Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-02-23


temps AZ IL
IL the year 500 the people Of Boston. Mssss-
chusetts. and New England generally, were seri
o1siy exercised on national qlestions. Slavery
had nothing 70 do with il o. the contrary. up
70 the year lens an immense feet OF New Eng
land vessels bid been actively engaged in the
slave trade. and the people of Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, in lsn9, were dividing the enor
nous profits ihes bad realized in that business
which was started by their Puritan fathers in the
18th century. and stopped in the 18th century by /
the votes OF Virginia. and other States less in
terested IL the traffic than :he New EnglanderS \
The cause Of the mental exercise % which We
now allude was the action of the General Gov
ernment in establishing the embargo 1t J. not I
necessary 70 discuss the reason Tor this action. /
Enough that the United States ordered II. and /
the New England people did not like il We
give now some facts from history, without much
comment.
The inhabitants of Boston memorialized their
State Legislature, January 2oih. lou9 They
held a town meeting. and there VAS as much
treason then talSei in Boston as there was IN
South Carolina when Anderson was CALAMITY
defending Sumter The following is All extract
from the memorial Of the town OF Boston TO the
Legislature of Massachusetts,. adopted in that
town meeting:
THAT they constrained to apply TO your
honorable body as the immediate guardians OF
their rights anu liberties for your interpostion
to procure for them relief from the grievances
which they now suffer. under the operation OF the
laws OF the general government aboiishing for
eign commerce, &c Our hope
and consolation rest with the Legislature of our
State, to whom it is competent TO devise means
of relief against the unconstitutional measures OF
the general government; that your power Is ade-
qua;e 10 this object il evident from the organic -
ton of the Confederacy
The town of Gloucester resolves, January IL,
1909:
THAT to our State government we look for
counsel, protection and relief at this awful period
of general call nifty
In Newburyport, handbills were posted calling
on the people to "be resolute. act like the sons
OF liberty. OF God and your country Nerve your
arms with vengeance against the despot defer
SON. &c"
The Boston Ceniinel said:
Every man will presume that he is not bound
to regard it (the emhargo;) but may send his
produce or merchandise to foreign market IN
the same manner rs if the government bad never
undertaken to prohibit it
The Boston Gazette spoke for disunion- 1t
said:
at is better to suffer the amputation of a limb
than to lose the whole body. We must IHepar G
for the operation Wherefore then is New Eng
land asleepl Wherefore does she submit 70 the
oppression of enemies in the SOUTH Have We
Moses Who Is inspired by the God of our
fathers and will lead Us out of EgyptE'
We cite these few specimens TO show young
men and new politicians Of our day a page OF
history which perhaps they have never opened.
If they will 60 back to the newspapers and pam
phlets OF that time they will find hundreds and
thousands of such specimens these extracts We
have made.
The hatred to the government and the coming
war continued and increased in New England.
We pass on 10 the time when the var Lecame a
fixed fact SO intense was the onmity that men
we're prevented from subscribing to loans for
government purposes, ard the agents had To adj
vertse that they would receive private bids and
keep the names of subscribers secreI
Advertisement from the Boston Chronicle of April H.
lsl41
1.-THE NEW LOAN.
From The advice of several respected friends
we are induced to announce to the public that
subscriptions Ia the new loan will be received 10y
usasa agents until the 25h inst from individuals or
incorporated bodies. in sums OF S5i6 and upwards
Applications will he received from any
persons who wish TO receive their interest in Bos-
ton 10y letters post paid, or 10y written appica-
tons from individuals in Boston, and the name:
of ali subscribers shall be known only to The
undersigned
GILBERT DEAN, brnkerS,
Exchange Coffee House.
Boston April 10"
Advertisement from the Boston Gazette, April14 1874
1.-THE LOAN
Subscriptions will be received through IN,
agency OF the subscriber to the 18th inst, inclu-
sye
ITO avoid the Inconvenience of personal APP
pearance to subscribe. applications in writins
will be receiv from any part of the State.
The amount. rate and name of an,
applicant shall at his request. be KIN 'wn only Il
the subscriber JEssE PUTNAM
The Boston Gazette of April ii. IN which tn
last advertisement appeared. thus remarked OF
the war
How degraded must our government be. evei
! in their own eyes, when they resort Ia -uch trick
To obtain money which common Jew broke
would be ashamed of They know RICH
well that the cause is so sneaking and vile tia
nobody would be seen in the broad day light &
lend them money Perhaps moneye
men may be brbei by the high interest that
offered but if they withhold their aid and =
force the governm, mt into peace. viii not thei
capital be better employ ed. il employed in trade
On the whole think it TO way TO &c
out Of the war, 10 give money TO government
when the very thing that prevents them iron
carrying il Oh is the want of money.
1T is very grateful to fni that the universe
sentiment is. that any man who lends his none
to the government NJ the present time will forte
all claim TO common honesty and common cOur
tesv among all true friends of the country"
SympatnIzers with these sentiments exste
elsewhere, Of course Thus we find that ab0u
that date the New York Evening Post said on
day: We have Oaly room this evening 10 81
that we trust no true friend to thi, countr
will toe found among the subscribers to tine Calls
tin War
There were clergvmen, not few. who lei
pulpit aid to the factions who opposed govern
ment Rev Mr. Gardiner rector Of Trinit
Church. Boston. preached. July 3D. 1912. a ser
mon in which he said:
Let no considerations whatever. my brethren
deter YOU at all times aud ia all places from ex
Grating the present wa-.
NJ Mldi .on has declared war. let Mr. Madiso
carry IL on The Union h.
been long since virtually dissolved. and il is fu
time that this part of the Dsuntei States shOul
take care of itself
Rev Dc. Osgood preached. April :. 1910.
sermon in which he said
IF II the command of weak and wirke
rulers they undertake unjust war. e.cn ma
who volunteers his services IA such a cause
loans his money for its support. or by his cOnve
satiOu. his writings. or IN any other mode OF II
fuence encourages IT. prosecution, that man
an accOmplice in is wckedness loads his col
science with the blacklist of crI.ueS, brings Il
guilt of blood upon his soul. and IN the sight
God j. a murderer. One hol
only repsips that this Sfrok . of nerfdv will one