Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-06
Treason i'm Massachuse,ts.

1t is incredible that the people of Boston allow
fin their city the weekly publication of such in
amOus utterances as the following from the Lib
orator of April oath:
mo act of ours do we regard with more con-
scientiOus approval or higher satisfaction. none
do we submit more confidently TO the tribunal
of Heaven and the moral verdict of mankind,
than when, several years ago, on the 4th Of July,
in the presence of a great assembly, we com
mitted TO the flames the Constitution of the
United States, because lin the language of John
Quincy Adams) the bargain between freedom
and slavery contained in il was morally and DO
litically vicious, inconsistent with the principles
on which alone our revolution can be justified,
and cruel and oppressive by riveting the chains
of the oppressed. and ~ple1ging the faith Of free
dom to maintain and perpctuate the tyranny of
the master" And should the present bloody
struggle end 10 any COMPROMISE with the South,
or in recognizing any constitutional obligations to
shareholders or slave hunters in the border States,
we shall again give that instrument to the con
Stunning fire, and renew our protest against it
as "A covenant with death and an agreement
with hell
"In the court of conscience and before God, it
matters not what slaveholding agreements or
compromises NAV be found in the Constitution or
out Of il, they are al, inhuman, unjust and i'm
moral. anu therefore null anu NOlu, anu u "A man
can tntain Office, or be Il voter under the Govern
ment, only on condition of sustaining such com
promise. then il is certain, if be would not do evil
that good may come, he must relinqhish office.
holding, and refuse to cast a vote stained with
human blood. His motto is, and must be, as one
loyal to right and duty, "No Union with Slave
holders!"
'Man is more than OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rot beneath the
sod
Than be true to Church and State whilst we are doubly
false 10 Godf'
Perhaps we err in saying that it is incredible.
Within the past two years Loyalty" has become
a word of purely arbitrary significance in the
mouths of the men who use it for the time. The
New York radical papers which denOunce their
political opponents as disloyal have no word of
censure for this Boston paper. but on the con
trary they delight in honoring Mr. Wendell Phil
lips. whose name is printed conspicu0Usly at the
head OF the Liberator as one of the managers of
It's fnan, es.
In the Middle and Western States we hear
daily of the seizure Of newspapers and the arrest
of editors for alleged reasonable synpathies.
We have never seen IN a paper published out OF
Massachusetts a more atrociOus article than this.
and vet il will pass unnoticed by 'loyal leaguers,"
unnoticed By radical newspapers, who would mob
the office of the Boston Courier or Post o-day If
either of them should express a seneimene remote
" in favor of the destruction of the Union.
While the men whom these disunion Adolf
tionists call disloyal have been the unwavering
defenders of the Union and Constitution, their
malIgners are permitted to preach treason in the
pulpit, publish treason il their newspapers, and
are received with distinguished attentions on the
floor of Congress and in the mansions of the
highest Government officers.
The Tribune devoted a column yesterday to
the fierce denunciation "a certain suspected trail
tors. If they we're indeed guilty they deserve
hanging as high as Haman- But what has the
Tribune to say TO the above extract of the Lib
eratorg Here is a bold confession Of crime. an
unblinking challange to loyal men to confront,
and, if they dare, TO punish them. What say
you. gentlemen Of the Loyal Leagues? Do you
wish more papers of the Liberator stamp2 Is
this the kind of. literature you approved IL not,
dare YOU express your minds and d~enounce these
men as they deserve. or are YOU afraid il might
cost you a few Abolition votes in the next
eiectiOnsI
liz IS 4 shock 10 the moral sense of me world
that an officer was dismissed the service a few
DAYS agor for voting a Democratic Tickei in New
Hampshire. but no word of caution or rebuke
comes from the self styled 'loyal" party for this
ousspoken treason in Massachusetts.-[N. Z.
: Journal of Commerce.