Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29
INDIANAPOLIS, ND, WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 20, 1863

we taH there, what then We will drive IL back
sword in hand, and so help me God, believing
that to be right, am with them. Loud cheers
and cries of !" Goodp Northern gentlemen, on
YOUR action depends the result. You may, with
Gods blessing, present to this country a name
rallying around IL all the elements of this oppo-
sition, and thus we will become so strong that
through the ballot box I'VE shall save the country
But If aname be presented on which we may not
rally, and the consequence is civil war-nothng
more, nothing less, but civil war--I ask then
what is our first duty ?"
Erastus Hopkins, in a speech delivered in the
Republican National Convention of 1856. said:
eff peaceful means fail us and we are driven
TO the last extremity, when ballots are useless
then we will make bullets effective
Francis <. Spinner, now Lincoln's Register oI
the Treasury Department, in a speech made in
1856, said:
Should this (the election of Fremont) fail
no true man would be any longer safe here from
the assaults of the arrogant slave olgarchv, who
would then rule with iron hand. For the free
North would then be left the choice of peaceful
dissolution of the Union, or a civil war; which
would end in the same, or an unconditional
render of every principle held dear by ireemen'
James s. Pike. an editorial correspondent OF
the New York Tribune, and now LlncOn's Min
lister to the Netherlands, has plainly demonstrated
his patriotism These are his words
Il have no doubt that the free and slave States
ought to separate. The Union is not worth sup.
porting in connection with the South"
Carl Schurz. delegate from Wisconsin TO the
Republican National Convention of 1860, and
now LincOlns Minister to Spain, made a speech
in St Louis in 1860, in which he said:
MAY the God in human nature be aroused
and pierce the very soul of our nation with an
energy that shall sweep. as with the bosom OF
destruction, this abOmination from the land
You call this revolution. 1t is In this, we
need revolution; we must. we will have it, Let
it come"
Henry Wilson. Senator from Massachusetts
and the author of the conscription act recently
declared in a speech made at the Tabernacle,
New York, in October of 1855. that
1--WE shall triumph in the end we shall over
throw the slave power of the Republic; we shall
enthrone freedom; shall abolish slavery. We
shall change the Supreme Court of the United
States, and place men in that Court who will be-
leve that prayers will be mpious to Heaven
while we supper. and sustain human slavery"
Joshua r. Giddings, Lincoln's Consul General
to Canada, speaking in the House of Representa-
tIves, March l6, 1854, referring TO a servile in
surrectiOn, said:
81 say to Southern gentlemen. that there are
hundreds and thousands of honest and patriotic
men who will laugh at your calamity, and who
will mock when your fear cometh."
You have all heard of book called "The I'm
pending Crisis 1t was written by n r. Helper
now a foreign Consul or Minister appointed BY
Lincoln. That book contained the deliberate
convictions and intentions of the leaders of the
Republican party. 1t was cordially endorsed by
sixty eight Republican Members OF Congress.
seventeen of them from this State. Here is its
creed:
al That it is solemn duty to abolish sla-
Vpry N he 10 in he atto
l16.
"2. That no man csn be true patriot without
first becoming an Abolitonist. Page I7O.
-. That against Shareholders. as body, we
wage an exterminating war. Page 100.
"a. That the present is the time 10 try the
strength of our arms and that now is the time to
strike. Page l2l-l22
''5 That Shareholders must emancipate the
negroes, will emancipate them for you.
Page 1856.
"That Shareholders are nulsances. and that it
is our imperative duty to abate nuisances. We
propose, therefore. to abolish slavery, than
which strychnine itself is less nuisance Page
1879.
a. That Shareholders are more cruel than
common murderers. Page l49
''o. That all Shareholders are under the
shield OF a perpetual license to murder. Page
l4I.
"9 That if the negroes had a chance, they
would be delighted to cut their masters throats
Page l5S.
40. That we are welded 70 one purpose, from
which no earthly power can divorce us. We are
determined to abolish slavery at all hazards
Page l40.
oil That there is scarcely spark of honor
or magnanimity among Shareholders. Page
I53
"l2 That now is the appropriate time to strike
Il = II
As specimen of the spirit of this book
will read this short extract from the goth
page:
Thus, terror engenderers of the South, have
we fully and frankly defined our position we
have no notifications to propose, no compromise
to offer. nothing TO retract. Frown, sirs fret
foam, prepare your weapons, threat, strike, shoot
stab, bring on civil war, dissolve the Unon nav,
annhate the solar system if You will.-do all
this, more, less. better, worse. anythinG,-do
what YOU will sirS, YOU can neither foil nor in
timidate rs; our purpose is as firmly fixed as the
eternal pillars of Heaven; we have determined
to abolish slavery, and 50 help me God, we will
Take this to bed with you sirs and think about
it. dream over it, and let us know how you feel
70. morrow morning.
And this book bear in mind. was cordially
endorsed" by sixty eight Republican members of
Congress. It was also endorsed by William H.
Seward in letter which read thus
AUBURN, June %, 1857
GENTLEMEN.-I received from you copy of
your recent publication, entitled the Impending
Crisis of the South" and have read it with deep
attention. 1t seems to me a work of great merit,
rich, yet accurate in STATISTICAL information and
logical analysis and dare not doubt that it will
exert great influence on the public mind, in ia
vor of the cause of Truth and Justice.
am, gentlemen. very respectfully
Your obedient servant,
W. H. SEWARD.
As the clergy now form an important element
in our politics, majority of them having ceased
TO teach the doctrines of Christ and of the Saints
of the New Testament, and being devout wor
shippers at the shrine of St. John Brown, it NAV
be well to read few extracts from their teach
ings In doing this, will confne myself to
few of the leading Republican clergymen not
noticing their echoes, the clergymen of lesser
note
OF the political parsons, Henry Ward Beecher
is, perhaps, the most widely known. In his cee
brated New Haven speech, in which he declared
that "Sharp's rife is truly moral agency he
said:
"The people will not levy war, nor inaugurate
a revolution even to relieve Kansas, until they
have first tried what they can do by voting If
this peaceful remedy should fail to be applied
this year, then the people will count the cost
wisely and decide for themselves, boldly and
firmly. which is the better way, to rise in arms
and throw off a government worse than that OF
old King George. or endure it another four years,
and then vote again,
In the same speech he also adds:
q The Constitution is the cause of every divi-
sion which this vexed question of slavery has
ever occasioned in this country. Ii has been the
fountain and father of all our troubles, by at
tarnntino IN hold t0Cether as recOncled two