The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-29

Inc man VINO lives Dy ha own iaDor comcs
70 love bis occupation; disliking TO Do
disturbed in il, be grows patient and calculat-
ing, and to n degree submissive. Not so ne
who habitually derives his bread from the en-
forced toll of another man. He turns self
wiilsd, impatient. naughty, tyrauicsl; and, att
erwhile. when the enforced toll, a thing or IN
hsritance. passes 20 succeeding generations,
they exalt themselves into superior beings.
That somebody should bring them their meat
ready cooked. and set it before them, u OK
course. They exercise domination as OF natural
right In their eyes labor is a sign Of inferior
itv. The indisposition Of the working man to
Be disturbed they take to be coward
ice, and they say Of the mechanic
Hit him-use him-he 10 withous spirit
citizens. this Is the whole philosophy or our
sectional differences North and South. The
North built upon Free Labor; the South Toasted,
f~attened, and made merry on Slave Labor. In
course Of time. by natural Law, the Inhabitants
of the two sections grew apart into two peoples.
They are two distinct peoples now-two peoples
with o terribly unsettled agRravation on the
part of the South. My associates here (Mr.
Johnston and Captain Hegler) will tell you
when they come TO speak, that the question of
the h o ur IS Protection or Free Trade. IL they
will allow the opinion. for the utterance OF
which nobody is responsible but myself, l tell
you the Issue to be decided next month-the
issue to which all others are but incidents-is
which OF the two distinct peoples will be chosen
az trustees of the government
Now, my Democratic friend, IL you had q su-
pernuDsrary dog which you thought we'll OF. but
were called upon 20 give TO one OF TWO nSiRboors,
/ take il you would give il TO him you thought
most friendly to the brute. Wouldn't youl Il
il possible you care less for your government
Ii / am justified in thinking better of yen than
that. the . int Of consideration IS, which OF the
peoples Of the sectionsis the best friend OF the
government
One sentence will dispose of the question
a n rQanarra fra rnq1OrifU in fna North They
never struck a blow, nor fred . shot, except in
defense OF the Union-of such are the Repub-
licap party. and Benjamin Harrison. Can as
much De sad of the SOUTH Let rs see.
another than the Democratic party, / said
there would have been no such need had not
the latter been wickedly betrayed. 1t is in or
der now TO speak OF that betrayal.
will not dwell upon the rebellion. / am try
ing to he dispassionate-judicisl, IL you please
and would like to have you follow me in the
same temper. So let pass it's Thousand fields of
blood-its outlay of treasure-its debt yet upon
us-its pension list, which, after all. is but q
partial record Of the men it left MANNED and
diseasestruck aud o: the widows and orphans
of the dead-for your accommodation, my
Democratic friend, and the sooner to get at
my real rgumen let the rebellion be treated
as a tremendous nightmare. O horror impossible
except 10 the dream of a murderer who is to
die In the morning, or OF a lsper asleep ia his
scabs. Who made III To accuse you would be
TO accuse myself. for while it was Matching We
were Democrats together. Your case was sx-
actly mine. Before the war opened, we thought
it would come. In anticipation Of IL, l studied
military textbooks and drilled a company for
six years. In our eyes, Seward, Greeley. Gar
rison, and gentle singers like Whittier, the
Quaker, were tie unnaturals stirring the fire
TO fetch the hell broth to a boil. They seIt the
bymn-beoks to Kansas, and old John Brown to
Harper's Ferry-so it seemed to US. And when
Abe Lincoln, erecting his Raunt body to its full
height, said. shaking his bouy finger In Douglass
ace-'.A house divided against itself cannot
stsnds-we called to each other, 'Now il is
coming" We passed the warning on, and were
not afraid. Afraid OF WHAT The old Demo-
cratic party was true. We saw it alert and
ready, all its armor on-ws saw the lion-heart
on its shield, and in the center OF the heart, the
Constitution, an illuminated word Of God. In
this spirit We sat looking expectantly at the
North By and by the Charleston convention
came on, and startled us. II ended with .
division, part adjourned to Baltimore; then
there were two candidates ia the field. We
were dszed by tho procession OF events that
followed Abe Lincoln was elected. A Cabinet
officer from Virginia plundered the tras-
ury; the navy was distributed over
the seas: the contents of the arsenals were
expressed South-al under Mr.. Buchanan's
eyes. Still we sat dazed. withdrawals of de-
fance, jeff Davis and a following of Southern
Senators abandoned their seats in the Capitol
A convention was held at Montgomery, Ala
another constitution was promulgated; the
Fourth of July was abolished; a new tag adopted.
Still we sat dszed, or II we went about, 1t was
TO ask, with chilly premonition. What is the
meaning of it alii If a Republican answered,
"Treason-war." We whistled to keep our cour-
age up or tried to laugh at him. At last. from q
eirdle of batteries. a gun was fired a. Fort Sum-
ter. You remember the sound Of that gun. my
Democratic brother; in your field, on the high
way. at home. wherever you were, you heard 10
and then-well, speaking for myself, l heard
it. and knew what it was-a call to arms. Then
we came out of our dazement, aud stood M.
you-I-all of ms. oven the humblest man-kDow-
ing who began the rebellion-knowing iron
whom history would etsrnsily fastsn it-know-
ing it was begun for Slavery knowing thas the
Democrats party had been the
victim of 4 conspiracy; that the
lordly Southern barons had done their
work secretly; that they had not consulted Us
of the rank and file in the North; that some
body in our political household bad assured them
it.was not necessary to consult US; that some
body had pied ged a hundred thousand of US to
hold the Republicans from crossing the Ohio
river; that somebody had written for arms,
that we might open q war here, and signalize
our devotion to the party by making Indiana
the twelfth Confederate State. You were inno-
cent OF the intent-eo Was i. We stood up, l
say, knowing that we had been betrayed. None
the less each of Us was then summoned to choose
between the North aad the South; and now to-
day the same summons Is upon us, the same
choice offered Us.
/ pause here to beg that you will not misun-
dsrstand me. / am not saying that the South
coutsmplstes renewing the war. y no! Why
should they2 BY some madness o. trust on the
part of the North, some iuscrutable decree Of
Providence, the engineers OF the late Confed-
eracy are in possession of the government; their
scheme is now TO hold it; and as they relied
unou you to help them destroy it, they are re-
lying upon Won to help them farm it. The
au6aciry of thoir reliance satisfies mo
that, in their opinion, we Of the North are the
bewers of wood they thoughs "a In 1860. Nei-
or am I saying what they will do with the gov
eminent, il you help them to it. 1t Is partly be-
sause we do not know their intentions, and part
ly because all the evidence they have furnished
us is agains. their honesty of purpose that I
would dissuade you from trusting them further.
We cannot shut our eyes TO the fact that within
our generation they SEE up o government or
their own. aud fought four years to maintain it.
Is that nothing nowi In those four years the
Union was in abeyance. is that nothingf Is 1t
something to be repeatedl They surrendered
with arms in their hands. Why should 1 not
speak plsinlyi They became conquered enemies,
and who Of you has advices Of the breaking OF
the millennium
Hands were given us for defense; our reason
was designed to enable us TO anticipate danger.
Let rs use il, in this instance, to test the spirit
Of the South. Let Us 60 out in search of proofs
of their frisndliness: so shall we determine their
fitness or ~unfitness for the mighty trust they
seek.
Since the rebellion closed. what one of their
leaders has been heard to publicly recant his
treascnf
Are not the Offices high and low now held by
them the rewards OF military service in tha re-