The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-10-06

tenn as an lnsut1tlon UNKNOWN 70 Cne
!. Constitution, subversive of State rights,
dangerous to liberty, obnoxious to law
4 full resistance, IN conflict with civil juris-
diction, and pregnant with demoraliza-
tion to society. ri, .l.zss.
THAT we say to the Administration
that as the Lord reigns in Heaven, it
cannot go on with its Provost Marshals
and police officials arresting free white
men for what they conceive to be their
duty within the plain provisions of the
! Constitution, and maintain peace in the
Loyal States. Blood will flow. They
can not and shall not forge fetters for
our limbs without q struggle for the
mastery "--[Quoted almost verbatim
from Hon. Dan. Voorhees, speech on
the conscript bill, February %, 1863.
Allen county,. August 1s, State Rights,
Radical s3 e.4ss d les4s.ss IS er @
- "That in view of these facts, we de-
clare the proposed draft for five hundred
4 thousand men the most damnable of all
other outrages that have been perpetra-
ted upon the people by the present Ad-
ministration: and we further declare
that the honor, dignity and safety of the
people demand that against ruin and en-
slavem ent they must afford to themselves
that protection which usurpation and ty-
ranny deny them" 81
1 Enough of this treason, leaving out
the blood of innocent officers shed by it's
abettors in Indiana. sz
"A most gallant and determined foe. "
I A small mistake. The Southern wing
was gallant, but the Northern wing was
base. This ought not to have been for
gotten. The s'despotism of the sword
is also used with quite flourish.
/ This, too, may be pardonable in their
estimation, as the Narthern butternnts
keenly felt every blow that their breth
rem in the South more heroically receiv-
ed. Very despotic "That noble vol
4 unteer army that carried our flag to vic
tory" All once they were Lincoln g
! hirelings,' and left to the cold mercy OF
of other friends. When struggling hand
to hand, and breast to breast, with the
foe, the same patriotic. butternut heroes
and hero worshippers opposed the draft,
and said mot another man nor another
dollar" They we're, then, a terrible
phalanx, firing on that ''noble volunteer
army" in the rear. m
But the Democratic platform say g
that, in case they fail to carry the cleo
tions next fall, sswe will NEE: as a sub
iect and conquered people amid the ru-
ins of liberty and the scattered frag-
ments Of Constitution Bombast-
"No more of that, Hal, an thou lowest me-"
The convention that Alexander Steph
ems could advise, and Vallandigham,
Hampton, Seymour, Pendleton & CO.,
control, need not talk of being conquered
for the first time. They forgot the
Vicksburg campaign, the march to the
sea, and the surrender at Richmond.
General Grant, in my opinion, has
made great sacrifice in permitting his
name to he used in the Presidential can
never considers personal advantages
when he thinks duty demands his servi-
ces. iH@
He is one Of the Romans who has the
courage to leap into the chasm if his
country's interests are subserved. What
is the Presidency for four years to the
high position of commander of the
proud army Of the United States for
life ? As president, he will be reviled,
misconstrued, and covered with the
filth Of party slime, whilst as command
er of the army he would have been the
idol of all, and beyond the reach Of cal
umny and reproach. Contrast with this
noble General the willy, wiry, oily, soft
tongued, draft opposing, repudiating
Seymour, and no loyal man in Indiana
can hesitate One moment in giving his
vote for Grant and Colfax over the Dem
ocratic nominees.
At least thirty thousand Indianians
have, at various times, been placed un
der nv command, and I can not for
moment entertain the thought that one
of those noble men could so far. forget
the records Of the past; their long,
dreary, hungry marches; their bloody
battles, and the fire of the '.Butternuts"
in the rerr, as to ever cast one vote in
favor Of their Northern enemies. For
myself, 1 would q thousand times prefer
q man who fired bravely at me in the
battle, to those who meanly and basely
betrayed us in the North.
I have no fears for Governor Baker.
A purer, better man never lived and
though Senator Hendricks may have be
leived, during the rebellion, in a system
of dividing our great Government into
three parts, one of the Northwest. one
of the South, and the third of the East
and though he may have sincerely con-