Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-12


wanted. You cannot make the discrimination
now. There may be men good as Matthew
Hale who have actually taken and hold Offices
under that de facfo Government, and who the
gentleman from Ohio would have no more desire
to hang on strip than Charles III. had to hang
Chief Justice Hale. These Determinations can
only be made when the means ard opportunity
for information exist.
For the Daily State Sentinel.
The Proposed s'UnIOn Party"
IsDIAN4roLIs, May 9th, 1862.
EDITOR SESrNEL-DEAR SIR: l have noticed
in the Republican papers call for Convention
in June to organize party on platform for the
vigorous prosecution of the war for the Union,
and to put candidates in the field on that plat
form. / was struck with the CALL and have been
wondering what couldbe its object. | knew that
there was already one ticket of good men in the
field in the State on just the platform proposed,
and could not see why it was necessary to d.
vide up the people of the State by getting UP an
opposition, if principle was all that was involved.
The tenth resolution of the 18th of January Con-
vention, held on that day in honor of old Hicko-
ry, who said, "The Union it must and shall be
preserved" )" read as follows:
10 That we will sustain, with all our ener-
gies, a war for the maintenance of the Constitu-
ton. and of the integrity of the Union under the
Constitution; but we are opposed to war for
the emancipation of the negroes, or the subjuga-
ton of the Southern States.
So much for the platform. Again; / asked,
what will be the need of new special war plat
form, the last of June next? Why, by that time
the war will be over so that there will be none to
prosecute Has not tie Administration already
discontinued recruiting for volunteers because it
has got soldiers enough2
Again; / said to myself. is not the war in the
! IL n l.. A..
they not got over half million of men enlisted
for the period of its continuance; and can they
not. therefore, independent of all parties con-
tinue it long they pleaseY And is there
any danger that they will stop it TOO soon? /
came, therefore, to the conclusion, that the os
teIsible purpose of the Convention was not its
real purpose-that the Convention must. of con-
sequence, have fraudulent purpose, and that it
has, is plain enough to me; ard l have my mind
made up. as to what that purpose is, viz: to keep
a6OLfioRists IN poicer-sectt0Hdl in office;
the same men who have involved the nation in
its present troubles. Of this there is no doubt.
Proofs:
L. The Indiana Journal is the organ and
advocate of the CALL The proprietors of that
paper belonged to the old Abolition or Freesoil
party, and supported the Buffalo Abolition nomi-
nees. Who the old Abolition electors for
President in this State and county in successive
doubt, but they are political anti-slavery men,
and presume will not deny it.
2. The men at the head of the call, and who
will control the party action, are old Abolition
lists? Will anybody deny that Chase, Sew
ard, Hale, Summer, Wilson, Lovejoy. &c,
are old Abotionists? Are not these
men now controlling the Republican party and
the civil administration of the Government
And is it not carrying out the most fanatical Alb
me IL mn nor
and the Republican party in this State acting
with and supporting these men? Was not Gov.
Morton, of whom the writer is q personal friend,
in 1856 so much of Aboitionist that the RepuD
licans in the southern part of the State were not
then sufficiently abolitionized to vote for him?
And did they not, for the same reason, refuse, in
1860, to nominate him for Governor? Why do
not Democratic editors hunt up the files of the
ola Abolition papers, that one published in Wayne
county and afterwards at indianapolis, and trace
up these men? These men want to remain in pow
er. They are Just as much, at heart, Abolition
lists ever. Personally, they gentle
meH, but it is the rule in free governments that
men shall be held accountable to the people 70
their political deeds and doctrines, and upon no
other rule can the permanency of our Union and
free institutions be made sure.
The Republican leaders know that the plat
form principles upon which they reached pow
er has caused the rupture of this Union, and is
calculated to prevent its being healed; they
know that the brief period which they have held
power has been characterized by the most dis
graceful corruption recorded in the worlds his
tory. They know that they can not go to the
people again upon their old platform and old
name, and obtain a regrant of power. They
wish, therefore, to doif the name, put the plat
form to sleep for awhile, go to the people under a
new name, and with vague generality as to
platform, gull in recruit of Democrats who are
green enough to be deceived. or of easy virtue
enough to be bated with the hope of place,
and thus get power again which they will then
use to carry out their real fanatcal desires. Who
are the Democrats that will swallow such a bait
with the hook in it? | will not 90 into such a
union: but there is one that am willing to go
into; one appropriate to the exigences of the
times: one that has something practical in it for
the salvation of the country, anu our old great
and glorious Union. 1t is this: union with
all men, with Republicans even, upon platform
as to the terms of settlement with the South,
conquered--as To the rights which are to be Sc
cured to her-the privileges she is to be allowed
to enjoy. &c. If the Republicans had come for
ward with call for a convention of all the lovers
of justice, goodfellowship and fraternal feeling
between the North and the South, upon plat
form declaring that the latter were not to be
robbed of any of their rights: that their slaves
should not be taken from them; that their proper :
ty should not be con6scated, and that guarantees
should be given to them to this effect, and that
conservative men should be nominated who hon.
estly held these views to carry them out, would,
with alacrity, unite with the Republicans in such
convention.
i close this with an extract from the lst vol
ume of SCOTS Life of Napoleon, p lis. He
saws: at was the will of Providence that the ex.
perience of twenty years and upwards should
make manifest that in the hour of victory itself
concessions to the defeated as far as justice de-
mands them, is the only mode of deriving per.
manent and secure peace"