The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1909

| famous text forbidding Caristisn~ to en-
ploy terms OF venomOus abuse {. he use of
party names, objectlng 20 the employ
mens OF sucn words as athei-IIc, heretic
sc1ismstic, IN eccleSiaS.icz controversy. .
As 70 the original fulnI nations O
"Gvrant" and 'frebel, ,, there can t,s no (lonht
among competent persons. well acQusinted
with the facts and tie law, that tia claim of
parliament to tax the coIouies waa sound.
and that, in torbe3riDg TO insist ua it par
lisment did all that could be WisifS: that
there was no tyranny our side ~ rat
the American insurrection was about the
most unprovoked rebellion" that is re-
corded In history. So, again, as regards the.
present, whatever forbearsnce and eoae..lS-
non there have been have been EXCLUSIVELY
on the side of England, and have been uist
! by Amsrica with insult and abuse. Wpen
We allowed single ship to escape from our
ports and TO arm herself on the high .eas
Tor war against America-though We hs,. 20
knowledge that ber purpose was not The
perfectly legitimate one OF running iulO
confederate port and receiving her srma-
nent there-we submitted the whole ques-
ateiy permitted thousands of armed robbers
to gather on her soil in times of profound
peace, and thence to invade our territory to
burn and spoil and murder, and when pur-
sued by few hastily collected volunteers, to
ind refuge again under
IAE AMERICAN FLAG.
And she refused even to entertain the idea
of submitting her uEquestionable liability
for these pirscies to arbitration, and 10 this
day she has not paid penny in, reparation
OF the encouragement she gave the robbers
aud pirates. 1t is from America tha. -
threats, ell offensive speeches, all as-res.
sive movements come. and they are oaly
encouraged by the cringing flsttery which
DR.. Stanley calls conciliation and peace max
ing. There Is no gain and little safety in
| peace making which is wholly one-sided.
America knows that we shall never at
tack her save in simplest self-deiense,
and OF private criticism she of all nations
has the least right TO complain. There is,
! therefore. no need of peacemaking or concil-
lat1oD, unless it be TO check q wanLon CISpo-
| sltion on her part to quarrel with US; and
snch temper IS not best controlled by con-
ciliatory words and fulsome psnegyrics by
soft phrases and timid concessions. We
neeo not speak at length bow far General
Schenck and his visitors had reason to con-
gratulate themselves yesterday upon the
ninety-ninth year OF their independence.
| One-half the country at least bitterly regrets
it. The South is taxed without representa-
ton, shackIed by government she abhors,
denied alike the right of revolution and the
right OF appeal to the constitutional law
| of the land-deprived, in fact, of every right
that King George LII allowed to the contem-
porarles of Washington, as we'll as of the
few that they claimed in vain; and every
word OF the declaration of independence
sounds like mocking satire upon the pres
eut state of the country, and on the means
by which the Union is maintained. The
hero OF the revolutionary war has been dis
honored in the rsvage of his native state, in
IN the ruin OF his nearest representatives, in
in the plunder of his property, as well as in
the denial OF every principle for which he
fought, and the suppression of every right
he claimed for Virginia and her sisters of the
South. .Northward
| ROrTENRESs PERvADEs
the entire fabric of politics-the state gov
eFnments, the federal government, congress,
the executive, the civil service, the treasury,
the collection of revenue ara one and all
stepped in bribery, disgraced by peculstion,
tainted in corruption and dishonesty. When
a place is given to trusty partisan of the
president, generally for services which
scrupulous man would not have rendered,
it is understood that he CAP only hold il for
few years, ard it is amatter of course that
h9 VIII use every opportunity of making
money that those years may afford.
II is not pretended that any part of the
government is honest; il is scarcely consid-
cred worth while to effect the virtue so no.
toriously wanted. Even the judiciary is dis
honored. Corruption has spread downward,
until merchants and men of business, rail
way directors and officers, every one who
serves tne public or corporation, IN the
highest or lowest capacity, are scarcely bet
ter than the worst federal collector of GUS
, toms. Tyranny, such as George III. would
have abhOred, in one half the Union, all per-
vading dishonesty and corruption, at which
Walpole or Newcastle would have shud-
dered, in the otber-these are the results of
ninesy-nine years OF American independ-
ence; these the facts, these the achieve
ments on which Americans yesterday con-
gratulated themselves, on the strength OF
which-they eXnlted over England. If there
be a man in England who is disposed to
envy them ne has oply TO visit America and
study the actual workings of her govern
menr. Among Americans there are but
few, not actual psrticipators in the system
of public plumber, who are not ashamed snd
disgusted in their hearts; and of the better
sort, not many who would not thankfully
exchange their elected president, their cleo
tive Senate, t-eir elective judges, and their
popular sovereignty for the ORDER the hon
esLy and the loyalty of the empire, from
which, just one hundred years ago, they
made their insane revolt.
A prisoner in Paris lately received let