Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-27


he said. speaking OF Nuliifcation. ''H4man'-
gallows should &c the fate OF all such The
tariff was only aspreiext and disunion and
Southern Confederacy the object-the next pre-
text will be the negro and slavery"
There II i. lou have il. What rights have
the South lostf ask it as a Southern man. The
prophecy has been fulfilled to a letter.
Travelling along. who commenced this nefari
Gus war-who fired the first gun-who shed the
first bloodI de rehearsed the history of the
Sumter affair. IS soon il could travel on the
wings OF lightning IL was told at Montgomery,
and the work Of war commenced. Mr. Lincoln
then issued his proclamation calling out 100. 900
men, and he Was denounced as a tyrant and a
despot> Had he not done 50, would not the bay
Onets of j eff Davis have come North. aud would
We not have military despo,smI Lincoln vIo-
lated the Constitution Why. they forget that
JEFF Davis and his piratical crew violated it. His
sympathlzers see nothing wrong South, but all
wrong North. He said TO those that attempted
to build up party on these grounds, that they
would be swept away. A State has a right 10
secede, has itY ! tell you, State never can
leave the Union without shedding blood He
elaborated and spoke of the boundaries OF States
and Territories. tie believed the Constitution
and the Government would come out triumphant.
1t was indestructible For seven years your
fathers struggled. We ARE struggling now. The
sons of lndiana-God bless them-are struggling
now. For seven wears the fathers struggled amid
toll and privation and blood, and they succeeded,
as we would now
The Constitution is indistructible Go back TO
its origin. 1t was to form more perfect Union.
Its trainers were philosophers well As states
men. They knew that all things we're undergo
ing change, and they framed it 20 meet the ever
changing condition Of things The 9th article
provided that when two thirds of the States con-
sented it could be changed. Why thus seek to
destroy itY Peaceable secession and recOnstruc-
ton indeed He held that State could not 20
out. Secede meant To disintegrate-to 20 back
TO original elements. He illustrated When the
Constitution of the State was formed men in
sovereign capacity voted for or against 1t. he
went IN as sovereign; could he 90 out as SOW
ereign without the leave ofhs fellow sovereigI.sI
man built house or block in city. He
got mad; could he secede and burn bis house
He repudiated the whole doctrine OF secession
He was for the Union, and it it became necessary
the last drop ofblood that warmed bis veins should
pour in its defense
What is the doctrine now with the sympa-
thzersY For the Constitution As it is and the
Union as IL was What is it doingg 1t Is giving
aid and comfort to armed rebels South. An
armstice. indeed Why, they are laughing at
them down south. They will hear nothing but
recognition. Have they forgot that there are
Union men down south? He did not come here
as beggar. He came to demand, in their name,
that this rebellion should be put down. lie de-
manded OF the sympathizers iSote, in the name of
the Constitution relief for that loyal people
They had been loyal where men had to dare to
be loval; you have LOYAL men here because they
dare be nothing else. He demanded. in the name
OF these men, protection under the Constitution.
Their redemption had been delayed long enough.
If there is not an effort made soon he would come
10 Indiana, and 90 To Illinois and Ohio, and raise
chosen band for their relief. He knew the
horrors of war He knew how painful il was To
see mangled father, or brother, or son, return
ing from the field The heavy responsibility
rested somewhere, but it did not rest here He
asked the sympathizer here to lift up his hand and
see if it was not red. Justice would come
or later. Tired of the war; 1t had lasted eighteen
months. 1t took seven years TO establish the
Goyernment-was it not worth much to main
tain it? He would war thirty years What was
thirty years on the page of history? 1t his lie
was spared seventy years, he would fght-hght
on, fight ever. He would war against these
Southern tyrants as long the Spaniards warred
against the MOOrs-seven hundred years He
related the incident of Paul Jones shooting the
officer who pulled down the flag. with the remark
that he was just getting ready to fight. We are
just getting ready to fight.
To show what the South thought of the Rebel
sympathizers, he read from the Richmond Dis
patch an article giving gloomy picture of their
affairs, but drawing comfort from the alleged dis
affection in our army, and quasi rebellion in
the loyal States. They relied more upon our di
visions here than upon the strength of their
armies. He asked his Democratic friend here if
they would not buckle on their armor and give
aid to the loyal men SOUTH The time is now
to be united, and the best Government on earth
could be speedily restored He took view of
the field. The Mississippi opened, and Chatta
noOga and Weldon in our hands and we had the
rebellion checked Crush the rebellion first, and
then quarrel about the Government. If YOU
have got no Government, there is nothing to
quarrel about.
But the armistice-the Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was. Why, the rebels don't want
any compromise. What sort of thing is it?
What are you to put in it? He would show that
the whole thing was spurious coin. In 1861 Mr..
Thomas Corwin came forward in Congress with
a proposition to amend the Constitution in refer
ence to slave property, that it could not be
again amended. That covered the whole negro
question 1t was passed by a two thirds vote and
submitted 10 the States. Has any slave State
adopted it! IL has been nearly two years since
and not one has adopted it, Why not? Because
they did not want it. During the session three
territorial bills were passed and the sixth section
OF each of these bills contained provision that
no law should be passed imparing the rights OF
private property-the negro included. Here were
bills protecting every Southern right, and yet
they reject them.
1t brings us back to the conclusion that COM
promise Is the last thing they want. They have
lost confidence in mans capablity for self gov
eminent. They want strong government
AXE all their writings and they converge to one
point, the establishment of negro autocracy,
and ultimately despotism with j eff Davis at it.
head. Divide here and they will be your mas
tiers.
The time has arrived in connection with the |
down trOdden in the South, when the bonds will /
be broken ana the captives set free. have lived
in the South and picked out cotton with nv own
hands. | own niggers; made them by my own |
industry. | had ten-hut by way of giving me !
my Southern rights they took INV ten niggers, !
and turned nv wife out OfdoOrs But the croak- 1
ers talk of the niger bill in Congress | am for /
the Government ON the great principle of the |
Constitution, and If the niggers get in the way.
let them 60. Is this great experiment of Ameri- !
can freedom TO compare with slavery or King I
Cotton Some people in the Northern States /
think If King Cotton don't reign they can't sell
a mule. How long has cotton been supreme ? 4
This world mospered nearly six thousand years
before cotton became an article ofcommerce and 4
IL would 90 on II the plant was extinct. The 4
world would not stop II cotton and niggers were
both out of the country. He was for the Gov /
niggers or no niggers. He would see /
the niggers all back IN Africa and Africa itself
ioated into space. rather than see the Govern
nent fail