Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-12

be military empire, with AT the powers, execu
tive, legislative. and even Judicial, derived from
one man in Washington.
Politics I'm Missourf-Speech of Major
General r. p. Blair .at St. Louis
September 24th-The Radicafs Re
Pudiated--Chase Denounced. dc.
II is no argument to say that he (Gov Gam
ble) has made bad appointments, that be has
done this that and the other that is wrong and
improper, that is no argument for breaking down
this Government in an illegal and unconstituton
al manner. If, my friends, the government OF
the State can be displaced at the will of a set of
politicians. otherwise than by the forms of law,
we shall sacrifice our republican institutions and
run down into a sort of Mexican republic. where
Presidents Judges. &C., made by pronuncia-
mentoes. The people of this State are not pre-
pared to degrade themselves to this standard Of
government. We are a people who desire that
there shall be stability, dignity and respectabity
in our government. We are all a race of people
to fight it out rather than submit. All these men
who we're entering upon this career of rebellion,
all these men who make our great contest for our
national existence degenerate into a revolution
like that which afflicted France in the last centu-
ry, these men who are following in the footsteps
OF the jacobns of the French revoluton-who are
demanding the guillotine-who constitute them
selves judges, witnesses and execationers alike
| tell them to beware They will not find sub
missive people They will find Grondists of a
different stamp-a Robespierre will never live.
Cheers.
Their Robespierres and Dantons will never
live TO exercise the authority which they covet
to immediate people who differ from them in
opinions. But they will find themselves travelling
the road to the gallows. There is no way to deal
with such people Ii is idle to discuss this ques
ton with men constituted as these men are. Why.
it was related to me by gentlemen whom /
know as thoroughly reliable that he held con
versaton the other dsy with man who belongs
now to this jacobin faction. that once knew to
be one of the most temperate, wise and sagaeous
men in this State. but that has become so
iBbued with this spirit-tbis jacobnical and rev.
olutionary sprit-that he declared to this gentle
man that 1.-THE oppOsers of the radicals in this
State must go out of the State-that they could
not live in the State together" He said, also,
that 'he did not care so much about the negro"
The fact is he wanted to get rid of the negro and
the negro question:; but the opposers of the rad
cal party. their Opponents-their enemies, as he
described them-must go out of the State.
Now, my friends. il is about time to see who
will go out of this State. Applause For nv
part. when they commence that overt act of ex-
pelling those men who are opposed 10 their fanat-
ical aud revolutionary doctrines, Lshal feel in
clined, wherever may he upon the face of this
earth, / shall feel inclined to come back to this
State and try the issue with them [Applause
GEN. EwING's ORDER DENOUNCED AS THE SUFFER-
FUGE OF AN IMBEciLE
Why, certainly, my friends. And having been
| so long absent from Missouri | cannot omit on
| this occasion, 10 express my astonishment that,
| because the commander of this department could
not provide against that hellish and diabolical
scheme of Quantrill TO destroy the people of
I.aw IL Oh h.
the head of man to devote one entire slice of the
State of Missouri. thirty-fve miles deep, to de-
vastaton rapine and murder; that man calling
| himself military man, could have allowed him
self to become excited and unmannered as to
depopulate tract OF thirty FIVE miles deep, the
whole breadth of Missouri. because he had not
the force. and the hardihood and the courage to
follow Quantrill and bis brigands Ii is the
| subterfuge of an imbecile. Applause
| Our innocent people-twentv thousand of
them-with their women and children, are to be
punished because they cannot hunt out and find
| Quantrill. And then this other man--no better
than Quantrill--Lrne [great applause lis he TO
| be allow Ell to come into Missouri and to do deeds
which, according to his own account, blacken
him black as the deeds which Quantril did
at lawrence did him? Applause and hisses.
| have seen a speech delivered by him since he
came back from his search after Quantrill, in
/ WHiCil TIC tOOk NtTN goOu pains not 10 unQ nlm,
but he followed him into the State of Missouri,
piaging and destroying, and he came
across n man by the name of Hook, who
| proieSsed to be the best Union man in Jack
son county. This man Hook. upon being inter-
rogated. admitted that he had seen some of the
guerrillas and then. il is reported that some one
| inquired of Lane what beca me of this man Hook.
and he replied: In hell, left him in the hands
OF the execntioners' Ii is not pretended that
1 had .lO I'll tfaa af
fair; that is not pretended. even by his murderer
and vet he was inundated He was put into the
hands of the executioaer, according to Jim Lanes
story, and the only palliation | can find for Jim
Lime is that he is such an internal liar that no
| one believes that story he told it. Laughter
and applause.] Aud there is suspicion even
that he Is debased aud degraded enough to boast
of a murder commitfei. when he even did not
have the audacity to attempt it. Applause J.
But, nv friends, there are those in this faction
in Missouri who Justify this desoaton of a large
portion of the State, and look on it just re
tribution. | do not believe there is military
commander who, because a band OF men six or
eight hundred strong infested a region of coun-
try-men who are outlaws and marierers-would
find it necessary destroy the whole people and
| their property. and drive them out and strip them
Of their territory. can find no excuse for it ex-
cept in the imbecility of the man who makes the
order, and who visits upon puor and helpless
people the penalties he had not the power or
ability to visit upon the real perpetrators Of the
outrage at Lawrence.
SECRETARY CHASE NO BETTER THAN JEFF. DAVIS.
There are still other points, my friends upon
which had intended to touch One among the
most important (and which do not feel at liber-
ty to omit to mighty is question which has taken
some prominence in midst, in regard to the
free and unrestricted navigation of the Mississippi
| Wa b0 apci
tive upon this question the people of the North
west have always been. We know how il thrilled
every heart when the first gun fired from the
{ nights Of Vicksburg against the commerce of the
: country, passing by upon the broad bosom of the
, Mississippi river We know that every man in
the Northwest with one voice exclaimed: at
never can be permitted that the Mississippi rivel
can belong TO any other than our people. or any
other than our Government, that the commerce
OF that river shall be unrestricted" That wa.
the unaniurous sentiment of all the people of the
{ Northwest Ii was so well understood that ever
the secessionists-that JEFF Davis with the Con
gress at Montgomery, sought to allay what hs
knew and felt would arouse the anger of tn,
Northwest, by declaring that they did not intenc
10 obstruct the navigation of the Mississippi river
or restrict its commerce.; and / believe a resolu
ton is now extant, passed by the secession con
vention in the State of Louisiana, when II at
I tempted to secede from the Union. in which
declaration was made to the effect that they die
/, not expect, that they did not wish or intend q
obstruct the navigation of the Mississippi river
Our armies were eager to rush to the field afte
an embargo was placed upon the river and ii
commerce, and they broke it down. The val
liant hosts of the Northwest broke through ant
: destroy ed all distractions against the commerc'
Of the Missippi river. But my friends, we found
we were no better off after we broke down left
= Davis distractions than we were before-tha