Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-10

outrage. 10 resign in order 70 preserve bis self
respect; The want OF re<pcct shown BY the
President 10 the convection which nominated
him for re election. sns the great contempt with
which IT. Suggestions aud demands we're met
we're CHARACTERISTIC and 10 keeping ~ith his whole
course Having In bis power the armies Of the
Union. whoh we're given him by the people Tor
the preserv Atom 81 the government, but which
are iurne1 by him into political engines for the
Advancement of his own vast schemes Of selfish
Advantage, controlling the immense revenue sys
ter. CT the country and the civil patronage OF the
government ngrsed into sense of perfect Sc
curitv, be laugh. to scorn the movements of op-
Donents and the restcssness OF bis abused and
outraged subjects
Meantime the war drags its slow length along.
crushing IN It's course the hearts of the people and
sxhsusting the resources OF the country. That
IL will be ended successfully by this Adminis,ra.
tioD. indeed ended at ALL is beyond the power
OF belIet Couup, beyond measure in its ad-
minis.rstion Of the finances of the rument,
trucking and cowardlv in its foreign affairs. i'm
beetle and contemplate in its management Of the
war guilty of the grossest disregard Of the rights
of the people. defyng and violating the funda-
mental law of the land, the present Administra-
ton deserves aud will receive the judg-
ment and the swift condemnation of the Ameri-
can people.
Standing. tonight in the mournful shadow of
two hundred thousand graves. nv soul stilled
within me by the melancholy cadence OF the
night wind rustling the rank grass above them.
my eyes gazing down through the damp clods
till they rest sadly on the mouldy forms lying
there, sleeping their last sleep. far away from
home. the silent, eternal stars their only watch
ers. | arragn this Administration for a useless
and lavish expenditure of human life, and in the
name of the million bereaved hearts at home
and the million more dreading similar bereave-
ment demand that the people be subjected to
no more calls for men and money uutil q pledge
be given them Of the definite aim and purpose of
the war that such purpose shall be within the
Constitution and that when il is accomplished
the war shall cease.
We have not. as n people. been chary of our
gifts of blood and treasure to the country in its
| hour Of peril Our sons, our first born, our only
/ have gone out to- battle for the right, and
We have watched their going with compressed
/ lips and strsinug eyes from which no emotion of
weakness flung out its pearly banner of tears;
the country needed them, and though they we're
the costliest jewels OF the household shrine, we
| gave them freely.
With no thought OF the gaunt wolf to- morrow
might bring yeping TO our doors, we have poured
out into the national Golfers until they
overlooked The nations need was our oppor-
/ tunity, and we gave of our goods cheerfuly, and
will still give long as we have to give, but
We demand that our gifts shall be used for the
country.
| Staining beside the wreck OF disregarded per
sonal right, Of laws disobeyed and constitutions
violated. frownng prisons and suppressed presses,
obligations impaired and the mosts solemn pledges
broken, | arragn this Administration for the
most wanton trifing with the gravest affairs
of the government and preparing the way
for entire subversion of American liberty.
Standing where the desolate homes of this
once fair land spread out before nv saddened
vision, their cheerful fires all extinct, this
| holy affairs dsmsntled and neg ected, the Lares
and Penstes fed before the grim Moloch of war,
the marry laugh of happy childhood that erst
made sweet music to a fathers heart, charged
to the wistful murmuring OF orphaned infancy, fit
echo TO the moaning of the night winds in the
| signing cypress boughs that droop above the far
of grave where sleeps the father; the glad
| light that once beamsd from the happy
mothers eyes when the father of her
babes drew nigh. like the flashing
OF the head lights on the eve of the mariner
nearing the haven in which is fixed his all of
earthly JOY, changed alasl to the weary restless
glance toward the silent door whose portals he
never more may pass, helpless age tremblingly
toitering toward the grave into which it longs to
lay the weary head sne aching heart, robbed of
their support and Joy, and doomed to suffer
"age and want, oh! i'll matched pair ten
der womsnhood. its stay and protection
swept into the wide vortex Of war, sinking
silently into the cold embrace of poverty
and neglect, nursing her broken heart with
low songs in .he still twilight. or soothing her
busy faDcies with bright pictures of what might
have been, that saddest OF all employ ment for a
suffering woman: or turning with trembling
steps. sinking heart, and infinite selfloathng TO
that other path which leads to depth whose re-
cesses no social Resurgam will ever reach and
where the poor life at last goes out in the black
ness of darkness forever Taking into my
hearts core in one comprehensive glance
of agony all this terrible OF desoa
ton and human woe, turn TO Mr..
Lincoln. and before God srraign him for all this
excess of suffering and widespread wretched-
ness. and yelling my eyes that they may not see
the open shame put upon the idolized flag of my
country. closing my that they may not hear
the taunts at the humiliation of my Government
before the world. turn with an abiding conf
dence to the whole people. and submitting this
case TO them, ask that on the ides of November
their verdict may be guilty of all the counts in
the Indictment