Indiana State sentinel., 1863-02-23

any man or any set of men. to operate harmoni
ously and eifectually during the existence of this
Administration for the purpose of doing the conn-
try any good, or taking any important step toward
a final restoration of tie political relations for
merly existing between lhese States
| know, sir, that Senators are constantly talk
ing about the Union. l do not wish TO be ex-
ceeded by an, in. nv devotion to the Ameri-
can Union. have spoken for the Union: have
written for the Union; have fought and acted
for the Union when those who now claim to be its
ardent friends were willing, under certain contin
gcncies, to let il slide But / ask you, sir, what
do Sepators mean by the Unionl IL Is bv what
they mean. not what they say that we must Judge
them. Ii, it is meant by the Union 10 purchase
the negro slaves OF Missouri or elsewhere, and
pay for them out of the peoples money and the
public Treasury. am not for it, If you mean
by the Union the support of these fugitive con-
trlbands, these pariahs of the South who escape
within our military limits, and the feeding and
clothing of these creatures the desertion star
vation, and destitutOn of the soldiers of the Fed
eral army-ii you mean that by the Union, | am
not for it. Ii you mean bs the Union the absorp.
tion by the Federal Government of the reserved
rights of the States and the people, am not forit
But if you mean by the Union the restoration of
the national authority upon every foot of the ma
tOnal soil; if you mean by the Union the preser-
walton of the national fame and of the national
flag; the flag which waved at Bunker HILL at
Saratoga, at Yorktown, at Palo Alto, at Chepul-
tepec, at Shiloh. and at DOnelson-that flag with
not stripe obliterated and with every star ul
dimmed; the only flag in the world which floats
over Il limited Government and a free people-if
you mean that by the Union, am for 1t now and
forever.
| But, sir, it is said as an additional reason why
we should pass this measure, that it will aid the
State OF Missouri in emancipation. The object
is said to be humane and philanthropic. 1t may
be extremely charitable; but | ask you, sir, why
has Congress, why has the General Government
exclusively confined its charities to Africans in
servitude and TO the wants of the negro racer
Are there no other sufferers upon whom this
money might be expended? Whole regiments
now serving under the flag of your country have
! gone unpaid for months The wives and children
of soldiers, vast constituency at home, are beg
| ging daily for bread. / should sooner vote an
] appropriation of ten twenty millions for such
a purpose than for any purpose presented in this
| BILL
| What is our action. and what can be its result?
| Do you call this strengthening the hands of the
| President? Do you call il strengthening the Ad-
minstraton? Do You call it filling up the ranks
of the army and encouraging the Union cause2
/ | say that this course of conduct can bring moth.
ing but danger and dishOnOr upon the country.
1t will be seen that millions of the national Treas
urv are squandered for abolition purposes in Mis-
| souri, aud elsewhere, and that the soldier in the
! field remains unpaid. aud sometimes unfed and
unclOthed. take il that the Senators would show
their devotion to the Union in passing by such
measures rs the one at present urged, and giving
their attention solely and wholly the condition
| of the country, and the wants OF that large con
sttuency of unpurchased and unpurchasable pa
| trOtism which. has shown its love OF country by
bearing arms in the field. Talk about the loyalty
of Mssour-the purchased love OF the prostitute;
] one that has to be bought with money ami paid
for with money. Would you foster and cherish
| that feeling If such existsg | would not dishOuor
the State by saying that believe in its existence;
but would YOU foster and cherish that mercenary
affection to tue destruction of the interests OF all
those portions of our fellow citizens who are de-
manding this money, and demanding in fact all
| the resources and support Oh the Government
which we can possibly give them?
Why should there be an intervention and inter
ference in the case of Missouri Pennsylvania
aud New York were formerly slave States. At
tie close of the Revolution large amount Of
capital was invested in those States in slave prop
erty The institution has disappeared from those
States. and how? By virtue of the voluntary
legislative action of the people and their repre-
sentatives. / ask Senators why should the slave
holders of Missouri be paid for their property out
of the national Treasury any more than theslave-
holders of New York and PENNSYLVANIA Task
those particularly differing with me in political
faith; | ask those Senators who have built up pO-
liticd fortunes up0n their pretended hatred this
institution. and their pretended opposition to
Southern rights. why they now propose to tax the
free people of the loyal North and South why
they propose TO tax the national Treasury for the
special benefit of the STAKEHOLDER, the slave
breeder, and .he slayedriver of MissouriT
Sir, the State which in part represent will
WELD to no State in the COnfederacy in it, devo
ton to the Union Indiana, the gift Of Virginia
tue nation, loves the Union Tor the girers sake.
} She hopes vet to see the mother of States and
statesmen restored and reconciled to all her ch
dren Although the people OF Indiana, at any
time before the existence Of war by the act of the
public enemy, at any time before the Federal Aag
WAS fired upou by the traitor band of South Caro-
lima at Sumter. would have accepted the Crtten-
den proposition the border State prOposuOn or
any of those propositions settlement Of the
difficulties between the sections; vet when war
came, she waged war; not because she desired it,
but because she believed we must have war or
worse: we must either have war or discovered
nationality; we must either war or abandon the
Government 10 its enemies. Indiana still follows
the flag OF the Union. The bones of her gallant
sons fallen in this great struggle mingle in the
soil of every battlefield from Missouri TO the
RappahannOck Indiana now Is not for war-she
never has been she is not for peace she is not for
either OF these things except as a means TO an
end-that end, the restoration of the Union and
the unity OF the States Ii the war is not waged
with that purpose. am for peace to-day. If it
is found that that purpose is impracticabe or i'm
possible. am for Il cessation OF hostilities this
moment
Sir, the people.of Indiana have not gone into
this contest blindlolded. They surveyed the
whole field. They counted the cost. They knew
what it would cost them to make the effort. They
knew it would cost more not to make it. They
are not Tor separation. They are for national
integrity ut whatever cost. and by whatever
MEANS whether begerent or pacific, by which
that object may be effected If mediation is TO
be proposed as settlement, the people of Indiana
{ will ask why the mediation of New York, of New
/, Jersey. of Keutucky, OF Illinois; why the media
ton of these sovereigntieS should not be received
and accepted as welt the mediation of France
or England, either in regard to the termination
of the the policy with which it may be
conducted. They will ask why Crittenden
rejected rs mediator and any one else preierredI
That they will ask. and they will require an an
swer. AS dear The Union is to Indiana, and
as dear as is is to every loyal citizen, it is not of
more value than the rights of the States and the
peOple The same treasure aud the same blood
that | should he willing to expend in the preser
walton of the one | shall spend just as freely in
the security and the protection OF the other
1t is asked, but it has not been answered,
what mower under the Constitution we have TO
make this appropriation. The Chief Magistrate
oil the country, when he introduced the resolution
inauguratng this policy, and since. has declared
that there is no power under the Constitution by
which it can be carried out and effected He has
admitted that it is extra-constitutional and be-