Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-15

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supporter of President LINCOLN and the vigorous
prosecution of the war:
Theirs are MANY and great indications of the
commencement OF a powerful reaction in the
public mind on the subject of the war and the
question out of which Il il arose. rs well as from
the signal failure of the Administration, both in
their military and civil conduct of the war. At
the present moment all is confusion. because the
popular sentiment is in n transition state; but
order will soon be evolved on. Of political chaos,
and the counter-resolutiOn will stand triumphant
and acknowledged by all.
The excitement and indignation produced
throughout the land by General Buru~ide's high
handed and illegal proceedings against Mr.. Val
landigham, and his silly course in SURPRISING the
Chicago Times, because it commented severely
upon those proceedings. are among the unmis
taxable evidences of the reyulsiOn that is taking
place in the public mind. Republicans as well
AS Democrats have protested against such meas
ures. ms not only unconstitutional, but extremely
impolitic and dangerous. The Legislature OF
Illinois, by a vote of forty-seven io thirteen, in
Guiding twenty Republicans, pronounced against
the military outrage upon the Chicago paper.
The President, oheying his own humaneinstincts
and the popular will. is at last comnelled to re
buke the Secretary of War and Burnside 70
gether by directing the latter to revoke his order
overihrowiDg 10y military force the freedom OF the
press in his department. Ii Mr.. Lincoln would
now issue a countermand to the order sending
Vallandigham into exile he would wisely crown
his conciliatOry policy. and give a mortal blow
to the radicals in the Cabinet and out of il, By
whose advice so unfortunate a step was taken. Ii
was this political blunder. worse than n crime"
that developed aud brought out the latent pOpu-
lar feeling against the Administration at the great
meeting of the Democracy ia this city on Wednes
day last-a meeting of thirty thousand men,
headed by Fernando Wood. and breathing an
earnest and unfaltering determination to put a
stop to hOstiliiies againsti the Southern States and
to restore the Union, not by the science of war,
hut the arts of peace. The prolonged exile Of
Valiandigham will contribute to furnish fuel for
the fame throughout the whole of the Presiden-
tial campaign; and it will be the more effective
because il is utterly unjustifi ,ble upon any pr.n
ciples known TO our Constitution and laws, con
trary to all precedent in history. and stripped even
of the plea of necessity.
The ball is now fairly set in motion in this
Safe, and its progress will be irresistible. ANY
violent opposition to il will only serve to demon
strate the impetus it has received. If the Re
gency, instead of getting on the same train.
should run a Stale ticket directly against it next
fall, the locomotive and cars would be smashed
bv the weight and momentum of the locomotive
and cars engineered by Fernando Wood; and If
the train of the Regency should undertake TO
IlOht III tic SHllt III thC htl INIn Wy
starting a little ahead it would be soon overtaken
and driven off the track by the superior speed of
the engine called Mozart II III. Il, on the other
band, the Albany concern should conclude to
e,llow in the wake of the New York engine, il
vonld be nowhere" in the race. Its only safe
policy, therefore, is to hitch itself to Mozart Hall.
Ii the Regency run a separate State ticket next
fall il NAV prevent the peace party being success
full; hut it will not only not win itself, but demon
sfr.to that n ic in a small minority In that avap
the Republicans will carry the State elect ons.
But the peace men. beng a minority in the Dem.
Ocratic party, viii claim the right To shape its
policy. and for sake of harmony, and in order to
Dust the Republicans from office, the minority
will acquiesce. and the same will take place in
every other State; for like causes will produce
like effects. to saw nothing of the influence of the
example of the Empire State.
The platform of the Democracy in the Presi
Dental campaign of 1864 will be peace; and,
what is more. the candidate will be elec'ed, no
matter who he is, the principle controlling all
other considerations. The people have lost all
faith in the efficiency of the war to restore the
Union. They are preparing TO try what virtue
there is in peace. 1t Mr Lincoln should at once
cit loose from his Cabinet. and send it adrift he
fore it does any more mischief to- him and the
country, he would stand an excellent chance of
being re elected himself.
The new President. whatever might have been
his opinions. or antecedents. will, upon assuming
his office, be compelled to suspend the operations
| OF the war, proclaim an arm'stice, and propose a
convention of all the States. Both Governments
have given all constitutional scruples to the
wind. The government of the South is AZ much
- deSnerism rs the government of the Nur.h
The Southern people would rejoice at such an op-
portunity as nm armisiice and a convention. to ena
BILE them to throw off the yoke of JEFF Davis, who
now holds them down by the iron hand of war.
State after State nj the South will elect delegates
20 this convention with more zeal than they
elected delegates to pass ordinances of secession.
| State rights will be vindicated North and South,
and the cause of strife and alienatiOn-ihe slave
nv ouestion-will be finally settled by 81 return to
the principles on which the Government was
founded. and the old fabric will be reconstructed
as a white mans government. Negro slavery
will be more firmly established than it ever was
before, and North as we'll as South the whole race
will be enslaved. or exterminated. All the trou
BILE the country has seen has arisen from emanci-
patton.
A the time Of the Declaration of Independence
every COLONY of the thirteen held slaves. At the
time Of the adoption of the Constitution, in eleven
or twelve years after, every State, except Massa-
chusetts, was slaveholding. That State was the
first to commit the error which has lad to such
national calamity but she could not influence the
structure of the Constitution. In that instru.
ment negro servitGde is recognized as lawful.
and securities provided for the safety of the in
s%titution. But the political heresy of negro
euuality-which startedin New England-cained
ground by degrees. and The people of the North
ern States have departed from the fundamental
idea of the Government, till ut length a party
has arisen and is now in power which claims for
the blacks Liberty, fraternity, equality" and
consequently the amalgamarion of the two races
by intrrmarriage. For the accomplishment of
such an object. not only are the peoDle unwilling
to wage war, but they would fight to the death
against il The white race will never suffer
blacks to be on a political and social equality
with them. They will sooner exierminate them.
and If any States should resist thew will he over
run and compelled to submit to the majority. to
Justice and to common sense. Experience has
shown that negroes are only fit to be servants.
Nature has mt fitted them To rule. There IS.
therefore. a reaction. and the theory hroachei by
Robespierre and the other violent extremists and
hloodhounds Of the French revolution is found
tn be fallacions By the true touchstone of all new
theories-experiment.
Never has Great Britain adopted any measure
which her wiscst statesmen have 80 much regret
ted "a emancipation in her Vest Indian colonies.
They find that IL his literally ruined those once
Furnishing possessions. for the simple reason that
the negro in a state of freedom will no. work, be
comes the slave of vice. ard relapses into the
condition of a savage. 1t was envy of the supe
,inrity of the American republic. in consequence
of its system of slave labor. that promnted Brit
ish statesmen to inaugurate a crusade against IL,
and to encourage the propagandism of anti
slavery societies in our midst. in order to drag
the Southern States down to the same level as the
West Indies. and thus to permanently destroy
both North and South: but the result of the re
action in the U Iited States will be that the Abo-
lition leaders will all be banished from the conn
try or hanged. and il will be made a penal of
Tense of the highest magnitude against the digni-