Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29


1t Is incredible that the people Of Boston allow
in their city the weekly publication of such in
famous utterances as the following from the Lib
orator of April oath:
mo act Of ours do we regard with more con
scientioGs approval or higher satisfaction. none
do we submit more confidently to the tribunal
OF Heaven and the moral verdict of mankind,
than when. several years ago. on the 4rh OF July,
IN the presence of great assembly. We com
mitted to the e tines the Constitution of the
| intel States, because (in the language Of John
Quincy Adams) the bargain between freedom
Id slvery contained in it was morally and pc
liticaly vicious. inconsistent with the principles
on which alone our revolution can be justified
and cruel and oppressive by riveting the chains
OF the o. pressed and ple1ging the faith OF free
dom To mnntan and perpetuate the tyranny of
the master And should the present bloody
struggle end 10 any conn rOmise with the South,
or in recognizing any constitutional obligations to
shareholders slave hunters in the border States
We shall again give that instrument to the con
suming fire. and renew our protest against il
as "a covenant with death and an agreement
with hell
"In the court of conscience and before God, il
matters not what slaveholdng agreements OF
compromises be found in the Constitution or
out Of IT, they are al, inhuman. unjust and i'm
moral. and therefore null and void; and if a MN
can tniain office. or he voter under the Govern
ment only on condition of sustaining such COM
promise then il is certain if he would not DO evil
that good may come he must relinquish Office
holding. and refuse tn cast vote stained with
human blood His motto is. ami must he - one
loyal to right and duty, No Union with Slave
holders"
.sNan is more than Constitutiop-beter rot beneath tho
Than be true to Church and State whilst we are dOuby
Perhaps we err in saying that il is Incredible
Within the past two years Loyalty" bias become
word of purely arbitrary significance IN the
mouths of the men who use il for The time I Ia
New York radical papers which denounce their
political opponents dsloval have no word OF
censuEe for this Boston paper, but on the con
uary they delight in honorins Mr. Wendell Phil
hps. whose name is prInted spcuously AT the
head OF the LIberatOr rs one oi the managers OF
its hnnn, es
In the Middle and Western States We hear
daily of the seizure OF newspapers and the 'rreS
OF editors tor alleged reasonable 5, mpathe-
We have never seen in paper published out a
Massachusetts a more atrocious article than this
and vet t will pass unnoticed by loyal lea euer>
unnOticed by radical news aper>. who would mol
the office OF the Boston Courier or Post To day il
either of them should exp : "a sent remote
~ in favor OF the destruction of the Union
While the men whom these di>unun Ab1li
tioniSts call disloval have been the unwnverin2
defenders of the Union and Constitution. then
malgners are permitted to preach treason IN the
pulpit. publish reason in their newspap ers. and
are received with distinguished attentions ON The
floor OF Congress aud in the mansions of the
highest Government officers.
The Tribune devoted cnluwn YESTERDAY 10
the fierce denunciion of ceftaih suspected tr,i.
sbrs II they we're indt ed guile, they deserve
hanging as high as Haman. but what has the
Tribune to say to the abovr extract of the Lib
eraiorg Here is bold confession of crime. an
unbnkng chllange to LOYAL men to confront
and if they dare, punish them. What say
You, gentlemen Of the LOYAL League! Do YOU
wish more papers of the Liberator stamp /,
this the kind OF literature you approve! II not.
dare You express your minds and denounce the.e
men they deserve. or are YOU afraid il might
cost you few Abolition votes in the next
elections?
IL is a shock to the moral sense of the world
that an officer dismissed The service few
days ago for voting Democratic Ticket in New
Hampshire. bur no word of caution or rebuke
comes from the self styled loyal" party for this
onrSpokeu treason in Massachusetts n. l
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