The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1864-03-09

Joshua, they would have taken issue
with him on the rams horn question, ant
insisted that it was gross violation o
the Ten Commandments. [Uproariou
I. laughter and cheers.
In the time of peace there is no powe
vested in the President or in Congress t,
interfere with slavery in the States wher
it exists. That power is drawn from it
resting place in the Constitution and con
ferred upon the President by the re
V beilious conduct ofthe slave owners, ant
their own hands have forged the Dol
which was launched for their destruction
1t is indeed lofty and gratifying con
sideration that the exercise of this grea
power by the President is not only sane
toned by the laws of war and upheld by
the Constitution, but is in especial har
mony with the principles of Eternal
Justice and the revealed word of God
Slavery having voluntarily rejected the
protection Of the Federal Constitution
and advanced from behind the bulwarks
where it had been entrenched in safety SO
many years. stood naked before its natu-
raj enemies-Liberty, Morals, Religion
and the public safety, and has fallen
pierced by dart from each.
THE PEACE MEN AND SLAVERY.
The Governor next alluded to the
Peace men and their conduct in regard
TO the rebellion, and said:
These men, with few mild phrases,
profess their devotion for the Union and
their condemnation of the rebels and
the rebellion, and rush on with an in
decent hast to the bitter denunciation of
those whom they denominate Abolition
tafa Of Loo hat
idea is the preservation Of the institution
of slavery. They are the guardians of
slavery left on duty in the Free States,
while the rebellion is seeking to work out
the destruction of the Government.
In their minds the whole duty of the
Government is summed up in the protec-
ton OF slavery at all hazards and under
all circumstances. Unlike other insti-
tutions and other prouerty they are I'M
willing that slavery shall run the chances
OF war. However other Interests may
suffer, commerce be FRUSTRATED, horses
and cattle, lands and goods be confs-
Gated, to pay the penalties of treason,
slavery must be insured against all VIC
lence, from all loss by the contingencies
ofwar.
To preserve slavery harmless is to OBJ
serve the Constitution in all parts. To
injure it in any respect is to infract the
Constitution in every member. At
time when eleven slave States have 300,
600 men in the field to destroy the Con
stitution and the Government founded
upon it, these Northern patriots are de
voting all their energies and expanding
all their breath to protect the interests of
slavery in these States. Against the
armed rebellion they have little or moth
ing to say. Against the murder of our
citizens upon the field of battle, whose
blood is spilled that the Union may be
preserved, they scarcely protest; in favor
Of suppressing the rebellion and procur-
ing indemnities against the future recur-
renee of n like disaster, they utter not |
word; but their conversation, their
speeches, their papers, are an everascend
ing petition that whatever calamity may
befall our country, whatever sacrifice
she may be called upon to make in blood
and treasure, that slavery shall be pre-
served harmless to affect all coming
generations.
The Government of the United States
has in few cases arrested and imprison-
ed persons, who, by speeches and
were striving to destroy the
and giving aid and comfort
to the rebellion.
These arrests have been made a pre-
text for a combined assault upon the
while the rebellion, with
its multiplied cruelties and horrors, with
out parallel in the history Of civilized
nations, is utterly ignored. Many thous-
ands of Union men are languishing in
Southern dungeons, treated, not as State
prisoners, but rs felons, for no other
crime than expressing their adherence
20 the old Constitution and the old flag.
Are there no tears to shed over the hor-
'ibe sufferings and prosecutions of these
faithful men? Does humanity exhaust
Is sympathies upon the few cases where
Northern men have suffered brief confine-
nent for the expression of disloyM senti-
nents in the encouragement of the rebel
Ion? Are the Union men of the rebel
States who have stood by the Govern
nent in the hour of trial, and whose
oyalty has been tested by the dungeon,
he torture and the gibbet, entitled to no
The cruelties of the
American savages and of Chinese war
are fade and whiten when compared with
he atrocities which have been practiced
~ the rebels throughout this war. Union
men have been murdered upon their own
they have been cast into
oathsome dungeons, where thew have
,erished from disease or starvation;
hey have been hung like dogs upon trees
md signposts, and their bones have been
into jewelry and worn as hor-
.ible souvenirs and keepsakes, as the
savage would string upon his girdle the
calps of his victims.
A member Of the Kentucky Legislature,
II n speech in that body, at former
ession, declared that after the retreat of
Kirby Smith from kentucky he had seen
ne grave in which were buried twelve
Jnion men with the 'haiters still around
heir necks.
Where among the politicians who talk
bus is one who has ever raised his
niger in suppression of the rebellion?
.ook about through the State of Indiana
nd find me one if you can. When the
,eople have rushed together TO consider
# their country, they have stood afar off
With boding looks, words ofill omen upon
heir tongue, and counsels of discourage