Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-02-22
BEGINNING TO Protest

tlonal politics which has brought the country 10
the present verge of destruction. has by his dis
c;siples been consigned to the shade of private
life. The 4th Of March next will for the pre-
sent end bis public career. unless Mr.. Lincoln in
order 10 get rid of him should give him a for
eign mission or some Office that will keep him
quiet. The trouble with Hale now is that ne is
too honest-too conservative. He IL not suf-
6ciently progressive to suit the blood of states
men" whom he was instrumental in calling into
being. His efforts as chairman of the naval
committe 10 keep the horde OF cormorants.
friends and kindred, surrounding the secretary OF
navy from robbing the public treasury were not
in accordance With the advanced " PRINCIPLES" Of
his party. and hence the republican Legislature
OF New Hampshire instructed from Wash
ington TO send a successor more acceptable. and
did and Mr. Hale deposed from his
craftsmanship. During the present session of
congress, Mr.. Hale has given many evidences Of
death bed repentance. He has not hestated
TO strike right and left al the evils OF the systems
and the theories now in vogue and the direc. re
suit of bis OWE teachings. The following e1-
tract from recent speehh on amendments To
the conscription act sounds strange coming from
John Z Hale:
elf trial by jury is overthrow in this county
take the rest 1 would not lift my hand nor
open my mouth. nor counsel one OF 10Y consttu
ents to shed drop OF blood. pay dollar OF
treasure, if the constitution is 10 be preserved
emasculated of this great safeguard of liberty
In these times. when so much is emanded. and
80 much is at stake, with generous confidence
| would give to the administration almost every
thing tina, they want. | would consent and
have consented, that the habeas corpus may be
suspended. and these extraordinary tribunals NAV
be erected and Instituted for the trial OF every
| BODY that voluntarily comes forward and coo
| meets himself With the public service. But, sir
| If you are going to throw a drag net over the
land If you are going TO bring in this whole peo
| pie aud subject them TO the penalties that may be
inflicted by military tribunals and these courts
martial, then the last step 10 the humiliation and
| the degradation OF the country is taken, and We
shall be left ft instruments for any despotsm that
| the bold and the lawless may proper 10 estab
| lish over US
| That independent democratic journal, the
| Chicago Post. which has favored the adoption OF
the abt lion amendment to the constitution in
the hope that once passed by congress and sen, Ia
the states for concurrence the negro would no
longer monopoze the attention and distract the
| deliberations of the national legislature begins
| like Mr.. Hale, to protest that the ball which i,
labored to set in motion, is rolling TOO far l.
| says:
80 Mr. Sumner, however, is dissatis
| fed. Fighting is too glow for him. He wants
| always short cuts to ends which are only Ger
tainiy stssnable By the highway of the law He
now proposes that congress shall declare that
the states in rebellion no longer states in the
union, and that TO amend the constitution it is
only necessary to obtain the consent of three
| fourths of those who loyal He proposes to
amend the constitution that is applicable to the
| whole thirty five states, by the vote of eighteen
states He is not content TO wait a year for the
assent OF the number of states which will place
the question beyond all controversy. He is one
OF those restless creatures that once possessed bI
meggot in the brain. is for devising something
that is new. He would change the hours Of the
rising sup, and have the moon forever at the full
Once his steam up be plunges ahead. caring
nothing for what may be on the track before him
A collision and smash is just what he likes II
is Symmetrical, and to DC That is of course some
thing gigantic
I'VE see that some o.. the papers who are Cd
posed to the amendment are suggesting that IN
the abolition of slavery, the federal or represen-
tative population of the southern states will bs
increased Tha, is true. The slaves emanci
pated they will count as other freemen, and no,
as three iiths OF freeman The representative
population of the slave holding states will be in
creased by the addition to it of two ilths Of the
population hitherto known as slaves We do not
see any reason why this should not be. Negroes
at the north count Tor purposes Of representation
the same az white persons. and why not let then
be so counted at the SOUTH
We see il also suggested that there is pur
pose on the part of large number of radical:
in high places 10 object 10 any terms Of settle
} ment that DO not admit negroes 10 the right o.
, suffrage in the Southern States. This involve.
more than a regulation of that right in the rebe
I states. The right to regulate the right Of suf
frage In each State is now reserved to each State
if the States surrender this right it will be that
! there be some uniform regulation on the subject
and if there be uniform regulation admitting
refugees to the right of voting it will prevail il
Illinois as well as in South Carolina
We notice these things not for the purpose Of
arguing the questions they involve, but to entei
protest in the name OF every honest patriot
against the presentation OF these vexatious tricks
and contrivances, when the country is engaged
with an armed enemy. Let US conquer rebeldOm
before We establish the qualifications of future
voters. Let US drive out the armies of the re
: belion before undertake TO regulate the basi:
OF representatives in congress; aud let US not d.
vide and distract the country in the hour of dead
~ conflict BY congressional lodges 20 avoid the
clear requirements of the constitution, wher
, long before the war is over. the proposed amend
ment to the constitution will be duly and clear
fatiged. The men who start these impractical
? bilites an intolerable nuisance and should be
promptly abated by the good sense of the people
The Post is beginning TO see and realize few
} OF the destructive measures and change which
necessarily follow in the Train of the revolution
airy attemp; 20 change the constitution by en-
' grating upon amendments denying the rights OF
! the states Nhich il explicitly guarantees Mos
? OF the proposed changes and measures are lust
as legitmstely W hin the power of congress a.
the imitation of tie abolition amendment and il
IA sheer self stu alton for any one TO support
! the latter while opposing on equal grounds the
former. The radical leaders have secured The
Z communal Of their conservative allies" to .
broad proposition which covers all q csc lesser
affairs aga;ns, which The Post protests, and the,
) will hold them 10 il and use them f0s the for.
wardiug Of their purposes
Al every opportunity ard in every way. 81
rectly or indirectly, the assertion OF centralized
and superior authority Is 20 be made from Wash
: ing;on over the states. No sooner i one BIZ
or resolution embodying provisions denying the
E reserved rights Of the states passed and OUT ol
: the way. than Mr. Sumner or MIR Wilson stand.
: ready with another 10 take It's place The aboli-
ton amendment was scarcely out of congres:
when Nr Wilson presented his proposition a.
sorting federal control over all routes OF travel
by rail or upon water, in the United States: and
on Tuesday, when Mr. Summers bill OF kin
cred character. entitled ian set 20 regulate com
merce between the several states. was %. be
sought TO merge II with that oy an amendment
that no CITIZEN OF the United States shall be CT
cluded from any railroad car, steamboat or other
CONVEYANCE on account OF aay state Law or regu.