Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-25
From TIE Jsek'on N's'isslppisn, April ID.
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"e somssfnesa reeonnt them IA passion. Bot
t1en We fail tOrealize, or describe them ade
qnateiy.
We had kept true faith xith the people nov
Intent on cor destruction. We fought their Dat
tles more han IN the colonial = with the
mother country. We espoused thecaase Of right
more than the cause Of interest in that Iemarka-
Die revolution. We inherited institunoDs be-
quealhed 70 Us BY old England and New Eng.
land. They broughtthe Africau--,hey imported
him-they recognized his ststas-they gus ran
teed tie security Of such property-they pro6ted
by that species OF labor-they manufactured the
cott0n-they transported the sugar and rice
they grew rich UPON the products o. our labor
they built cities, and copstructcd navies. and ex-
tended railways, and erected palaces. and became
merchant princes they established schools and
endowed COLLEGES. and created a literature. aud
boosted civilization as the result OF our
political. commercial and economic relations 10
Them, and all based upon the laws O. climate,
soil and the character OF our syst Of labor.
We we're useful TO them We did them no
harm. We inveighed against no institution OF
theirs. We inftinged no right of theirs. We
observed our solemn cotnpacts. and maintained
the faith and comfy of nations with them. We
bought their wares employed then artizans pur-
chased their books hired their teac hers fed their
operatives; supported their paupers; freighted
their ships: defended their rights: fought their
battles in war; conserved their safety in peace;
and maintained the Government. "a
In return. thew detained us in their liturature;
slandered and misrepresented. Us in civilized Eu
rope; insulted Us on the floor of the Federal Con
cress. mathematical Us from the pulpit; taught
their children 10 hate us. in the Sunday school
room; provoked Us to anger; robbed US OF our
property; taught their PEOPLE, as lesson IN NOR
ais that no faith 20 be kept with W.; preached
incendiarism from the platform and the pulpit;
threatened our dwellings with IRE. and our won
en- and children with rapIne and violence; sent
their apostle. John Brown, to begin the good
,oerk. and have now only followed up his lead
and are proceeding to complete his work, and
execute the purposes OF his commission.
In the progress of their labor. they have never
ceased 10 employ damnable falsehood il is part
of their system: il is one OF their weapons they
are enacting LIE and the father of lies is their
counsellor and ally. They call great, organic
political changes rebellion-an insnrrection
Had we King? They call war. maintained
for years by many hundreds OF thousands OF
trained soldiers, temporary nsurgent resistance
to the laws. They call the enlightened. self
governed people of their late co States. Rebel
mob. They marshall an army Of six hundred
thousand men to cut down a handful of Rebels
in States where the Union sentiment is very
strong! They seek, ostensibly. 10 preserve the
Union OF free, sovereign States, cemente1 by
friendly ties and voluntary association. and pro
ceeded to accomplish this by cutting our throats
burning our houses-desolatng our fields
numbering our womeni They declare lie-s
damnng lie; they never meant TO preserve the
union of the States The original object of the
party in power to destroy the South The
chosen purposes of the war are blood, plumber
and the utter humiliation of the South, her in
stitutions. and civilization.
But for motives Of policy, our men, held as
prisoners, would have been murdered. after the
manner Of savages. When the Yankee army
confident Of victory, marched first ubon Man
asses, they carried large supply of handouts
We have seen and examined specimens. These
were for the limbs of the traitors. Since. they
have been afraid to murder our men, held a:
prisoners of war, drecf}s, they have done The
same thing indirectly. by subjecting them to con
tagious diseases, and crowding them into loath
some prison cells One hundred and thirty
Southern soldiers died, in one prison. in few
days, denied the use of medicines or physicians
or the Attendance OF a minister, or priest I'D the
last moments under the orders of Gen. Halleck
But the facts of our sufferines will never be re
corded elsewhere than in tie memory of God
No human mind will conceive them-no mel
will record them.
All the oppression and fendish hate comes, no
| for the cause, but upon the occasion of the
Southern States acting upon the cardinal founda
ton principle of all free representative govern
ment.. Whenever Government ceases TO an
swer the end of its creation, it is the right Of {
free people to alter, abolish, or change the same
at their pleasure All free government rests fo
| its foundation upon the consent OF the governed
On these principles was founded free government
| in America In order To conceal somewhat o
the hellish deformity of this foul and monStrou
ebuliton from the caudron of moral putrefac
ton, the cunning leaders have stlhed, or brbed
violently crushed the press Of the country. with
but rare exceptions. The Louisville ournal, tn,
St. Louis Republican and the New York Herald
/ accustomed TO exert extended influence, are th'
| purchase OF Thirty pieces OF silver. and ar
blackened with innocent blood
| Our wrongs mount up to Heaven. The wild
ow's wail-the orphans cry-the fathers groans
the moan of the beleavei-" Rachel weeping TO
her children. and will not be comforted becaus,
they are notl'' These sounds Of woe have reached
the ear of the Eternal We may have deserves
all we have suffered; but our toe is not the les
guilty of objectionable crimes. Their day i
cOmiug-the day OF retributlon. The Friend o
the fatherless and the widow must be heard, an,
Their Redeemer is mighty