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

people l. strengthened By the force Of the existing crisis,
and should BE- maintained. --CIsyELASD PLaTFoEx.
Military arrests thouh not be tolerated. except 10
places where active hostfes exist: and Oafhs,
quired b. enActnents. coDstltgtiOnaly made. should
neither he demanded nor reoeived-GEoRGE r. NcCIFf-
No man can suffer TOO huch and no man can !AII too
sosn II he suffer. or be fall In defense Of the hb,r-
ties and Constitution Of his eOuniry.-DASuL WASTE
Fsilow Citizens:
| am glad TO meet you 70 night. The times
make the upturned faces Of a crowd OF free born
men, determined still 70 maintain their freedom.
n sight TO awaken Joy and glsdness in the hearts
Of all beholcers except tvrants aud their slaves.
/ Such a sight, thank God is now before me; and
such Joy aud gladness hli my heart. Let tvrants
and their minions behold il and tremble
Freedom i the birth OF free hearts and birth
| right of freemen. The best assertion of liberty
has always been found in the rebound OF people
deeply wronged and pressed down by the weight Of
superintendent despOtism. Ii was thus that
ancient Rome sprung back in the face OF her OF
pressor and drove him and his infamous family
forever from her borders, stained with the blood
Of injured innocence and outraged virtue. IL
was thus that she again recovered her liberty
which had been stolen from her by The unfaith
full Triumyirs. The blood OF the innocent Nir
GINA was TO her the blood Of redemption. Puri
fed BY that innocent blood, aud the death Of her
ments and became the pride Of humanity-the
protection of her people, name and praise in
the whole earth. Instances of the same kind,
more Immediately connected with our own race
and ancestors lie thick along the path of history
The blood Of Sydney and Russell redeemed the
Island of Great Britain from the expressions of
the Stuarts, and cemented the solid foundations
of British liberty. The slaughter of the assem-
bled farmers on the long green grass o.. early
| s,r;r0 ~ Concord Massachnsetta fred tho
e American heart, and made American indepen-
dence and liberty possible and easy. To that
day's work the United States owe their greatness.
u their freedom. and their happiness. Expressions
}, less destructive and less bloody have given birth
/ to popular regenerations less marked it may be,
but equally necessary TO the preservation OF pop
ular freedom. In own country, since the
adoption OF the present Constitution. one remark
?, able instance OF the rebound of popular feeling
and popular opinion from the down-pressing eff
fects of party despotism. will naturally suggest
:. itself to the student OF our countrys history
u allude to the violent measures OF the Admins
a traton of John Adams-the odous alien bill
n and sediton law-as they we're then styled-anc
to the still more odious and oppressive mean:
made of by the Executive. at that time
d through them, to destroy anything like loya
!, opposition to the Administration, by shutting the
:, mouth of free discussion. and putting end tc
-" all public opinion that did not derive its color
e and tone from the court Such measures and
d the uses then made of them stirred the deep anC
loving heart of the people, and their authors
went down. like Lucifer never to rise again
Jefferson. the philosopher of the people, th'
d friend Of the people and the defender of the
e peoples capacity for self government, and o
their right TO enjoy IT, was called to the Presden
cy Self-government was restored and the PEG
pie once more enjoyed confidence and security
= under equal and just laws. A long season o
= public virtue and prosperity followed. marreC
II only by the advent of occasional villain
/ whose wicked works were just sufficient to in
:, form the trusting people that the race was no
;, yet extinct. and make them duly watchfu o
II their liberties Their motto then was: Eterna
Is vigilance is the price Of liberty The world
v whole history had taught it, and their own JET
r erson in the habit of constantly repeating IL
How different was his conduct in that respec
d from that of those who now assert that the Ad
20 minIstration Is the Government; and claim til
right under an authority to take care that th
laws be faithfully executed, ;" to subvert all laws
. both of the States and the Union. Under these
d. to be vigant in watching and resisting the en-
ID croachments of power upon law and liberty
"A an offences disloy alty-is treason. The time
have, indeed. changed
PUBLIC IMMORTALITY AS ILLUSTRATED BY TIL
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
'e The times. alas have changed The manner
>, OF the people have changed also. We are no
A what we have been. Some Of you too yOun
:, to remember; but many OF YOU do remembe
well the good old days that went before thes
ST days of darkness, distrust oppression and blood
De Do you not remember when public men stoo
I'd above suspicion of public crme-when fraud an
peculation seldom never heard of in tn
high places of the land-when the officer wa
the servant of the people, and held his place TO
them. and not for himself, his family and hi
o. friends! How is it nowl Look abroad over tn
or handbook up to the highest aud down TO tn
~ lowest office Of trust and profit. and tell me wha
" you behold
~ I The President must DO for his Post master
mt brotber-his own Genera-as much he wou
be for his own. Forgetting the divine injunctio
Ito render unto Caesar the things that ar
Caesars; and unto God the things that ar
e Gods. lie straightway proceeds to discharg
n Mr. Lincoins obligations with the peoples means
- tie accepts the Generals commission, and Con
80 gress and the public informed that it is re
signed. Thereupon the General enters the Hous
ld of Representatives a member. is sworn to sur
I'd port the Constitution. runs for the speakershir
a aud ISLANDERS the great Secretary Of the Treasu
~ ~ Then he retires from the House. and Con
se gress and the public are informed by the Presi
or dent that he has never been cut OF the army
he that lis oath a member OF the House has bee
Az nothing but practical joke; that his for tn
% CptdhtEeulp, his ABUSE OF MT OuaSe. anu, IN
Fir word, his whole Congressional career has bee
J." nothing bu; practical Joke. That is the effec
of IT, The gravest public acts are thus but falls
pretenses The solemn official oaths in
c volve IN the circumstances under which they ar
- administered and taken, their own violation
= One independent department of the government
ii thus thrusts H. own sworn agents into another
Y. and after tue outrage Is at an end the peopl
a. must be satisfied To know that il all ntccs
!. sary in order TO enable the President to do 70
>. the brother of Montgomery Blair just as niue
ID as he would do for his own brother l. the pee
n plies government, in times like these. when III
= peoples blood is being poured out like water a
over the land. TO be thus used in the exempliica
ton of a nepOtism that would have been dis
ha grace to any country in any age. Yet the fac
- has now passed into history II il stood aloH
We might lament and forgive it, But while III
great man who had conducted our finances. an
sustained the public credit for more than thre
years was driven out OF public iyce for u
other apparent reason than because his capacit
&c and greatness, shamed by the contrast the ger
l eral incapaeitv and lit,eness of the administra
CT ton. the Blars, the instruments OF IT, degrade
ton and shame. still retained in open def
ance OF public opinion. and the known wishes q
the Baltimore Convention Even this is not al
. for. while the Secretary of the Treasury i thu
" forced TO retire. as II the President was deter
~ mined to show the people that honesty and abil