The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-10-27
RICHMOND,
four hundred and ten as the sacrifice
of Indiana But that is not all.
They tell us


four hundred and ten as the sacrifice
of Indiana. But that is not all
They tell us
| THE WAR HAS ENDED.
In one respect it has, but in another
it has not. Men are falling from day
to day, going into premature graves
because of the disease, wounds and
hardships incurred during the war
| men who served their time out and
| were discharged at the end of the
contest-these men are going to pre-
mature graves every day, SO that the
| sacrifice of Indiana was not confined to
| forty-five thousand men, but you may
say fifty, seventy five, perhaps soon
| to be a hundred thousand. We can
| hardly comprehend the magnitude OF
what even the people of Indiana have
given that our country might live.
But it was not confined to blood alone.
There were other evidences of the
devotion of this people. For example,
the different towns, counties and
townships made voluntary contribu-
tions in their corporate character for
local bounties, for the relief of the
soldiers families and for sanitary
purposes, amounting to 500, ,258, $40,
| as shown by the official papers. This
docs not include private contributions
for sanitary purposes, which would
thirty millions of dollars. As Gov
ernor,, | issued during the war eight,
cen thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four commissions to officers in
the army, from which you get some
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and the length of time it was in the
in three hundred and eight battles.
They were in the first battle of the
war, at Phillip, in Western Virginia.
We thought it was great battle then,
and l had all the bells rung in this
town when [ got the intelligence. 1t
was rather small affair as compared
with what took place afterwards, but
it
SERVED TO FIRE ALL OUR HEARTS.
And Indiana troops fought the last
battle of the war-the battle of Pal
metto Ranch, in Texas, and on the
old battlefield of Palo Alto, where
two hundred and fifty Indiana troops
met and defe,ted five hundred rebels
and battery of artillery l believe
the first man and the last killed in
the war was from the State of Indi-
ana. Applause.1 What was all this
for? There were great principles at
stake. [ call your attention to them.
That which was worth fighting for Is
worth preserving after the battle is
over. Those principles are still at
stake, and they will be so long as this
country is preserved. You fought
for the principles of nationality. The
rebellion was founded upon the idea
that we were not one nation; that
each State was nation; that mans
first allegiance was due to his State,
and not to the whole nation. That
doctrine was what made the rebellion
possible. Slavery was the stimulus;
it was the promoting cause. But
slavery alone could meyer have made
the rebellion The rebellion was
brought about by this doctrine that
we are not one nation, but every State
is nation, and mans first allegi-
ance is due to his own State. A
large body Of the people of the South
did not believe in secession. A great
many men of the South were opposed
to it, but they believed in the doctrine
of State sovereignty and they had to
go with their State. General Lee, the
great commander of the rebellion.
WAS OPPOSED TO SECESSION.
He said it was unnecessary, that there
YVES no cause for it; but he believed
that Virginia was a nation of herself,
and that whatever Virginia resolved
to do, he had to go with her, there
fore, when Virginia voted to seccde.
Robert +. Lee believed that he had
to go with Virginia; and it was that
doctrine that made the rebellion pos
sible. That doctrine was not extin-
guished by the suppression of the
rebellion. l know great many peo-
pie think SO; but | am sorry to say
the people of the South had been ed
ucatcd in that doctrine. You con-
quered them. soldiers, but you did
not convert them; you did not change
their opinions and their education.
1t is a sad and solemn fact that upon
that question the great mass of the
people Of the South believe just as
they did before. There are even those
in the North who believe in that doc
trine. There is no safety to this ma
ton in the far future so long as any
considerable mass of people believe in
that doctrine. Some think the doc
trine was invented by slavery, for the
benefit of slavery, and perished with
slavery, and is buried in the same
grave. But that is not SO. It was
invented In seventeen hundred and
ninety eight. It had received five
different applications in different
parts of the country before slavery
seized upon it as the instrumentality
for establishing new ConfedeIacy.
ONE NATION, ONE PEOPLE
We are nation, one people.
whether living in Ohio, Indiana.
South Carolina, or California, SUBJ
divided into States for local and do
nestle government, States having
their rights sacred, unapproachable,
guaranteed by the constitution. But
after all, the States are but integral
parts of our great nation, and the ma
ton is over all. The rights of the
States arc not dependent upon an out
side theory, called the theory of State
sovereignty; but their rights are guar
anteed aud secured by the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, a better
security than this outside theory OF
State sovereignty. We stand by the
rights of the States, but We do not
base them upon the theory that each
State is a nation, but we do base them
on and hold them under the security
and guaranty Of the Constitution Of
the United States. We cannot tell
when the next trouble will come; we
do not see it now, but in the far
future, it may be quarter of a GEN.
tury off, new troubles may spring up
they may be in the North, in the
South, in the East, or in the West
to cause disturbance and dissatisfac.