The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-08-30

upon US Is to select IOr the OI0ceS OF PRESIDENT
and Vice Presfce nt the men best fitted for the
WORE. The records OF the candidates on the
questions OF war and slavery are not half so
important AS the publication OF the public
service. We are not now living under the adj
ministration of Pierce or Buchanan, with
the Dred-~cott decision casting Its ba eful
shadow over the northern states nd terrific
ries, and the whole power OF tie Federal gov
eminent relentlessly employs ed in the ENFORCE
ment of the fugitive FL I'VE law OF 1850 A large
the abolitionisis waged war twenty
i've years ago are In their graves.
The Wing party IL dead. s avery has penshed,
respecting the new order of things as the Re-
publicans and surviving hb0ltttontsis.
A distinguished pubic man.. Of OHIO:
Our distiD guished senator made the public
confession a Few years ago. that the logic OF
events" had converted him from follower OF
Andrew job nson TO a disciple of Charles sum-
ner. He has never been the same man since,
nor is the Democratic party the same part
now, and inspired by the same spirit and
aims. as in the evil days of the past, when the
slave power Of the South was the master alike
of both the great parties OF the country, and
COMPEL their leaders TO recognize the fact
In his late mastery speech in Congress, Mr..
Lamar reminds our Republican leaders that
There has n Z been single great measure In
the constitutional history OF England, MT a
single great reform, which, after its establish
ment by one party, was not in the course OF
time, and Very short period, placed in the
Shall we stuPidiy shut our eyes TO the logic OF
such facts? the devotion OF the ID. mo rati:
party to slavery in the past is no proof what
ever that IL cannot be trusted with the Ques-
lions relating to IL that e now finally seuled
by the constitution. The Republican party
in the cary period OK the war did not ann at
the aDo ition of slavery, but was driven toward
it,step by step, under The pressure OF necessity.
It's principles and policy were radically rev.
0 0e n csms ,ac ana except arty Va
with new purposes, and animated by
a new spirit. On precisely the same priDci-
party of the .stlsi evitable. and we not
possibly be mistaken in this conclusion. We
Know that the transformation is going on and
has already made gleat progress, and thai no
party was ever strong enough to get away
from the thraldom OF unmanageaDle acts.
The gic OF war re-shapes and re-inspires par
ties, Just the logic Of events has converted so
many political sinners.
THE FsLLY OF REWRITING TO THE PAST IL
LUsTRATED.
The folly OF attempting to find political
scare-crow in The record OF T1lden and
Hendricks on the slavery question, is
auusingly illustrated in the late key note
speech of our senator. He charges that Gov
ernOr Hendricks opposed the escape OF slaves
who came into our lines during the war. In
occupied the same position, and so did the adj
ministration OF Mr.. Lincoln, while our COM
manding generals freq uentiy restored fugi-
lives To their ebel masters. He says Cover
nor Hendricks, in 1867, wss opposed 10 allow
ing negroes TO sit Jur1es and hold ofnce.
Governor Morton held the same opinionsssnd
Governor Hendricks opposed the arming OF
negroes as SO diers. Governor Morton at first
agreed with him, and Caleb B. Smith, Mr.. Lin
coins secretary of the interior, said 1t would
be a disgrace to the nation. He says that Cow
nor Hendricks made a speech in the conStl
iutiOnal convention OF 1870 In favor or the 18th
ernor Morton voted Tor That article, in COM
mon with the great body OF the people OF
the state. He charges rilden and
and Hendricks with favoring the peace reso-
luton in the Chicago Convention OF 1854 which
is successfully den ed; but Governor Morton
himself, year after watds, made so thor
mopd t. at the men he now styles "Uonfeder-
a,e Democrats" published IL as campaign
document by the hundred lhousai d for years
following in several states of the Union. he
slave law OF 1850. So di1 the author OF tbs key
key-n0tes, for he was the n u demOcrat,and tried
to- raise a rebe lion in the ranks OF the party in
the o Burnt Dis ric becau SO it supported me
for Congress after L had voted against the fu-
gitive save get and the compromise meas
that the senator's prove bi 4 fondness Tor
raking no the ashes OF the past should not
have I'D him into The political graveyard OF
prominent Democrats. His own chO en- line of
argument not only shows tn tt he himself is
fatally disqualified for office, but that nearly
all the real leaders OF Republication are In
the same unhappy condition. General Gran {
himself was pro-slavsry Democrat. voting
for Buchanan in 500, anu never becomi z a
Repub lean till his eyes we're anOinted by
the offer OF the Presidency, in two successive
instailmenfs- General Butler mas a record still
less immaculate, having voted for Jt Il. Davis
iftS -eight times in the famous Charleston
Convention. According to my recolle ion,
Simon Cameron wss never understood to be q
very reiab ab0liti0nist. Indeed, II no men
are now TO be trusted but those who can show
a pure and undefiied abolition record for the
pat TIVE ty-fve years, our country is in q
pretty bad way, for 1t would, in many cases,
require a search warrant to find sucn men,
even IN the Republican party.
THE SOUTH IN HIS CANVASS.
But will the South be safe under the
administration OF Tlden? Can the freedmen
sa ely be committed to the guardianship
Of the old slave matters? answer this ques-
ton in the Iangu ge of ofthe ablest political
10 lrnal In the United b ates, and supporter
Of Gov. Hayes: "Our Owu solemn belief is
hat the less said on this point on the Repub-
lfcan side Thu better; that the Outrage argu-
ment serves and can serve the purpose of no.
BODY In this canvass but the Republican
knaves, and that the probabilities a e that the
South will be more pssceful under ii den
tn und Hayes, and this for reasons which
lie On the surfsce. Tilden is not a weak or
Grating disorders at the south, nor will his
leading followers. On The contrary, they will
perceive clearly the importance of tranquility
power I'm the North, while these disorders will
actually constitute nearly the whole
political capital of the Republicans,
Conklings, NJ rtons, chambers, and Cornells,
with whose supp TT Hayes is, 1t seems, o be
sadC led" The truth of this is patent to every
mans unbiased common sense. The great
need of the south to-day is deliverance from
the horde OF thieves and demagogues who
b. We been fastened like lseches upon the well
fare OF the people and backed In their mis-
deeds by the whole power OF the adm 'nistra-
ton. The Hamburg massacre and kindred
displays OF rapine and lawless ness admit OF no
defence, whatever the provoca ions may haye
been; bat Ii is needless to deny that there
nave been provocations, and that there are
two sides to the outrage controversy. Take
the case of Alabama. The whole Federal pat
ronage of the stale and the use of the United
Spencer, q thoroughly corrupt and un-
principled politicsl adventurer, to ena-
bic HIM to retain his seat in the
United States Senate. Thus equipped
Tor his work, ne ana his friends bought legis-
lators with Federal appointments; sent mar
shalS and revenue Officers. accommodated hY