Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-10-23

mon Inc rfafe rights doctrine remaining IN
touched. No word has been uttered against in-
destructible State sovereignty BY the President
or b rebel conventions. With one or two eI
csptions no Southern State had called It's seces-
sion ordinance a uullity. They had asserted the
validity OF these acts BY r~epealing them. The
acts OF secession were not submitted 70 the peo-
pie; neither were the acts for returning submit
ted 10 them. The same oligarchy which broke
up the Union condesceRded to return by the
SANE steps. They bad perhaps parted with the
ehatue principle. though that was by 10 means
certain. but educstion, labor. property, marriage.
locomoiion, citizsnsbip-these the State still
keeps folded in her bosom, denying, with the
consent of the Federal Government, that we
have The rgat 10 touch them All these remain
IN the sealed purpose Of the oiigarchy OF the
South. The principles on which the South went
out sue stll retains. The same men. with the
same theories and elements Of government. are
to put their hands on the helm OF State.
Now wherein and TO what extent bas the Sou
thern idea OF civilization been crippled3 The
South does not confess one single change, unless
IN future the one single element Of chsttelism be
taken out of the political cauidron. How much
is that! Hon. b. Graft Brown, describing the
features OF slavery. does rot deem il necessary TO
mention ehattelism, and says the order-book of
General Banks is only another name for the slave
code OF Louisiana. Judge Humphreys, Of Ala
bama, in anticipating the help of his Democratic
allies, relies upon them for aid in establishing a
system OF forced labor, and says IL does not mat
ter much what il is called; and others whom Mr..
Phillips mentioned were qaoted as giving testi
mony to the same effect Under these circum-
stances the speaker considered himself warranted
in characlerizing the Unionism of the South ss
simply Il recognition OF the necessity OF being
covered with law in order 20 rezssert the superb
ority over labor.
Ii might be said that this was an exaggerated
picture. But como korth, even to the poItico of
the White House. and listen to the speech Of the
President 10 the delegation of South Carolinians
who appealed TO him for protection against Con-
gress and tue harsh spirit of the Northern States.
In this speech The President ranges himself with
the half-converted Southern rebels, and makes
himself three quarters rebel, that they may be
one quarter Union. By what right do they place
themselves in the garments of the President Of
the United States, 10 baulk the purpose of the
North? Mr.. Phillips said be did not cay these
things because he was discouraged. He had no
lack of faiIh in the future Of America. He was
not now discussing the future, but the dangers of
| this hour.
The lecturer next referred 10 the Presidents
| address to the coloIed troops who called upon
him. Having Quilted the company OF traitors,
he comes into the presence of the SCARED colOred
veterans. and asks them, May l not call you nv
countrymen!" Did he say this TO Southern
traitors? Is there n New England man who
would not be ashamed to put this question to the
men of the Fifty fourth Regiment, The ques-
ton whether the colored race could remain in
this country was one which the President didn't
think of when the battle was raging; but now
when the conflict is ever, il was found that the
old idea of incompatibility was not exercised
from his mind. Bred in slavery, he might be
largely lncapacitated for solving the present pro
blems. but the lecturer would endeavor TO find
out whether bis soul had been cleansed.
Mr.. Phillips now proceeded to ridicule the
Presidents definition of liberty, uttered, as be
said, in a thrice repeated statement, as the right
TO work and enjoy the fruits of labor. Never
said the speaker, from Grotius down to Lieber,
has there been given so ungracious a definition
of what Republican liberty means. The whole
speech OF the President defines liberty by its
duties, and makes no allusion to its rights. There
are various ideas of liberty, the Asiatic idea,
which is simply non slavery; the Napoleonic or
despotic idea. of everything for the people, and
nothing by the people; and the modern idea, OF
the possession of all natural rights, and the en-.
dowment of all civil rights 10 protect the natural
ones. The President OF the United States look.
into the faces Of the soldiers of the Republic, en-
titled to have liberty OF the ~oostliest mint, and
can only assure them Of liberty to work. Tho,
speech one hundred years hence the historian
will hold in his hand as Il marvellous exhibition
OF what America could set before herself as a
leader in this great hour.
Mr.. Phillips ridiculei the advice given by the
President and by others to the colored people as
uncalled for, and as more appropriate to e large
class of white citizens, and said that America
might not only be considered the country of the
longest rivers, largest lakes and highest noun
tains, but of the most impudent white men. God
grant, said he, that no future Jerrold, Swift or
Rabelais, with immortal pen, may hold up that
speech to the ridicule of posterity.
But il may be said, ''You mistake the Presi
dent. This is an experiment of his" If this is
so, why do the public journals argue for it, and
half or two thirds OF the Republican Conven-
tons indorse it! The New Bedford Mercury at
tributes the separation OF the Church to a mis-
understanding of the workings OF Providence.
But the press and the Conventions understand
the workings of the White House. The press
says suffrage is q right OF the colored people, and
il is disgracelul TO deprive them of it; but great
is Andrew Johnson. The New York Post says
it means to leave the suffrage question to the
o~ligarchy of the South, who scout it, and in all
their Conventions declare it to be absurd. The
Post knows that in 1850. Notwithstanding the
guarantees OF free speech in all the Southern
Constitutions, that sheet could not have been
published in the South, nor could is editor, Mr.
Bryant, have lived safely in Charleston.
IL has been said that the President sends out
agents to the South TO ascertain the working of
his experiment. Mr.. Chase goes to Charleston,
Savannah and Mobile; but why does he avoid
Washington on bis return. and come back by
way of the White HillsS Covode went to New
Orleans, but the facts he obtained we're too
heavy. and ne did not return to Washington.
Carl Shurz. also, on bis return from his appointed
mission to the South, spent last Friday in the
Presidents ante -room,r and could not get a
hearing.
There Was a notion, Mr.. Phillips said, of
taking refuge in Congress. Who made Con
gressl William Penn, while travelling with the
Governor of Pennsylvania, encountered an
insolent Official, who haughtily proclaimed him
self : justice of the peace. to which Penn replied:
MY friend here makes such things as thee. "
We know who make Congress. The people
make il. The Republican party has spoken, and
not deemed il eXpedient 10 utter a word on the
suffrage question. or deny the Presidents plan.
The Republican party does not exist. A specter
has been walking about the country shrouded in