Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-17

orr present free forms TO gradual degradation
and slavery will follow
ORIGINAL REASONS ron rHE ONE rRuK POLICY.
IL may be well to inquire why il was original
ly deemed necessary for the people to adopt the
one term policyl IL was done in order to check
the evil tendencies OF executive power and pat
ronage; and the constantly increasing expendi
lures oil the government was urged an argu-
ment constantly becoming more and more cogeni
IN favor OF frequently nterruptng this current
OF official influence and corruption. With this
view all parties at the time Of Mr.. Lincoln's
election had adopted the one term policy The
whole country concurred in il. But, ii il was
necessary, when the entire annual expenditures
Of the government did not exceed eighty millions
OF dollars, by how much stronger reason is il
now necessary 10 protect the freedom and the
free institutions of the country, when the annual
expenditures exceed a thousand millions OF dol
lars, and when God only knows how many teus
OF thousands of officials, with titles and functions
new and strange, swarm like the locusts of
Egypt in every part Of the landi | need not
press the argument. If il was valid in the quiet
years gone by, land Mr Lincoln himself and bis
party have pressed il with great earnestness and
power,) it is PROFESSIONALLY so now, when be is
daily welding powers that, at any moment, are
capable of being employed to effect the downfall
Il,
indeed, did the Cleveland Convention resolve
THAT the term policy for the Presidency,
adopted by the people, is strengthened by the
force of the existing crisis, and should be main
tanned Let the American people, then, main
tain il. Ii is essential to the purity of the ad-
mInistration. 1t must be maintained to prevent
the black and desolating tide of corruption from
delugng the whole land 1t ought to be main
tanned TO vindicate the sacredness of public
pledges, now sought to be broken. II will be
done, to save the people from the msrule every
where apparent throughout the country.
AN ILLUSTRATION
friend of mine called me 10 him on the
street the other day, and asked me what was nv
philosophy of the very common indifference man
ifested by railroad employees for the comfort and
safety of their passengers. j told him had just
been considering the same question, but in rela-
ton to the Government and its employees; and
my philosophy of the fact was that both sets of
employees know that. for the time being at least
the subjects OF their rudeness and insults cannot
help themselves-have no alternative but to ride
upon their trains. As already seen, Mr. Seward
regards the locomotive of the Government as
built merely for him who for the time being may
be Its conductor. He runs it for himself, his ell
gineers, his brakesmen, and his fremen: but not
| for his passengers. Their convenience. their
comfort, their safety, their lives even, are moth
ing to him. Fire upi let on the steam and dash
forward, careless who may fall off. who may be
crushed beneath the wheels or perish in the fna
crash. Ii is the conductors right to run the
whole machine as he pleases and he must be
| permitted to do it, even should he drive it, him
self and Us all, to the devil.
But, seriously, did you ever see party so per
fectly self satisfied as the present Union party
and so unsatstied with everything and everybody
but themselves? Even their name indicates
their character. They are the people, and wis
dom, ami patriotism, and virtue will die with
them The rest of us live merely by their per
mission. The poor butternuts and copperheads
are only tolerated as the naturalist tolerates
some specimens of plants and animals to
adorn shelf in some future museum of natural
history. And as for US Radical Cleveland Plat
form Democrats, We are too Insignificant alto
gether even to receive the least attention at their
| hands.
The District Attorney, | know, has, with be
coming humanity and modesty, informed US tina
there is still room in the jails and penitentarie.
of the State for those who may use mpropeI
means TO sever his connection with the drippngs
and clippings of treasury sanctuary. That wa:
driving nail in a sure place; and, although th,
announcement must have panied his benevolent
heart, il sent thrill of JOY and delight through
so much as in shutting the prison doors upoI
some unfortunate fellow being. whose creates
fault is not TO be able to see things in precisely
the same light as his selfstyled loyal neighbors
DR. Tocqueville warned US thirty years ago of tn,
terrible tyranny of majorites, but never, Gin al
the tide OF time, was it more terribly manifested
| than now. No. not when it bsnshed Aristides
poisoned Socrates, or crucfed the Redeemer o.
mankind, for these were but momentary heats
.ho.., IL =
ued, violent alldevouring fever. IL the rene
dies TO be applied in October and November DE-
not check its course, the patient must die-th,
life of the body polite become extinct Liberty
| cannot survive without a change. 1t is for tn,
people quietly, lawfully and grandly to 90 to tn,
polls and put an end to "the insolence OF office
and the spurns that patient merit of the unwor
thy takes" | leave it with them They pii
take care that the Republic suffer no detriment.
THE MEANS OF ELEcrIONEERING EMPoYED BY TIL
LEAGUES
The means employed by the self styled Unioi
party, to carry on the canvass, present some new
and alarming features Their meetings assembl,
to the tap OF the drum and the sound of martha
music, furnished by the drum corps of brigad,
of the peoples army. | suppose the like ha:
never before been witnessed since the foundation
of the Government. The relation which the sol
uleT sustaus u TIE people, auu 10 tie govern
ment, makes this innovation it once indecen
and dangerous.
1t is true that Mr. Lincoln is the President
and as such entitled to the respectful obedienc,
of the officers and soldiers OF the whole army
But it also true that, as a candidate for the Pres
idency, and in the popular arena, he stands in NJ
different or higher relation TO the army than any
one of his opponents. If would be improper
to employ soldiers TO make music at the conven
tons of his political adversaries, where the,
would constantly hear the measures of his ad
ministration criticised as weak yacilatng un-
constitutional and dangerous to public liberty. il
cannot be less so TO employ them where nothing
but the voice of praise for him and denunciatiou
for his political adversaries is ever heard Ii
case of a serious riot. originating in our part,
squabbles who does not know that soldiers, sc
trained would have strong temptations 20 forge
the duty of impartiality, when called to aid the
civil magistrate in restoring aud maintaining ths
peace. They must be something above the stand
| ard of common men to eudue such trial anC
Withstand such temptation | am sure all fail
men of all parties will this point pray: LEAD
US not into temptation" Let W at least keer
the army free from the infection of party spirit
if we cannot from party politics IL is essential
at once, 70 the character OF the army and tht
safety of the republic.
| EXPLANATORY Speeches
While upon this subject, | beg leave TO cal
/ your attention to a remark recently made at
a meeting of the friends Of the administration il
this city, by gentleman of whose ability, pat
| riotism aud general character / entertain a yer,
| high opinion | alluCe TO General Hughes Ia