Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-27
From the Louisville Iourral.
Meeting OF the war Democracy of
Indlama.


The meeting OF War Democrats NJ In'i
annapolis turns out to he simply meeting Of Re
puhlicans of Democratic snteeeienfs The af
fair evidently belongs TO that sort Of juggling
which comprehends the tik,ng of trick with
pack OF cards The gentlemen in question hal
already once joined The Republican party They
accordingly are past cards They are played
out. They caun0; again fairly take trick in
the present game The attempt il contrary 10
the rules of fair play. Bein' exposed the at
tempt of course amounts 10 nothing. ihoneh
whether or IL carries nth IL forfeit rem iins
To he seen If il shall not, The Republicans Of
our sister : ate will have re ison 10 congratulate
themselves on so cheaply getting ont OF very
shallow rn~e
We observe that tho name OF the venerable
G - i 80 mixel M with this meeting "a to sus
pesi his approval Of il This is an incidental
ri-e even more uniu-tifiable than the main one
General Cass has no part or lot with the Renub
leans in INV shape or under any nime Hs pO
siinn Is fixed in the riuks Of the conservatives
1t j. thus defined ~ him eli in recent letter
dressed IA The Democracy of the county of Wash
ington in Penn-ylvana
II have come TO look with almost as much So.
licifu1e npon the action of the Democratic party
in il primary meetings as for the result OF the
conflict IN arms: for the reason that il j. now
clear that the perpetnitv of our present form of
H.
geuce. f"rbearance. and consistent course of nc
ton by the Democratic party The Jacoblns
aud radicals who are the leading spirits Of the
po itica party in power seem quite intent on
destroying our civil rights in whipping the
rebels into subsection IL is our duty to insist on
the preservation intact of the form Of govern
ment established in 1883. and that the territorial
limits Of The nation shall never he diminished
To attain this end we must see that the govern
Ill. II.
hold the executive agents OF the government tn
their duty. until can bv means of the ballot
box put in their stead tn sc who will administer
the government il formed by our noble
ancestors "
There is surely no m stalking this explicit Ian:
guaee. ANA a. tu,e misrsking the position il
asserts for he position of the Republican party
The language j. indeed leveled straght at the
position of the Republican marty The venerable
Cass occures essentially the same positions that
our lamented Crittepden occupied He ia War
Democrat but not Republican Democrat He
is Union Democrat In other words General
Cass. though Democrat in name aud in sym
pathy. stands in fact the simnle basis OF
that devotion To the government Itself which
underlay the Old Wing party and the old Demo
cratic party alike and To which the terrible shock
of this rebellion has brought equally al the Old
Democrats of the North whose love Of country /,
combined II is on this basis that enlightened patri
OTIS OF whatever region and Of whatever party
an'ecedents are preparing u make grand stand
for the rescue OF the Government from the wild
jncobins in authority The basis at the
lowest, not less Wing than Democratic. aud the
millions That occupy il, with the Thousands that
are thronSing to il. embrace the flower both oi
old Wing party and of the old Democratic party
Doubtless these millions embrace n considerable
8
make them appear ten fold more numerous and
a thousand fold more influential han they are
but this is the fate Of even the nObiest hodies o
men, united in the nOblest OF causes Sincere
and intelligent patriots. keeping their eyes fixe,
upon the great essen tals in the contest will suf
fer these clamors TO pass bv the idle wind
behooves men. high minded men, such men a.
constitute a State" firmly TO put aside all sucl
camors or ma unanimously to rise above them
They do not really touch the paramount ss ne
and can never touch il.
There are but two principal divisions of th
people in the loyal States. One il the radica
party; the other is the conservative party. tn
principles and the measures of the present Ad
miuisiration constitute the - sis OF the former
the principles and the measures announced IN th
platform of the Union Democracy ct k,ntuck'
constitutes The basis of the latter Retweeu theS
two bi>eS tie neep, Of the iovai :, ties who hav
rn- already chosen must nrefnre TO choose
These are the Alternatives before the people. AM
not 81 chao~e the latter Is 10 choose the former
One or the other the people must choose. Their
Is absolutely no &c pc from the siiernative-
The time has come sheH he neople are unde
obligations of e~pec al Sacreine>- TO decide no
according Tn preirdce ar accident but according
to the hroai PRINCIPLES of jus:re and Of truth a
Illuminated bv pure love Of country From
decision thus formed AMI freely rendered III
Republic has e' ,thing to hope and nothing 4
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