Indiana State sentinel., 1863-05-18

discloses more fully than any other heretofore
published, the spirit of the recent orders of Gen.
Burnside and Gen.. Hascall.
As far as these military gentlemen have the
power the Democratic party must cease to ex
ist as an organization. 1t has dared TO proclaim
that il had no confidence in the ability OF Mr.
Lincoln and his advisers to conduct the war to a
successful and honorable termination.
The object of the administration, if these Gen.
erals are its expcaents, TO be to prevent all
discussion on the part of Democrats of its war
policy or any dissent from whatever measures il
NAV adopt concerning the rebellion. Democrats
must speak approvingly OF the administration or
not speak at all. No graver or more fatal error
has been committed by it, and none more clearly
exhibiting its unftness to be the government"
than its attempt to put down the rebellion by de-
nunciation and unjust persecution of the Demo
Gratis of the north. II the administration we're
not blind to its own success. it would see that
Democrats in the north can have no possible mo-
tive to be unfaithful to the Union and the Consti
tuition to favor Southern Confederacy. And
vet, acting upon the assumption that Democrats
are disoyal. malignant psrtisanshp is driving the
administration to the exercise of authority which
can give il no strength-which is poisoning the
fountains of peace and unity at home-breaking
up social, friendly and business relations and in
stigating the people of the north to become spies
imputations and direct charges of disoraltv upon
the Democratic party, are burning deeper and
deeper into the hearts of Democrats. and despite
the orders Of Gen. Burnside and Gen Hascall.
they will think-and speak-and act By the
firesides-in the work shops-on the farms-bv
the -sides-wherever the Democrats NAV be.
the policy and acts of the administrations will be
discussed, and approved or condemned as they
shall be right or wrong. All the people ask of
the administration is that it shall do what is
right-and they must be the judges-for if the
people do not know what Is right who shall now
teach them? Certainly no military court martial
can do it. Those who know them BEST know
they are neither led nor encouraged to hostility
to the administration by the .'eaders" of the
party. They far in advance of the leaders,
and have sources of information independent of
them, and require to he restrained. rather than
led. Good men and wise men of the Democratic
party are daily counseng peace and obedience
TO the laws and to the constituted authorities of
the government. and vet these men are denounced
and marked as TRAITORS and "secessonists"
He who bawls "war" upon the house tops but
skuks at its approach. is "loyal," while he, who
laboring faithfully at his avOcations, quietly
gives aid and encouragement to his government
and good cheer to his despondng neighbor, is
called "secessionist"
| 1t is an error in Gen. Burnside and Gen Has
call to suppose the arrest of . few, or all of the
present leaders of the Democratic party, will Sc
cure to the Administration an immunity from
condemnation if il deserves it. The people want
the rebellion put down. They want their country
and their friends restored to them They believe
the Administration has had the power to do it, but
failed because it neither comprehended the mag
nitude of the rebellion nor the issues involved in
the efforts to suppress it. When il ceases making
war upon the people Of the North. and with ener-
gy and ability make npon the Rebels il may
regain our lost confidence But it can not be
done by persecution.
The decree is entered up in the hearts of the
people. and neither speeches, resolutions, orders
nor arrests can change it, that to put down the
rebellion and restore the Union, war must be
made upon the Rebels in arms and not upon the
Democratic party.
That part Of Gen HascalPs letter which is per-
sonal to Mr. Edgerton, will undoubtedly receive
his attention when it reaches him. 1t will be
forwarded TO him to-day.
II Gen. Hascall will receive the opinion of men
in Fort Wayne. and in Allen county, who are not
malignant partisans, he will become convinced
that he has done the people of this city and county
great injustice in applying the epithets of "deu-
ded Irish" and "secessoniSts" 20 them. know
the effort has been made to induce those in au
thOrity TO believe that in this city and county
men were "disloval" and "secessionists;" but
intelligent and well directed inquiry would show
all such allegations to be false and malicious and
the men who make them unworthy of official or
private belief and confidence. Gen. Hascall
himself must have been imposed upon by such
misrepresentations. There is net in all the North
more peaceable and law abiding people than
those of Allen county, and the miserable out
1 breaks" and "riotOuS proceedings" charged upon
hem exist more in the recital than in the reality
| 1t has gone forth that men were "killed" and
seriously injured" in the recent disturbances
here, caused more by whisky than by politics,
when the fact that killed. or seri-
ously injured, and those who gave the report
currency knew it at the time.
If Gen. Hascal will make himself personally
acquainted with the people of this city and coun-
ty. he will learn there are no enemies of the Gov
ernment here. and that when men and material
aid-not staggering contractors and Inprinciped
office -seekers-are needed, they will come from
those he has been induced to stigmatize as ''Se-
ceSsionsts.
Democrats do not intend the Government shall
/ be DESTROYED. They have sustained it amidst in
dignites ard prosecutions and will continue to
sustain it in spite OF every effort to drive them
from its support II is doubtful whether thev can
be made TO accept the theory that the Admins
tration is the Government, for their teaching has
been that theirs was Government of laws-not
men-that the Executive to be obeved when
he sought to enforce the law, but never when he
attempted to make it. There is no law Demo
Gratis will resist. but there some they will con-
stitutionally change am yours, &c,
ALFRED p EDeERToN
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