Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-08-30

But. ar, allow me To say shall ive-Old az |
AM shall live 10 see this strife ended; shall
live to see the bonds of national fraternity again
united. shall live 10 see this paper money
abated; this gunpo~der currency, which would
not use for wadding to kill a prairie chicken,
abated aud turned into gold and silver Ap-
plause. And that can be done only BY remov
| ing thi. abominable administration | state
/ fact. when Mr. Lincoln entered upon his high Of
Scisl duties. went to him and told him this:
Mr. Lincoln, you was born in the State of Ken
| lucky. and Mrs Lincoln also. ] believe. and you
cannot be indifferent 20 the prosperity Of Ken
\ lucky, and that OF the whole country, and IL you
will proceed TO administer the Government upon
the principles Of the fathers. upon the princi-
piles Of the Constitution and for the prosperity OF
the whole country, ! will support your admin
istration He told me he would do so. But
| what followed was In Washington the time
l of the FIRST Bull Run fight There was the call
/ for IS 900 men-then for the great armies. Theo
rivers Of blood did flow. and have been flowing
| ever since Hundreds Of thousands have fallen.
Almost every house in the land is in mourning aud
vet there is 30 prospect Of ending the sad strife
| Has not flood enough been shedf Cries OF
Yes" "yes"l have furnished. from nv own
family. two; one has bad Two horses shot from
/ under him. and The other commanded at Shiloh
| have furnished nv full share Of help. and now
! I pray 20 God that this may terminate. am
tired of this war. l am tired Of the lamentations
| in my ears all around me.
| tell you, gentlemen, you know nothing of
the horrors of this war here If you could see
| the guerrillas pouring into your villages and
every part Of the State, and citizens flying. as |
have seen them in my town. Lexington. you
would know something of the horrors of this
war. Aud when but just now left my home
my town was guarded by negroes. no white man
left with the privilege of gun in his hand /
am not STAKEHOLDER. Eight years ago | set
mine free. / emsncipsted them myself. for |
did not intend TO let any other man emaDcipste
them. Applause So | left my family in the
hands OF emancipated slaves, for my negroes
would not leave me. j tell you, ] have seen
those guerrillas charging down through town
| when il was rather delicate looking out of the
windows, because you could not know where .
bullet might be coming. | left nv family under
commanders that think the negro a little better
than the white man. and they account all disloyal
because we think the white man litile better
than the negro To such a condition ! left my
famiy-the guerrias prowling around, and they
tell US if the government take our negroes they
| have a right 10 take our horses.
Fellow citizens | address YOU with the free
dom OF old soldier, and i feel that | might
regard myself as a Waterman Your towers.
And could desire, when you ask me Watch
man. what Of the nightt" that ! could answer,
"Al's well; sleep on; let your babes rest in
quiet" But now, since despotism has taken
charge of the country, and everything is dsre
garded except the will of one man, if | am asked
now. Waterman. what of the nightY' j must
answer, "All's ill.," Yes, sir. tell you all's i'll
now, unless we arouse ourselves before the dawn
of day to the defense of the principles of civil
liberty, il will be i'll with US, and those sacred
principles will be lost forever TO Us. Therefore
/ il is that come here 10 speak 10 you OF the
| IL
nounce the advance of despotism in the admins
tratiOB of one man More than eighteen hun
dred wears ago Rome was governed by three men
| in the end of that Republic One was
Augustus Caesar, another Mark Anthony, and
the other noble Roman. They were all of no
BILE blood And we, too, nave now our triumvi-
rate-Lincoln. Stanton and HallecS but, unfor-
tunately. neither Of them can boast very high
descent A laugh | speak with profound re
spect of the powers that be. Laughter contn
ued But the parallel further. There
succeeded 10 Rome Emperor that
could fiddle and dance when their city
was burning We also have Emperor,
| Lincoln, that can tell his stale Jokes
whilst the land is running red with the
| blood of our brothers aud sons. And must this
be received a. CLEAN of glory in the future of
our country? We read in ancient history of the
| siege Of the great city OF the Hebrews, and that
whilst Titus was daily battering down their walls,
| the factious Jews we're quarreling among them
| selves every night. But for Gods sake, don't
let Us be like the Jews quarrelling amongst our
| selves and devOuring one another in these times
of the extremity of cur impered institutions of
| freedom. For myself, ! am an old time Henry
Clay Wing Ny father was Wing; and L ex
pect vet To live and die National Wing But
at the same time tell you all here, if you pro-
coed to nominate a constitutional Union for
President though he be Democrat, will vote
for him Applause am an old Baptist too,
baptized all over in running water, yet If you
nominate \ Sprinkler, and he NC otherwise a
constitutional Union man. | will vote for him
for all that Laughter and applause. Shall
tell you. gentlemen. what further we have had
| ia Kentucky 10 make us tired OF military ruler
Ii was but two days before our late August e.ec
| ton that military commander in our State
issued ar order that one of our candidates for
| Judge Of che Court OF Appeals we had but two
| csndidates) should not be candidate, and we
submitted under tie stress OF bayonets. But we
rallied and nominated another gentleman for
| the position and succeeded, and elected him over
the negro candidate Applause. | mention
I this in view Of the fact that have another
election in kentucky next November, aud will
vote then as we did in August. and carry our
candidate by al our thousands. Continued ap-
| plause Sir | 8m a freeman. | will vote.
| Why not? IL i my right. Do you think will
fail to exercise my rightP | viii vote or die
And Kentucky will vote next November. and
carry the nominee Of next Mondays convention
bv fifty thousand majority. tUnbounded ap-
plause We will 90 IT, and report ourselves at
headquarters in good order. Aud those men
who have been depressing and running the coun-
iIy with taxation. and deluging the land with
| blood, will be driven back TO their mountains,
and they will call upon the mountains TO fall upon
! them and hide them from the fierce Indignation
OF the people. Cheers Gentlemen, cannot
but warn YOU against their rc.ro emancipation
policy II they free the slaves YOU will have
TO feed them You are bound 10 take them here
Into Illinois. ] want 10 send my share Of
them into Illinois TO Mr.. Lincoln TO support
| They won't work They will eat, and do moth
ing else And at the same time you will be
| bound to paw taxes Iou viii be taxed upon
everything pertaining TO lite and business. You
| cannot draw or pay out money. but YOU will have
TO pay Tx for il. You will be overwhelmed
! with taxation. besides the care of the negroes:
! and what a time you will have OF is. Tor they will
I not work or il they 10. il will be for half the
compensation of the white man. and be in The
shade half the time Laughter
Gentlemen when was invited 20 speak here
70 night | felt that / could not. and you per
eeive Seil enough that, with this wind in my face
| | have TO voice for 40 large hearing ] have
done wha, could This i great confederacy
OF States and i, i your part. gentlemen, to see
that. under laws. each shall be kept in its own
I sphere Let each man kiss his own wife, and
/ nobody else's wife and icf each woman whip her