Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-14

gredient to cast by the passage Of this bill into
the boiling csuluTon OF popular discomfort and
popular Indignation: and the popular voice comes
up here to night. ringing loud aud clear over the
storms and dfsseusious m this hall. saving the
members on the other side, $50 back 20 your
broken pledges: 20 back to the Consultation:
cease as YOU value YOUR lives: cease as you
value the peace OF the country; cease, as You
DIRE "a the lurid flames Of civil war at yonr own
homeStead~ cease these inf actions OF the Ameri-
cans birth rieht--ihe Constitution Dare no
more 10 lay your hands the white mans lib
erts Go no further in the line of policy which
you have attempted say TO YOU gentlemen,
that. as the Lord God reigns in heaven. YOU can
not 20 ON with your system OF Provost N1rshals
and police officials arresting tree white for
what they conceive e. be their duty, within the
plain provisions of the Constitution. and main
tain peace IN the loyal States. Blood will flow.
You cannot aud YOU shall not forge our letters
on our limbs without struggle for the mastery.
/ say this in sorrow; but | would be false 10 the
people whom | represent. false TO my own con
yicions ot duty. il did not tell YOU plainly here
this night not in bitterness but IN canior, that
the people are determined this subject. Tire
blood OF race of treemen Is Up, and will not sub
NIT to this assault The great American heart
is fired anew with the love OF liberty, and the Peo
pie are alousing like the giant after bis sleep
They have erected their heads aud you not
10 lay the weight OF your finger, of your smallest
finger, on one of the great munimentS OF personal
freedom which adorn the history of the world.
If YOU do, Il is At your most deadly peril.
This may be lost on some who SIT before me
IL may fail on deaf TO night; but when YOU
go back TO the people you will heed 1t They
know exactly what the Constitution is. Never
was here time when there so much intelli
gence rs now. Never was there time when the
people ed so much as now They have got all
at stake M this matteT-ther farms. their homes,
their liberties and their lives and the Liberties and
lives of their children They have examined the
whole question. They know the rec0rdhy heart
1t i to them a blazing line of light. You can
deceive the country no more, nor can you intm
+ date or coerce it into your measures You may
+ pass this bill 10 conscript citizens from their
/ homes into the army, but if it is true that the
popular heart Is no longer for the prosecution of
this war. do Won think can compel IL to be 50
by forceg 1t the people will no longer of them
selves pursue war a remeuy for our troubles,
do YOU think YOU can make themY Are you
+ more powerful than they arey Does not this
+ Government rest upon the consent of the gov
erned? Con YOU force the North TO conquer the
4 SOUTH Are YOU supremeY or. if the Americ an
/ people, deceived, betrayed and outraged. are un-
willing to support the war policy of this Admins
tratiou any further. unless coerced TO do 80 by
such legislation as this cOnscrpton bill. then let
+ US stop fighting ~ once. and try what virtue
/ there m y be in peaceful remedies