Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-12-21
The Presidents Message-Its Afro.
cious Features.
Especial Correspondents of the Chicago Times-l
WASHINGTON, December 10.

Especial Correspondents of the Chicago Times.
WASHINGTON, December 10.
Yesterday was a dark day for the American
Republic. On thar day THE GREAT WORK upon
which the abolitionists have been laboring for
the last thirty years eliminated in the annual
message of a man who had sworn to support the
constitution of his country, but who in this
message violated his Inauguration oath, trampled
the constitution under his feet, and planted his
feet upon the rights and liberties of one-half of
the States of the Union For thirty years the
abolitionists have been laboring to abolish slave
nv in all the States, even if, in doing so, they
should destroy the Union. To-day they find that
work done for them by Abraham Lincoln.
mean the work of the destruction of the Union.
Slavery in the South they can never abolish. 1t
is an institution ordained and sanctioned by the
Almighty, as thesmost suitable condition for
inferior race; and what he ordains and sanctions
cannot be moved by all the efforts of puny men.
No one here, who had access to the proper
source of information, was at all surprised az the
radical tone and absurd featuSe of the message;
and, as had warned the readers of the Times to
expect the most ultra radical sentiments, and
full Endorsement of the atrocioCs Whiting and
Sumner doctrines, in that document, they, too,
were no doubt prepared for it. Nevertheless, a
thrill of horror ran through the breasts of the
true Representatives of the people, and of the
spectators in the crowded galleries of the House,
as the Clerk read those portentous sentences, in
which the obscure Illinois iatboatman dared to
assert i'm the presence of the past glories of the
Republic. the Infamous falsehood that the South
ern States existed no longer and TO declare that,
if they were ever recognized as States again, it
must be after they shall have pulled down their
venerable State governments, abolished their sa-
cred State constitutions, and, in word, revolu-
ti0nized their whole system ofinternal policy.
The gallery was warm, but felt chilled to the
very marrow when / thus heard Abraham Lin
coin declare that ten sovereign Stotes, equal and
honored members of the Republic, should never
be allowed to return to the Union, not only until
after they shall have torn down the pillars of
their State governments, and covered themselves
with the fragments of their former glory, but,
also, not until they shall have acqucsccd in, and
approved of, all the illegal, unjust, and uncon-
stitutional acts of him, Abraham Lincoln, and
his last infamous Congrcssl-not until after they
shall have bowed down in the dust and have
sung hosvanas over the Emancipation Proclama-
ton and the Confiscation Act!
Such IL, in brief, the pith and substance Of the
Presidents message The intelligent readers of
the Times viii ofcourse pcruse it for themselves.
The nation viii never, never stand the monstrous
usurpation which is now boldly proclaimed as
the policy of the present administration. The
President darcs TO assume that all the people of
all the Southern States have committed treason,
and are, therefore, objects of Executive clemency
Does he not know that the people can read! And
does not the Constitution plainly say that no
person shall be convicted and be deemed guilty
Of treason except after fair by jury, in
open COURT Besides, does not the Constitution
plainly say that those only are guilty of treason
who make war on the Constitutional Govern
ment Of the United States? The verdict Of his