The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-01-23

crowned with a halo of glory which was
becoming brighter with every revolving
sun art and literature. religion and law,
science and industry. were accumulatlng
comforts aud enjoy yments, and our Chris
tianized civilization had its inspiration to
the ends of the earth but a wicked rebel
lion has dashed the cup of our happiness,
murder and rapine have desolated our fair
provinces, and we must :" let them alone -
Such may be the exhibition of the loyalty
OF others, but frankly admi. it is not
mine.
The senator from Kentucky has spoken of
other manifestations OF loyalty in the late
elections. and he spoke with an air of tri-
umph Of the gallant democracy of my
own state and of others. / may darkeu the
bright vision Of the honorable senator but
the cause of truth inhexibly requires that l
should tell him how much he is mis- stsken.
Instead Of the election in Indiana being
evidence CT opposition to the government,
the gentlemen who sustained The Admins
tration by voting for the tax law and other
great measures of the Administration have
been re elected by large and increased ma
Jorities; while the votes of those were re-
duced who voted against the tax LAWN
one instance at least If, however, a diff
not have excited surprise. when we consider
the means the disoyal, so-calied " demo-
Gratis" resorted to for that purpose. They
may be summed up briefly thus /: first. to
discourage enlistments, particularly of chose
who would stay at home to vote the party
ticket; second, denuuciation of the Admin.
istraiion for every possible and impossible
shortcoming; third, to oppose the conGsca-
ton acts fourth, to create ill-feellng be-
tween the East and the West; fifth, to op-
pose taxation to meet the expenses of the
war and the interest on the d sbt necessarily
incurred mora particularly to charge that
the West Is more heavily taxed than the
East In proportion to its wealth ; sixth, TO
impress upon the Northwest the great value
of the navigation of the Mississippi. Over
and above all these, we're loud protestations
OF loyalty to the government and support of
the war. but il must be conducted in GER
tain way and certain manner but they
did not venture to proclaim that there should
be no q coercion" Cunning appeals were
made to sectional prejudices and such arts
were not deemed beneath the men from
whose elevatio In station might have
hoped nothing would come to taint bright I
honor. To exhibit pair of brogans, aud (
to assert that it would soon require two
loads of corn to purchase such articles in I
New England, whatever NAV have been |
designed, could not otherwise result than in !
prejudice in a whole community against a
government which has been embarrassed by !
traitors who seek to cripple it still more by
estrtnging from it those who are still loyal. /
What else than further divisions and sec |
tional convusions could have been designed /
by the passage of such resolution as this. /
by body of 80 styled +" Democrats -
"Resolred, That had it not been for the /
fanaticism and peculation of New England .
our generation would not have witnessed |
the ghastly spectre of disunion and were
it not for the same causes, still potent for /
evil, those difficulties could be readily ad-
justed therefore we declare that when we |
have exhausted every reasonable effort for 1
the restoration OF the Union as it was, should /
New England stand in the breach. then will +
we cheerfully say TO New England, with all /
her cupldity, with all her meanness fanati-
cism. folies, and moral turpitude. we bid
you good-by remembering you only for the
wrong you have done u.s.
Such are the appeals made to the people /
in the name Of democracy. 90 Liberty.
what atrocities are committed in thy namei''
was the uttered sentiment of Madame Ro-
land. o democracy, how art thou abused
by thy ip-worshppers If democracy re-
quires that shall assist in sowing dissen.
sons among sections, stimulate the local
prejudices of one state against another. aud
thus foment inernecine strife whsre there
should be undisturbed harmony, | shall
cease to be democrat.
NEW ENGLAND AND THE UNION.
l cannot forget, sir, the part played by
Naxr IL
of our liberties in the republic.
What is her record in the annals of the
revolutionary war? The whole number Of
men enlisted in the continental service from
tie beginning to the end of that war was
23l ,959. Of these Lorenzo Sabine saws,
in the historical essay prefixed 10 his AMER
lean Loy alists, that 67907 were from Mas
sachusetts lone of the New England states)
alone All the states south OF Pennsylva-
MIA provided but 59,49S, or less by S.414
than the gallant Bay State sent New Eng
and equipped and maintained II8, $50 men
more than one half the total number pla-
led at the service of Congress during the
var There stands her record Ii cannot
De wiped out.
And whea this unnatural contest was
orced upon US, true 10 her traditions, the
men of New England were the first to rush
o the defense of the capital when it was
hre atened by traitors. Sir, am not New
sogiander. I was born and raised in the
West but am not ignorant of New Eng
and genius. which is famous as her patriot
sm, her thrift and her learning; nor can l
orget how my heart was gladdened few
years ago on meeting with an exhibition of
New England's inventive faculty in a dis .
ant tore,sn land Far distsp. fran, hose I
among aliens and strangers, the eve is glad I;
iened by the sight of anything American
and there all petty divisions and geograph- ,
cai lines are swallowed up In the great
whole OF my native land. At a grand ex-
hio'tion IN Pomerania, surrounded by from
ten 10 twenty thousand Germans, Woods
srass cutting machiLe, and other Yankee
and evidences Of skill. ouick-
ened my pulse. made my blood course more
proudly. Her inventive talent, her indus
Try, her inieiligence, are proverbial Nev