Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-03-02

capacity Ii has neither had the ability to CON-
prehend the difficulties of the nation, or the sa-
gacity and patriotism to remedy them. Profess
ing toleraton party has been more intolerant.
Denouncing the Rebel Government as arbitrary
and despotic, the Administration has adopted
many leading measures of governmental policy
which the former has initiated, even after
thev had been Iidlculed and condemned
bv the leaders of the party in power. We need
but mention four measures-Confederate scrip,
confscation. conscription and arbitrary arrests
to illustrate how closely this boasting Republican
freedom loving party has followed the Rebel
lead. And vet party with such record has the
presumption to ask the continued confidence of
the people.
What evidence does the party in power present
that il has been guided by patriotic considerations
and the controlling desire to unite the people of
the loyal STATES in the common object of restor-
ing the UniT, and preserving the Government?
From the beginning it has charged the Democrats,
who adhered to their party organization. as
''traitors''-as ''sympathizers with treason"
The result of the elections last fall
was announced by the Republican lead
ers and party as "Butternut triumphs"-
Democracy have been heralded by their political
opponents as traitors in council. f" Lately.
prominent Republican officials have asserted with
great pOstiveness that there are extensive secret
political organizations throughout the Northwest,
having for their object the establishment of
Northwestern Confederacy. or sliding the North
western States out of the Union into the Southern
Cunlederacv What other impression can these
statements make than that the North is divided.
and that large, if not the larger portion of the
people prefer the Southern to the Northern gov
ernment? Aud in making such charges persist
entity, are not the Republicans giving laid and
comfort" to the rebellion2 In pursuing this
policy. It appears to u that the Republican lead
ers are either deficient in good sense or else they
are determined to divide the Union. Ana we
suppose the convention. to-day, will be heralded
to the North and the South, and to the rest
Of the world. immense gathering of
- loyal citizens. denOuucing by resolutions
and speeches the Democracy of the North, (and
the recent elections show that they are at least
one half of the Dopulation.) rs " "Butternuts," as
''traitors." as sece>sion sympathizers." eds
as "K. g. C's," &c. &c We pre-
sumo Governor WRIGHT and DAVE BRANHAM,
and Governor MORTON will declare with all posi-
BILE gravity to the assembled multitude to day,
that 1hey have the evidence in their breeches
pockets-that they have the obligations, signs.
and grips of a tremendous secret organization,
which has its plans all arranged TO float Indiana
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers and hitch
her to the Southern Conleleracy some night ere
long, when the people are all asleep. In all seri-
ousness, are our Republican friends credulous
enough to be gulled by such Munchausen stories?
Will they longer permit their leaders to give laid
and comfort" to the rebellion and thus prolong
the war, by publishing to the world that one halt
of the people of the North are disloyal? We
hope they will not thus allow all hope of restoring
the Union and preserving the Government under
which we have prospered for eighty years to be
destroyed. When the blind follow the blind fol
lowers and leaders will fall into the ditch together