Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29

| Rev Edmund h. Sears preached sermon al
Wayland Massachusetts, June 10, 1856, which
was circulated by the Republican National Com
mittee, in which he said:
"Out of the present crisis, there are two paths
that open up before US, and only two. One is
| through violence and revolution. When the
pubic organism has become possessed with the
spirit of evil and is used mainly for its work the
las; remedy is to break it in pieces and let right
and Justice 90 free Revolution is Gods rem
edy"
| could continue for hours 70 read extracts
from prominent Republicans, similar to those
just read. But il is unnecessary. Enough have
been read, to substantiate my assertions made q
short time ago, which were that the intention OF
the Republican leaders to dissolve the Union,
or else to destroy slavery in the States and thus
! revolutionize the Government-and that this was
their intention. they themselves have declared.
l have proved this, and no man can truthfuiIy
deDy it. And to do so, have confined myself
entirely to the declarations of Republicans
those known as such-and have read nothing
from the speeches or writings of Gerrit Smith
Wendell Phillips. Parker, Pllsbury, William
LLOYD Garrison-avowed Abolitonists, and lead
ers of party whose teachings were far more vio
/ lent and revolutionary than those already QUO
ted, but who are now in full communion with the
/ Republican party, and are clamOrins most vio-
! lently for war, bloodshed and destruction, and
with the utmost vehemence are denouncing as
TRAITORS" and "copperheads" all who desire a
restoration of the Union of the Fathers. The
men whose sayings | have quoted are d union
lists and reyolutionists; and no one viii contra
dict me when | say that Abraham Lincoln, VIM.
II. Seward, f. P. Banks, John p. Hale Charles
| Sumner, Benjamin Wade, together with the For
eign Ministers and the sixty eight Congressman
( who indorsed the Helper book. are the leaders of
the Republican party. These men are disunion-
lists and reyoutionists, according to their own
declarations-and this beng so. it is easy to ac-
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 OBJ
jects for which the war has been prosecuted.
/ The following exhibit:
THE INCONSISTENCIES OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
| The Republican party went into power on the
avowed 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 be secure in their
/ persons, houses, papers and effects against un-
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violated" 1t 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 his head and
what the Queen of England dare not do to-day
1t means the denial of freedom of speech by i'm
prisoning citizens for criticzing the acts of our
public servants; the denial of the freedom of the
press by the forcbe suppression Of newspapers,
by the exercise of decpotic censorship. and by
the Imprisonment of their editors; the denial of
the right of petition and the right of the repre-.
sentatives of the people To assemble in conven-
ton, as the recent breaking up of the Democratic
State Convention OF Kentucky by Federal SOL
diers. and OF a Democratic meeting at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, fully prove. IL means this not
withstanding that the Constitution declares that
no law shall be passed "abridging the freedom of
speech, of the press, and the right of the peo-
pie peaceably to assemble and 20 petition the
Government for a redress of grievances" It
means the seizure and Imprisonment of citizens
for no other "crime" than that of being candi-
dates tor the suffrages of the people. 1t means
the holding reflections at the point of the bayonet,
refusing TO allow citizens 20 vote unless support
ing the Administration candidates thus striking
down the elective franchise. 1t means the
seizure. without warrant, Of American citi-
zens guilty of no crime; hurrying them form
their State and district incarcerslting them in
dreary sells refusing &c 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
withstanding that the Constitution declares that
ono person shall be deprived ofliie liberty or prop
erty, without due process of law" and that "the
accused shall enoy the right to a speedy and pub
lie trial, by impartial jury of the State and
district wherein the crime shall have been com
mitted;" shall "be confronted with the witnesses
against him; have compulsory process for obtain
ing witnesses in his favor, aud the assistance of
counsel for his defense" Republican freedom
means despotism atrOcious "a that of Aus
tria Venice or Naples. II means tyranny
which respects neither age nor sex, nor condition
in life Ii means the tearing Of the father from
the grave of his child, for other crime than
that of being Democrat the dragging of
judges from the bench and their incarceration in
she bastile. for other offense the faithful
Interpretation of the law the seizure Of editors
ut midnight. taking them from their home and
family. and immuring them in lOathsome dun
geons. as long as il suits the tyrant'S pleasure,
their only guilt being in insisting that the Con-
stitution of the fathers shall be respected 1.-THE
supreme law of the land" the Imprisonment of
ministers for teaching the doctrines of Christ
the dragging of ladies, guilty of crime, to
station houses and prisons, there ncarcerating
them for weeks, where they are denied trial, re-
fused communication with their friends, and
where they are nsulted, and every emotion of
high toned womanhood outraged by the pension
ed satellites of deSpotsm.
All of these outrages have been committed in
the loyal States, and that too, by order of those
who hold high carnival at Washington, while the |
nation bleeds 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"No~ - "no i'') |
Read the account of their resistance 10 the |
tyranny of King George; of their heroism. of |
their privations. of their suferngs; study well |
the lesson of Saratoga, Yorktown, Trenton and
the Cow Pens: of the crossing of the Delaware, |
and the winter at Valley Forge, and there find |
your answer. Great cheering.) When La |
fayette gave the keys of the French Bastile to
Washington, after the tomb of liberty had been |
demolished by an infuriated populace, think |
you he believed that a fort in New York /
harbor, built for the defense of the city and
named in honor of him, would become an Ameri- |
can Bastie, thus transferring the tyranny of
France to these shores Think you Washington |
believed il? That the heroes of the Revolution |
believed il? Was it for this they suffered |
fought, bled 7 Oh if the impartial history of
this country is ever written. il will hold up to the
loathing and execration Of the future generations
the leaders of the Republican party, branding
them as disunionists and revolutionists and will |
condemn TO eternal infamy William II. Seward, /
the originator of the American Bastile (Con- |
tinued cheers.)
When the war began it proclaimed to be |
one for the re possession of the National property,
for the upholding Of the Constitution and preser-
vation of the Union. Many believed these were
its objects Others, myself among them, did not. |
IL f,,t1,- H.. L.
leaders of the Republican party 10 believe thus