Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-21

bum bailifs. the instruments Of the iron rule
lGreat applause You came hiiher 70 gei rid II
vile system OF espionage or which our language
has name. and 10 get rid of the p.tS>p rt vs.
TEN that stops YOU ever, frontier town / AOur
passport can be rised and stamped. You c'me
where speech was free and the press free; where
there was trial by jury; where l4bor was hon. f
Ored, aud man, the lord of his little patcn OF I
ground. or, il may be. Of MS acres. could take
his children in his arms aud thank God that be
was b0ru in land Of freedom. [Great cheering
This Is what YOU came for. Aud you came where
civil and religious liberty had found asylum
and reared her temples to justice and to the wor
ship OF the living God. But men OF foreign
lands, YOU whom have sometimes welcomed TO
our shores, | am bound TO tell YOU that in some
things you have been mi-led lately, deceived.
beguiled, ard cast. as il were, into the horrible
pit. In the last year-a wear which. for its viola
ton Of personal rights aud disregard of constitu-
tional oblig tons, should be stricken from the
calendar-ihe men IN power dsregardiug the
rights OF the people under the Constitution. have
struck down. IN a succession of outrageous blows,
manv of the rights which YOU I'd acquired here
and the privileges which you had begun TO enjoy.
and have renewed here in our country some OF
the worst features of the rotten dynasties of
European and Asatc countries And now, gen
temen. your remedy i in your own hands
United together. aud firm in your purpose, you
may recover that which you have lost, AID
recover these inevitable privileges in a constitu
tonal way
Gentlemen of the different clubs--fOr suppose
you are represented here zee In your organi
cation the noble impulse the patriotic purp sc,
the holy aspiration aud the heroic resolve which
have characterized the true friends of liberty IN
all ages of the world Your late COW enton was
remarkable one. Every town in the State was
represented This is something which has never
occurred before. Nor is the explanation diff
cult one Every town has suffered more or less
by the Every town has seen on the edge of
It's horizon the shadow OF some coming despotism.
Every town has given something of the flower Of
It's youth to the cause Some have returned
crippled for life; others have come back 10 tell
the story of how ,hey were treated by those who
should have been TO them friends and protectors
Every town i loaded with taxes In all of them
there is more or less mourning. Rachel weeping
for her children, and refusing to be comforted be
Cause they are not: and all OF this misery, desc
latlOn, burden and oppression tor the sake OF
political Aboltinnism. Applause
Now, gentlemen, wOId or two more and
have done What is the mission OF the hourl
II is to speak out. and speak plainly, aud not
only that. but To speak the whole truth; and if
you do this. YOU may say that We have gone f.r
enough in an Improbable aud cruel struggle. "lt
l. time To Sheathe the ord and spare mankind"
ALREADY have our quaues filled the world with
widows and orphans" But perhaps YOU may say
to- me-SOme of Nou-we to gain by this
struggle. aud therefore it should 60 on Gain
what? If you conquer the South you have got
to keep an army there to hold them in subjuga-
ton, and improve >h yourselves To pay for It. Ii
YOU devastate the South and turn the African
loose YOU destroy that portion of your country
which was once your best home market. and
convert it into desert Is it liberty that YOU
are to gain? Alas nv friends. YOU have well
/ nigh lost your Liberties by permitting the military
to override the civil power. Depend upon 1t. IN
/ such a contest this at the present time, the g
can be but one end, and that will be deSpoiism r
! yourselves and your children The only hope is
! ia return to pc Iceful c0unsels. and to secure
the return OF those counseS the cry should 90
forth from one end of the land TO the other, ''we
have had enough of this death struggle.
But what IS to be done. they may say after YOU
get u essition of hosties? We clnnot per
haps, penetrate the future and be able TO see AT
this moment what should be done. But
allay the passions which war eneenderS, and We
shall he At no loss 10 find way. God will help
us. Applause 1t is not by force of arms thai
we are to have another Union, but by force I
reason. Reason hides herself in these DAYS, a
poor, naked, shverng thing, amid the peting OF
the storm Go to your army, and they will tell
| you they have had enough of slaughter. Brave
men will tell YOU this Thefe has not one battle
| been fought since the war begun, whether II their
favOror against them, that doubts have not arisen
in their minds to the possibility of cOnquerng
the South. ) Dme of them remember what Chat
ham said of the rebellious colonies They C Iud
not forget, either, nor should forget that tie
on the other side of the ''inVidious line
of our own kindred also. and. rejecting on these
things. these men OF whom speaking, who
are. many of them. looking to Connecticut and
hoping for Democratic triumph here applause
ia, Tho IF n,
war. l. it for freedom. or is ii the work of Cain
in multiplied. vast and fearful formg The pull
pit NAV push it on. but the words ct Christ shall
rebuke the pulpit's thunder" Blessed are the
peace makers for they shalt he called the children
OF God " Tremendous applause
Gentlemen congratulate you on this out
pouring of the Democracy of the Valley of the
! Conuecticut and on the pleasure have had
listening to "A gentleman Mr TOucey,l who G
m honor Ia our native Sttte lGreit cheering
The shafts of the opposition have been cast
against him in vain, and he stands before Us to
night the true and tried friend OF constitutional
liberty. "f the Union and of his country cheers :;
and the speech which he has given u on this oc
clsiOn shall ontlive the malice OF his deiraciorS
and form a bright chapter in his unSnlled his
tory Great cheering And, recalling what
has been said in injury of him. aud the attacks
which have been m,de upon our friends for the
ptrt they have taken in the struggle OF the last
few months. and. IN consideration OF the change
in public opinion that Is going on around Us,
call to mind the language OF iavOrite poet
Though thoughts brood DER the past, our eyes
With sm ny features listen:
For 20, our day bursts Up the sky
Lean out your souls and listen.
'.Ihe world rolls freedoms radiant wave,
And ripens with her sorrow.
Ksep he,-f-who hear The cross to-day
shall ear IA. crown tf-lnorrow'
- Great and continued cheering
Kentucky tuion Convention.
scene occurred in the ,ention YESTERDAY
I TINT will be nortifvine 20 the Union men of Ken