Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-30
The Radical Republican Protest
Against Mr. LincOlnss R-e-n0mfna.

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FOR CLEVELAND.
Tn time has come-in the language of the
call for the Cleveland Convention-for all indie
pendent men, all who are jealous of the ~nationa,
liberty and greatness, to unite in a common eff
fort to oppose an insurmountable barrier against
the food Of shame and ruin that is pouring over
the country from Washington, and threatens TO
bury even the American name. Inaugurated
in terror and cowardice, the present Administra
ton tended inevitably to the painful end which
we have before our eyes. Error as TO the true
bearing and character of the contest; error as to
its probable duration; looking only upon COM
promise as a possible solution of the struggle,
and protecting in slavery the very source of the
conflict, the administration Of Mr.. Lincoln could
only and inevitably terminate in the half meas
ures which prolong crises and never conclude
them; cowardice in dealing with foreign powers,
which did Lot blush to assimilate themselves TO
~reyolted criminals under the name of belligerents
c0wardice in dealing with England, imperiously
demanding the Trent prisoners, Notwithstanding
the open manifestation of the popular will; cow
ardice in dealing with Louis Napoleon, who in
~solently treads the Monroe doctrine under foot
aud slapS US in the face with its fragments,
stained with Mexican blood; cowardice toward
the whole world, in suffering. without ~reprisals,
our and our flag to be insulted in
Il W . " tAdtto hoouhbS AiOm thC puts VI
powers which make war upon us under the shell
ter of netratity; everywhere cowardice.
Americana is this the device which our fathers
left usy Is il this which we shall leave TO our
children? Without energy for good, without
force against evil, and without intelligence to
forsee and 10 direct, what has become of our
liberties, and what has become of the immense
resources of every kind, put by patriotism at the
discretion of our executives? Our liberties we
/ la A sam thopn atara,unh m hv 80 v,thout an
murmur, without a single popular protest to vim
dicate right and justice outraged; military pro-
consuls have everywhere replaced the Law by
| caprice. and the Judge by the Provost Marshal;
the habeas corpus no longer exists, and the ca
PRECIOUS bell Of Mr.. Seward sends. without power
of resistance, the best citizens Of the Republic to
dream in adungeon over our lost liberties. There
is not a citizen to-day who can be secure in going
to sleep at night, that he will not awake a crimi-
nal-not by the law, but by the will of a pro
consul or his agents.
That which England would have defended to
the last drop of her blood, that which is the
most glorious appendage of the Anglo Saxon
race, its pride in, and It's attachment and respect
for the liberty of the citizen, we have abandoned
without a protest.
Are we descendants of those sturdy Saxons
who never knew how to bend their heads, or are
we the efeminate sons of the Latin race, OF
uOh y II a. NASthSuAoiiihS Nihidtbct-
istic?
In fighting for universal liberty, are we going
to surrender our own? Our national wealth is
following in the wake of our liberties. The re-
sources heaped up by a century of perseyering
labor, that prosperity which was the envy of the
world and our just pride, is flowing off at the
rate of four millions of dollars a day, into the
pockets Of contractors, scattered and wasted by
incapacity on the battlefield, and corruption in
= nuhliC frauCapfiaDa Proafrafa ruinad and die
honored, have we at least the consolation to see
all these sacrifices crowned by victory over our
enemiesf Judge for yourselves. Alter three
years OF voluntary impotence, after having
steadily drained our wealth and our blood in such
a way as just to carry our existence along far
enough to bring US exhausted TO the moment OF
a Presidential election, the administration draw
ing together Tor a supreme last effort all the force
of the nation, stakes its existence on a last card
in order to perpetuate itself in power. or, if ii
fails, to leave with its successor only a ruin
and remembrance Of a greatness destroyed for
ever.
All our resources are engaged, not in those
combats Of civilized people where modern sci
ence wins victory while il spares life, but in a
human hecatomb, like the recorded struggles OF
barbarian antiquity, where masses take the place
of intelligence, and where exhaustion and death
take the place of victory triumph OF darkness
over light. History will mark with her bloody
finger this ferociOus butchery, a shame TO hu
manity aud a stain upon this age of civilization
and progress.
We have lost at least 40, 900 men in less than
ten days; we push forward our militia; what af-
terward? Is it enough to pay dearly the igno
rance of those who instead Of leading our men
TO victory lead them to death? The imagina-
ton refuses to look at the consequences of O
disaster in such circumstances. Under this Ad
ministration, sold to foreigners by fear or by
interest, we have seen that saddest and most
incredible spectacle of the work of our ancestors
baiiled and overthrOwn before it had yet reached
a century of existence. but which was also n
century of snexampled prosperity.
Shades of Washington, of Jefferson, of Mon
roe and Jackson, of Adams, of Clay, of Web
ster, and of Benton, tell our countrymen if you
recognize that republic which you knew how to
make so great Bloody shades of the heroes of
independence, you who have founded the republic
by herOism and suffering against the numbers and
treasures of England, rise up and tell Us if you
recognize your battles of giants where energy
and valor supplied the place of numbers, in
these human hecatOmbs under incompetence
/ Come forward, Touch with your finger the
bodies of these contractors filed with the peo-
pies gold, mOckiDg at the devastation and smil-
ing over the patioaal ruin; touch and tell US il
your antique virtue realizes the existence Ofthese
human ~vultures,
Peoplei There is yet time for you to rise up
There is yet time for YOU to pass in review the
acts of a guilty administration, which has be-
trayed your confidence, and to arrest its course
The moment has com to launch out from the
new world the great truth that administration
are made by the people and for the people, and
not the people for the administration; and that
howsoever great may be their forbearance fol-
their servants, howevsr long may be their for
getfulness of their interests, when the measure is
full the people will declare that they alone are
sovereign and change their administration. The
time has come to change that which for thret
years past has occupied the White House; the
time has come to clean out the Augean stables
and to select the Hercules charged with tina
task. On to Cleveland