Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-23

restoredi The war might have been avoid
ed at one time by reasonable concessions
and boasrubie compromise Can these aeen
ces avail nov? The Administration will
offer nore, and makes car the only
remedy Very well: The administration has the
control Of these questions, and wo submit. as
good ciliz. 2. TO its mod OF settlement. Then
let tie Wa. proceed. u has bad a million of men
and .ifeen er eighteen hundred millions of dol.
lars. Ind yet lie progress has been but slow. The
reason for this slow progress is. il has issued too
many pr~cciam=tions ard enacted too many laws
for confiscatiOna and vengeance IL has not done
enough of fighting. The Democracy would have
managed things differently. And howI tile Re-
publicans will ask. by lighting and putting down
armed reLels-calllng on The people of the South
To ab insion the lea ers. return TO Il e protection of
the old atg, under all the guarantees of the Con
stitution. If hard fighting rgainst those ia arms,
ami love and kindness toward those not in arms,
will not put down the rebellion, We have no
remedies TO offer and no advice 10 give. They
are the great agencies which civilized nations
apply~to iEsurrectionary populations, and they
generally succeed where the rulers have been
alone governed by wisdom. honesty and modera
ton. This would he the Democratic policy in
conducting this war between 4 kindred people.
That party, If in power to-day, would put down
tbs rebellion, and restore the Union as
it WAS, in six months, and by the
honest and lawful method of subduing
eombataHtS and protecting those not in arms
against the Government. 1t would make no war
on States and populations. 1t would overthrow
the guilty rebel wherever found in arms. 1t
would contscaie nothing that did not belong to
a fighting traitor to the Union. 1t would issue
no p~roclamations to negroes, and denounce no
penalties against the innocent which il had not
the power to enforce. A Democratic Admins
tration would see that our victorious legions
marched wherever there was an armed foe to
conquer, and iberating, as they went along, not
the negro, but the uhite people of the South from
the despotism under which they are said to
groan. 1t would make no war on the helpless,
and raise no hand against the innocent. 1t
would make war in earnest against the rebel SOL
diers, and abandon all schemes not connected
with the overthrow of those who .Fgtf against the
Union. 1t would reject every Abolition scheme,
and avoid every Abolition schemer, and tell that
class of traitors that this war was for the restora-
ton of the white mans Union and Government,
and that he might stand aside, if that programme
did not suit him. a Democrats Administra-
ton, having thus elevated the objects of the war,
in the sight of Heaven and of mankind, would
call upon the people who really love the
Union for Its own sake, l., rally for rs preserya-
lion, and in sixty DAYS il would have half a mil
lion of nec volunteers in The field There would
he no need of transcription acts then. The people
pould understand rhat that Uar msGRt That
appeal would touch The heart OF every true man in
the nation. IL would reach every hres;de in the
and. The citizens would march as a band of
bi brothers, under the ensign of our beloved coun-
try, Inscribed on its ample fo.is the words of the
matches WEBSTER One Union-one COnsti-
tn on-one Desti ~"
But the day of the nations deliverance uiH
come. Heaven and the people will save it from
the treason and treachery of those who assail il
by arms in the South, and by proclamations,
edictS, revolution and con>cTiptiuns at the North.
The Democratic party is yet a pOcer in the coun
try. Its manly proportions are not dwaried nor
rs powers impaired Its eve Is bright, and it
looks with undimmed vision to the cycle OF yetrs
of glory before our now bleeding country It's
vigorous hand Is unpalsied by age. and its strong
arm ~brawney with the s;news of honest labor
and unfalterins courage. IL UiH yet SAGE The
nation IL is an organic ,Iion which exists be
Cause it loves the Constitution, aud il cannot
dsband while that that Constitution survives. Ii
kept this people at pence with each other for the
sixty years il had control of the Government,
and it will bring them together again. It's doc
trines are suited to the genius # free institutions.
1t teaches the political equality of the great white
race appointed TO control this asylum OF the ma
tons. 1t is a living. moving and never diving
! uttAut tld - " O. ~ Nt tUcSc DtOBttS
hare equal rights, and that none but traitors deny
their sovereign power TO fashion aud institute
such State govern menis ms 10 them may seem
Just. This is Democracy. Lpok tack to its his
tory. That history is full OF glorious %recollec
tons. During its newer in the government oil
the country. it added more territory to the Union
than was embraced in the original thirteen Rev
olutiOnary States. IL presided at the baptism oil
the new sisters which have been added to the
ran a..I n<a anpf-n nna an -.,t-p
of her domestic institutions. The nation, under
the guidance of the Democratic party, expanded
in all the elements OF true greatness. No State
received injustice nc lis Hands, and no class was
oppressed ~ lis legislation. The rich man found
security for his Possessions and the poor man was
elevated by it, equitable and Just laws. 1t pan
dered to no passion, because its action was
based upon the great and enduring principles
of constitutional freedom. 1t suppressed 40
investigation, for it feared none. Duiing a long
career of Executive and Congressional control,
as has been well said by a distinguished citizen,
iii never provoked a rebellion among her own
people"-it was loved and respected by thOSe
whom il governed in kindness and peace-it was
feared and honnred among the nations of the
earth, and gave 10 mankind the highest type OF
that perfect government so long looked for by
our race These Democratic administration
can say even more than that. No man was ever
arrested by them without due process of law-nO
spy, or pump. or willing witness ever found audi
ence with hem, or received iruu their rulers the
hard-earned wages of the informer or The dnpe.
No sedition lAw or proclamation ever proceeded
from IA Democratic President or Congress. No
man WITS ever arrested or punished Tor words
spoken or written. except by the ordinary laws Of
libel and Islander. There were no cellar dungeons
or garnet bastiles in DAYS of Democratic rule and
government There were no Provost Mar>hdls,
nor crawSem sxcenh-rts, scattered over the coun
Ties aud townships OF this now too much governed
land. No election was ever trammeled by test
oaths and bayonets. No white freeman ever bore
"A pass upon his person., in order to travel from
his home All these degredations were reserved
for the coming o. a Regubl can administration
the frs; advent uf that sccurge upon the nation
The people have already decreed that it shall BIZ
the last!
These are some of the principles of govern
ment, ard the rights OF persons. which true
patriots are called upon 10 defend. They are o
i~nestimabie value TO Us rs citizens, and ''form-
liable to tyrants only" The Democratic organ
~ization, and its conservative allies. have this work
TO perform. 1t is a work in defense of the Con
s%titutian, liberty aud social uider. The people
are aroused to a sense of the dangers which
threaten the nation. They have reason to dis
trust those who rule at Washington, for .'they
nave spoken with a forked tongue" They have
not redeemed their pledges. And where is the
remedy for these mi~deedsg IL is in the peaceful
resort TO that great rectifer of human error--th,
boiI0t Dor To be true TO the Union, we must bC
faithful 10 our own honor. That honor require:
that we preserve the Government of our fathers
and that armed and unarrned tire son, wherever
they raised their head, should be o. erthrown. Ii
requires that the Southern rebellion be put down
and put down 10y the arms of the Republic. Ii
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