The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-22
BELATED

Some days ago the Journal copied from
the files of the Sentinel during July and
August, 1864, a few of the denunciations Of
paper was literally stuffed during the war
for the Union. The Sentinel. which has
recently been eulogizing the great Lincoln,
seems not to have been affected by its
previous course toward him. A few days
ago il spoke of Lincoln as follows:
No more infamous SANDER could be con-
ceived than the charge that Lincoln was
an imperialist. Every word and every act
OF his heroic life stamps the charge with
falsehood. He would have despised imper-
ialism as un-American and immoral. He
would never have governed a people
against their consent. He would never
have sneered way the Declaration of In
dependence. Let imperialism invoke
Lord North, Cecil Rhodes and Castlereagh,
but in the name of common decency spare
the good name of Abraham Lincoln.
One would conclude from the foregoing
that the Sentinel had always been a Jealous
defender and champion of the man whose
life IT now declares TO be heroic" and
whose name it declares to be good" AS
is well known by those who care to inform
themselves, the Sentinel, to the best of its
ability, held up to it's readers Abraham
Lincoln as a low jester, a monster who
trihed while the land was running red with
the blood of American citizens, a v~iolator
of the Constitution. and the Emperor Lin
coin. That the readers of the Journal may
be reminded of the assaults which the SEN
tinel made upon Abraham Lincoln during
the war, IL quotes again three of it's ma
lignant ISLANDERS upon him while he was
President:
Have not the people daily evidence that
Abraham Lincoln is assuming the power
the despotic power-to enable him to pay
his debts and replenish his overdrawn cot
fers, exhausted by extravaganza and am
bilious strife for power?
More than eighteen hundred years age
Rome was governed by three men at the
end of that republic. One was Caesar
They were all of noble blood. And we. too
have our NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., Stanton
Halleck: but, unfortunately. neither OF
them can boast a very high descent. There
succeeded an Emperor. who could fiddle
when Rome was burning. We also have
cur Emperor, Lincoln, who can tell stale
Jokes whilst the land Is running red with
the blood of brothers.
Should Mr.. Lincoln be reelected the rev.
oiution Will be accomplished. There will
be no longer a Republic of the United
States. but a consolidated empire. Every
safeguard must sooner or later give way
The limitations of the executive power viii
not be in the Constitution. but in the pleas
ure of the President. We implore patriotic
and intelligent men TO pause and refiec
and give their verdict on Tuesday next. Il
the people will not save their priceless Con
stitution and Union u is lost.
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more infamous regarding a Republican
President or candidate for President. I
has, from time to time, repeated some o.
these ISLANDERS about General Grant, and
tscks on Mr.. Lincoln. applied them to Pres
ident Mckinley. When did the Sentine
change it's opinion regarding Abraham Lin
coin? When did the life of the man wh'
would plumber the treasury to enable hin
to continue his ambitious strife for pow
or" become heroic in it's opinion? Whel
did the Sentinel learn that Lincoln was no
"our Emperor. telling stale jokes Will
the land was running red with the blood o
brothers?" When did it learn its mistake
about Lincoln having made the Republic 81
consolidated empire?" When did It frs
flash upon the intelligence of the Sentine
that "every word and every act" of Lin
coin was that OF a heroic life?" This be
lated admiration of Lincoln by those VIII
belittled, berated him and slandered hin
for four years is very disgusting. 1t is by
pocrisy.