Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-06-15


lights. Last week. a grand convention of the
loyal women of America assembled in the city of
New York Each delegate had onceved mot a
baby) an idea and under the inspiration of the
great OCCASION they had commanded our magnif
cent President throughout all the ends of the
earth. | doubt not. at the proper time he will
so proclaim; and the twenty thousand troops
which His Excellency Governor Andrew johnson
was recently authorized to recruit in Tennessee.
(you have no doubt enlisted) will soon be ready
for the good work of giving practical freedom to
our enslaved fellow cOuntrymen, male and fe-
male. of African descent. When that time comes,
Memphis will be lovely city. Its walks aud
promenades will be Illuminated by the smiling
faces and brilliant eyes of the graceful and &C.
complished sons and daughters of Lincoln and
Liberty, of Darkness and Dahomey. True. our
State constitution and laws, like those of Illinois
and other loyal States, will not permit free ne
groes to come within our State, nor enfranchised
slaves 10 remain there; but, from military ne
cessity, or. as a high official expresses it, "lrom
the eT neeessifate rel OF the thing" they will. no
doubt, be permitted to remain. The plan recently
adopted in South Carolina. of selling there the
lands of Rebels, might be adopted, and thereby
Memphis might soon become a "a variegated city.
Our white and cOlored brothers and sisters might
thus furnish an example of that freedom and
fraternity" which so many unhappy Northern
spinsters sincerely regard as the only means, of
of color
Y Gu should by all means pass a resolution in
favor of giving such Rebel farms and town lots
as are not needed for our colored brethren to our
Christian friends of the North who desire to live
among their colored friends, particularly to that
numerous and respectable class who think both
races will be improv Ell by a cross of the Anglo
Saxon upon the pure Guinea. when this cruel
war is over," how our Psalm singing brethren
Ell.
Confederate farm upon the Big Black. Red river.
the Arkansas or Pnntchartrain, When the Reb-
els are disarmed how meek and lowy. docile ard
penitent they will be while beh0lsling our North
ern brothers occupying their mansions, and illus
trating the beauties of General Banks apprentice
systemi With what impunty would General
Butler ride from his plantation on Moon Lake to
to his rancho on Deer Creek Then would be
made manifest the absurdity of those copperhead
croakers who foolshly insist that, while military
power can put down a rebellion moral power
alone can eradicate its consequences and keep it
down.
IL is true they cite the example of Vendee,
which, in area. is only about the one forteth part
of France There, we admit the Deasantry be-
leved their religion endangered, and history
records that they defeated six seyentof the best
appointed armies which the French Republic, in
that warlike age could hurl against them. 1t is
also true that afterwards, when Carnot was made
Minister of War, he quieted the people by assur
ing them that they should be undisturbed in their
religious faith. These mischievous fault finders
TO give further force to their nsiduous assaults
upon President. point also Poland in
which the fires of rebellion ever burning. but
they forget that the Gar of all the RuSsias is in
all respects inferior to our model President, and
is wholly ignorant of the true means of quieting
a diSaffected people 1t never occurred to the
aforesaid Gar that, to squelch rebellion effect
ually, the cause must be removed. Had he stud.
led the history of rebeOns in this country,
he would have discovered that we always ascer
tanned the cause. the evil, the sin. which gave
pretext 10 the insurgents.
For exsmple:-During the administration of
General Washington portion of the people of
Pennsylvania got up a rebellion about whisky.
1t was crushed out by 'cOercion;" but the saga
cious statesmen Of that day determined TO strike
at the cause. The result is that the people of
that noble Commonwealth have ever since
eschewed whisky and turned their attention to
contracts. Nothing is now known in that State
of whisky, and, though Mr. Buchanan used to
recite some Evolutionary stories Of "old rye to
the junior members of his Cabinet. it is well
known that the sight of bottle of pure Monon-
gahea was as repulsive to his nature as ice wafer
to a mad dog. Subsequently,. while Gen. Jack.
son was President. the people of South Carolina
revolted at taxation. because some demagagues
called IL high tariff, and asserted that the monster
"stole morey from their unconscious pockets"
The rebellion, however, "suljugated' by
the military power of the Government, and the
cause-taxation--o course abolished No tax
gathers have been known since in South Caro-
lima. AT later day, during the administration
Of John TYLER, of the firm of .'Tippecanoe and
Tyler too" some unwashed Democrats in Rhode
Island fomented a grand ihsurrection against the
sovereignty of that large and pOpulous State.
The army and navy Of the United States by
hearty co operation with the "loyalsrs'' of that
day, soon overthrew the insurgents. Their Pro-
visi0nal Governor. Thomas W Door. was cap
tured. denied the rights of "helligerent," and
sent to the pententiiry. The Democratic party
the cauSe-was abolished, as all subsequent eec-
tiOns have shown. throughout the United States,
since when no speck ofrebeiion has been known
within the vast limits of that loyal State The
rebellion i'm Utah. which occurred during the
reign fthe old public functionary. is too recent
to be forgotten. The cause is doubtless fresh in
the mind of every aged maiden lady in the loyal
States The republican instincts Of people
would not tolerate monopoly in Heavens "last
best gift to man" General Albert Sidney John
ston. was sent to Utah, with instructions to con-
quer the conjngal spirit of Brigham. The Nor
mon war ended gioriously to our arms. The
cause was removed. Harems are now unknown
among the Latter Day Saints. and Brigham, like
comforted" In Europe. proracted and sangui
nary civil wars have often resulted from differ
ences of opinion in regard to the Tue mode of
constituting the Bible, and especially concerning
the operations of the Holy Ghost. They have
failed to abolish the one or deny the other. The
result is that few countries in Europe maintain
the quiet which usually prevails" along the
Rappahannock.
Ii should not be overlooked that our people
wera verv ionor,,nt or they ySould naver In We
been deceived by iiie reasonable enemies. North
and South. of our noble President 1t was false
" charged that he and his party friends did not
desire to suppress the rebellion without first sub
verting the rights of the States-freeing all the
slaves and eevating them to political equality of
the whites. Our people being. of course, very
ignorant, believed all these false scandalous and
malicious statements; and among the resolutions
you will adopt at YOUR meeting there should be
one thanking His Excelency, our most approved
President, for the effectual means he has adopted
to give strength and moral power to the Union
Uen and women of the South, while at the same
time he has shown how wickedly false and libel
lous were the allegations of Southern traitors and
Northern copperheads that he intended to use the
army and navy to abolish slavery. The Union
men of the South will ever greatfully cherish the
name and memory Of one who- by scrupulous
regard of his official and other pledges aud his
manly adherence to the Chicago platform, has
vindicaied the truth Of all the pledges which from
time 70 time we made in his behalf, and the
traitors and copperheads who thus falsely charged
our great and good President with designing to
subvert the institutions of the Southern States
must henceforth hide their faces in shame.
You should by no means fail to adopt with
wild acclamation. mingled with few "Bully
Hallelujahs," resolution severely denuuciatory
of those who criticse our military operations, or
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