Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-15

aud are Jealous tor Ter prosperity IA tho future
Aud you not only love your countrv. but YOU
love mankind: you feel for the weifrre OF your
race. the hopes OF whch are - 30 great al extent
wrapped ID ia this nation. These are your sen
timen;s
Now we At Washington, each in hi- sphere,
have been doing all the time simply what We could
10 give effect 10 your will We have only 70 rep
resent the PEOPLE. the President 10 his sphere. and
the other officers Of the Administration IN their
spheres. do not pretend 10 say that We have
not all OF Us made mistakes II Is next TO i'm
possible. in the nature OF things that the im
meise m,chinery ot the government should have
been uniformly managed in times ct such danger
IS o. have IN all cases secured the best possible
results. hat this | can say. Tor the President OF
the United States - veil a. for those associated
With him in conducting the fairs Of government,
that they have sincerely and honestly endeavored
give effect the peoples will BY restoring the
threatened lite OF the republic
Your Governor has been pleased TO refer 10 NV
own services. / sincerely wish that could feel
that they we're entitled TO any part OF the eulo
gism pronounced upon them: but must say that
all have done his been to eudeavor 10 interpret
the mericsn heart. and do just What the judg
ment OF the American mind would demrn nd at nv
hands At the outset Ut this struggle. the great
leader (or follower. whichever YOU pie ,se.) Of
public opinion in Europe-the London Times
said Oh I Mr. Chase would very soon lind himself
ia want OF money. and would 90 u England to
borrow, aud then England would not let him
have any aud then We would see what would
become Of our vaunted republic. What would
YOU haze had me to do under these circumstances
! ou would have done precisely what | did. |
said: 81 will not 90 to England tor money but
she shall come to Us; and if the Times waits for
Mr Chase 90 come TO England To borrow money
she will wait I'LL the green ise OF England is
sunk into the depths of the sea" Cheers ]
That j. Just what you would have said
Well what was next To be doneg borrowed
all the gold there was IN the country In this
wav obtained about one hundred and seventy
FIVE millions of dollars in gold, and il d not
come back quite fast It went. and the
banks AMI capitalists who had furnished the gold
began to say To me. ~ cannot supply YOU with
specie any longer unless YOU will agree 20 paw Us
such prices for il as will enable Us 10 buy in Eu-
rope to replace it" This would not do, and the
next question they asked me was, will YOU take
the paper of our banks and pay u six per cent.
interest on it, and then pay it to the soldiers in
the place of goldl Aud by and by perhaps
something will happen-we do not know what. T"
This was the question that met me Now. what
would YOU have had me doT You would have
said 70 me- Here am l. Mr. Smith. farmer"
and "herr am |. Mr. Jones, mechanic" and
/ L,
instead of stocks. and base the currency of the
country on us-go to work and make green
backs >" know that what you would have
advised me to do; and therefore, as my business
was only To interpret YOUR will, | went to work
and made "greeubacks, and a good many OF
them at that | had some handsome pictures
put upon them. too and AS like 10 get pretty
near the people, and "a the engravers thought me
rather good looking. told them they might put
me on the end of the one dollar bills Laugh
ter
Well, at first A great many people thought this
was bold and hazardous experiment and good
MANY OF the banks said t sure To- fail; on the
| other hand number of the banks. tO their honor
be recorded, SAID "yOu are right 60 ahead A
good many dislOyal men thought they would be
able TO break us down. Some banks and some
persons refused 10 take the currency. +" That
WIS to he donel You would have told me in
this case to go exactly what did 10; you would
have said il any bnk j. not willing TO receive
this money il shall Ike il or get nothing at al.
So Ne made il "A legal tender. NOT quite teude r
as they desired but legally so Laughter 80
the thing went on. anl after while agreed
that we should issue bonds. an If the people de
sired TO invest in them they could do II aud we
would pay the interest in gold That makes this
currency sound IL is simply the love and graft
tude of the people toward their government put
into the form OF money
But here another step was necessary 1t was
necessary to have some means by which the ma
tonal currency could be perpetualed ami SO we
devised and carried ont the national banking sys-
TEN This is "A brief account OF what We have
done Ii H. a very simple thug lt does not
require any great wit to work il out. Ii requires
thi~-an honest purpose to know what Is hest and
right To be done; and whenever you seek to do
that without fer or favor You will most always
find the ght path. and then having found 1t, YOU
have ouy To ask God to give you the courage To
carry il out IL is common sense and courage,
that is all Ii j. the correct INTERPRETATION of the
popular will and then doing that will.
Now | have Il, Ell YOU just about as much OF
a report upon the finances as expect TO give To
Congress But before ! lit down let me say a
word about what seems 10 me likely To be the
issues of this war 1t there ever was any event
i'm the history of this worl which was distinctly
marked by the tokens OF Divine Providence, il is
this There had grown up an Institution IN
this country which hid served rs the basis OF an
ariStocrscv hostile tree labor and all those i'll
terests which YOU most cherish. IL was an arts
tOcracv that pressed with equal weight upon the
DO n white mtu of the South and the slave who
WIS driven like the brute to his daily toll. This
ariStocracv hid seized upon the national govern
ment and was making II just what they pleased
tor the purpose of working their wills The,
were striving TO extend slavery into all the free
territory of the country, and to open the slave
trade that they might mike fresh importatons
of slaves from Africa at pleasure They secuted
the very iiea of tree Institutions. and had 50 or
sanize1 themselves that they preferred tn over
throw and ruin the government rather than sub
nit To having the republic governed by the PEG
pc In lS6 they determined they would govern
the republic themselves. Lincoln was elected
President. They still had Congress aud the
Supreme Court but they were not content with
this. They were not willing the power should
pass out of their hands into the hands Of
the representatives OF the people And
so they UNDERTOOK TO break ~ the republic.
in the insane hope that they could make new
republic. founded on the slavery of men. They
expected that New York would join them in
breaking up the Union-they boosted that lnd-
ana was going to join them, and Illinois also.
They said that all the Northwestern States would
come in rather than have the Mississippi closed.
Thus they hoped be able to found "a mighty
slave empire, hut when they began their play by
firing on Fort Sumter. this nation flew To arms
Was not Gods hand in thatr | think it was.
tier that YOU all remember how forbearing the
President was. and how forbearing every body
was. | used 10 be very imDatent sometimes,
and wanted tins military thing done. and that
military thing done. and the rebellion crushed
out az once. But somehow or other, IN the Prov
idenee of God the thing worked slowly along
and il was only when we ID m,ie up our minds
that slavery was ~ the root OF the rebellion, and
that il must be cot out of the way. that any very
a isfipguisbed succe>s followed our arms Now