, 1864-09-21
Correspondence OF. the Chicago Tfibune,i

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The Union State Central Committee have
just issued an address to the people Of Indi.
ana, In reply to that Issued BY the Copper
head st.te Committee on the 18th Of lsst
month. It is ap able document and should
be read md considered By every citizen be.
fore casting bis ballot ut the coming election.
1t takes up In their order the charges con-
tained In TIE Copperhead manifesto, and
sAo*s them to be groundless and devoid Of
truth ReIer1ing to the charge that the Gov
errment had interfered with tho elections
in Kentucky and other non secsding SLAVE
holding States, and the threat that u repe.
titlon OF euch acts In the approaching cleo
tion Will be teld Us revolutionary" and
rsisted Us such, the address says: "a pre-.
tsIS more fimsy and false nerer aiegraced
party. It is fact rs notorious Is the exist
ence Of the rebellion itself, th*t Kentucky
and the other slave States alluded to. sw1rm,
or have sHarmed, not with secret traitors
only, but with armed rebels; that
the Government has been compelled
to eend ters of thousands of troops into
these States to make var with thee armed
rrb.ls; nay, that at this very moment Kea-
ba1as tbat no loyal mans life or property IL
sstc. U1 der such Rtste Of things, 3sas the
Government to auoF every maa, whether
rebel or 1oTa1ist, whether In arms against the
country or sctive IN its defense, to go to TIE
polls and vote? We're re to have yotes
from each Of Morgaa's guerillas? Was Jtf:
ferson Davis to hAye hand in our elections?
The Chicago pl.tfoEners may think that he
ought; but the loyal people Of this nation
ere Of differ eRt opinion" Aud sgata: s'But
th~e whose lo1a atty was NOR. than doubtful,
an eeA cf allegiance; by what the Chicago
platform denou1cee Az 'the employment of
urnsuol test osths.' The oatas ne iust as
Etusual as ssbeltiem IL; and just al necessary
in The % var against rebellion as Spring
/ sds,ess cIoeez a. follows: "fT3 ail friends
| Of law aod order. to all men who lore
! their ceuntry, ard would insure to her do.
| tr<Dquility, We say thst never before
since Indiana entered the Unloa has an cleo
t1on presented itself at which issues OF such
ed-issnes Involving every thing that is near
and dear to us, whether IS citlzsns Of Re-
public or as private men. Let no business.
no mltter how tmportznt-uothlng hut sick
ness that ties Jou down on yoar bed-det.in
yen from the polls. GO, armed with the 81
glorious Constitution. And the result, til.at
and peaceful, Il it be, will be triumphant be-
3oud that Of the loudezt and most desperzte
hatue-1 bloon1ees victory orer all the e1.-
meLts OF violence, anRrcay aud armed insur-
lection, whether whispered tn secret socie;
This document will be printed and sent ont
1or Distribution soon. Let every Onion man
get 1t, read it, and SEQ that hlk neighbor
reads 1t also. It cannot fall to do good.
The CANVASS progresses very favorably for
become nuddled agsin, and to have forgot
ten The instructions he received 1t Chicago.
he evidently tries to folio McCIel1au's ex-
ample He gets of the platform In one
county, and on it again IN the next. As no.
,ieed IN my last letter, be declared In answer
to Morton's QUESTION INT an I7a aEmtstice fail.
subiu9ation. The next speech he made was
ut Liberty, sept. 10Th. In that speech he
denied that he had advanced ouo step from
bis previous positions, and took back all he
position? At the ratification meeting held
at Columbus, Indiana, Sept. 6tk, he said: az
hare desired to keep Indiana tree from reyo-
luton; for the time is coming, md rin thor&ty
Be ss, tce,. We will hdpe to depend on our State
Constitution and laaes to protect w. lis citizens
Each Of Jon must feei thst you staad As
guardians Of your rights and liberties. Do
NO WIoag, hut stand by yonr rfshts" [Cties
of" That's the doctrine" ~ free ballot
T. T. to tas s9h. Of
to form themselves together into secret cen-
claves for self protection. When one poIit-
ical party bands together secretly, the peo-
pie will rise In their own self defense, and
band together Tor self protection" (Cries Of
"tbat's what's the ustter''l After chars-
Ing that Mr. Lincoln had divided the North,
be said: - 1hs qreate1 aider and abettor Of the
se6tQioa today, ts abraham Lineolnr' He
thus shows himself to be arerolutionist. and
that his motto Ia, as he himself expressed it,
IN q speech delivered November 9th, 1859,
40 1rar for the su9itction Of States, Or te
emancipation Of Negrus,' But while these
ere lis real sentiments, he is apt to tr,.and
smooth them over, toning down the rough
points. when he gets into the strong war
countite. He Is In this respect like certain
nan Who ran on the Democratic ticket In
Elkhalt county, for Representative, during
Maine Law times. In one township he went |
in for the liquor, but not FOR the law. IL |
temperance. and sighed IS he depicted the
evils of tntemperance, and soundly berated
,4e rum.selle1s. But between the two stools
he came 10 the ground, and Mr Mcdonald,
pDless an much mistaken, will be apt to
follow bis example.
In the Fifth {1n1ian's) District the Copper
beads hare nominated one James Brown, of
oi The sons of liberty, and has been anti-war
from the first. In my last letter the types
made me esy that Julisn's majority would be
t;Te or SIX hundred, whereas 1t should have
been five or Elk thousand. It will be nearer
fi1 thousand than Eve.
Jo1 athan ". Gordon made q rabid Cop
perhead speech at 80 called Fremont meet.
jig Inst Thursday night He is evidently
LltdiLg high for nomination for Congress
On that ticket Tho Mcclellan end Pendle-
tcuites had grand ratification meeting for
lis district at franklin On Saturday last, and