Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-21

the Republican lenders was 20 dissolve the Union.
or e8-e 10 desitoy slavery in the States and thus
revolutiOnize the Government-and that this WAS
Their Htenuou. t3ey q emselyes have teciare +.
have proved this aud no man can truthiullv
deny IT, And to do So have nhned m 50 I
entirely TO the declarations OF Repubi ms
those known as such-aud have read nothing
from the speeches writings Of Gerrit Smith
Wendell PHILLIPS. Parker. Pillsbury. William
Llovd Garrison-avowed AbOliiiouists and led
ers Of party whose teachings were far more vio
lent and revolutionary than those already QUO
tel, but who are now in full communion with the
Republican party. and clAmoFing most yio.
iently for war, bloodshed and destruction, and
with the utmost vehemence are denouncing rs
ORATORS" and "copnerheads" all who desire a
restoration Of the Union Of the Fathers Tie
men whose savings | have quoted are disunion-
lists and revoluti0nists; aud TO Will contra
diet me when sly that Abraham Lincoln. VIM.
H. Seward, L p Banks. John r. Hale. Charles
Sumner. Beniimin Wade together with the For
eign Ministers and the sixty eight congressman
who Endorsed the Helper book are the leaders of
the Republican party These men are dsunion
lists and rev0lutionisls according 10 their own
eclarations--and this beng SO. il is easy To &C
count for their course since they came into power
in the nation-a course that can be accounted
for upon no other ground
The foregoing extracts show the consistency
of the leaders of the Republican party in the Oh
jects for which the war has been prosecuted
The following exhibit:
THE INCONSISTENCIES or THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party went into power on the
ayowed platform OF free speech, free press free
men and freedom. Let Us see What is meant by
Republican freedom. Ii means the seizure
without authority OF law of private papers and
private property throughout the Northern States
notwithstanding that the Constitution declares
that the right of the people to he secure in their
persons, houses, papers and effects, against un-
reasonable searches and seizures shall not be
violated" Ii means the suspension in the loyal
States of the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus-Congresf only having the right to exer-
else this power, and only in military districts
an act which cost an English king has head and
what the Queen of England dare not do 70 day
II means the denial OF freedom OF speech by i'm
ris0ning citizens for critlcizng the acts of our
public servants; the denial OF the freedom of the
press Wv the iorcible suppression of newspapers.
by the exercise OF deSpOlic censorship, and by
the imnris ouruent of their editors the denial oi
The right OF petition and the right OF the repre-
sentativeS of the people TO assemble IN cOnyen-
ton. as the recent breaking mp OF the Democratic
State Convention of Kentucky by Federal sol
ders. and of Democratic meeting at Leaven-
worth. * insas. fully prove 1t means this not
withstandng that the Constitution declares that
N law shall be passed "abridgiu the freedom #
speech, or of the press, and the right Of The pco
ule pelceably 20 assemble and "a petition the
Government for redress of grievances >" lt
means the seizure and IMPRISONMENT of citizens
tor no other "criine" than thar of being caud-
dates tor the suffrages OF the people. Ii mOrs
thah If AZ Al fno h,v
refusing to allow citizens to vote unless support
ing the Administration candidates. thus striking
down the elective franchise It means the
seizure. without warrant, of American citi
zens guilty of no crime; hurryng them form
their State and district incarcerating them in
dreary sells refusing To inform them of the
cause of their seizure, or the accusation or Wit
ness against them refusing them counsel for
their defense, jury trial or Trial of any kind; not
withstauding that the Constitution declares that
ono person shall bedeptived Of lite liberty or prop
erty. without due process Of law" and that ''the
accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and pub
lie trial by IN impartial jury Of the State and
district wherein the crime shall have been com
mltted;" shall "be confronted with the witnesses
against him; have compulsory process for obtain
ins witnesses in his favor, and the assistance OF
counsel for his defense Republican freedom
means despOtiSm. as atroclons rs that OF Aus
tria Venice or Naples. IL means tyranny
which resi- ect. neither age nor sex nor condition
in life 1t means the tearing % the father from
the grave OF his child for no other crime than
that of being Democrat The dragging OF
Judges from The bench and their incarceration in
the bastile for no other offense save the faithful
Interpretation of the law ; the seizure of editors
at midnight taking them from their home and
family, and immurng them il loathsome dun
geons. long it suits the tyrant's pleasure,
their only guilt being in insisting that the Con
stituton OF the fathers shall be respected 1.-THE
supreme law of the land" the imprisonment of
ministers for telcbing the doctrines of Christ :
the dragging of Indies, guilty of DO crime, To
station houses and prisons, there incarcerating
them for weeks where they are denied trial re
fused communication with their friends, aud
where they inSulted, and every emotion OF
high toned womanhood outraged by the pension
si satellites Of deSpotism
All of these 9utrages have been committed in
the oyal States and that, too, by order of those
who hold high carnival at Washington, while the
nation bleeds at every pore And Yet those cal
ling themselves American freemen have tamely
submitted to these and hundred other equal
wrongs Would the patriots of the Revolution
have thus submitted (Cries of" - mo -
Read the account of their resistance TO the
tyranny of King George OF their heroism. OF
their privatons. OF their sutierugs: study well
the lesson of Saratoga Yorktown. Trenton aud
the Cow Pens: o.: the crossing of the Delaware,
and the winter At Wiley Forge and there find
your answer Great cheering When Ii
fayette gave the keys Of the French stile to
Washington. after the tomb Of liberl had been
demolished by an inuriAted populace. think
YOU he believed that fort in New I 9rk
harbpr, built for the defense of the city and
named in honor Of hun. would become an Amer-
can BaStIe thus transferring the tyranny of
France 10 these shores Think Won " ashington
believed it? Th,t the heroes OF the Revolution
believed it? Was it for this they suffered.
fought, bled Oh, if the impartial history of
this country is ever written, 1t viii hold up 10 the
lOathing aud execratiOB OF the future generations
the leaders Of the Republican party, branding
them as disuuonsts and revolutionists, and will
condemn. TO eternal infamy William II Seward.
the originator of the American Bistile (Con.
tinued cheers
When the war began it was proclaimed TO be
Tor the re possession of the National property.
tor the unfolding of the Constitution ami preser-
walton OF the Union Many believed these were
its objects Others, myself among them, did not
hey had read too carefully the sayings oil the