Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-29
s.-he sectional Fanaueai Parry"

20 the people OF TOE Ohite1 otate- against the
wicked. atheissic and deuoraiizing tendency NJ
the present times. .Presidept LOAD j. a mos, pro
found ebolaF and deep thinker. and a general
circulation OF biz writings through the press
void. we believe. % much % creates more
healthy public sentiment upon the morale Of our
political troubles:
To the Editor Of the Boston Courier.
IL has been usual ia This country. and especial
" in the northern part Of IL, To affect resemb
lance % the people Of Israel the side OF dignity
and prerogative But the resemblance IS now
more striking on the other side: when one OF
the Prophets thus testified, in Gods name: my
people are DESTROYED for lack OF knowledge. Be
cause thou hast fJrgotten the law Of thy God. |
will also forget thy children. As they we're In
creased. they sinned against me; therefore viii
! change their glory into shame"
The people Of Israel had then reached their
highest stage Of civilization. Their lack OF
knowledge, therefore, was not general bat spe-
cihc IL consisted. as the Prophet explained in
forge.fulness OF the law Of their God-the or
ganc law--by which they had been constituted a
separate aud distinct people. OF race also sepA
rate and distinct, and specially elevated. by a
Divine order above all others Their great in
crease and glory were a sign OF their culture, af-
ter the order of those times. IL their cul
ture and worldly glory that occasione9 their apps
tacy. In their concet Of higher wisdom. they
condemned n al Divine wisdom which bad found
Ell and ruled them. not, As they vainly magined
for social and political pre- euinence, but tor The
higher ends which they overlooked of moral
govesnment. Consequently. their glory was
turned mo shame Their ustrious Common
wealth was d. membered, and foundation was
laid for those domestic and foreign wars captivi
ties and other wasting judgments which issued
al length in their hitter disiranchisement and des-
olation--when Japhet, according TO prophecy
took possession OF the tents of Shen.
Parallel thus far. in all important particulars
has been the history Of the Japhetic nations
Our own country will not be an exception b. the
general law of Providence. Cause and efec,
have necessary. that is-a stated relation 10 each
other. IN every period The government Of God
il one and uniform TO the end. ltdeserves the
most serious inquiry, whether the Japhetic na
tons will not reach their catastrophe. in part. al
least through the insane attempts which they sre
making 20 reverse the decree of Heaven, pro.
nouncel at Che re- peOpling Of the earth, for the
assertion and maintenance OF moral Government
and the better preservation Of the distracted world
God must be supposed to know best how TO order
the affairs of earth To affect superior wis
dom. and set up "higher law. :" may precipitste
general overturnngs. There Is voice in his
word and there has been none IN the course OF
his providence, which asserts the social and pO-
litcal equality Of all the races; but the
il everywhere sounded out in tones that no rev
erent and thoughtful believer can misunderstood
Every different utterance ia merely human. J.
comes OF vain inlaeinlti0nS:" and IL remains Il
he whether the human will turn out to BE-
more authoritative aud effectual than the Divine
Hence the fears OF so many of our most con
siderate and patriotic men. They have seen
with the increase Of the people. a growing irrev
for the Divine authority. and nste al of tbs
lessons of the Scripture. history and experience
gratutOus substitution OF merely speculative
conceits. In particular-they have seen on the
part of the generality. ncre ising forgetfull
ness of their organic law--the ordinance Of God
for their guidance in the social state; forgetfull
ness of the principles of Government on which
his providence founded them: and practical dis
esteem of the blessings OF civil and religious LID
erty, which due observance Of those princpe.
could not have failed to perpetuate They have
seem beyond the strife Of general parties Otter
unreasonable but not dangerously excited par
OF these States united under a common bond and
covenant. setting themselves. at leangth, agains,
another and weaker part, with bitter reproaches
the disruption of social aud ecclesiastical ties
hostile legislation, injurious ensets. and threat:
of worse ''impending crises" They have seer
this geographical party organized. as expressed
by Rufus Choate. Ito take possess on OF the Gov
eminent of the whole country" for an "irrepress
lille conflict" with the domestic. social and civil
institutions OF the weaker section, resolved "a
curtail il. OVERLY or imperceptby. of privilege,
and rights to which il constituti onally and IL
good faith entitled. and refusing reasonable term.
of compromise
They have seen these encroachments vndica-
ted. fauaticaIlv. by the balancing forces of that
party. on the ground of alleged "higher law
unknown to the Scripture the Constitution the
common sense and conscience of mankind. They
have seen this geographical party. by the al o.
these finatcal cohorts. appropriate the Govern
ment. and then the tug of war, on the one hand
to resist, and on the other to maintain the unwar
rantlble power and its chimerica authority They
h v seen h presently carried on upon Drin.
ciples which had been diSavOwed and rejected AZ
its beginning. and for objects and ends which the
Chief Magistrate himself had beforehand pro
nouncei unconstitutional, inhuman and destruct
i've. They have seen the legislative and execu
tive administrators of the Government, in their
supposed plentitude of authority claiming to be
the Government itself. and putting on, Of the
pale OF the Constitution and the laws the more
considerate of their own section Of the couu
try. who could not, with fidelity Ia the organic
law. admit this claim. nor justify such deceptive
and dangerous policy They have seen the
House OF Congress of the United States in or,ier
TO sustain This policy invest the Chief Magistrate
under the forms of law with the attributes of an
Eastern des1ot. giving him power unknown ~
the Constitution. Of statute purse AMI sword
over sovereign States, and over the persons the
speech the press, the houses. the property AM
lives of people now forgetiul of their own hl>
tory unconscious of their chartered rights THEN
duties and their dangers, and. unless corrected
sure q find according To all the laws of mind anil
of moral government. and the prereienrs Of his
tory, that they nave sacrificed their blood bought
Inheritance upon the alters % an ntoxcated. vim
dictive party spirit. and tanrtcal idolatry. They
have seeh how MANY otherwise intelligent and
worthy citizens. blinded by speculative ial acie-
and sectional animosities love 10 have il So. con
tent for the sake OF an ideal good which the
Scripture. history and experience pronoupces e.
be- IN the present state OF things chimerical and
impossible. 10 see The foundation of our socitl
eiifce shaken. and the glorious structure reirel
upon IL topping 10 its fill These things amd
more they have seen. with the profnundest gref
They are overwhelmed With fears NJ hi popular
forsetfulness OF tie organic law: for they sre not
: mindful 10 the government of God
But hone vet mingle, with their fear: for 81.
there ere reactions and recoveries of the neorle
OF Israel. it ny be With the people OF this di>
tracted land There realresdv signs of such
reformation. OF those. uof the et ! a return
ing spirit OF inquiry after The forgotten principle,
o. the organic Inv. and a corresponding purno,.
e. sssert and maintain them. on Scripture aud
moral grounds. irres pectivey Of p-rty Wide vet
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