Indiana State sentinel., 1863-02-23

next May; and Mr.. Lincoln tod ten. butter, a
few days ago, that Governor Seymour says the
draft cannot be enforced in New York" and now
it seems that Congress will not pass the conscrip
ton bill; and If it is passed, il seems 1.-THE
people wont'tbe -conscripted. u -
Indeed" as a member OF Congress remarked
to day, eff the people of Warsaw are resisting
the conscription, will not the people Of America
do she sameI Are our people less free than the
people of Poland? Or is the fate of Poland to
become 0ursl"
The efforts of the fnanciers to avert the evils
of the financial schemes of the Administration,
which mentioned in my letter of Feb. u, seem
to have been attended with some measure of sue
cess. If those schemes take the form of law at
ALL it seems now that they will be so amended
as to produce less mischief than feared:
and it is possible that they may not be passed
at all
1t is no longer a secret that the present expedi-
ton TO Charleston is one of greater magnitude
than has ever before been fitted out during the
war. 1t is much larger, both in men and guns,
than either the Peninsular expedition of Gen. Nc
Clellan, or the famous Burnside expedition to
Roanoke. while it is accompanied by feet Of
ironclad vessels and mortar boats that neither of
them had Gen. Hunters troops, already on the
spot. and now strongly reinforced, have been
joined by the whole of Gen. Fosters troops late
y in North Carolina and about one third of the
army of the Potomac has now been sent down to
CO operate with them. Yet the expedition will
fail. statement of the causes of that failure
must be reserved for another letter. can only
say now that Gen. Foster, in hopes of removing
those causes, las left the army near Charleston,
and is said to be at the War Department now.
No event has caused more alarm or greater
CONSERVATION among the ultra Republicans and
radicals here than the recent message of Gov.
Curtin. of Pennsylvania. in regard to the Illegal
and arbitrary arrests of the Administration. Gov
Curtin IS an amiable man, a sound lawyer, and
has proved himself to be an able and faithful
Governor. He has been, up % this time, one of
the most steadtast supporters of the Administra-
ton. No State Executive, unless it be Governor
Morgan, of New York, has rendered such eff
cient services in the way of raising troops and
placing them at the disposal Of the War Depart
ment. The radicals who control the President
counted matter of positive certainty upon
finding IN him a ready tool to execute their will,
if that 'sill was only expressed by the President.
And. up to this time Governor Curtin. in his
zeal for the success of what lie has fondy he
lieved to be the cause Of the Union, and anxious
TO uphold what he has regaried as "the Govern
ment." has, indeed complied without question
with every requirement of the President and has
upheld the latter in all his acts. notwithstanding
that some of them have been maniieStly tyranni-
cal and despOtic. The Governor hoped that
these acts of despotism and tyranny were only
committed under the pressure of actual military
necessity, and would not be repeated.
But the Governors eyes are now opened to
the truth. He now perceives that he has been
made the unconscious tool of men whom he de-
spises. and with good reason; that the unjust and
illegal arrests of innocent citizens Of Pennsylva-
MIA are but parts of II gigantic scheme, ON the
part of the radicals in Congress and in the Cabi
net, to subvert the liberties of the people, to
change the whole form of our Government and
to convert it into a despotsm. Therefore it is
that, in this message he has taken such decided
stand yainst arbitrary arrests The language OF
the message is mild, but it implies more than it
SAYS. The action of Philadelphia in the case of
Mr. Boileau, and the action of the Pennsylvania
Legislature in the case, furnish the real i'm
port of the Governors message. 1t is equivalent
to saying that Pennsylvania now takes her stand
alongside of New York, New Jersey and Illinois;
! and that hencefOrth her citizens shall not be
dragged beyond the State limits to be ncarcerated
in BastileS for pretended offenses.
The radicals here understand very well what
Governor Curtin means, and hence their cOnster.
nation. Their indgnity, however, will be pow
| erleSs TO stop the revolution which has now com
menced Ii is evident that the people in all the
States are now thoroughly aroused to the dan.
gers Lnal threaten Iueuls anu 10 Lne plOtS Wnlcn
their unworthy and faithless servants here have
been forming for the subversion of the Consttu-
ton. The action of the Legislatures of Illinois,
New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania; of
the public meetings that are being held every
where in the North and of the Governors of
New FORK and New jersey, are the exponents of
the rH Of the people If those hints are needed
| by the President and by the crew of unprncipled
and reckless Aboltionsts who control him, il will
be well. If not, the revolution will go on, and
no man can tell where it will end. The reserved
powers of the States and OF the people, expressly
mentioned in the Constitution, have not vet been
called into action But the people are well aware
of their existence, aud they are familiarzing
themselves with the contemplation of their exer-
else. The liberties of the nation not vet lost;
they are only imDeriled The Constitution Is not
yet subverted; it is only threatened with subver-
sion. The people do not forget that Caesar had
his Brutus, and Charles the First his Cromwell;
and it becomes Abraham Lincoln and his Admin
istration 20 profit by the example of those illus
/ trlOuS tvrantS