Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-16
The elections.

has teen the success of the Administration ticket
BY very small majority in each State. The
causes OF that result demand the consideration Of
conservative men. 1t is perfectly evident, on a
view OF the Northern States that thew NAV with
three or four exceptions. be carried for the con
servatve ticket on the Presidential campaign, il
the conservative party are wise, and il becomes
them TO study the result this fall with view 70
that wisdom
Ii is not 10 be concealed that the Administra-
ton has exercised a controlling influence over
the late elections, by sending home picked SOL
diers TO vote particular ticket. No concealment
of this is attempted On Saturday last the omni-
bus in which we rode down Broadway was
stopped, and the street actually blocked up BY a
flow of several hundred soldiers just of the cars,
rushing like flock of sheep across the city to-
ward the trains on which they going out TO
their voting places The city was thronged with
them for several days. and so bold and barefaced
was this partisan injustice that on Monday last
the radical papers, such as the Tribune and the
Times, made no secret of il. but published the
following dispatch conspicuously:
"WAsHISeroS, Sunday, Nov L.
For the last three days an unusually large
number of soldiers have secured furloughs for
fifteen days, and have been leaving the city in
extra as well as regular trains for their homes,
particularly for New York. One of the railroad
agencies has been for several days and nights
and still is open to furnish tickets to the travellers
including convalescents from the hospitals"
This sharp trckery PROFESSIONALLY made
difference OF several thousand in the vote in our
State, and the same power remains in the same
hands and will be used again to effect similar
result. We must therefore face this fact in max
ing calculations for the Presidential campaign.
How we are to overcome our fraudulent oppo-
nents, who possess and who spent millions of
public money on elections, to enable them tn
keep power in their hands7 The Administration
gave transportation to these soldiers, sent home
to vote, making an expense of not less than
half million of dollars, including the time and
pay Of the men, which the purse-boldiDg position
has enabled dishonest and untrustworthy men TO
make in controlling our election. How shall we
overcome all this power and fraud7
The question is aseriOns one, but il can be au-
swered in a few words.
The majority of the people IN this country are
conservative. The majority are not radical. The
majority are not for peace at any price," There
are three facts. Among the peace men in the
Democratic party are earnest, anxious and sincere
men. They determined TO stop the war and
save the country from the ruin they think il will
rush on. But they are a minority and they are
pow erless TO effect their own ends. They make
the grand error of distracting the conservative
party, and declining to act with it because their
views are not fully met. The peace men have
contributed in two ways to the failure of the cleo
tons this fall. In Ohio by the folly of attempt
ing to run their ticket. pure and clean. The re-
result teaches them that they are in great mi
nOrity. In New York and Pennsylvania by de-
Ginning to the conservative ticket because il
was peace ticket and by sometimes talking as
loudly and bitterly against il they did against
the Republican ticket.
They have also njured the ticket by loudly
claiming, and insisting in some quarters, that il
was a peace ticket and denouncing those who
would have been willing to vote il not believing
it peace ticket. Thus large numbers of conserv-
atives have voted with the Republicans, because
they were repealed by the ardent peace men.
We do not charge the losses of the late cleo
tons exclusively on the peace party, though in
Ohio il is plain enough that thew we're the men
who lost the State. But they have contributed
largely to the losses by the imprudent and some
times unreasonable nature of their political de-
mands and demonstrations. They forget that
other men, conservative men, desire peace as
much. love it as ardently as they, and that per-
haps the way to attain peace may be altogether
different from their way. The result OF the late
elections show concusiveIy that We cannot attain
peace in their own way. They are minority in
the country. They are unable TO control public
opinion, to change il, or TO resist IL. We all want
peace, and now what shall the peace m IN do,
since they cannot obtain majority even in Ohio2
current which is likely to set the ship on shore.
If you have strong wind, cross as you please.
If you havn't the wind, don't try to head the
current; it will set you back; but enter and sail
with the current. crossing as you 90. You will
thus succeed. The man who ferries YOU over at
Niagara never goes out to head the current. If
be tried it with load he would 20 to the whirl-
pool, or destruction. he rows up the shore in
the eddy, and at length dashes out in the stream,
and he cali
he shoots into It,
Honest sincere patriotic lovers of their coun-
try, among the peace men, should ponder this
lesson about currents.
But they say they cannot conscientiouSly cease
TO oppose the war. So the Abolitionists said
about the fugitive slave law Beware of that
heresy. As to the unconstitutional acts of the
Administration. oppose them firmly and stead
tasty always. Our salvation rests on that. IL
we remove the barriers which conservative oppO-
sition has interposed, the foods Of desPotism
would sweep all liberty away. But since you see
that you cannot, by any possibility, control a
majority Of votes in favor of stopping the war at
once; since you know your platform to be wholly
unavailable for the Presidential campaign, lay il
aside and be content to work with those who viii
have the next best platform according 10 your no.
ton. Ii you can't have 'peace at once" then
be content TO have civilized warfare, if war
must be, and war only and always for peace, con-
Citation and Union whenever the enemy viii
meet US and talk about It,"
Re thoughtful and sensible. and let as work to-
gether to bring this horrible war to an end by
electng President who will conduct il, while il
lasts, the principles of the Constitution and Of
civilization. instead of barbarism, and who will
be more willing, as well as able. TO make peace
than the present Administration Succeed in
that, and we will have peace and Union within
six months after he is President. Recollect al
ways that it takes two parties to make peace,
just a much as it takes TO fight. You would
prefer President who will make peace anyhow.
But vou carrot have such one You surely
see that plainly enough Will you then throw
the whole country into the hands of the Adolf
tionists, because you cannot have it as you want
IL?
We beseech peace men, especially those who
have written to rs on this subject, 20 look calmly
and reasonably at il. and confess bow hopeless il
is for their principles platform to succeed, and
then determine what Is next best TO do.
We must have q conservative President IN
1865. The immense majority in the country is
conservative IL must be united. The party
which has been successful this fall is made up Of
radical abolitonists and conservatives altogether
Those conservatives belong to Us, ought to vote
with us, must be induced 10 vote with Us. The
candidate for the Presidency must be the man TO
bring them 70 Us, and bis principles known and
recognized as those on which all good men OF
every party unite.-fN. Y. Jour. of Com.
False issue.
The radical press Is OF course, making great
deal of capital out of the results Of che recent
State elections, claiming that they indicate a
Republican" victory over the conservative
position as false as could well be taken The
fact Is that the great body Of the Democracy are
in favor of sustaining the government in all con-