Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-08-17

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~ rIox soFs Mr., VACLASDIeHAM = PRIScIPLEs
UPox WHICH .rHr PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IS
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g Sperisl Correspondenccof Of the Chicago Times
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The Administration is spresy pnzzled IN regard
to Mr. VaIl@ndighamI They dosHot doubt that
he will be elected Governor of Ohio, and the
question With them is, whether or not to oppose
his inauguration Ifthey do not they will have
placed themselves in the most. .rdcnl0us position
before the world that any Government ever oc
cupied. If they do il will be fhe inauguration
hof a bloody revolution TINT will sweep over the
hand like tornado. nd that willhurl them from
the seats that they have pollsted- They know
this. and therefore are they ina dilemma, Ii is
probable they will eit the hitter leek. and choose
the first alternative "a Government that can
stand the insults that ours has received from
England and France is lost to all sense of
The, Administration is firmly resolved, that
none of the Southern States shall be permitted
to re enter the Union until they nave abolished
slavery. OF course, as no Southern State will
consent to a course so ruinous to its future pros
pcrity the will be interminable, so far as the
power of the present Administration can make
il so. Il is no secret here that the conscrption
is to he enforced and the fruits of the eoascrip
ton used. in order tn perpetuate the power of the
present Adminstrat ton, and to continue the Re
publican party in power for another term Eter-
MI vigilance on thepart of the Democratic narty
is. therefore, the price of liberty; for. f the Den
ocratic party Is successful IN the next Presiden
tial election. not only will our liberties be re
stored. but the Union also will be restored /
can see no hope of termination of the w,.r as
long a. Il is Administration remains in power:
tor she enforcement of the conscnption will give
them the means of CARRYING it on for more
/ than wear longer. '-.ss ssn p SOS II
There is no foundation in the report which was
telegra phed from here day OF two ago. TO the
effect that the platform upon which the next
| Presidential campaign Is to be conducted on the
part of the Democratic party. is to be war plat
| form So far as have been able to gather from
the declarations of leading Democrats from all
paIts of the country. who have been here since
the alIournmento of Congress. the principles upon
which that campaign will be conducted on the
part of the Democratic party will he those shad
owed forth IN the great peace speech Of Fernando
Wood. OF New York. in the speeches of Mr..
Richardson. Mr. Yallandigham, aud Mr. Voor-
hees both in Congress and since the adjourn
mept Of that body, and in the public acts of Mr..
Douglas during the last twelve wears of his life
| Those principles are briefly as follows:
| That the unhappy attitude in which the North
en and Southern States have been standing to
ward each other during the last to tears is the
result Of certsin measures adopted ty the present
/ Administration, and that it will not continue af-
ter those measures have been Abandoned which
Will be as soonlas the Democratic party returns
tn mower
That all the acts of the President and of the
late Congress-. 10 relation 10 the war, including
| the emancipation procla nations, the confscation
bills. the conscription bills. and the dismember
ment Of Virgnia, are illegal unconstitutional
and void that the constitutional and peaceful re.
lations between the States and the Federal Gov
ernment can never be restored as long as the wal
| con;inues. and that the war shall not continue
after the 4th Of March. 1865.
That all The aggressive legislation of the last
| Congress acirding the confscation bills. the
conscription bill, and the act of the dismember.
ment of Virginia. shall be repealed. ard that the
emancipation proclamation shall be declared
nnnnleh. That one of the first ac.s OF the
next President will be TO invite the Southern
States to send their Sen tors and Representatives
to Congress as usual: that the status Of slavery
will be re established in the States precisely
as it existed before Lincoln was elected aud that
the slavery question be definitely settled in ac.
cordance with the principles of the Campro mise
[of 1851, as expounded and Illustrated by Mr.
Douglas
Il will he observed that this platform is silent
as to the Union being at present dissolved, and
that the term "a reconstruction of the Union i
l L
that the campaign is TO be conducted upon the
idea that the Union is a perpetnal and ndissolu
Bile one and that none Of the States are now out
OF the Union
1t is believed that with this platform, and with
a Statesman for their candidate. the Democracy
will be triumphant in the next Presidential elec
ton; that is, if the people are allowed to hold
one If. BY means Of fraud or military violence
the Democracy are defeated IN the elections oil
1864 tlen farewell TO American liberty and to
TALL hopes OF the national unity Of the American
people. II the elections conducted fairly the
democratic clndidate for President will be elect
ed; and from that moment the liberty the pros
perity. and the unity of the nation will be secu
red. The Southern States passed their acts of Sc
lcession bee luse a Republican Administrations
refused 10 give them guarantees for their rights
One of the most memorable savings of Mr.. Doug
las was that in which he declared History does
not fail to conde mn the FOL Y and wickedness o.
any government who drew its sword on its owr
people because they demanded guarantees o.
their rights A Democratic Administrator
will give those guarantees to the Southern States
aud. as this is all they want, the North and til,
South will at once fraternize again.
The idea of curying on the war as a means o
"restoring the Union /" as it is called. is REGARDED
by all leading Democrats with whom have con
versed for months past with horror and detesta
Il
suit being gained by the war, it has long sine,
vanished, Itdisappeared when the emancipation
proclamation was issued on the 22d of Septem
Der last What, Shall we show our love fo
fellow citizens in the South By killing thousand
of their men in battle. by bringing ruin and des
olation upon their country. by robbng them o
their property, and bv wringing with anguish III,
hearts Of their mothers, their wives and thei
daughters? Ii is believed that that is scarcel,
the way to indnce them to love our Government
The question il far higher than one of mer'
expedency. Yet the expediency of more thar
two years of war has demonstrated the impossi
bity OF cotiQuerng or sutiugating the South
Our recent victories on the Mississippido not ent
the war. We have as vet only attacked few
points on the outskirts of the Sonih.sr The whole
interior of the country yet remains untouched
and it vain boast hat the Southern paper
madea few days ago, I'VE have not yet beguI
10 fight" Nor is that the worst The proba
blity nov is. that before many months the EN-
lperor of France will openly espouse the cause o
the South, and thai we shall hare on our hands
foreign as well rs a domestic war That is th
great peril that now threatens If the South
lby means of French aid, should succeed in estab
fishing their independence, then indeed the UnioI
might be dissolved beyond all hopes of presen
Reconstruction. sa. sii gl fss. ca scls ''i
H. Gen. Gilmore is being heavily reinforced b,
troops from the North The Administration i
Inow, for the FIRST time, trying in ernest to TAX
Charleston. BUTT is understood, also that th
-Confederntes there have been largely reinforce
from Lees army. atrn a9saf7- rns 3 K
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