Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-30


D .toa. which la. tsraunized over the courts. Wia
Lee is strength: snd the more tiasid ,s5baeals
vii gather courare 20 csscft Their rights
Tie Supreme Court Of the United States, too.
will confront the danger with unbroken spirit.
and with n unanimous judgment. recent letter
of Judge Miller 81 Iowa, OF the Supreme Court
Of the United States. removes all doubt as To
him lie WIS appointed 90 his place on the Su-
prene Bench by President Lincoln. as were also
Judge Swayne, Of Ohio. aud Davis. of Illinois
Thee tao judges also hold conservative senii-
ments: and we have no doubt tba, the Supreme
Bench will be unanimous in sastnis'sf'g the Con
situ,iop against the new and dangerous assef
tons Of Executive prerogatise. a. expanded IN
der the magnifying influence Oi war necessity
This attitude of the new RepubIican judges. IA
accom- with the old dignitaTies at the berch.
should occasion No surprise IL woud be ffr
more astonishing IL any well read lawyer-auy
one versed enough IN the philosophs of lnrS
prudence TO deserve any place upon the bench ol
any court-should so far stutily himself ~ tn
uphold these preiensons.
We congratulate the country upon some OF the
encouraging aspects OF the times The work OF
reputation goes on. alongside that of destruction
The Congress which has done much TO deface
End destroy the Constitution and 10 disIniegraie
the Union, Is about Ia expire in ignoInny. The
States are asserting their rights. TIE courts are
arraigning themselves "a the indicators of the
Ing forward o. take into their own hands the task
OF demonstrating the Gov eminent in which armies
aud navies have fiilei. and which Cabinets and
Congresses have meddled with 90 mar.
There can be no doubt bat the people generally
desire RETURN in the Administration. which by
its weakness and recklessness has well nigh
ruined the country. IL is not the Democracy
alone that entertain this sentiment, but il in
cludes large number Of conservatives who have
been identified with the Republican party. In
proof of this we present the following extract
from letter written by Justice SAMUEL z NIL
LEn. of the Supreme Court OF the United States.
dated at Keokuk. Iowa, November llth. 1862. IN
answer to an invitation TO attend grand JUDI
lee of the friends Of const tutional liberty and
Union
Judge MILLER was appointed last year by Mr..
LINCOLN tor whom he voted and a member
OF the old Wing party. The sentiments he ex
presses cannot tail 10 strike the public mind as
eminently just and appropriate. His letter should
be read BY all who sincerely desire to be informed
upon the present condition OF affairs by one who
can have no other motive to influence him but
the good OF his country
In connection with the comments of the Albany
Argus upon the Supreme Court OF the United
States and the confidence which may be reposed
in not only it, ability and purity, but its deter
mina,iun To protect and maintain the liberties oil
the citizen. the letter of Judge MILLER is most
op;ortune Judge Miller writes:
The recent elections have gL,ddened my
he art more than eau hnd language To express
for ieei that bv the success of the Democracy
we shtll have a SPECIFY restoration of the Union
and constitutional Liberty.
am an old Clay Wing. IA you all know. ant
when the party went down. united with the Re
publicans. in the hope and belief that il would
succeed TO all the loyal and national virtues oil
the Wing Marty and that we would have Wing
| principles and policy prevail under another name
| But got more than b,rgained for. TWAS not
| in the covenant that should have civil war as
n consequence OF Republican success; that the
public treasury he pundered by whole
sale that free soil" ia loyal States should he
covered with martial law: that free speech"
should be chained in the dungeons of the baste
that free homes should be sacked to desolatIon,
and he liberty of free men should be confred
in its practical application to the negroes of the
South. aud the Abolition wing of the Republi
can party at the North. No. We old Wings.
in uniting with the Republican purity. did not
con, ent to be party 10 any such violations OF
constitutional liberty
Had the counSels uf Gen. Scott. John j Crit
tenden Stephen A Douglas. and indeed of all
the wise and good men of nation been
needed. would not now be afflicted with the
civil war that j. nnw upon us They could not
have p.eventei South Carolina from her attempt
AT revOlulon tut tie Criiieiiden proposition
would have saved all the rest OF the Southern
State, and long before this, ut triting expense
of money. and at small loss of lite, that rebel
liou~ State would have been BUNDLED before the
his ot the Uninn.
Bnt how dill the phrenzy of the Abolition lead
ers meet that propositonf They said. away
with il. away with IL. AMI cruelty all who adyo
cate IL. They further said. leave the slave States
GO We ito without them and will
speedily reap the advantages of separation.
When The conservative element of the nation
proclaimed itself for tie Union. then the Aboli-
tioni>tS assumed that they were the var party.
asri denounced all others Rebel mpAtnizers
That the Aholitioni>rs are Ia favor OF lro>ecut-
ing the war tor the love OF the Union. AN sure
j. not he Their object Is tn abolish slavery
only. and If thst should fail, they will again
>lee'lily false their old cry. OF let the Union
siuie "
Gentlemen it !. the mission of the Democratic
pirty to save the Union.
Ii has always been "a loyil and national party:
it has upheld constitutional law the only
safe.ua OF freedom 1t was the party that
hurled from power The authors oil the alien and
se,liti"n laws. sixty Years ago and for all tina,
period they guided ship of State successfully
AMI cloriouSy through the waves of civil com
motion and the dangers OF foreign
regard the Clay Whis party. and the Doug
las Democracy genuine branches of the old
Democratic party in l,9S.
When see Gen Scott and Millard Fillmore
and Crittenden. and ketchum and Hunt and Hll
the old prominent Wings of twenty FIVE Years
ago. nov united AZ the polls with tie Democra
CIV. | can have dnubt that If the immortal
sage of Ashland, that purest of patriots. m 1T ell
oquent of orators. and wi-est OF statesmen. Henry
CLAY, were still alive. and in midst. he too
would lend his voice IN favor of that party whose
wachwords are-he Constitution as il is" and
''the Union it aud shall be preserved "
The Abolition leaders had so little idea OF the
character of the contest they entering upon,
that they proclaimed the would be over ia
sixty DAYS. They have hid all the money they
aske,l Tor, all the men they asked for. and Vet
the war RACES with unex IMPLIED fury III the end
of i've hundred DAYS The result for the lA>,
eichices months demonstrates clearly the nece>
>ty of universal chanse ol rulers and old
Wings claim 10 love their country more thu
party. hope they will all speedily unite nndeI
the Democratic flag. for the salvation Of our
Union Respectfully. yours.
SAMUEL + MILLER.