Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-09-23
TO THE VOTERS or INDIANA.
FACTS FOR THEIR CONFEDERATION
Continued


found in al the State Constitutions. The gov
ernments established by Mr. Lincoln should be
in this form: I'VE, the generals, provost mar
shal., soldiers. camp followers, and American
citizens of African descent, who have taken an
oath 10 support the proclamations of President
Lincoln, and who. by the order Of the President,
are supposed 20 constitute Que tenth Of the pop
ulation. do make aud establish the following con
stitution and government
Cor gress, at its last session, passed Law for
the government aud restoration of the States in
REBEL on, which Mr.. Lincoln would neither sp
prove or veto, but Withheld it and thereby pre-
vented il from becoming law.
Senator Wade of Ohio. and Henry Winter
Davis member Of Congress from Maryland. both
of whom are Republicans aud supporters of Mr.
Lincoln. have recently issued a protest against
the action Of Mr. Lincoln from which we make
the following quotations:
sro THE SUPPORTERS or THE GOVERNMENT
We have read without surprise. but not without
indignation, the proclamation of the President OF
the 9Th of July, 1863.
The supporters Of the Administration are re
spousibIe to the country for its conduct and il is
their right and duty to check the encroachmeDts
of the Executive on the authority of Congress,
and to require it to conhne itself to It's proper
sphere.
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nation without neglecting that duty; and having
taken "a much resporsibility as any others in
supporting the Administration, we are not dis
posed 10 fail in the other duty of asserting the
rights of Congress.
The President did not sign the bill "t0 guar
antee to certain States whose governments have
been usurped a republican form of government
passed by the supporters Of this Adminlstra
ton in both houses of Congress after mature de
liberation.
The bill did not therefore become a law, and is
therefore nothing.
The proclamation is neither an approval nor a
veto of the bill and is therefore document I'M
known TO the laws and Constitution of the Uni
| ted States.
So far "a il contains an apology for not signing
| the bill, il is political manifesto against the
friends of the Government.
| SO far as il proposes to execute the bill
| which il not a aw. it is grave executive uslr
patton
IL il fitting that the facts necessary to enable
the friends of the Administration to appTec late
the apology and the usurpation be spread before
them.
That is TO say, the President persists in recog
nizing those shadows of governments in Arkan-
sas and Louisiana which Congress formally de
| cared should not be Recommendations Repre-
| sentatives and Senators were repealed by formal
votes of both Houses of Congress-which it was
| declared formally should have no electoral vote
| for President and Vice President.
| They are the mere creatures OF bis will.
| They cannot live a day without his support
| They are mere oligarchies. imposed on the peo-
| pie by military orders under the forms of election
| at which Generals, Provost Marshals. soldiers
and camp followers were the chief actors, AS
| sisted by a handful of resident citizens, and
/ urged on to premature action by private letters
| from the President
I'm neither Louisiana nor Arkansas, before
Banks defeat did the United States control hall
the territory or half the population. In Louisi-
ana. General Banks proclamation candidly de
| clared. 1.-The fundamental law OF the State Is
| martial law"
| On that foundation of freedom, he erected
| what the President calls THE Free Constitution
aud the Government of Louisiana"
But this State. whose fundamental law was
| martial law, only sixteen parishes out of forty
| eight parishes were held by the United States
| and in FIVE Of these sixteen we held only ouI
| camps.
THE eleven parishes we substantially held
had 233, l-5 inhabitants; the residue of the State
not held BY Us. 1851
cat the farce called an election. the officers oil
General Banks returned that l. 1916 ballots were
cast, out WuetueE any UT Dy Wuom ptOpic vi
the United Suites have no legal assurance: but
it ia probable that four thousand were cast by
soldiers or employees of the United States militia
| nv or municipal, but none according to any law
State or national and sever thousand ballots
represent the State of Louisiana.
..Such is the free Constitution and govern
ment of Louisiana; and like ii is that of Arkan-
sas Nothing but the failure of a military expe
diton deprived us of like one in the swamps OF
Florida; and before the Presidential election like
ones may be organized in every rebel State wher Z
the United States have camp.
The President. BY preventing this bill from
becoming a law, holds the electoral votes of the
rebel States at the dictation OF his personal am-
biton
| eff those votes turn the balance in his favor
| is it to be supposed that his competitor, defeated
by such means, will acquiescel
MARK the contrast. The bill requires a ma
jority. the proclamation is satisfied with one
| tenth: the bill requires one oath, the proclsma
ton another: the bill ascsrtains voters by regis
tering. the proclamation by guess; the bill ex-
acts adherence TO existing territorial limits, the
proclamation admits of others: the bill govern:
the rebel States by law. equalizing all before it
the proclamation commits them TO the lawles:
discretion of Military Governors aud Provost
Marshals; the bill forbds electors for President
the proclaim alton and defeat of the bill threaten
W. with civil war for the admission or exclusion
| of such votes; the bill exacted exclusion of dan
gerous enemies from power and the relief of the
nation from The rebel debt and the prohibition
of slavery forever. that the suppression of the
rebellion will double our resources 10 bear OF
paw the national debt. free the masses from the
old domination of the rebel leaders, and eradi
cate the cause of the war; the proclamation Sc
cures neither of these guarantees.
"A more studied outrage the Legislative
authority of the people has never been perpe
trated.
Congress passed BILL the President refused
| to approve il. and then by proclamation puts az
much of ii in force a. he sees fit. and propose.
to execute those parts by officers unknown to the
laws of the United States and not subject to the
confirmation of the Senate.
Let il be remembered that the Baltimore Con
vention that nominated Mr.. Lincoln for re cleo
ton approved and endorsed all his proclsmations
In regard TO slavery.
Mr.. Weed. in bis letter referred TO above. saws
of Mr. Lincolns emancipation proclamation, thai
The influences that drove North Carolina ano
| Tennessee from the Union extorted an enamel
patton proclamation. practical and effective only
| in giving union aud determination TO rebellion
a proclamation TO which the first slave has mo-
owed his freedom. tor il j. only operative where
our armies go, and without il the armies would
have gone faster and further"
i WESTERN VIRGINIA.
The third section of article fourth of the Con.
stitution of the United States provides: New