Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-25
The Change OF an few Years.

He noticcd recently, IN contemporary,
s,a4ment that some soldiers riding along the
I'D tsofa neighboring city heedles-Iy rode over a
chi and thatit would probably be cripple for life.
Thz reading OF this circumstance brought TO
recollection the observations made by al inteli
ger{ French gentleman upon the character of our
pol2ic institutions after careful personal re-
ve& of their workings in all sections Of the then
Unhed States. some years ago. After returning
20 ance. in an able and candid review Of our Re
pubrcan form OF government. he gave express
siote to the following sentiments and experience:
z had travelled from one extreme to the other
OF United States. but had never. in a single
Once. seen the government; and he gave it as
bis Judgment that in the United States all the
rigli..s Of persons and property were more fully
anil Completely protected than in any other gov
ernf ent of the world. There. said he, the gov
ernf ent - telt in its benefcent influences, but 80
Iigl&y does il set on the shoulders of the people
tha3 It's weight is 10 burden. The contrast. he
conf nued. between the government Of America
and abe governments of Europe. is. in this partic
ulari most striking and remarkable. In Europe,
the sscsigh Of the government is everywhere felt
"A aegrevOus burden IL is everywhere seen in
the eristllng bayonet, in the stru,ting and self
important official. who treats the humble and
.ed civilian with as little consideration as if
he ere brute instead Of
il feit in the weight 'of its taxation, which
den nds of hard handed industry almost its last
farYing. The civilian is REGARDED as of little
contquence except To labor and give of the pro-
ceees of his labor to naughty power which domi.
out out e Hs""'' '''''''''' anu ''''' WIN
IL the United States. on the contrary contin-
ues Che same authority. the people. the farmers,
the mechanics and Iaborers, who do the voting
and constitute the majority, are everything, 80
far "a government is concerned The admins
trait p of the law regarded as the servants of
the People, and any Office holder who abuses his
truss is certain to be hurled from power OF the
next. election. The official in America unlike
the official in Europe. treats the people with con-
sidd ition and respect, because. in the former
cou |ry, the person in Office derives his station
andkis importance from the people. In America,
the seope are the ruling power; in Europe the
peore are simply ruled, without being consult ed +;
thelare OF no value except to make soldiers and
pay axes to those who rule them. as they claim.
BY tte grace of God.
fl?w different would be the reflection of that
same Frcnchman if he should make the tour of
the United States at the present time! Now
he s~ouId see our Government at every
tur, and he conld not hut olaa,va that thu naonla
havS realizing sense of both its presence and its
burr fns Here il exhibits itself glittering or be
dizz4 bed with the eternal evidences of authority
ther it presents itself with fixed bayonet, frown-
ing With all the pomp and circumstance of war
Her III comes exciseman; there il demands
pi, Iful stamp duty in order to legitimate note
of fnd or deed of conveyance Not only tie
demlralizng influences of the war in which we
are gagged are being exhibited developed on
ever side, but the burdens and injustice which it
occsI ions are becoming oppressive to the PEOPLE
Mer are becoming insensible to the value of
life. nd even incidents occur, like the one we
notskd IN the commencement of this article
whet innocent children are tramped upon with
a. lie concern as the insensibe earth which is
trod3s I'm upon with Indifference. As people we
are tipidly degenerating and apparently assimi
latine the servity of the OF European
despotism Such are some of the fruits of war
aud ich some Of tho legitimate results of the
primo pies aud policy avowed in the Chicago
platfVrm and the domination of ABRAHAM's
goVErnmeni."