Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-16
WEEKLY SENTINEL.



The fES-br Bellows of Boston, Is the en-
bOdiment of New England ego,ism and Adolf
tonism, and, like ASAcHARsIs KLoorz, is the ora
tor II not Of the human at least of the Puritanic,
race. In one Of his late politico-religious dis
courses he has enunciated, (for this region OF
country at least.) new motion" as to the ON
,ipotence of the President as our National Exec
utive The parsOn says 1.-THE head of the nation
is a sacred person" and that '.he can truly say
we quote his very words with LOUIS xiv: The
STATE; IL is r. Dishonor me. and you undermine
the country"
This is frank and candid and foreshadows the
Interior objects of those who running the Gov
'loyaIty to the Union" Unfortunately for the
Doctor his notion is original, and can't there
fore be patented. The doctrines Of the divine
right of kings and passive obedience, and that
governments were instituted by Providence for
the benefit Of rulers and not Of the ruled, bad
ADLER, though not more serviIe, advocates in the
persons of FiLLMER and EFFREYs in the days ofthe
SruAKrs in England; and whenever an attempt is
made 10 enforce them here a New England no
ton, there will be found AAMPDESs and SYDsEYs
to expose their falacies, and brave and stalwart
men to put down their defenders.
The men who proclaim such sentiments have
had their lots cast in the wrong country, and are
unfit to live under free or republican institutions.
They are therefore, more formidable to lovers of
liberty in their own section, than to the men in
arms in defense of their right to secede from the
Union.
The fact is. politicians of the Doctors school
appear utterly incapable of understanding the
difference between the Administration and the
Government: nor can they comprehend the OBJ
vious truth, that every loyal" American is in
duty bound to scrutinize, with jealous care. the
public acts OF those they call upon to make and
administer laws, and to denounce. with manly
freedom, every dereIiction of duty infracton Of
the great charter of their liberties, designed alike
10 limit the powers of the public servants and to
define the duties of the citizen.
Every one has laughed at the exaggerated dig
nifty assumed BY constable in Missouri when
collared and sh ken by fractions prisoner
"For heavens sake" said the functionary, "let
i am only TON Howard. yet, as an officer of the
State, recoliect that when you shake me, you
shake the commonwealth" The officer was dis
charging a sworn duty, which the President is
not, when he assumes a right to act iron.
higher law than the Constitution. The Consta-
BILE was therefore nearer right as to the dignity
his trust than the Boston rhetoIician when he
ascribes unlimited. omnipotent power to the Ma
tiOnal Executive.
When Mr. LINCOLN adheres to the Constitu-
ton, he should be invested with the sacred"
character imputed to him by his parasites; but
when he takes the Chicago platform for his
guide, and attempts to force his party prejudices
and notions the law of the land, he travels out
of the record, and his opinions are entitled to no
more respect in Washington than they were
when he was cracking his jokes. as lawyer, on
the Springfield circuit in Illinois.