the result of the prelimi-
nary examination OF them by the magistrate.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
Patriotic Observation-Disclosures 10
tho Conxtffnffnn-


Senator JoHS P. HALE, of New Hampshire, a
prominent Republican Senator, thus took those
of his party colleagues to task-and they are un-
fortunately too numerous-who are laboring to
destroy the Constitution, while pretending to be
for the Union. He said, very eloquently and
truthfully:
Sir, this new Republican party came into power
upon the destruction Of two parties that had been
false upon this subject; and now, whatever party
may succeed this Republican party-ard God
only knows what it will bel hope they will not
write on our tombstones that we split on the
rock on which our predecessors did, and that is in
want of fidelity to our declared principles. If
there is one principle that we have declared often,
early and long, it is fidelity to the Constitution,
to its requirements and its restrictions. The
mourners go about the streets in all the places
that used to be the high places of power of those
two old parties, mourning over their derelictions,
and | trust that will not be left to US. No, sir.
let US under the hag-the old fag-under the
Constitution-the old Constitution-carry on the
warfare in which we are engaged; and ii we fail
we shall not fail because the Constitution does
not give US power enough, but because we are
~recreant and do not use the power it does give US.
That is all ! want. / want the Constitution pre-
served, and i do not want to achieve even a sue
cess tnat Is 10 De purchased at the price oil nOnOr-
| took occasion in an early part Of this session,
upon a resolution / think by my friend from Hi
nois, mir. Trumbull, but which was buried in
the Committee on the Judiciary so deep that we
do not even hear the clods of the valley reverbe
rate on the coffin that closed i'll say, when that
resolution was up for consideration, when it had
life, befo,e it was strangled in the house of its
friends and by its friends, | took occasion to say
what now repeat, though 1 do not often make
speeches that are north repeating. that 1 pdRted
constitutional liberty left 10 us after the uor lraS
OUer, that constitutional liberty pas the great boon
for which we were striving, and we must see to i.
that in our zeal to put down the rebellion we did
not trample upon that: and when the war was
over, and our streamers hoated in the air, and
shouts of victory and thanksgiving to God went
up from the hearts of a regenerated and Olsen
thralled people, in that breeze might still float the
old flag, and over this rcgenerated country might
sway an unviolaied and a sacred Constitution, in
the faithful maintenance of which, in the hour OF
our peril and our trial, we had not faltered.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23

WHEAT AT WoRTHINeroS.-At this point, some
~forty-six miles south Of Terre Haute, on the Wa
bash and Erie Canal, we learn there is an i'm
mense quantity Of grain stored. One gentleman.
Mr.. Herriott, alone, has some twenty-five thon-
sand bushels of wheat and numerous cribs Of
corn. all of last years yield, piled high and
awaiting shipment. This grain would probably
have gone forward to market earlier had the
canal been in order. There is a vast quantity Of
old grain in the State which will compete in the
market with the new crop just now ready in won
derful abundance.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
seventh CONGREGATIONAL D%i.trict.

The Democracy of the Seventh Congressional
District will meet in Mass Convention. at Terre
Haute, on the 22d day of July, to nominate a
candidate for Congress.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
Democratic Union State Ticket.

FOR SECRETARY or STATE,
JAMES s. ATHON,
OF Marion County.
ron AUDITOR OF STATE,
JOSEPH RISTINE,
OF Fountain County.
FOR TREASURER or STATE,
MATTHEW L.. BRETT,
OF Davies County.
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL,
OSCAR B H0RD,
OF Decatur County.
roR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.,
SAMUEL l.. RUGG,
OF Allen County.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
WASHINGTON, June Is

The attack of the rebels on Tunstal's Station,
on Friday, is an affair OF by no means small con-
sequence. The occurrence of this event is what
/ lave been expecting all along, and | only won
der that il has been so long deli yed. / know the
ground well. / have ridden over the whole coun-
try between the Pamunkey and the Chickahom-
my, and between West Point, Jones's Bridge.
the Long Bridge. Bottoms Bridge, Hanover,
Mechanicsyille, DR.. Curtis's Plantation, Cold
Arbor, the White House, and Cumberland, in
GLIDING New Kent, and Baltimore Cross Roads.
IL will be remembered that we have no troops
on the right bank of the Chickahominy lower
down than Bottoms Bridge, and none farther
west than the scene Of the battle at Seven Pines,
or Fair Oaks. This fact. of course, is perfectly
well known to the enemy. There is nothing,
therefore, except a possible lack Of troops on
their side, to prevent the rebels from mnying a
large force along the roads down the left bank of
the James river, crossing the Chickahominy at
the Long Bridge, outside Of our extreme left,
passing Baltimore Cross Roads, and ssizing and
holding TunstaPs Station. Their attack OF Fri
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-23
Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.
From Washington.

The Rationale Of tie Rebel Attack on McCleuan's
rear at Tunstars-The Rebels hape ascertained
the praeiieobIay Of getting in McCiellan's rear
-Sksteh Of the Topography Of the c~ounvy-TAe
lesson 1hich this occurrence teaches-WiH it be
fhroua andy.