Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-21


credit Of the State TO minister to partisan aggrandirement
and private emolument.
Mr. WILLIAMSON, Of Putnam, offered the fol
lowing. which was also unanimously adopted:
Rsso,ved That while We join hands with all loyal
support OF Government IN the present crisis, and
have separate or party action TO emharrass our au-
seek aid strength and In suppress
ing this rebellion desire 20 meet and consult togeth
and for that purpose authorize the Chair to oppont
Committee 20 consist of one from each Congressional
District including from the city Of Indianapolis, who
shall the Central Executive Committee Of the I'm
ion War Democracy. with in the majority Of their
snch other business as may come before then
The Chair appointed the following
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
The following were appointed on this body
Dist.
/. William z. Edison. of Posey.
= John / Morrison, of Washington.
2. Nathaniel I. Hauser, of Btrtholomew.
1. James Gavin. of Decatur.
,. Chiuncey L Shipley of Delaware
6. Austin H. Brown. VIM. J. Elliot, lndianap-
oils.
T. Elisha Peyton, of Clay
s. James II. Stewart. of Carroll
3. Chauncey Carter. of Cass.
10. David p. Whedou. of Allen.
III. John brownlee, OF Grant
AUSTIN H BRowx offered the following resolu
ton, which was untnlm )uslv adopted
Resolced That the Central Executive Committee be in
strucsd 70 correspond with the Committees of Other
States and confer with them 20 the propriey Of
gaining the Union War Democracy of the Nation.
GEN JOHN A. M'cLERNAyD's SPEECH
This distinguished gentleman was introduced
by General Kimball as Moses come from the
Egypt of Illinois, chief ruler in the syna gogue
aud patriot and n soldier in whom there WIS no
guile The General proceelei. alluiing briefly
To- the position in which he was placed bv reason
OF Grants order for his military arrest becauae
of his conduct before Vicksburg The first
point he made that the Mississippi must be
kept open to national commerce The second,
| that the time for compromise was passed Polit
ically he went into this matter and give Buchan
an and Democrats generally thunder. Well we
may saw that he went very deep into the slavery
question. and declared that the sword and
not the votes OF citizens deposited in the ballot
box should decide the matter. No compromise
line between what he called freedom and slavery
shall be established
Third, that the rebellion was gratutous and
unprovoked. and proceeded to prove it histori
cally. philosophcally and scientifically. and show
ing that the whole object thereof was the aggran
dizement OF the slave power, by the conquest of
Cuba and Central America.
Fourth. that twenty millions of freemen in the
North could put down the six millions in the
South When and where we're Mortimer ever
subdued? Dbl not the Goths and Vandals over
run imperial Rome2 HIVE not our armies from
the Potomac 70 the Rio Grande been victorious?
Have not the stronghold- of the enemy. Vicks
burg and Port Hudson. fallen before Us? The
man who says the North cannot conquer the
Snuth only wishes II would be so
Fifth. with regard to parties Here the gifted
and classical speaker ransncked all ancient and
modern history bringing Pisistratus and Caesar
Augustus and Cromwell and other round heads
~ illustrate the evils of pIrties His ausions 10
what the French and Hungarian democracy had
done against crowned heads were truly eloquent
and sublime. aud only lacked the essential quail
" of historical truth. He wound M this branch
OF his subject by declaring that any MN who i'm
peached his democracy traitor to the Dem
ocratc Ten Commandments. AS he understood
them.
The speakers sixth point relative to what
be himself had done in Congress He had dra wn
up the strongest resolution ever offered, to the
effect that any mount of money and any amount
of men should be pledged and voted to vigor-
ousv prosecute the
The seventh, eighth and ninth points we omit
for want of room, in u measure, but principally be
cause there nothing in EN- We take occasion
10 remark that the distinguished gentleman. mad
vertently. perhaps, undertook to say that the
three hundred thousand soldiers in the army were
denounced by those he characterized "a peace
men at home This is an hAllucinstion General
McCernand labors under. coming of reading too
many abolition papers Il Is pity that such an
undoubtedly brave man should lend himself 20
retail such slang in the face and hearing of re
spectacle citizens, who know better and ONLY
laugh Mt him
The maguifcen, and ilustrious General then
told the novel and original story about house
on IRE. and folks disputing about putting it out.
patented in the beginning by Joseph A Wright
Minister Plenipenti mary TO Hamburg appointed
by A. Lincoln 10 exhibit hydraulic rams and hair
balls extracted from the stomachs of Virginia
heifers
Well we are glad we have got nearly to the
end RHETORICAL and metaphorical was the ele
CANT allusiOn of the brave General to Aris;ides
who was ostraczed. aud other gentlemen whose
names. as he said. were written in history Mr.
Plutsrch and old Mr.. Rollin furnished him with
few facts in this connection.
Beautiful aud brilliant vas his preoration paw
inc glowing tribute TO the 9th army corps be
fore Vicksburg. No doubt each one of the men
of that immortal division of the Army of the
Mississippi behaved as well a the General said,
but Gen. Grant could not exactly see his part of
the glorious performance in which the sons and
fathers and brothers of those who heard him fell
slaughtered bv hundreds Grant himself said
that McClernand. bv his wonderful tactics before
Vicks5urg increased our losses fifty per cent.
rxoF. KIDD.
A man Ly this name then appeared and recited
some dogeerel TO his own apparent infinite salts.
faction or all the ha nbugs in the world. trav.
cling and vide mouth elocutionist beats US and
the public generally
Mr. a II BRowX offered resolution instruciing
the Central Committee OF the War Democracy OF
Indiana 10 correspond with Central Committees
of other States. in order periec, the orga MIA
ton OF the party Oh permanent footing.
LETTERS
General LOGAN. OF Illinois, DICKINSON. of New
York, Governor T0D. JONI BRot Gil and SrAS
LEY MATHEWS. OF OHIO. and also the Superin
tendent Of the Michigan Central road. aud Gen
Hovey, we're heard from the Secretary in an au-
dible voice reading what they wro;e
GKS. pUNoST
Followed at urgent solicitation. and made one OF
his peculiar speeches Tie assured the W ar De
mocracy. although he hsd resigned out OF the
army, that he VS. with them. he vas awfully