The Indianapolis daily herald. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1865-1868, 1865-12-05
For the IndisuspoIi. Daily Gerald.
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WABASH, md, November 10, 1865.

For the lndisuspoli. Daily Eersld
WABASH, Ind, November 10, 1865.
Honorable Samuel Z. Perkins:
SIR: We forward you the following writ
ten manuscript written by a respectable gen.
tleman, headed with our note, indorsing the
truth, as we believe, presented in said manu-
script, with Senator Clay's predictions, As de-
liyered in the United States senate, on the 9Th
Of February, 1882 rs follows: "All history and
experience proves the hazard and uncertainty
Of war. And we are admonished by holy writ
that the race Is not to the swift nor the battle
10 the strong. But if they were to conquer,
whom would they conquer! A foreign foes
one who had insulted our flag, invaded our
shore and laid our country wastey No sir.
No sir. 1t would be "a conquest without lau-
rcls, without glory self, suicidal conquest
IA conquest over brothers, achieved by one over
another portion Of the descendants Of common
ancestors, who, nobly pledging their lives,
their fortunes and their sacred honor, had
fought and bled side By side, in many hard
battle, on land and ocean, severed our country
from the British crown, and established our
national independence. And again, in the
same speech, he says; "AboitiOnists them
selves shrink back in dismay and horror nj the
contemplation of desolate helds, conilagrated
cities, murdered inhabitants, and the over
throw Of the fairest fabric OF human govern
ment that ever rose 10 animate the hopes Of
civilized man."
Now, lndianianS, Is not the honorable states
mans prophecy true: Has not our beautiful
f'bric Of republican government been Destroy
ELI And now the President and every hon
est patriot in the Union, using all their dill
gcnce To restore it. The rebel states were new
or out of the Union, then the great loss of life
and property falls upon the Union.
STEELE SIR.
And now we shall be placed under
obligations Of gratitude 10 the advocate of
war, If he Will render TO Us one rational, HUI
name or Scriptural consideration, from which
he derives the shadow of right TO say men
about any worldly good. But this he can not
do. And, instead Of reason, passion is ALWAYS
employ cd. Fanciful and imaginary sauctities
are thrown around government, some ShibO-
leth Of passion is inv oked-some such infidel
and heathenlsh saying, II may be, as, - My
country, right or WRONG" or those other words
Of folly and impiety, My God and nv coun-
try God being truly wholly rejected, and the
country alone ldOlatrOusly WOrshipped. W hen
the hue and cry are raised, reason is drowned.
humanity Is held in allegiance, christianity is
hushed into silence, and the wild storm of pas
sion, base and angry, like the fierce hurricane,
beats down and destroys all things before it,
Cool discussion Is suppressed, freedom of
speech j. injoned, the press if il burst lift
voice against the maddened pressure. is over
turned; churches are sundere. brethren i'm
Christ are alienated, and the cause of Christ
Itself, victim torn aud bleeding, is placed
upon the altar OF burning passion, while hu-
manity sends up one wild wall Of stifled woe
and despair, and war sends thousands and
millions Of torn and bleeding victims down
10 the grave. And the fierce storm of war
past. it, smoke and desOlatOu and hor-
rurs comedy, and hellish and deadly pas
sion little abated, deranged reason re-
turns partially 10 her abandoned and dis
hOnored throne, when men look around-to
discover, what. Nothing but wild and tu-
multuOus wreck, the sorrOwtul work OF their
own malignant and diabolic passions; "a coun-
try laid waste. property destroyed, smoking
runs, proud cdlHccs smOuldcring amid the
desOlations; homes and hOmesteads alike ut
terly desOlated, fair fields oYerrun and rem
dered wild, whole districts of country, once
fragrant with flowers and beauty, aud rich
with golden sheaves. converted into nOXious
burial places, the receptacle alone for slaugh-
tered human beings; while widows shrek one
Wild and unsubdued wall, and homeless in
fancy weepS IN bitterness for mOrsel of bread;
cripples drag cut miserable and besotted exis-
fences, and the whole land groans under the
SnOrInlty OF debt useles>ly and Wickedly
incurred by men IN the work OF saughtering
each other about a mere temporal good, q,
infatuated, worse than maddened man man
more cruel than the savage beasts of the desert.
why thus slay each 0thers Why seek remedya
million billion times worse than anv possible
disease! What earthquakes. pestilence
and famine compared 10 cruel, brutal, demo-
Mae War-war waged under some such miser-
".
death miserable in this connection because
war never gives anything but slavery the most
abJect, and death the most revolving. War is
an antagonist of liberty, the enemy Of discus
sion, the tyrant OF freedom, the destroyer Of the
nations; II l. the embodiment Of all the foulest
passions OF humanity, the enemy of true reli-
glon, the unfeeling plunderer Of helpless wO-
men and dependent children. the DESTROYER
Of the innocent-the old, the young, defence
les women, pr2ttlins children; the author of
slavery, the father OF drunkenness, the mover
10 RIGHTEOUSNESS, the perpetuatOr ofarsons, the
procurcr of rapes, the foul beast Of strange and
uugcClY lust. the aemoralizer OF the people
the insiiga tur OF theft. robbery aud murder the
preteNt Tor murtieg by the wholesale: and If
there are other deeds of darkness 10 do which
would Hush and mantle with shame the wasted
anu haggard cheeks Of the fenGs in the neither
most abyss, grim Nisaged and horrid war
stands ready. With ghg~tly mcin and bloody
-loatlng 10 perform them. But shame OF an
shame>, and horror OF all horrors, While this
long and dire catalogue Of deeds i doing
naneic,> forever. unless IN the Vocabulary Of
Oh uiterl! Lost, men made upright. men made
~ the Image Of Gotl, redeemed by the blood Of
,hll9t. wearing s8cerdotal robes. protesting TO
love III, name and 10 minister upon His holy
altar, oountenanee II, IN soft and cOmplaisant
words eulogize IL, speak Of il when they are
authorized = speak alone Of the Cross. and.
Who can utter II, pray l. God, the Holy 81
Nior. the Prince OF Peace. the >anctifving Spir-
10. 10 grant His blessings on this foul enbodi-
ment II NIL sin. this generic crime. the svpon-
in al all the deeds 81 darknes, and shame that
c' CT lnsultcI, afflicted, disgraccd. or outraged
fallen humanity oh II l. consumate wick
cdness. the last, the direst and darkest act Of
practical inndelity and heayen-daring and God
ai>honorins impieiy IL j. blank. bald prac-
iicai atheism, The rejection Of God a. God
~ lao loves truth anu mercy from the throne Of
dominion. and the substitution Of some mis-
shaped M0lOch. u dedication OF lust ami
blood. 10 be WorShiped, the apOtheosis nf
rr, oiiug and heartless herOism and brute
bravery, subrogatei f8r loving and CON-
passionate God ana savior, who can be touch
"a with feeling for human inhrmities.
And upon the very beet possible preteXt ey-
ever made. on the most plausible excuse for
which ar Was ever waged, the W hole Of these
inno uunaic horrors grows cut Of shor lifted
nuns mere worldly lniercst,-gr0Ws out Of
different notions held hy man ~ 10 the best
means ui securing temporal thing: whether (
ps tAls Ideal and impalpable form made by
men themselves. and called government or by
= Retc form % be equally made by themselves.
-urtiy, surely 10 i all madness-all passion, !
All sin. And how truly and pertinently does
the Apostle pat the questiou-whence came
" AS anu uSAilnss amongst your Come they
not hence. even II your passion. that war in
our numbcrs;
Prices OF Property an Rome and In
dianapoiis.