Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-27
Lincoln an Anti War Mantle En-
dorses Revolution, Denounces
Folks War Policy, and Opposes
the Mexican xynr


10 Congress during The Mexican var. will be
read With interest ~ this time IL will be ob
served that Mr.. Lincoln uses plain words IN de.
nuncistion Of war and the President then ad-
minstering the government Such speech a.
the one that follows il made 20 day By Demo.
crat against the war now being waged against
tie Sonth. by the President and his Office ho
ders, would be pronounced by the Republican
shodd,it as the quintescence OF treason.
From pages, 80. 81 and % Appendix to the
Congressional Globe Of the first session o! the
3Oth Congress:
Mr. Lincoln Addressed the Committee as FOL-
lows:
ABB vorEs THAT TINE WAR Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL
AND UNNECESSARY.
Dir. Chairmsn-Some. if not all the gentle
men 90 the other side OF the House. who have
addressed the committee within the last two days,
have spoken rather eomplalIingiy, il | have
rightly understood them, Of The vote given
week or ten days ago. declaring that the war
with Mexico MAS unnecessarily aud uncOnstitu-
tionally commenced by the President | admit
il that such q vote should not be given in mere
party wantonuess. and that the one given is Just
ly csnsurable, il 10 have no other or better foGn
dation ] am one OF those who joined in tina;
vote; and did under my bess impression of
the truth Of the case
ABB GIVES A DEFINITION OF THE RIGHT or REvo-
LUTON.
ANY people anywhere. being inclined and hav-
ing the power have the right TO rise up and shake
of the existing government, and form a new one
that suits them better. This is a most valuable
a most sacred right-a tight which We hope and
believe, is 10 liberate the world. Nor is this
right confined 10 whole cases in which the whole
people Of an existing government may choose to
A. v.fa sl..f
can. may revolutionze, and make their own of
so much of the territory a. they nhabit. More
than this, majority of any portion Of such peo
pie may revolutionize, putting down n minority,
ntermingled with, or near about them, who op-
pose their movements
ABE DESoUScEs THE GOVERNMENT
Now sir. for the pui pose of obtaining the very
best evidence as TO whether Texas had actually
carried her resolution to the place where the hos
Utilities of the present war commenced, let the
President answer the nterregstories | proposed,
as before mentioned. or similar ones. Let him
answer with facts and not with arguments. Let
him remember he sits where Washington sat, and
remembering. let him answer Washington
would answer. As a nation should not, and the
Almighty will not, be evaded, Sd let him attempt
no evasion, no equiyocation.
But il he cannot, or will not 10 this--if, on any
pretence, or no pretence, he shall refuse or omit
it-then / shall be fully convinced of more than
| suspect already, that be is deeply conscious of
being in the wrong, that be feels the blood of this
war. like the blood of Abel, crying to heaven
against him; that he ordered General Taylor into
the midst of peaceful Mexican settlement pur
posely To bring on "a war; that originally having
some strong motive-what, | will not stop now
to give my opinion concerning-to involve the
two countries in a war, and trusting to escape
scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the ex {.
ceeding brightness of military glory-that at
tractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood
that serpent's eve that charms 30 destroy-he
plunged into it, and has swept on and on ill dis
appointed in this calculation of the ease with
which Mexico might be subdued be now finds
himself he knows not where How like the in
sane mumblings OF fever dream in the whole
war part of the late message. At one time tell
ing US that Mexico has nothing whatever that
We can get but her territory; at another showing
u how We can support the war by levying con
trbutions Mexico. At one time urging the
national honor, the security Of the future, the
prevention of foreign interference, and even the
good of Mexico herself. as among the objects of
the war.
ABE MAKES A FEW REMARKS ABOUT PEACE AND
PRESIDENT POLK PROPERLY APPLICABLE TO PEACE
AND PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
As 10 the mOue OF terminating tue war anu sc
surfing peace, the President is equally wandering
and indefinite First, it is to be done by more
vigorous prosecution of the war in the vital parts
of the enemy's country; and, after apparently
talking himself tired on this point, the President
drops down into a half despairing tone, and tells
Us that with people distracted and divided by
coDtendiug factions, and Government subject
TO constant changes, BY successive revolutions,
the continued success of our arms NAV fail TO
obtain a satisfactory peace" Then he suggests
the propriety of wheedlng the Mexican people
TO desert the cOGnsels of their leaders, and trust
ing in our protection. TO set up a government
from which we can secure a satisfactory peace
telling IA that this may become the only mode
of obtaining such peace" But soon he falls
into doubt of this too, and then drops back on
the half abandoned ground of more vigorous
prosecution All this shows that the President
is in no wise satisfied with his own positions
First he takes up one. and in attempting to argue
US into IT, he argues himself out of =. then seizes
another and goes through the same process; and
then, confused at being able 70 think of nothing
new he snatches up the old one again, which he
has some time before cast off His mind, taxed
beyond its power, is running hither and thither.
like some tortured creature burning sur
face, hndins no position on which 10 settle down
and be al ease
Again, il il singular omission in this mes
sage, that il nowhere ntimstes when the Presi
dent expects this war 10 terminate. At its begin
ming, General Scott was. by this same President
driven into diSiavor, il not disgrace, for intima-
ting that peace could not be conquered in less
than three FOUR months. But now. at the end
OF about twenty months, during which time our
arms have given the most splendid successes
every department, and every port, land and
water officers and pryates, regulars and volun
teers, doing all that men could do. and hundreds
of things which il had ever before been thought
men could not do after all this. this same Presi
dent gives Us long message without showing u
that, as to the end he has himself even an i'm
aginary conception ~ have before said he
knows not where he is He is a bewildered, con
founded and miserably perplexed man. God
grant he may be able 10 show there is not some
thing about his conscience more painful than all
his mental perplexity,
From the Harrisburg Patriot and Union.
GEN. Geo. W. CAS-. of Pennsy Ivan a 4.