Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-10-14

such Is re necessary eGeci Of this anpFsce.
dsaied course or thc military gogefros" Of Tea
nessee. o course Of which. tn the words applied
by two Distinguished members Of the Republican
party. Senator wsde. OF Ohio, and Representa-
DAVE. Of Maryland. TO the conduct Of Pres
ideur Lineoln 10 unlavfully creating another
"militsrv governor for the State Of Louisiana.
II msy Le said il without authority Of law and
therefore void, . "blow At the rights Of human
iy ard a the principles of Republican Govern
men; " This course the President hss sanctioned
as he has sanctioned the course Of Msj. General
Wallace in Maryland, therein again forgetting,
70 use The words Of the same distinguished Re
publicans. bis obligafiou 10 confne himself to
his execusive duties: 20 obey and execute, not
make the laws: 20 suppress by arms armed re
belliop. pnss leave poiifirsi reorganization 70
Congress.
IF the supporters of he government, Seas-
ter Wade aud Representative Davis 20 on 10 say,
fail 70 insist on this, 'hey become responsible
im tie usurpstious which they fail - Febuke.
and sc ju-tly liable to Inc Indignation Of ths
people whose rights and security. committed 70
thsr,keeping. they sacrifice"
u To this plain speaking Of men eminent in the
Republican psrtY se might well content our.
selves with pointing the citizens o: the United
States, ia the presence OF these Dew and afro
ciOus attempts upon the freedom OF discussion
and The sovereignty OF g.. people. Bat &C can
not forget that the very men who have so ear
nes.ly denounced executive usurpation in the
past have now become u passive instruments and
i,s silent spologists.
The conquest Of tie 80 voices Of constitution
al liberty in the bosom OF tie Republican party
! by the seductiong of power and OF place, makes
IL imperative upon u 70 warn the people OF
America that the perils prefgurel bv such men
as Senator Wade and Representative Davis arc
upon Us to-day, and that they can only be con
! jurel from the future of our country By the united
and resoluie action, not Of the partisan supporters
of a partisan government, but OF a patriotic peo-
PIE combined for he defense OF the Constitution
nsd the laws
The conduct OF President Lincoln in Maryland
and in Tennessee distinctly reveals a revolution
airy purpose. The electoral votes OF those States,
eighteen in number, cast ~ the dictalion OF srbi-
trary power msv nen,rsiize she same number Of
electoral votes freely and lawfully cast in othei
States Of the Union. Upon those votes, there
fore, the whole future OF America mry turn. To
control those votes 10 tie Way attempted by Mr.
Johnson in Tennessee, and By General Wallace
in Maryland, is TO plan a crime against liberty il
the Republic. We are fully aware Of the gravity
OF the charge. but the rights. the interests, the
issues here ~ stake are rot less grave.
Again and again for the past four years, Mr.
Lincoln auu lis n.ni-tPFe, GileE one or aNOtDCl
plea Of mllitaty or political "necessiiy,F hsv,
transcribed the limits Of executive authority
have trampled upon The sanc,i,y of communal
and individual right. IL may well be doubtec
whether any Government in the old world, claim
ing TO hold iss authority b. Divine right, wou.d
have been permitted by any people OF modern
Europe to pursue is i1fractions OF law aud il
%coufempt of liberty so far as the American PEG
pie 10 their devotion q the Union, have suffered
Mr. Lincoln 20 60
Bu, the patience OF the American people hai
been the fruit Of their Traditional reliance upor
the remedies provided BY the Constitution
the right freely to speak heir thoughts. freely &
print their thoughts, and. above all, the inalienR
BILE right freely TO choose and 20 change ;h'
agents of the public will.
Once before in eur history, under the pressure
of an imminent natiOual danger, executive
recklessness ventured upon ialractions of poyu
lar right, tame and Insignificant enough to-dal
besides these usurDstions ~ MARYLAND and il
Tennessee
Then, however, though IN toe infancy Of on
constitutional experience. the wise devotion 0
the people 80 the principles OF cur national libert,
~triumphed over the assumption OF power, and to-
peaceful revolution" If 1901. under Thoma
Jefferson, secured Us sixty yesr- Of freedom an'
Of progress.
The ambition of NJ Lincoln and MS support
ers now threatens the yerv remedies througI
which the peaceful revolution" Of 1901 was &C
complished.
This revolutionary ambition has already bee'
met By Senator Wade and Representative Dayi
in 4 temper a. revolutionary. with \ forms
summons Of the people TO extreme and ulterio
measures
"Ifthose voters turn the bslslce in his favor,
they exclsim. "is i, 10 be supposed that his com
p%etitor. defeated by such means, will acquiesce
Let the people consider the remedy 70
these usurpations. and, having found IL, fearless
IL execute IL"
The Nstionsi Democratic Committee 10 no
80 far despair Of the future OF The republic. The,
believe that The American people. armed with Ia
majestic sl,hority oi the Constitution and laws
will meet these beginnings Of usurpation IL tn
spirit and With the determination of their fathers
nor suffer executive -nbition 50 far TO corFup
the constitutional remedies of executive wrong
doing SIS 20 condemn this great aud free peopl
IN the immediate future TO the condition, AM
With the condition 10 the remedies. OF the subjec
population OF the older world.
AUGUST BELMONT, Chairman.
y o PRIScE, Secretary