The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-24

AAs6 80 ootcuQ8I WQor6 IL 01Q not. But 3 IoW
dsys since saw in q leading Republican pa.
noanes@sns: The ai best .SH SspaEblican .pssoh
number more such Republican speeches
e take As place sAn'i IN m 1ss soath ,ess
man is killed south OF the Potomac and the
ONO rivers, every such item will be SO much
suicide from financial embarrassment a
political murder. And when ac,ual murder
rnns SHORT p he viii supply the political
them himself; he win transform himself into
monster of murder paper. for
approaching elections. I once heard it
said that In whatever direction q mans inter-
This is certainly a safe rule By which to judge
political party. The Republican party is the
vanced BY riot, Violence, Disorder, resistance
10 law, bloodshed, and murder in the South;
and a.. therefore charge that now. as heretofore,
In the supremacy of csrpetbaglsm, every plan,
party are on the Side Of iswlessness and
ney sos s Sss q
the Northern mind. Would you believe q
question of Contract or damages. II he was as as
much interested on one side OF the case as the
Republican leaders and newspapers are in
making you believe that the people of the
South are q horde of savages who need mil.
tary force constantly at their throatsf do
A SOLID SOUTH.
usorpation, and the overthrow Of free
It Is said she is solid. We hear a it ciamored
In our ears from all quarters, that she votes
admit she does. New England votes about as
solidly against the Democratic party, and yet
l have never heard that therefore we ought to
nullify the constitution anu all the rights of
the States in the matter of elections to get id
of that evil. IL is true that the policy of this
Queer in respect to revenue, and the fnan
ces generally has been the work
legalized ROBBERY, but nobody has, on that ac-
count, strong as the provocation has been,
demanded that her people should be deprived
OF q free ballot. People have right to vote as
they please, as long as our form of government
remains, and whoever would deprive them of
But are you astonished that the South is solid
politically against the Republican party?
Did you ever hear of any branch of the Anglo
Saxon, Celtic, Teutonic or Sclavonic
and sEes the n@ae
them in their helplessness. / have mingled
extensively with representative men of the
ments against those who CONQUERED them in
war. II they did they would be hoping for the
this contest In Ohio. The bows of battle,
however, are only remembered and recalled
mutual recognition OF valor and constancy
But do you ask the people of the Southern
stats to hc fra1ernize, a ,nen vote with
manning valuables after they had fallen on
the field of battle; party which, after the
in the rear of armies, the human hyenas who
prey upon the dead; party which turned
all those human vultu- es, kites, carrfon crows
and scavenger birds, who, in the shape of
Northern spectators and adventures, have
filed the world with the disgrace of a recon
South to divide their votes, and
party as thate # you do, you insult our COM
mon nature and the instincts of universal
mankind. No honorable man would make
sucn a request, and every just man would
despise people VINO would grant it. Out of
their broken estates, their ruined plantations,
their poverty and distress, hundreds OF mill
ions of dollars were extorted by the shameless,
orszen emissaries of the Republican party,
enjoyment On this point history will make
no mistake, and record no uncertain
the human race contain no account of such
robberies under the forms of government.
Warren Hastings. In his p .nndeT OF the East
character in comparison with many OF those
rapacious wretches who fastened their 1angs
| upon the property OF the south after the war
birth of Christ, Sicily was ravaged and
| despoiled by a consul of Rome. Though more
| than 10 centuries have come and gone since
| then, yet the name of Verres retains all its
freshness Of immortal infamy He was prose
and fled for an asylum to strange and foreign
lands. Hedfed miseraoly In exile, and his
to @i1sie with the soil Of the Koman
republic. We find, however. in Middleton's
| lions, brides, and larcenfes charged upon
Verres during his entire administration Of the
to only one-third OF the amount for whicn,
! according to the admission of the New York
Tribune made Leaf at the he time, Goysr n s.ott
| lima In a single transaction. And yet you are
| expected to be shocked and Mortified
the Republican ticket! Men go about in your
| midst lamenting with pious horror solid
Transaction which has made her solid. You
| hear the voices of canting hypocrites on every
hand pretending to bewaii a united South.
| and the navy against her. Can anyone be SO
| blind as not tn see the object of all this? The
to unite the North in solid hate against the
| South. They also desire pretext for the use
tenn of States, and 10 erect upon their ruins
| what they style Nation, a centralized con-
| solidated Government, monarchfcal In spirit
and destined soon to be so In form and name
STATE RIGHTS.
1t Is in this onnection also that the doctrine
OF state rights Is constantly denounced In
| your hearing. sherman and Foster pretend
| to believe that the Southern people still claim
the right OF secession. They know
better, but the statement has ten
| dency to unite the North, aud hence
| they make h. There Is not representative
man In e1tner Drancn OF congress from the
| Southern States who has not renounced the
| doctrine of secession and declared it forever
| buried by the results of the war Every news
| paper in the Sou h has done the same, with
| the exception perhaps of one or two which ART
| paid by the Republican party to publish pre-
tended Southern sentiments for Northern use
! Every State in the South has legally and
officially ratified all the constitutional amend
men 8: thereby making q solemn agreement
with the States OF the North every
| constitutional issue raised by the war, and
on every result which followed the overthrow
of the rebellion. What more can they do
| What more eau be demanded OF them? Arr
| we to understand that this hue ana cry or
| the subject of State rights means the abolition
of all the rights reserved to the States unde
| the constitution? II sounds tina way. There
| is no discrimination in favor of any rights be
| longing to the States. Republican speeches
consist of wholesale denunciation of ali right
known as State rights. To destroy
| free, local elections 1t is necessary first u
| overthrow every vestige OF right which Stat
| has to regulate its own domestic institutions
In the rage against the right OF a State I.
secede, now wholly abandoned everywhere
| You are asked 10 repudiata the right of Ohis