Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-19
CoYINeroN. August II, 1856

OOVINGTON, august IL, lcOO
My DEAR SIR-Your favor was received last
evening, and am truly CHAD to find you so well
pleased with my sentiments. though | well knew
| you would be; for, whatever differences of opin-
ion formerly existed between Us, they were never
touching questions which in any way involved
the vitality OF the Union, or the high and sacred
principles of the Constitution. They were mere
questions of expediencS, conducted on both sides
| by high regard for truth and the public wei
fare, and always characterized by honor and
good faith.
You were right in snpposing the Peoples
! Friend" to have been sent you by me. / was
not certain you were in Washington, but sent it
at venture; Tor, in looking over the remarks as
published, YOU were most forcibly brought to my
/ mad in connection with the subject, which, in
substance, was precisely what uttered, and YOU
reported, more than fourteen years ago. the last
time | was a member OF the House OF Repre-
seniatives in the Legislature of this State. and
when WAS answered by general burst OF APP
plause both from the hall and the galleries; and
the bill | was speaking against to give fugitive
slaves trial by jury,) received, ON the ayes and
/ nays but six votes out OF the one hundred pres
ent. | well remember the pleasure you then +.
| pressed, aud | was well assured that no change
of circumstances or trammes OF party could ever
make YOU bend tor instant before the black
altar of Abolition.
! NJ dear sir, we are in the midst OF fearful
struggle; YOU cannot appreciate il IN w Washington
il is beyond anything | could have believed of
/ any portion OF the American people. To the
most shameless disregard of every principle of
right and Justice, of the Constitution; OF the
Union. of liberty itself, these fellows (the Abo-
ltionists,) unite capacity for lying and false
/ hood that Is absolutely marvellous. CULVER and
| Munehausen sink into absolute insignihcance be-
side them, and this with an effrontery that would
/ i e II
over with US as a nation. The election of Blu
chanan regard as certain, but it only postpones
the EVIL day for short hour We cannot resist
these violent and continued shocks five years
longer. The vessel of State must founder in the
wild gale that blows with increasing fury every
hour, and there is nothing to stay it, for public
virtue is dead or driven everywhere, to the deep
est Businesses of obscurity. Its voice is only
heard in sounding the notes of lamentaton and
picturing the coming woe. The waters of Baby
| Ion are close by u.s. and the willows on which our
daughters shall forever hang the harps of free
dom. And yet believe the South, in the gen
eral wreck and at all hazards, will preserve her
Republican Institutions, even though her land be
all wasted and her homes all blackened and de-
stroyed. That "haughty spirit OF liberty" pc
culiar to the Southern stakeholder, of which
Burke spoke so powerfully in the House of Com
mons during the revolution is an inextinguisha-
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where the clergy are invoked and have entered
the field at every point, is the place to expect the
prostration of freedom; for when where in
what age or amongst what people, did the cegy
ever strike one blow, or raise one single note for
| liberty?
AS TO the result in this State, it will be enough
to know it when it comes. For your own eye
Lone l say. it will be bad enough, God knows
GOULD you be here to witness their appliances,
you would not wonder at my evil anticipations.
| have closed all connection with parties. for
it is all in vain. They will absolutely falsify
what say right before my face, and as fast as it
falls from my lips. But. for many reasons, cut
loose from the dirty puddle of politics, as an ac-
tive participant at least. Chiefly. / want to fol-
low my profession, and to amass, as believe /
can. competency for old age.
| Let me assure you of nv strong interest in
your welfare, and my steady aad unchanged re-
CARDS, shall be most happy to hear from you
frequently.
Your friend, A E. HANNEGAN.
After speaking at Chambersburg. | spoke at
Craw louisville, and sent you paper with brief
notice of it. They failed to report the heads of
my speech as they promised me, and say in let
ter to me that they cannot report me. wish
you had been there; you could have done it.
john BOWLING,
Washington CITY,