Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-25

Just read az the desk no money wss % be paid to
our troops except in accordance with the provi-
sions of those resolutionss that Is, upon conoi.
ton that they should be withdrawn from the
enemy's country. No paw was 10 be given them
while they were there The meaasss vete that
any man. in my judgment, ever gave is vote TO
stop the rations Of the soldier. IL matters not
whether the war be right or wrong, the soldier
must be paid. To starve him is no statesman
like plan by which 10 stop an unjust war. Yet
THAT precisely the vote given By the gentle
man from Ohio who now delivers a lecture to the
House upon the subject Of American patriotism.
There il stands recorded. There is Nemesis Of
politics which comes back to avenge injustice
and niquity. Ii comes now to torment and
plague the gentleman from Ohio. It avenges
the wrong aud outrage which he seeks TO infict
Upon bis colleague; il comes now in the face OF
the soldiers of this war. and tells them that the
gentleman from Ohio would leave them 20 begga-
~ and want il he should become dissatisfied with
this war as he was with the war against Mexico.
w hat man has done man will do again
Sir, accept no lecture upon the subject Of pa
triotism from such source But at the same
time freely admit that the gentleman from
Ohio had the right, the moral, legal, and political
right, 70 introduce the resolutions in regard to
the Mexican war If they embraced his sentiments.
| would have neither expelled nor censured him
for his action. They were wrong in nv judg-
ment, but If they were right in his then he was
right in offering them. | am for federation in all
matters of opinion. We cannot all think alike
God did not make US So You remember the
parable. sometimes thought to be taken from
Scripture, but said to have been uttered by Ben
jamin franklin, on this great question OF freedom
of opinion. Aram was sitting one evening &C
the door Of his tent when wayfaring man came
by. Aram invited him TO 60 in and sup With
him. The wayfarer did so. Aram asked
him to bless before he broke bread The way
iarer said no, that was not his way Of thinking.
lmmed ately Aram arose in wrath, took his stick
and beat the stranger, wounding and bruising
him and driving him from the shelter Of his roof
In the silent watches of the night. however. the
voice OF God came to Aram, asking him, where
is the strangerf" "Why," said Aram 81 asked
him to bless and return thanks before he portook
OF bread, and he refused, so drove him hence"
But" said the voice of the Almighty 81 have
borne with that man. have known his opinions,
] have allowed him TO live: have never beaten
him and sent him forth into the wilderness Co.
Aram. and find the victim Of your miserable con-
duct, bring him back, sud pour oil into his
wounds, feed him. aud lay him on your best bed,
and take care of him until he is we'll :" --
Such is the voice of Divinity in favor Of free.
dom Of speech, freedom Of thought, freedom of
private conscience. | implore gentlemen not TO
attempt to strike il down. Let the error, if error
II be, exist so long as truth is left free TO combat
it In the beginning of time. these two prnci-
Piles were made. They have walked the earth
together ever since. They have roamed the
elrth for six thousand years Truth and error
have been combating fields of reason, on
battehelds, everywhere. You of the abolition
party, go back thirty years to the beginning Of
your own organization. What was il you then
most warmly contended fort What but the
right, the immortal right. 10 speak your senti-
menis. to denOunce your political accusers, and
to stand before the world freemeni Suppose
this gag law, this instrument of tyrants this obi
Gus relic of barbarism, again revived in this Hail.
had been applied to some sitting
| around me!
] protest before the living God, that / never
knew man wearing the shape of man, whom i
would not stand by and protect in his right of
free speech, we're he TO utter his sentiments in a
decorous and becoming manner. Your party in
scrIbed everywhere on its banners, free speech"
Deny 1t to-day, If you dare Trample il 10 the
dust. Spit upon and despise 1t, If you will The
world will despise you, when you do the act
History will rake up the deed and preserve il,
and the historian will despise you, as he writes il
down. Posterity will despise this day in all the
| calendar of time, as the one on which liberty Was
murdered in the Capitol. The heart and iudg.
ment of the world will execrate you for the deed,
just as Il TO day execrates the memory of the
bloody monster kobespierre. just as il recalls the
memory of Marat to curse IT, Just as il recalls the
form OF st. Just 10 loathe him. There are your
models. Go back further Nero was az early
founder of your school of politics Some one
man, suppose, is 10 do II the thinking here.
So Nero thought. So the bloOd-stained monsters
OF the French Revolution thought. So the odious
tyrannical bigots OF the English revolution of
1910 thought. Thee are your examples i'm
plore you to discard them. Walk out In the
light of liberty. and appeal 10 the people Tell
them. you will trust them. What a commentary
on the intelligence of the peoplel
You will not allow the gentleman from Ohio
TO speak. Perhaps next YOU will now allow me
TO speak. other gentlemen from Ohio, the gen
tleman from New York. and Others around me.
WhyF Are you afraid you cannot meet us in
argumenig Are you afraid the people will not
be just and truer Are you afraid they will not
have Intelligence enough to see that you are
right and We are wrongl Are you afraid they
will not have virtue enough to follow the right
aud to discard the wrongI You must believe
they have not that intelligence or that they will
not be true to their own judgment. OF you would
be willing to trust them TO discriminate between
right and wrong. Sir, | trust the people.
challenge you before that great tribunal. ! am
willing To stand or fall by its decision, and al
ways have been. III you crush me before the
American people, before that tribunal where free
speech has full sway. | will 20 down without
murmur Ii ] can drive You from place and
power in the same arena by the same means, IL
.Ou hic hOutct meu lOu VIII cuOult ALSO NltuOut
| complaint.
But il YOU think because you have the power
to-day that you can gag me, that you can tie my
tongue, that You deny to me the right to
speak, then woe to this nation. When you under
dertake 10 carry that purpose into effect, the day
of doom will be upon Ii cannot be done:
YOU know IL cannot be done without n confiacra-
ton that shall light up the very arches OF the
sky from ocean TO ocean. Are you ready for
this issueT Do you want itT II you do il
be made by the expulsion Of The gentleman from
Ohio. This will no longer be an American
Congress We will be ~hained slaves. and the
next question 10 determine will be whether as
men OF honor we can remain and wear the
yoke.
Sir. this is painful theme to me- 7 feel more
OF sorrow than OF anger over such an issue Let
me appeal to the OF Justice which / know
animates some breasts the other side Of the
Chamber Let Us not misunderstood each other.
Let Us deal with eich other as honest men, strir.
ing for common purpose-the restoration Of
our unhappy country. You may have your
views OF what policy Is most conductive 10 that
end; you have the right TO your opinions;
| have the right 10 mine; but because OF
this difference Of opinion In regard 10 accomplish
ing the same object, by all that we bold dear in
the present. and by all our hopes of the future.
let us not cut each Others throats and preciptate
strife and violence here and all over the land.
The civilized world would cry shame upon such
scene, and the latest generations Of our posteri
~ will heap reproaches on our memory.
- Arson AND RoBBEKY.-Lsst night Tues
day. the barn and stable Of Mr.. Isaac Prather,
who lives about midway bet,'een Jeffersonyille
and Charleston. on the plank road, was set on
| FIRE aud the building. together with a quantity Of