Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-08-31

leave Of il a. a secessouist forever. De en-
counge3 him; told him be was night u was the
onIv course 20 save the South; ne NEST keep his
constituents Up 70 IL, sc. This Is proved by Mr.
Brown, former Senator from Mississippi. who
mentioned il az the time 20 Hon James : Rol-
Inns, OF Missouri Mr. Salisbury, Senator from
DeLAsare. by resolution offered 10 the Senate
last winter. proposed TO substantiate il before a
Committee Of that body. bat the Committee was
not granted. The fact is confirmed too. BY the
known relations Of the Secretary 70 parties Al
the time, and have been assured by one Of his
colleagues in Buchanan's Cabinet, that in his
inttfeourse With his associates Of that Xix, he
vas most violent in denouncing any attempt to
maintain the Uuiou BY force, and continued
bis denunciations till be entered Mr. Lincoln 5
Cabinet.
What Sere the people Of the South to infer
rom thisf An immense majority. some sixty or
seventy thousand. OF the people OF Virginia had
given their voice for The Government Of their
fathers. In those States farther South, where
the Knights OF the Golden Circle eIerted all
their secretly armed police 10 dragoon and drag
the people TO vote to throw of the Union and
substitute the Confederacy. a majority of voters
could nowhere be brought TO sanction H. But
when Sumter fell, what could individuals expect
who were everywhere under the heel of the
usurpers? Would the nations Government de-
fend them 10 any loyal efortg Mr.. Buchanan,
the head of the Government, said cit had no
right 10 do il, and Mr.. Seward, the Premier OF
the new Administration, had said we will rot
succor nor defend even the stronghods of Gov
ern ment-stronghoids built to keep rebellion and
usurpaton in check. What could loyal men do
under such circumstances but aubmitr
They were pressed into the army by conscrip-
ton. II they fed from their homes and hid in
increases 20 escape, they were hunted down by
blood hounds and put in tie front Of battle, with
the regulars OF the Golden Circle in their rear,
The property of everybody was prey, and those
only who professed the utmost zeal to the mill
tary power could hope to have any share in what
belonged 10 them.
Is il not monstrous that our Government
should hold people, put in this predcameat, if
we may not say BY its own acts, yet certainly by
its supineness and acquiescence responsible
for the crimes Of an usurpation thus put over
theml
And yet the Hon. Tnaddeas stevens takes
this stand for the Government Of the United
States in, the resolutions which he recently got
up Convention to pass at Harrisburg. He
thinks that as Pennsylvania elected Mr. Blu
chanan, who devoted his Administration to hatch
the treason which has trodden down the great
community of our own race in the South, so it
has elected him as an agent to complete their
destruction and set up a foreign race TO take
their place in the national commonwealth
According to the programme OF the Stevens
resolutions, there are no loyal men in the South
but the enfranchised blacks the white man who
succumbed to the usurpation and ebeyed its be
hests-and this every man was compelled 70 do
is DISTINGUISHED as dsloyal In logical Sc
quence from this state OF facts. the National
Legislature is to absorb all legislation, State
and National over the whole South 1t is TO
assume absolute power over everything south of
Mason and Dxon's line-and how is il 10 be ex
ercisedg
Mr. Stevens, forgetting that our Government
was bound by the Constitution 10 protect the
people of every State from all domestic violence
aud ssurpation, as we'll as foreign invasion, and
in failing to do il might be justly held 10 indem
Nifty the loyal people who have suffered by the
! rebellion, has the hsrdhood to declare in his
resolutions that the people of the South, en-
mssse, confounding the innocent with the guilty,
are bound, out of their subtance, TO pay the
whole National debt incurred by the war. This
is somewhat like tying & milestone round the
neck OF every OF the commonal'y and
throwing bin into the ocean. 1t certainly over
whelms him in food from which he hardly
swim out with such weight
But this, it may be said, is only life long in
cumbrance of generations which. in making the
poer white posterity who have lived in slave
States expiate the children the sins of their
forefathers. But lest some men who have con-
siderable substance 10 land or other estate that
has survived the war, may go TO work and build
up again an independence for themselves and
their devoted country, Mr.. Stephens has pro-
vided another sweeping resolution which cuts
down at one blow all such aspirations. The
resolution is that ooniscatnn, like our grea
reaping machines shall be driven by a steam ell
CINE OF our absolute Government--absolute over
the Southland reduce all fortunes to SO 900
value 1t does not say whether the valuation is
to be Confederate paper or greenbacks. But
whether it be one or the other, the stubble field
will be little worth the cleaning when we shall
have first extracted the debt from the n
happy subjects of the rebellion. To get a Gov
eminent sufficiently hardened TO execute those
DEGREES, Mr.. Stevens appeals TO the soldiers, aud
tells them that no man is ever to be neminsted
for any Office snless he has served 10 the field
So they to be the dispensers of all the spoils
of the stripped, the naked children. How little
this veteran politician knows the magnanmous
patriots who fought their battles for the liberal
and merciful institutions Of our country They
are the last men in the world to urge to cruelty
in cold blood These men when hungry took
the bread out of their own hayersacks, and gave
with their canteens to their PROSTATE foes. Let
them Judge the South, and we are all brothers.
Mr.. Stevens mex, promises the manufacturers
upbounded protection il they will only help him
to strip the South and reduce il 10 utter ruin
The manufacturers, so far from doing this, will
lend il their capital at least credit that they
may elothe them and enable them 70 produce
fresh material for their operatives, and rich
kets for the result OF their successful industry.
He appeals to the holders Of the Government
bends, saying the plumber OF the South is to pay
their debt. They will reply, I'VE will not kill
the goose that lays the golden egg
But who is to execute tue Dracouic DEGREES of
Thaddeus and his omnipotent Parliament Who
is TO squeeze out the taxes from the desoated
South TO pay the whole deotI Who is TO
carry out the sweeping oouiiscation through.
out all re5eldom, and divide the lands among
the only loyal people OF the South-the ne
greesI
The resolutions name the Presiden, proper
sort of man; but he is plainly told that his
scheme OF restoring the Union will not do 1t
IL too ro-e water, milk waterloo lenient; and
vet Nr. Stevens saws the rebels reject IL. But
Ibaddeus knows a man tho can do the business.
who compile his doomsday book of conqucsts
and confscations. Who could be better fitted for
il than the man to whose prodigious energies and
excelleacies It would seem ali our successes are
to be ascribedg Ne has resolution Of extolla
ton IN the platform all to himself, exating him
by name in contrast with the poor citsl made of
the President, TO make him like Hyperion to
a Satyr" The rest OF the Cabinet are thrown
in a lump. not ma mec-but as the colleagues OF
Mr. Stanton They are worthy gentlemen that
must pass.
Now this is not altogether an absurd distri.
button OF parts in the Executive power, consider