Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-15

cause iHth iNu h1n1rei ui such thleYlng soldiers
Bot fhose OPP osed 70 the war viii hnd some
cause Ter complaint And when the, eXhaa-i
Their store ot truth. lie answers their purpose
quite as we'll | have been denounced first as
rebel and now an Abolitioni~t But have
survived the first charge. and will doubtless sur
yive the last.
But what is to be done in this emergency Of
the country? The subject is too i'm poriani {,
be trihed with think that the true course
Of policy 70 be pursued by the Administrs-
tion would be 10 say 10 the South "Whepever
You lay down your arms and willing ~
return To your allegiance, 10 obey the laws,
aud restore the Unton "a IT IVES under III
Constitution, YOU will be welcomed beck.
Unit you DO this we will 6gbt you. even
though that night Be profracted until dooms-
day T" Compromise i1a sweet word. The rst
words that went up from earth N heaven
were those Of compromise. We are willingto
compromise on the basis laid down above;
but, dear a. Teace IS, We will have it on no 9TH
terms. II is necessary. sometimes, To con-
quer peace think u is necessary in the
case of our own unhappy country. But you
can cay 20 the South I'VE do not 90 forth
against you with malice but we will march
sIrais forward, battling alone for the resto
ration of the Union under the Constitution"
oh, but you cannot conquer and subdue the
South, says the sympathizer. | would not
conquer them IN be offensive sense you mean,
it they could be brought back and the Union
re established without such conquest. But
if il could not be done any other way, would
overlap III barriers for the accompl's hment
of that great end. And If tveaty millions Of
our people cannot. fighting in such cause,
sohiP the stren millions Of theirs. Iaoopld see he
country depopaiated and rcpeopled Uth a better
race. But this is not necessary. AL we have
u do is - stand unitedly together, aud put
ting our shoulders to the wheel, tn push on the
victorious of the Union till our glorious
flag floats over every inch OF territory ever
dedicated tn liberty within the boundaries Of
this once itei ard happy country.
do not want you To be all of one party
No one party was ever yet so pure that, give
them all the power, add they would not run
into dee potisrn and slavery. Therefore, my
Republican friend, do not say that every man
who does not believe aud lay that Lincoln is
God and Morton is his prophet, Is a Cooper
head /" And you. my Democratic friend, do
not charge that every who SAWS that he
believes Lincoln 10 an honest man, and that
the war is not being waged for the abolition
of slavery, Is an "A bolitionist " Adopt his
rule of cOnduct, and work earnestly tor he
salvation of your country, and you will want
no orders against selling pistols or powder,
guns bullets | am told that you have or
ganized ia both parties 81 cret oath bound po
lite 4 associations. What want We with these
Sc ret organizations? They are the charnel-
houses of iberty-the hell y which the 6ends
of treason, OF discord, and of bloody war
most love to revel They he secret mines
dug under the temple OF freedom, which are
to he exploded and bury 10 one general rum
all our freedom, sll the hopes OF freedom, all
the hopes of liberty. They are pestient Ms
plague sbominable a. hell's carniv al. What
want you with knights o. the Golden CIR
cle," Mutual Protection Associa IONS"
clinton Lee gus" or "St-nng Bands" when
their proceedings have To be transacted IN thu
dark ess Of the night, when honest men
should sleep, and under ne protection of
guards aud lock aud key, like the midnight
orgies in den of thieves? You want no
such secret organizations y ~ want no prs
tolls, and powder, guns and bullets for your
pr lection if YOU have 'ot been dong wrong.
Democrats and Republicans. you hare gone
dStray. Y1u both have your secret armed as
sociations Oh, TO- shame! You degrad
ing he mamie d at Amer" IN citizens Come
out from these secret poE zeal organizations
aud diSSOfUe them Come cut IN the lace OF
open day, and 90 nothing that you m ght not
40 before all The world. You this day
standing on the verge OF destruction. CIT
into these secret so .ieties, hear but SIDE
Of the question, which alone is heard wrrhu
them and when YOU cone out you are ready
for ANYTHING. What do you care tor pistols.
aud powder. ana balls. so long as you do right?
II YOU have not been oolng ham, why do
you want them? Come out from these dens
of political infamy Come back into the
right way--intO the broad beaten, old iamil-
lar paths, aud be American citizens as YOU
were born The Gpvernme Mt dos not long
to Abraham Lincoln, or to the Republicans,
or to the Democrats. but to you all, to your
pOsierIty. to the world.
You who think that because somebody else
has got thu Administration the Government
ia of no sccount, have got no more sense or
patriotism than the vlest fanatic Because a
r,,wk,s
him traitor. Because m ,n is Tor this war,
aud wears YOUR Governments uniform and
fights under the Enamel patton Proclamation,
IL does not follow that he rs al Abolition Ne
gro Stealer. Whv cannot we all come back
u the old landmarks? We must come hack to
them. Gro home-dssove ynur secret socIe-
ties--1,ut your pistols olody and keep them TO
look ct and remind you ,ohat fools you hare been
Come and Ter W. talk ana reason together IL
is a time for f0rbearance. You do not know
what civil war is-vou DO not know what Vt /,
u have your fences demolished to be
situated that ycu dare not put IN crop f'r
tea that the fences which surround your Ids
will be carried away and burned ere that crop
IS half growo-yOu do no know what II il 10
have your property taken from YOU without
process or reward. You do not know what it
is tn hide ava and conceal yourselves in the
f,ee-ts and on the hi l-side- month after
mOnth-skuIking in occasionally at night to
love dearly-you do not know what it is TO
listen iu vain for the cocks Growing in a cir
IL of miles around-to see farms Invested Of
fences. hogs. horses mules and cattle. and to
look upon the devaststions OF red he nded civil
war have witnessed all these scenes Do
YOU want such a sts'e of things here? If you
do Mt. exhort you to f"rsake these unhal
lowed sect societies, and trust to the ballot
b \ { red - ali your grievances. There
is t~ar remedy.
b says one, 'hey will not allow us to
Wna W.. not ~llow you 10 vote?-
Wher' is the u all this broa extent of
terrlt'ry W 40 * 'ud dare in the great North
west - put forth MS hand cr his ed'ct IN
ahr'tge the righ Of suffrage? The suggest
ion a wicket one-the idea l. iallacy
Woe b. 20 the men Who u surh pretext-
an excu-e t re -"rt - y w Ter and ball They
are sowii the dragons teeth from which
thew vi the iery hsrSes' Of terrible
civil wa here AZ YOUR own homes. with all ITS
train - horrnrs Raiain your liuc4l views
hold 'a=t ." the polit'ca faith To- which you
have evrr elnng But pay YOU z not out
unit you have examined your heert, aud
fount r. pregnant with patriotism beating
only In :, mpathy with your suffering coun-
try. Then sou VII talk right-you will feel
right-you will act right
In politics ,tapd u day just where | have
always stood Il I'm aud quare. My belief IS
that had we ell minded our own business in
stead OF interfering with that Of our neigh
bors, We would no now be EN- broilei IN CIVIL
war When the Peace Convention of 1861
was csllet. believe that had eli the Cover
D"rs Of all the states sent men OF tom,
patriotism and stat sman-hIp as delegates t.