Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-06
Politics IN uIs.ouri-~Peech of Major
General .. q. Hiair at ST Louis
september 9ith-The Radicals tie
pudiated--Cha-e Denounced, &c.


l. l. nu Argument &, -,y that he Gov Gim
lie bas made bad appointments. that be has
lone thi- that and the other. that Is wrong aud
improper that j. no argument for breaking down
his Government ia al illegal aud uncoustitutiOn-
n manner II. nv friends. the government Of
he State can be displaced at the will OF a set of
politicians otherwise than by the forms Of law.
We sh,ll sacrifice our republican Institutions and
run down into a -nrf Of Mexican republic where
Presidents Judges g.. ere mute ~ pronunca
mentue- Tie pcop'e 1i thi- State are not pre-
patei 80 ee.isse th@n-else- To- sti- standard of
government We are a people VIM desire that
there shall be st,tillts dignity sLd responsibility
in our government We are all race of people
10 fght IL out rather than submit All these men
who were entering upon this career OF rebellion.
all these men who make our great contest Tor our
national existence degenerat into a revolution
like tnat which af cted France in the last centu-
~, these meu who are following in the footsteps
OF The scobins Of the French revoGtion-who are
dem ,ndng the guilOtne-sho constitute them
sels - Judges witnesses and execuioners alike
I tell them Ia be~arel They will not find sub
m s.ive people They will find Girondists of
different stamp-a Robespierre will never live
Cheer
Their RobespieTes and Dantons will never
live to exercise the authority which they covet.
to immediate 4 people who differ from them in /
the road to the sallows. There Is no way 10 deal
with such people Ii j. idle TO discuss this cues /
ton with men constituted a. these men are Why. /
il was related to me by gentlemen whom 4
know as thoroughly reliable, that he held con |
versaton the other day with mn who belongs
now TO this jacObin faction. that once knew TO
be one OF the most temperate, wise aud sagaciOus
men in this State but that man has become so
imbued with this spirit-this acObinical and rev
bo daala rod tn
man that ''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 che 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 radi
cal party. their opponents--their enemies, as he
described them-must go out OF the State.
Now, my friends. il is about time 10 see who
will go out of this State. Applause For nv
part. when they commence that overt act OF ex
pellng those men who opposed TO their taHat
ical and revolutionary doctrines, | shall feel IN
cued, wherever nay lie upOn the face OF this
e,rth shall feel inclined 10 cone back to this
State and t'y the issue with them Applause
GEN. EwING's ORDER DENOUNCED AS THE sUBrER-
FUGE OF Az IMBEciLE
WHY. certainly, my friends And having been
80 long absent from Missouri. | cannot omit. on
this occasion, 10 express my establishment that,
because the commander of this department could
not provide against that hellish and ditbOcal
scheme oi Quantrl to destroy the people of
/ Lawrence. Kansas, il should have entered into
i the head Of man to devote one entire slice OF TIE
I Stiie Of Missouri. thirty five miles deep, to de-
vastation. rlpne and murder; that man calling
himself military man. could have allowed him
| self to become 80 excited and unmannered as 10
I 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
4 follow Quantrl and his origands 1t is the
suh,eriuge of an imbceile Applause
\ Our innocent peopIe-twentv thousand of
/ them-with their women and children, are to be
punished because they cannot hunt out and mud
4 Qusntrl And then this other mat-nO better
| than Quantrill--Lene great applause lis he TO
he allowed 10 com. into NJ sSour and to do deeds
| which according To his own account, biacken
! him N black as the deeds which Quantrill did
| at L,wrence did him? Applause and Kisses
81 | have seen speech delivered by him since he
!: came back from his se,rch after Quantril. in
!. which he took very good pains not to find him
but he followed him into the State OF Missouri,
!: pillging aud destroying, and he came
, across "A man by the name of Hook, who
profeSsed to he the best Union man in Jack
!: son county This man Hook, upon being inter.
!, rogated admitted that he bad seen some OF the
/ guerrilhs and then il il reported that some ont
q inquired of / me hat bees me of this man Hook
8 and he replied: In hell | left him in the hand:
= of the executiouers IL il not pretended tha
Hook had anvth ne to do with the Lawrence at
fair; that Is not pretended. even by his murderer
:. and vet he was inundated He vas put into thu
hands ot the executoaer. according To Jim Lane
u story. anil the only pilaton can find tor jim
7 Lane Is that he j. such an internal liar that M
! one believes IN Il story rs he told 1t. L1ughte
.. and applause And there i a suspicion ever
. that hes ceha>ed and degraded enough to boas
of murder committed. when he even did no
have the audtclry To attempt II. Applause ]
But. nv friends there are those IN this tacto
81 il Missouri who Justify this desolarion of larg
portion of the State. and look on it as just re
t tribuion do not believe there is a militar
commander who, because a band OF men six q
: esht hundred strong infested region of cOun
"a trv-men who are outlaws and murderers-woul
- find il necessary To DESTROY the whole people an
a their property. and drive them out and strip ther
Of their territory can find excuse for il e,
cept in the mhecilIty of the man who makes IN
orier and who visits upon poor and helpes
: people the penalties he had not the power
Al ability TO visit upon the real perpetrators of ii
9 on ra re at Lawrence
y SECRETARY CHASE no BETTER THAN JEFF DAvI
" There are still other points, my friends. upC
4 which bud intended to touch One among I'll
ne most important (aud which do not feel ut be
~ " TO omit 10 night is a question which has take
:. some prominence in our midst. in regard to q
: free and unrestr ced navigation OF the MiSslSslp
river Loud applause We know how sens
he tive upon this question the people of the Mort
h. west have always been. We know how il thrill
every heart when the first Gun fired from d
nights of Vicksburg against the commerce OF Il
country. passing by upon the broad bosom OF Z
or Missis.inni river We know that every man
'y' the Northwest with one voice exclaimed: g
= never can be permitted that the Mississippi riv
dc can belong TO any other than our people, or a
~ other than our Government, that the CONNER
eE of that river shall be unrestricted That W
'ly the unanimous sentiment of all the people OF {
ay Northwest. 1t was so well understood that ev
OF the ecessionists-that eff Davis, with the Go
OK gress az Montgomery, sought TO allay what
ne knew and felt would arouse the anger OF
Northwest toy declaring that they did not inte
TO obsiruct the navigation of the Mississlpp rlv
=; or restrict it, commerce; and believe reso
- ton il now extent, passed by the secession &C
- ventiun i'm the Stte OF LOUISIANA, when u
=, tempted to secede rom the Union, in which
declaration was made to the effect that they
not expect that they did not wish or intend
lhs ohstruct the navigation of the Mississippi rlv
Our armies were eager to rush t. the field at
In m embargo was placed upon The river and
al commerce. and they broke il down. The Y
M, liant hosts OF the Northwest broke through a
iois DESTROYED all distractions iiusi the CONNIE
he of the Mssipri river Bat my friends We TO,
CRY Ne were no better of after We broke down j
an Davis ob>truelons than were besore-t
io, Chase had taken jeff Davis place. l.,