Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-12

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contemplate these new made graves of our land
without feeling all the passions OF his heart hush
ed and bis pride Of opinion crushed by the events
of the past few years. We believe the policy Of
the administration has placed hindrances in the
way Of the restoration Of the Union. Its meas
ures have hsmperei our efforts to that noble end
Those measures can bring 10 Us neither Union
nor peace. /, is nearly two years since the gov
eminent seized the mouth OF the Mississippi river,
and yet not foot of land there is yet restored to
the Union The border States are held. too. BY
the force of arms Had you been at the conven-
ton in Chicago. you would have seen there men
from Kentucky. who. less than three years ago.
we're venerated in Congress, who bore on their
faces the impress of patriotism of soul. honesty.
and viriue-Guthrie with his towering strength,
and Nicklife With his earnest love OF liberty and
law
Less than three years ago the administration at
Washington clung b. these men for support Yet
these men. who have been separated from their
families, and who have suffered a. no man knows
for the sake OF the cause Of the Union. came up
10 Chicsgo to complain of wrongs Inflicted upon
them bv the Washington government Some Of
these men have been toru from their families and
have been locked up in prisons-snd women too
though devoted 10 the Constitution and the
Union
Can we put down disafection bv creating dis
afectionl Are we making any progress in put
ting down disafection, when. by the confession
of the administration itself, dissffection with the
government has extended 10 the Canada line?
appeal TO you. have We made any progress ia this
wars We DONE wsns slsue liter. DO, peace re.
lief, protection. We want to stop the destruction
OF life The difficulty with the administration is
thai it il pledged 10 such measures that its moral
power il gone Nv Republican friends must
know this. and must feel j, in their hearts.
would not say one unkind word of those who
compose the sdministration-bu even the New
York Tribune admits that this exercise of power
for four years has given rise 10 prejudces against
it in the public mind that il cannot hereafter sue
eessiully administer the government.
We propose to elect TO the Presidency pa
triot, soldier. and Christian-George B Nc
Clelan Every colder says that he is humane
man. patriot. and We all know that he il a for
bearing man under the infection of injustice
We have named him because we believed all
could support him. We have shown our Repub-
lican friends that we can meet them part way
Ii was our duty TO take a man. whom having
been in the service of the Administration Re
publicans could support The only objections
made TO him at Chicago that in obedience TO
the behests of the Administration be had gone
too far. We nominated him that we might res
tore prosperity and peace 10 the people. For
eighty years the government was administered
by conservative men. They preserved its unity
and It's concord. We had peace. and our coun-
Try was an asylum for the oppressed of every
land. Our Republican friends at Chicago four
years ago. did not mean to instgate this national
strife. They did not want civil war. God for
bid that | should charge them with that inten
ton. But their views tended 10 stiife. and such
WAS the consequence, as we then believed. We
had read that meddling leads to strife, and we
believed the safest policy was to observe the old
adsge and mind our own business The Repub-
licans told US that they would not infringe upon
the rights OF States But what do we sec? They
were led by their doctrines, passions. and preju-
dices TO violate the pledge. IL was the necessary
consequence. We had been told that the South
could not manage their own sectional affairs
We were told that If we were 10 stop the mouth
OF the Mississippi the Southern people would
stsrve We were told much about the superior
cost OF Southern mail carriage, and that the
South could not be driven out of the Union
This course Of dangerous agitation continued
until 10 day the dominant party approves act.
from the contemplation of which they once
would have turned away with horror Had
said here, in Milwaukee, three years ago. that a
General of the Federal army this year would is
sue an edict denying to the people of the North.
west the right TO bear arms, or that the writ OF
habeas corpus would now be suspended, and your
citizens be subject to military arrest without the
right OF trial by jury should have been derided
and scorned as a madman.
The passions and prejudices TO which Republi
cans have been educated for so many years have
led them to position which they cannot retrsct
Their folly is illustrated by their action in Con
gress At the moment when our armies we're
forced TO abandon northern soil, Congress was
legislatng 70 con6scate Southern property Con
6scation laws, however. apply more to the North
than to the South. At the South they are nef-
fectual, and do not pay the expenses of their ex
ecution. Ii is your property, the property OF
northern tax PAYERS which is coniscated by this
system Of legislation. What Is the draft itself
but confiscation law? I, takes one mans per-
son. but il takes another mans property. Rea.
son seems blind with those persons. Congress
was sbsurdly expending It's time con6scating
southern property the very moment Lees army
was within sight of The dome of the Federal
Capitol. We of the North did not know the
power of the South We did no, dream even OF
the power OF the North, and we are disappointed
The party in power has become so entsaged by
its own policy, that no door is left open for its
retreat. Those who have visited Washington
the past winter may have seen the hospitals filled
with grooming and dying men. Going to the
Capitol, you heard only the language Of section.
al bitterness and hate. The measures a dvo
Gated there. il persisted ia and sustained, will
overwtem the country in a common ruin. We
see in Lincon's reelection no hope for the fu
ture We cannot do worse We don't claim 10
be better or wiser men than our opponents God
knows that the poor weak nature of man has lit
tie TO boast Of But our views came from our
fathers. They told us that great armies would
bring ruin with them and bring a horde OF tax
gatherers in their train. More arbitrary govern
ment may possibly sometimes be blessing, but
there never was tax-gstierer who was bless
ing anywhere. Our fathers told US that with a
national debt would come a vast array of Office
holders. and we behold them already presen,
now. There is another principle against which
our fathers warned Us. and fear il is the rock
upon which We have split, You begin 10 have
q Capitalization of power. Where is that 20
endf
The trainers OF the Constitution understood
the principle that the people in the several locsi-
ties knew what they needed best So We made q
government Of States with State rights We
have States of different size Missouri il larger
than all New England Our fathers bad thi'
difficulty before them We Of New York then
had not as large population as Massachusetts, OF
We said: Take care that Rhode Island has 81
! equal power a State with ourselves. and, like
ourselves. control its own local affairs. that there
may be no jar in the political system Now
what, We are told that we must have more
power in the federal government. The end oil
that IL less power. Ts, might be shown il a
! few words Place more power ia the fedora
| government. and few States may rule over al