Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-13

memory Of his whole public life. You have
poured out your crocodile tears aud lifted up 4
your spurious grief over hi death only TO take
shelter under his great name for the purposes
OF popular deception Gu are false and ohen +
sive mOuruers at our funeral Stand aside and
let the friends of the great dead surround
bis bier: and Tor fear you will again deceive the
country will this night tear of your masks and
Ter your sinister cOuntenauces and your misera- /
BILE and unboly purposes he seen an their true
light IL Is a work that has been needed on this
floor for long time. aud take some reproach
TO myself that il has not been done before l
would feel this reproach more. however. If was
not conscious that you had saved yourselves,
in a great measure. by suppressng discussion
by cowardly resort 20 the rules OF this House
Sir. when YOU came here crying no party, your
first act Of legislation 10 engraft on the stat
ute book the very soul and vitality OF the Chicago
platform law TO carry out principle against
which Stephen A Douglas warred until he died.
In hot haste YOU carried out the principle OF in
teryention in the Territories. You abolished
slavery in them all You passed a Wilmot pro-
visO everywhere. Loudly and furiously protest
inS against any party measures with one ielon-
iOuS grab YOU took all that your party ever
dared openly TO contend for. Ii we gently limited
that this was bad faith, we we're sllenced 10y the
ciamorOus CRY of the whole pack yelling after US
I 4
that you were taking advantage OF a dark hour
and stormy night in the history Of our poor coun
try to cheat the public mind in regard TO your
ultimate designs, We we're cried down INSTANTLY 0y
mercenary throats and venal and corrupt news
papers You carried out the Chicago platform,
but you did not stop there You continued your
cry of no party. no party But what was the
next measured You launched out a little further
into the sea of Abolitionism One of the pet
-. haor,
for quarter of ceLtury the abolition OF slavery
in the District of Columbia. \ ou seized upon il.
and brought IL forward in the name OF no partly
When the minority denounced IL. when the ven
cradle and distinguished statesman from Ken
lucky Mr.. Crittenden appealed TO YOU to for
bear, we were informed by such models of patri-
otsm and UniouiSm the gentleman from Hi
nos Mr. Lovejol and the gentleman from Penn
! sylvana, Alr Stevens that the loyalty OF the
4 Democracy and the border State members was
sOrely questioned aud narrowly suspected. You
carried IL out bv YOUR well drilled majority. and
| YOU thereby taxed constituents and yours.
Mr.. Speaker, Mr. Collax in the charl TO buy
the black chambermnids, BARRIERS and broken
/ down boot blacks ia this city. You made them
free, it is true. but their freedom has been to them
a curse and not Il blessing. as the daily pictures
on these streets amply testify 1t was necessary,
howeye,, suppose. tor the vigorous prosecution
/ of the war. that white men should be taxed to
! pay for black men, and to support them IN idle
ness and vice Aud 1t | raise my voice against
/ the taxing of my constituents foe such Infamous
purposes. am told that 1t is no time now for any
party spirit Perhaps you are correct that IL
\ should not be allowed ON this side OF the House
! You need an entire monopoly of it yourselves, IN
] order 20 carry ont the malevOent schemes OF the
Abolition party.
You have left nothing undone in the whole
range of fanaticism to overwhem the land with
universal abolitlOnisnl-not merely abolitOnism
OF the old sort, bat abOlitionism OF "A new type
/ which makes the white man work for the negro
Instead OF the negro working for the white man,
according To the obsolete ideas of our fathers.
/ You have gone vigorously to work taking ad
vantage of our national distress, TO carry out
every abolition measure ever dreamed OF by the
widest aud most enthusiastic zealots ot the abo
/ liuon faith You have taken advantage of this
war To corrupt the foreign policy of the Govern
ment, aud recognize the only two negro gov
ernments ON the face of the earth AS our ma
tiOnal equals. Not content with your own coun-
try theater for your folly, you have gone,
! like so mauy Captain Cooks, circumnavi eating
the world, hunting for islands in the sea, and dis
tant shores which to display ,our bastard be
nevolence and your insane characterization
/ \ on found Liberia YOU found Hayti, and you
made this once proud Republic take of its hat
and exchange bows of equality with Ethiopia
! The people aie taxed to send ministers To these
dusky barbarians. in order TO show the world
that negro equality is at last one of the nstitu
tons OF tins country. The negroes, of course,
fee II ,ttered 10y these delicate attentions though
| confess they have no reason to. for | have al
ways held that respectable negroes were much
/ better ~ every respect than white men who re-
cognized their civil social equality. But the
African. in this instance at least, has taken our
advances kindly. aud see by the papers that his
sable hiehness. Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipoteutmry from Hiyl to the Republican
Court ot Abraham Lincoln has just arrived ia
New York, and will soon salute the refined social
circles here with the odors OF his diplomatic pres
ence | take the following from the New York
| Herald aud as IL will be precious intelligence TO
the m jorty here | gladly furnish it. aud trust
II my give you pleasant dreams to night.
PERSONAL lSrELuoEScr-nm MINISTER FROM HArrI-F
Romaine, Charge ie AiaireS from Hayt TO the tnted
States i stopping NJ the ST. Nicholas Hotel, with his
Secretary of Legation, u Bruno The Minister is about
hrti two years OF age Of mcdiam hight ard exceedingly
dark and swarthy complexion. He a heavy black
muStachc and imperial. His hair l. gen rally a little
uzky aud wooy looking which Is owing TO the want OF
careful dressing after undergoing course of unsoria
manipulaiions u would lie straight that Of any
| SaNoa among Us. The cheek bones rather higher
than are u,uay zen In this latitude. The prevailing
expression OF his face Is good nalured and friendly
Heavy ba,k eyebrows arch pair OF tine. l black
eyes which always ready C. CLEAN and light y
with mcirmeut During his stay az the ST. Nicholas
Hotel the hibaeS of that establishment have several
occasions had an opportunity TO witness his proe enoy 1T
biliarl- lie handles cue with almost the skill OF
lh Ian or kayanaugh. Cigarettes he smokes In great
quantities. anI astonshe- the behoders by the aud
NORehdifnce with which he eccts the 'mokc from his
nosius I'm many different ways he has managed 20 win
the good opiuon Of all with whom he has Ia contact
and the opinion OF his sociabity and couuefy j. very
unan The secretary Of Legation, d. Bruno. Is
much younger n his appearance there several
indications that the blood Of the children OF Ham
through h3s lie l. not thoroughly proficient in
the kngl III language the Mini ter. who speak u with
great CORRECTNESS aud purity They are expected To leave
Tor " ash ngt"n IA few days
let them come. and that speedily. There Is
a fitness IN all thngs and they ought TO be here
| 10, Inn he ih.r d. lira Of fhis