Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-10

the plant hinges Of the knee that thrift may fol-
low fawning." are constantly employed. The
worst sign Of the times IL, that these menials are
encouraged TO assume that the public mind is so
totally debauched that their ISLANDERS will be re
ceived or their per6dy tolerated among the peo-
pie. That such things can be. and pass by US
without our special wonder, is one of the saddest
evidences of the demoralizing influence of intes-
tine war. The mysterious agencies of this infu-
ence become a contagion, and is mill dews per
meate through almost every fibre OF the social
fabric. The waste of wealth. the destruction of
property, the sacrifice of life have each their
moral counterpart in the contempt of law, the
indulgence, of vice, the liscence of the will, which
stand forth as induces, pointing to the steps down
which society must travel in the train Of civil
dissention. The generalization is, of course
most rapid in cases previously much depraved ,or
IN subjects which. like the mad ssohe. absorb
poison only from the dement's around them. To
these classes belong the newspapers and leaders
of what is known as the Republican party of this
country. Willfully ignorant Of the theory Of
government, and of the philosophy which under
lies the foundation of society, they take counsel
OF their fears and not Of their reason, and rush
forward after a single idea, regardless OF Justice,
or of truth, or of law. Maddeued by the terrible
consequence Of their own false doctrines and her
estes, and bewildered by the whirlwind which has
ripened from the seeds they have sown. they have
become the common enemy of civilization and
mankind. and glost upon the flow of blood and
human sacrifice as the frog gloats upon the stars
or the owl upon the moon. Whoever NAV chance
to i~nterpose an obstacle between these madmen
and any of the numerous schemes they NAV have
in view to inaugurate despotism or establish dis
order, or who shall venture to ~criticise the usur-
pations of power by those whom the people srp-
posed, two years ago. they were making their
servants-not their masters-become at once
the subject Of detraction, villifcation and vitu-
perative abuse, to an extent which could not be
surpassed if Pandemonium itself were let loose
upon him. There is method in this madness.
Though the poison emanates from fanaticism. il
is directed by the cool will Of vicious conspira
tors, who expect, by arousing all the evil passions
of their followers, and by driving their opponents
to desperation, to create such confusion
and disorder as will seem to justify the
Inauguration Of martial law, the subversion OF
individual and State rights. and the establishment
of a military despofism. An election is soon to
be held in Kentucky, where the party in power
for party purposes, desires endorsement, and
martial law is proclaimed and the strong arm oil
military power invoked to effect that object. An
important election will take place in Ohio mex,
fall. If the forced vote of the soldiery. and the
counting of thousands who are dead, will defeat
the Democracy. DO further outrage will be then
attempted: but if these resorts will not override
the will of the people. the bayoret will s~u2plant
the ballot box, and the civil officers of the Buckeye
State will he selected, through Burnside's rifles
by the Washington despotism. Mock elec
tions, in 1864, in the Southern States, and the
establishment Of martial law in Illinois and In.
diana, as well as Ohio. will result in perpetuatine
the power of the present Washington dynasty
and in the subversiou of all the individual and
State rights guaranteed by the Constitution
II is expected. while the war "drags its slow
length along" through years of desolatior
and sorrow. that the spirit of the
the people will be 80 broken. the popular mind SO
educated. that the establishment of a monarchy
in a neighboring republic will not only be regarded
with Indifference. hut the absorption Of all politi
cal power in this Government in a central des-
potism he hailed as a relief and a blessing. This
is the dream Of those conspirators who imagine
they have already undermined our social and DO
litical fabric. and who expect to guide to their
own purposes the storm Of fanaticism which they
themselves have so terribly and wickedly in.
voked. Upon the tsisdom prudence and frmness
efthe people Of The North depends no,1 all those
ciuiI rights and liberties ,chich are dear TO treemen
and north an effort 10 preserUe. Let us hope for
the best and be prepared for the worst, remem.
bering always that
"who would be free
himself must strike the blow"
j. G. WALKER.
INDIANAPOLIS, August LIST, 1868.