Daily State Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 4554, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1865 — Page 2

DAILY SENTINEL.

SATURDAY MORNINO. MAY 27. FUTURE OF TUB COUNTRY, A 5 D Till FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. LKTTEU IT HOl HOX. C. I, VALLANDIGHAM, TO TBK Young Men,a Democratic Association Of Unra(irrtrrnHifhanln. Uutlimis From jour rrenideat tn1 Secrf' Lariea, as also from individual members, I Lave, within tho past threw months, received repcate! cordial iofitilioni to idJreu jour Allocution. While a compliance i: pemon would be must agreeable to me, I do r.ot teliere that either time or circumUuc ia suspicious just 00 for activo political agitation. Hut I avail mynelf of tour kind rental, to tresent, very repcctfu!lj, to wriünjr, few thoughts upon the present po aitioQ and duty of the Democratic party. At tho teitibe; can to bin conjecture ia part, tnd in part au?etion; (or be would be bold roan, sod ough to be oruni.'cie&t of aa well the future ei the prtaeut, wb:j shoulJ fctten.pt to lay down, in theae time, when the eceoee cbtcge with tbe diversity, audiaeur.es and marvelous contrariety of theatric representation, a fixed rule of policy upon any (utile question. Yet with thia cuI:ficatn, end a peaking for myself only, 1 ball address yoo with becoffilo? freedom and candor. I do not, indeed, conceal from myself the aprre hen.ion that we are rather at tbe beginning than the end of a gteat revolution, and tht I free inti tutiom ia America tre to day far more upon tr'.al than at any period during tbe pant four years If, indred, the ajcnciai of force were at once to git e place to the arta of peace, and placid liberty regulated by law, tub pit rtyt, to aucceed tbe sword, the melancholy forebodirgi of the tuore thoughtful amuDK ua might yet prove to be the vain feara of men whom much learning iu Listory and an enlarged study of human nature have made timid. I irrender myself willingly, however, for the present, to the iheering allaatoa of those who beliee that miraculous power will agaiu interpone, and a great calm, at tbe word of command, follow the tempestuous raging of the lea. The Democratic orgitiiiiliop will, of rourae, be maintained. Surrejing eyery change of party and policy from near the beginning of the Government to this day; oftett triumphant, some time' defeated, never conquered; always adhering, as a national organization, to the essential principles of Ua founders, but adapting its policies, so fir as these principle are admitted, to tbe changing circumstances of tbe country ; eu'during even through the great danger and uii tikes of the past four years, and. at the end. DUtnbering one million eight hundred thouaand Tülen iu the Sutc.t which adtirtd t i the Uniun a number larger within the same State than at any previous election it t.eeda now only re or.nnizuion and discipline to make it powerful at once and ultimately triumphant. For my elf. under r.o circumstances will I content that tbe Democratic ortnizttioo te di.oited. 0 long aa it aball bavc vitality enough to bold together Tbe masses of the pity will never agree to tho surrender, whatever "(he leiden," 0 called might attempt. The fundamental principle ol tho Democratic party, of course also, must remaio unchanged so so long as our Federal system, or even any form of Democratic-Republican (ioTernmcnt, hall survive; and especially it true State-flight. Doctrine not IS unification, not bect-sion, but the theory of our ayaletn laid down in the Virginia and' Kealucky Jteaotutiou of ITJ6, as in terpretrd by their authors; the or.e by Madison in his Krport iu 171)3. and the other by Jeflersorj in hi solemn official Inaugural of 1 r J I . Thus interpreted they were, and I doubt not, still are the constitutional doctrines of tie new ..'resident. So long as theae eoustttuts the accepted theory and the practice under our system, there can be no consolidated Government, either Republic or Monarchy, in the States which now make up the Ammern Union. The other general principles of the Democratic party are but variation or amplification' of the innairua, "the greater good to the greatest number," "the interest of the mie." "the rights of the many against tbe exattious of the few" axioms which, though the demagogue may mitie or abuse them, lie, nevertheless, at the foundation of all Democratical Government. Ilut true as all this is, it would te tho extreme of folly not to comprehend and recognize that aa to men and policies, the events cf the pan four years, and especially of tbe last five weeks, have wrought a radical change. Oil things have pasted awav; all things become new. New books, as Mr. Wet !cr said upon an occasiou of far leas significance, are uow io be opened. A new epoch in the American eraf has been reached; and he who cannot now realise, or is not willing to accept this great fact, would do well to retire to bis closet and confine biraelf to funertral meditation over the history o the dead past, or airy speculations upon the impassible future. He may become ao iostructor, buf is not fit to be an actor in the itirring sceue which are telore tu The time will, indeed, come, nd may not be far distant, when it will be justitable and may be necessary to inquire into tbecaiacs of tho civil war junt now apparently at an end and to institute a scrutiny into the measure of guilt of those who are responsible for it, aa well North as South; and itia fortunate that wehavja President who, upon either side, i among iU authors unless. indeed, bis aupport of (eurraU Breckinridge tor the Presidency iu 1 eGO.be rcckof ed up against him. In all c!e. at least, whatever nay have been his position during the war. or stall be his course now, he is guiltless. Upon Cie other band, ty our political foes, the lines of t conduct of those who opposed the war, demanded conciliation, and insisted that the pith of pe? e was the shortcut, it, cheapest road to t.e Union, auJ of those who, marching in tbe aa'nie direction, but along tbe rugged and bloody highway of war, denounced only the policies of the late Adminis tratien, will be called in queati:n. For myself 1 aca read? to srjawer, and by the record to be adjudged It 1 er'el. it was in the glorious company of the patriot founders of our T peculiar system of goverment And low, accepting the new order of things. I yet enter upou to defense for adhering, to the last moment, to the policies of tbone great rr";n, adopted and sanctioned as these policies were, by the second generation of American statesmen. So fir from it, I would conform yet. far as possible, to their teacbiugs and practice We may not. iodeed.be ready to follow th enthusiast who would rather err with Plato than be right with other men ; yet neither are we far enough corrupted, I fruit, f be oblige to apologue for accepting Washington. Jeflcrson, Sherman, ilam ilton. Webster. Clay and Jacks n. as examples worthy of atudy and imitation. But they were wise in their day and generation. Let us be wise ia ours. Whether theirs was 1 ot the true wisdom for us also in tie long run, remains t be aeeo; for the end is cot yet. And be that as it may, for any nun to have erred a to the advent, progreis, duration or final iisue of a civil war which has mocked, so far, the presence f the wisest statencen of as well the Old World as the New, is ne disparagement of any judgment or intellect les than Divine. In any event, I beg that it be announced that opon all quetions ot vaticination up to thia point, I am "paired off" with the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward. Cut as to lie present aud f iture. and the new and stupendous queation wbich every day will cow be developed, a public man's position must t determined, not by his rni?take where all have erred, but by bli capacity, his integrity and bis patriotism. The day has patted when the party epithets upon e.ther aide, wbich were wiibout juti&ca lion, almot without excce. eren amuag the rancor of civil wir and the beat of partizan dis cufsion, ought any logger to be tolerated. No man in the Democratic party of the North or Wert, of responsible or recognised position, was for disunion or separation for it oo sake. Rut if any such there was. f!e to the lioternment of the Union, be was ! alao to the SoniberD Confederacy, else hit place would have been ia the ranks of bee armies. Seme, indeed, r.ot maty, of the ablest and most sincere and boiest amoug u men w bo to day, changing lleir opinions, are the worthiest of trust, and I speak strongly as ooe not ef their conviction believed

that only throufhtemrraryrecognitlcn of South ern independence could the Federal Union be restored. Such, loo, bad been the declarations before and in tbe beginning of the war of many diatiogui'brd men in the Republican party, some ot them tili high In poitica, expressed language the most emphatic, going, even, to the extent of perminent separation. The record of these decla rationa remains, tut to quote them, or t name the authors, ia needless. The argument stands sufücient of itself. II is cot that the Democratic pirty oppuird either the civil war cr the peculiar policies upon which it wit conducted, thai is to exclude them from the confidence of the people. Scarce a prominent man in the Republican ranks, unlcs of Democratic ar-tecedents, from the late President down, but opposed many of them with untcf Jiured bitterneaj and ioleLce the prorecution of the foreign Mexican war. Dero ted wholly to the Union, the old Union, in any eveat, the men of the Democratic party judged of the war and of its policies aolely by that aland ard, and upheld or opposed them accordingly. The party and 1 refer to the question because it baa been made the auoject of recent newspaper comment will, indeed, certainly not follow the

" Chicago Platform " of 1-C4. as a political text book now, any more than the uepuolican party, or its heirs or aigLs, will aJopt the " Chicago Platform" of IbGU, for the same purpoae in the future; not that tbe former was not the very be it practicahle it the period and for the occasion which brought ft forth; but because, deal. ng lo time of war, almoal wholly with questions1 of policy, not principle, it would, in time of peace, be quite as inappropriate as the code ot Justinian or the journals of the Continental Congress. Ail that need now te asked of our political foes is, that it be quoted correctly; the more especially lince, though the work of a committee, made1 up of some of the ablest and truest mu in tbe Convention, and adopted by that bodf unanimously amid the rapturous applause of two hundred thousand freemen present or at hand, it survived but eight day djugof circumcision Hut there is one crown of glory, at leapt, during the terrib'e trials of l!:e latt four years, riehen auueng the treasures of the Democratic party, which cannot tie takco away. If it shall so happen that to the Republican party ruiy te due the honor of maintaining the Union, to the Democracy the country i iuüvbied lor the pre-erra lion of whatever remains of tint other and even dearer birth riht ot Americans Constitutional Liberty aud private right. Hut layicg all thcae questions aside for the present, I truet that all men who, in the old Komm phrase, feel alike concerning the Republic now, may be soon brought to act together, lie who cannot at this momcut, for a teatou at leant, folget hit private gricla, or Uy aide his prejudices agiin.t men and parties, for the sake ot bis country in an hour of trial which demands all the wUdoia of the wise and the utmost firm ness of the stouten heir teil among us, is too much of a pmizia to be any thing of a patriot. Fortunately among politicians the labor is usually not d.flicult. If Jhe ineiaucboly rttiectiou ot Cicero, in his later years, were well considered and iuät. that true fiiends are moat rarely found among thore who conciru themcclica iu public affairs, it ia quite certain also that perdurable enmitici are tuuallv rare with them. And it ia the motive, not the new imociatiou, which marks the change ot party habitudes.as patriotic er corrupt. It was not the mere fact that Fox and Durke uni'.cd iu coalition with Lord North, that taade them all odious to the HritUh people, but because the purpose and circumstances ot the cuali'.ioti were utipojlir ihd nut jut. Here aud now the war having accompliahed all thnt the sober and rational among its advocates ever claimed for it the tretking down of the chid military power of the Couiederate Uovernment we have reached the oinl whero all that cla among its supporters of whatever party, must now unite with the Iricuds ol pence and concilia tion, in exhausting all the arti of tatesmm!hlp to the end that a speedy and perfect paeificatiou, and with it, a real and cordial rcuuion, maybe secured. The questions which telong to a pute of war are, in their very nature and from necessity, totallv distinct from thohc which arise upon a cessation of hostilities Men who have hitherto agreed ou other !aucj, will differ widely now and tew party association must follow. The hereditary supporter ol the President jut inauguratee, rout not asenme that, a a matter uf course, the Democratic party will to found in opposition upon thee queKtions. On the record, up to tho day when the Executive office, by rca son of a horrible crime, was forced upon him, he htm.oclf differed from that porty only, or chutly, as to tbe fact and the manner ot prosecuting the war. Not responsible for anything doue or omitted by the late Administration, whereof the Democracy complained, now that the wir is ended, he begins his Chief Magistracy without past difference io principle or present separation as to policy. In any event, he is entitled at the hands of lbe Democratic party to a fair, candid aud charitable consideration of the everal measures which he shall propope, though mort assuredly at the same time, it will be the duty of that party to reuder a rtrict, firm and f carles judgmeut upon them, aud to act accordingly as they shal be found to merit support or to demand opposition. It i, indeed, already to belamented that although General Sherman niav not have had authority and he claimed none for himself, refeiring all to the Executive his plan of Pacification and Re union was not promptly confirmed by th? Preji dent. It was concise, comprehensive, complete; proving him not less wise and great io the science of statesmanship, thau great and triumphant in the arts of war. And it would have made peace, immediate and sincere, "peace from the Potomac to the Rio lirande." This was his proud congratulatory boat! to his army at the end of the great struggle, and not of any victory in the field. Defeating the armed military hosts of the Confederacy, his aim, at the clo?e, was to con quer the hearts of its people also, and to be exalted thus as the Hero of Peace the only true heroism io civil war. Upon the great quesiiou of reconstruction, as the Democratic pirty is without power, so it is without responsibility. It can but accept or reject whatever measures may be proposed. If the policy which the President may recommend thall appear, upon a calm aud deliberate scrutiny, beet adapted in general to secure a ppeedy, complete, cordial and lasting pacification upon the basis of the Federal Union of the States, it will, in my judgment, te fit and just that the Democracy, waivi. g all minor points of detail, lend to bim a liberal, earnest and patriotic support in carryiug it into execution. If, upon the other hand, it be nuch as can but make that solitude which conquerors call peace; or, worse if possible, that peace which hangs like a black and heavy pad over Hungary, Ireland and Poland, then it will be the duty of the Democratic party, with determined firmness and fearicne!, to interpose auch constitutional and legil opposition, through the press and in public asemblie, as mav be just and efficient, nil either the President shall be impelled to change both his Cabinet and the measures to which they may have aJvi.-ed him, or the people, peaceably through the ballot, shall be enabled to secure pacification and Unioa by a change of Administration and of policies. 1 say a change in part or in whole, of the Cabinet, in advance ot the election, because, remembering the peculiar circumstances under which the ollice fell to the President, "the Ministry," are rather to be held responsible than bimif. As to the hitherto vexed question of slavery, allow me to say for myself, that from the very rst to the last, with consistency and persiMeuce, I opposed all agitation of the subject; not for the sake ot the institution I repeat it, not for the sake of the institution, but because I had teen taught by the Fathers to believe, and did truly believe, that it could eud only in civil war and disuuioo, temporary or eternal whether right or wrong, let the hitory of the ptät four years decide. Tbe price hs uow been weighed out and, in put, paid A heavy score yet remains. But I will not esay to reckon up and adjust the appalling account of debt and taxation, of suffering, crime and blood iu the pat or yet to come. Again I accept tbe facts, rejoiced, indeed, if, uJer the new order ot things, we aud our children may erjoy the same mes ureof private haprir.e- ard public pnmpenty which was permitted t j us and to our fathers un der the old Tciou, "ptrt slave an 1 part tree." And now, if without lavery, reuaiou and a pacification real, sincere and l5tmg, together with welfare and security to the people ofall the States, can be made sure, let slavery utterly perish, lint in no event let the quetion stand any longer in the . I Hill would prefer the Union, the Federal Uniou. the Old Uaion yes, "the Union as it wa, under the Constitution as it ia" to either slavery or tbe abolition of slavery. Fanatics at borne, and envious, supplanting statesmen abroad, may not be able or willing to comprehend this conviction: evtry true and liberal-minded American patriot will. The fatal mitke of the Sjuth her "bluuder," which a false morality pronounces worse thau a crime, was in ignoring the great Americas idea uf one country not an impulre. not a theory, cot a mere aspiration of national vanity, but '

A comPitr.drctst written by the finger of God opon the rivers and tbe mountains and the whole face of the land, and graveo thence upon the hearts of the people It was this, not Antislavery, which held the border slave States in the Union, and stirred, for good or evil, the whole North and West to such exertions of military, naval snd financial force 1 never before were put forth by any natiou. And it was this grand and pervading national sentiment, hedged by the sanction of destiny, which, according to the incisure of my sb'lity, I undertook to expound and justify fo the Ho"ue of Representative, In 163, and by tr.is line of argumentation to eatabliah that the Union through peace was inevitable. Nothicg but the violence of an inten? counter pasviou, snd the terrible presaute of civil war, could have suppresed, even for a time, the ptjwtr of thia entimeht an. org the people of the South alao. Had their IsaUera forbort.e to dernat.d separation at; i a dininct (iovcrnmcLt. adhering to the old 3tg. and. within the Union under the Constitution, firmly but justly, required tew guarantee for old rights believed to be in peril, they nicht not. Indeed, have bad barren and delu-iiog sympathy from ubic'., and fal e hypes of aiu:,ce from Kings and Emperors iu Europe, eager for the decline and fall of the American Republic; tut they Aouli have teen cheered tv the corJial greetings and the active support or finally au overwhelming majority of the Slate and people ot the Wet and North. Ilut when they established a permanent distinct governnicht, und look up arms for independence, they marked out betweeu them and us, a high w.tll and deep ditch which no man. North or Wc-t, could pai without the guilt and penalties of treason. They went beyond tbe teachings of their greatest statesmen ot the patt age, for Mr. Calhoun himself had declared, in 1S31, that "the abueof power, on part of the agent (the Federal Government), to the injury of one or more of the members (the States), would not justify secession on their part: there would be ueitht-r the right nor tke pretext to secede." No matter who was responsible originally fcr that condition of things which led finally to war, nor what the motives and character of the war afttr its inception and npon both the?e questions I entertain and hare expressed opinions aa fixed as the solid rock ao far as the South fought for a separate government, ehe stood wholly without sympathy cr support in the States wbich adhered to the Unioa. Whatever elic may happen, her vision of independence has now melted iuto air. In the appeal to arms maintained upou both sides for four years with a courage and endurance grandly heroic f he Las failed; and though it had happened otherwise, still, in my deliberate conviction, her experiment ot distiuct government would have failed also. Ilut the sole question really decided by tbe war, as by peaco years before it b id been settled, was that two revcr.1l Governments could not exist among the States of the American Union. And here the whole controversy ought to end; with or without slavery, I care not, so it end here. If upon this point, the "Ciiitendeti Resolution" of July, lbd propoeed too, at the rime time, hi theSeiuto, by Andrew Johnsou should bo modified, let it in all else, both in spirit and letter, tie exactly carried out. Rut whatever policy may now bo decreet! and l trust it will te a wire, a liberal, h healing policy it is the pnrt of wi.'dom for the people ol the South to acquictce; returning wholly and cordially to the Uiion, thus making it once again a uniou of consent, a union of hearts and hands, as our fathers and their fathers made it at first. Then ft ill the pinions of the recent terrible strife apeedily be huheU Already millions ia the North and West reeard them as brethren still, and in a little while these millions will become a vat 'najority of the peopl?, and will see to it that the so I emu pledge te releerued and the Union restored "with all the dignity, equality and rights of the several State unimpaired." With lovery, the people of the South will prosper within that Uuion, as bo I ore Without slavery, if iu a w ie and judicious way, it shall bo abolished, they must, io ka than a single grne ratiou except possibly as to two or three Slates become more populous, prosperous and powerful th-in any other section. And though every Southern State Government hould be re organized an act both impolitic and unnecessary jet in ten years, if our Federal system survive, the whole people of every State will be restored to all their rights within the Stute, and the South hold, along with all her citizeus. the same position of equality and intlu ence which she held filly years ago. This is tho lesion of history, the law of human nature; and no narrow, suppressing spirit of revenge, or of bigotry aud sectionalism, in the form of text oaths and teasiug, restraining, denying regulations without number, can stay the inevitable result no, not even though it should succeed now in controlling the civil aud military power of the Federal Government, snd, I)rrfd in a little briaf authority. Tlay ouch fntatlc trick tfire high lleavtu. As make the angl weep." Hut to return: as to tho time, aud manner, as well as the results of abolishing slavery, and gravest of nil, what nha.ll be dune with the negro, the power and responsibility are alike with the Administration; an I again it will be for the Dem ocratic party, guided by the light of its ancient principles and looking only to the public good, simply to accept or reject. The quesiiou ot the political and social status of the negro, is essentially and totally distinct from the issue of Africau servitude; and any man may have been or be yet radically antl blavcry, without beiug a frieud to Legro suffrage and equality. Party spirit or premure, iudeed, have driven many into support of the doctrine, contrary to both impulse and conviction; but now j

the issue is changeJ. Outside of slavery, the negro, where admitted to reside in a State, ought to be the equal of every other man in all legal rights and remedies, just as is the female or the minor. Rut political lights and social usage are questions which each Slate and community or individual, must be tcrmitted alone to decide. And four millions of Africans are not to become tbe wards and pupils of the wo! American people, nor the Federal Government . vast elemosv nary institution made up of guardians aLd trustees and professors and school masters for the negro population. Whatever party now, with the pressure of anti lavery and war removed, undertakes the tar-k, will fall before the popular reaction. Not the people only, but a large majority of the army and of its bravest and ablest otlicers, and foremost among them the gentleman whom I have already named with honor, are determined in their hootilitv to the whole doctrine of negro suffrage and equality, and to its natural and necessary but unclean corollary, miscepna tion And it is not a question of religion or philanthropy, as slavery was assumed to be, but of pure politics Women, minors and aliens are alike excluded from political rights upon grouuds of public policy; aud yet all ureof the human family nay, of our own race, and mere er, are, many of them, our own mothers and sUters and wives and brothers A far higher and impelling public policy, enforced by the policy of Mexico aud other republics and countries of mixed rc a not of cue common stock, and fifty-told tnoie essential now if four millions of African slaves are to be set tree at once among us. forbids political equality to the negro, where we deny it to our own flesh knd blood, and to those of our own households. Slid Mr. Jefferson forty-four years ago, and alter the Missouri question: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that thefe people (negro slaves) are to be free; nor is it less certain thit the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same Government Nature, habit, opinion havedrawn indelible liues of distinction between them." And he advised gradual emancipation and deportation. Herein lies both the difficulty and the danger of dealing now witb lavery in tic South. Upon the question of the political rights of the negro, we are beyond the taunt and reproach of the monarchists of Europe. When they shall have introduced universal white suffrage, removed the disabilities imposed npon millions of iheir own subjects, and abolished all titles of nobility and other distinctions of rank, it will be time enough for them to again interpose in the domestic affairs of the American Republic. On this question, too, tbe Democratic party has a record which it cannot reject. It has proclaimed that though all men, of whatever race, mav e equal before tbe municipal law. yet that the Governments here were maJe by white men t be controlled by the white race. Rat be this as it may. tbe entire question, whether slavery remaiu or be abolished, belongs solely to tbe people of each State to decide for themselves else the whole theory of our system of Governments has been surrendered, and the svstem itself is perished Another subject remains upon which tbe Democratic party cn yield not one jot or tittle. Uy everv principle of its being, by its very name, by its whvde record, it is inexorably committed to hostility to all violation of freedom of speech ard of the press; to arbitrary arrests and military commiioas for the trial upon any charge of cit-

liMsa In States end place, where the judicial tribunals with trial by Jury, are unobstructed; to armed cr corrupt interierence with elections; ai d to tbe whole host of other wrongs done to public liberty and private right. There can ctTer be peace, quiet, or dearest, most needful to the human heart, beyond even physical health to tb? system the sense of security, till sll these shall have been removed from us. Rut upon this chiefest question of constitutional liberty, the Democratic party no longer stands alone. A large majority of the manes of the Republican party, some among their most icSutntial presse, and many of tbe ablett end bravest public men of that party, as the rotes and tbe powerful and mtrJy speeches in the Senate and Houe at the late session attest, are wholly with ua. If the President would, by one word, secure the large-t public conßJecce, iet him forthwith restore the habeat orpu and proclaim an end to all thee instruments of tyranny snd oppression. As to the "Monroe doctrine," I do tot doubt that it rpeedy cl. force oi en t would tend more

thtn nny othfr cemetf.c: ftgency, to ootie the people of all sections. Without the vindication of that doctrine, the mision ot manifest destiny will hare been but hilf achieved, and the blood and treasure spent in our civil war largelv expended in vain. Unon the Monroe doctrine En?- - 1 - - - - r land is estopped to make any ic;ue with us, and must remain at peace. I have raid Lotting upon questions of Coicce debt, taxation, tariffs, a disordered currency and impindiug baukruptcv. Thee are are tbe inevitable penalties of war. Hut they are mis chiefs which have scarce yet been felt. Sußicient, abundantly sußicieo't unto the day will be the evil thereof. Concerning the Democratic party as an or gaoizatiou, with new policies arising out of the issues of the hour, many of them to enduro for a lifetime, it is er-cenlial, in my judgmeut, that a new vitality alio be infused into it. In cumbers it is more powerful than at anv former period That it was unsuccessful, It is been, at times but the fate ofall parties. In the character, ability, eloquence, integrity and love of country of its public men, and the general intelligence, honc.ity and patriotism of its masses, it may challenge comparison with any party. Hut for eeven yenrs, and more. It has lacked unity of purpose, and thcretore energy of action. During the war es pecially, with the control of but two States out of the twenty-three which adhered to the Uniou; without power, pttronage or influence in tho Federal Administration, and therefore without any special organizitiou or agency authorized cr permuted to prescribe a common line of policy and prompt uuited action upon the new questions daily arising; and with the most vigorous and vehement ceutral uuthotity against it ever known, wielding alike the clamor ot patriotism and tho cry of religion, acting in politics upon military principles aud through military Instrumentalities, and to the whole power of the purre and that pure the entue wealih of the country, and the hole power of tho sword and that sword the ei tire fighting population of the countrv, adding a supervision and constraint over press, speech. pciHon, railroad, highway .steamer and teW graph, all the modes of action aud of locomotion aud every vehicle of thought, .uch alone as the fabled Rriareus might be supposed able to exert; will every appliance of both Church and State, and of social aud business orgauizttiou combined agninst it, it is rather amazing that the Democratic pirty did Lot petisb, thau wouderful that it rhould ex hibit signs of partial paralysis. To day, iudeed, it lies a powerlui but luert mass, yet net-ding only a new lite blood, a fie-h vitality, the "prome thean fire, to te infused into it. There re those yet among the living who were actors, especially iu Jacksou's day, and many, younger tlmi I ftm, who remember when the party 1 a power in the country, exerting all the energy without any partof the terroiisai ol the Ute Ad'ninisiutio.i "Oh, for au hour ol Old Dundee!" Without more courage, more vigor, more au dacily, if you please, iu grappling with greit questions as lu former ers, the Democratic party cannot, ought not to survive, nnd must give way to some other younger and more vital organization. If it is to remain in its present comato-e state, at now the beginning of a new vphoc in public affairs, it were far better that it should be buried out of sight at once Cerlainly I do not advise that it shall move without occ.isiou, and wasto its superfluous vigor upon the air. "Rightly to be great is, not to stir without great argument;" nud it may te mouths telore policies and issues are suflicieutly defined to requite it to net at all. Rut the repose ol onscious p jwer aud tho lethargy of threatened dissolution are very ditlerent things. I have fauioticd uow what I would have said in person, had 1 accepted your invitation tote present with you. I have confined my address, I re peat, wholly to conjecture and buggestion; and desire it especially to to remembered that 1 havo written not as one having authority, but solely for mjrelf. Within this limit, I have written the more freely, becuuse inasmuch as with the single exceptiou of the honored Governor of New Jersey, no member of the Democtatic party is iu authority lew even aie iu office anywhere, though among the are some of the most eminenteach has an rqtml tight to fpeak to and lor the millions of fieemen who make up tho ranks of that party. I am persuaded, indeed, that by pursuing a line of policy wholly different from that which I hive suggested; by rejecting all middle ground; by offering persistent and indiscriminate opposition to the Administration; by wailing with cunning and unpatriotic patience for and seiziug upon the changing llodtitle of popular p issiou and re action 011 the many and perplexing and most hazardous questions which are to b met now and decided by the President and his advisers, the Democratic parly would, after some years and in the natural course of events, secure, through the forms of the Constitution, control of the Government, with the power and unquestionably the will, set on fire then by "patient tearch and vigil long," to make ample and violent revenge for wrongs real and imaginary. Such is the history of all revolutions anJ all great popular convulsions. Rut I still fioek peace and would ensue it, and know well that meantime aud after the event, as fcr years past, the country would be the victim at li.-t. Patriotism and puMic repose alike forbid it. C L. Vallanpigh am. Dsy ton, Ohio, May .r, lbCo. Imfoutamt Coxm eioN Ben. Wade's pocket Committee on the Conduct of the War has concluded its labors and adjourned. From the summary of the report we ?ee that all our generals are pronounced failures except Ren Rutler. Thev also declare that General butler was right in not taking Fort Fisher, and. therefore, Terry was wroug in capturing it. N Y. Herald. NOTICE. STRAYED OR STOLEJt. S"TRAYF!D or ttolra from the uboribr, en Wednedav .vrning, May 24th, a Da k Sorrel Mare and Sorrel Cult. Th- Mare H. bout el ven ar Id, Ith a aiail h tp Mr in the forsbsad; th- colt abojt ooe yar old wiio a ahne i-tar in tbe t-reLrad. A libe sl reward will be paid for any information that will lead to their rc tvrry. HKN'ttT BKYr.R, Opposite Gf n. Dumont's, ou th? Three Notch Road, ruyi? dxt WHISKY. A BARGAIN. WK OFFER AT A LCTT TRICK F1FTT BARRELS OF N0.1 OLD COMMON WHISKY. mayW-dtf J A D. DC5CAIf. STOLEN. STOLEN HORSE, STOLES, on tbe r.!gbt cf May 13lh from tbe üble of ttie uwlersned, fenn in;l? ur;fcft ot GrtenSeid, a MI AT ST ALL MO .t Abut 15 band L'?b and Seven years old. He ba. a lare lump near tbs left ear, about the a se cf a tmall b.corjr-ckit , a ad coriMlerbiy marked witli harn-a-. liberal rrw4rd will be paid fr hi rrura, wr iuioiuation wLere be can be fuunl. Address enter of th arnitrntf ne!, K. U. 1'IIU Greet2eM, W. V. r EL. o.s at majfJUCt Waliin5ttr. treei, lLdjapol.. GROCERIES. a. v. rt-tTCBis. c. 1. Daviw.i. FLETCIIEll DA VI DC. C, CKNTHAL GUOCEUY, DEALERS IX STAPLE AND Fl5K GROCKRIK, Foreign and Igiset.ic nines and Cigars, Game, eetablea. FrOiU, Wodea and VTUlow Ware. Na. 44 orva fee.! viaia treat, of po:;a tha Foat OSce, Iniiaiispoll. cari-dlf

AMUSEMENTS.

HIPPOOLYMPIAD. WILLIAM LAKE MANAGER. INDIANA rOLIS. FOR TWO DAYS ONLY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. JUNE 2.1 ti 3d, North of the Terre Haute Depot. Xl.r .float Complete ModernTravellnf Exhibition In Amerlcn. TIME .11 OST S Vi Ell ft O t'TEM T. FINEST STUD OF HORSES I THE IUT EDUCATED .HIM'.S. Beyond any Iber Kstabllsbnietit, tbe MOST BRILLIANT STARS. Tla 5 Groat C? 11 a is 1 11 I o Will ei.ler town In RTana procc.!wn, preceded by the gorgeous DOLPHIN CHARIOT, The mot mignlflcfnl specimen f art and elaborate wwkuisnsllp eTer paraded before tbe puMIc, URAU MtT ORT Y HORSES .SpUndiJIy caparisoned, aud driven aud controlled bj Mnjor Henry Dörth, The CfcanpoD Whip, ar.d parade to the place of f xhlblt'oit amid tbe martial and operatic .train of the incomparable SlVLKIt CuKNRT RANI, led by ar MM.. Ms mm mU. TWO (.RAND PERFORMANCES, Kadi Afi.riiooli and Night, coumrnring at Two and Ualf-pa.t Seven o'clock, V. XI. In in Qraud aud Exteu-iva Combination, concentrated I hat the Propiieter c'a'.ms to he THE SHOW OF THE AGE, There U no (ace in a brW announce heet to peciry 11 tli Art!t. Thr following UNEXAMPLED ARRAY OF STARS, Will convey au idra or the great and nueqnall.d whole MADLLE ALICE, The Prima Donna of Equestriennes, eqnally renowned for her tla.Mical and darlug act of Kqullatlon, ia now the bright particular atar of thia colonaal Exhibition. The pre o taroURbout the country have recorded the supremacy er thia dahlng Queen of tbe Cirque, who, in both Urn.Upheres, 1 scknowlcdged unapproachable. To awamp pretentious cppoMtlon, tbe management, ln goad ralth, ofTer a cbal'enic or f 0,0K), and waiving her nndisputed reputation as tbe only backward female rider of tho world, we are p-epared to pout the money, the result to he de'ermined by competent Judfres, or a mlwtltaneoua audirnre, ai tbe ould-le conipetitori choose. MADAME AQ1STES, The Queen if the Manage, introducing the highly trained, thorongh-brrd dancing horse " JOUXSTkR." and the magnificent American bore "MIAMI CH1KF," a superb specimen of Moot ant intelligence, in Avenue Exerci.ee, or School for Ladies; also, In the Par iolan Etercltea tn the Floating Wire. PETITE EMMA, The Fairy of the Arena, and Terpalchoreaa Artlata. Uer classic poses on horhchack, and her wonderful equipoise, are equally poetic and incomparable. MR. JOHN LOWLOW, TL Wit, Jester, Humorist and Ci)W.N par excellence. A merry oflShot of Momu, "a fellow of InOntte Jent, and a genuine, original specimen of tbe Sbakt-peare an bnffo. MR. C. M. CIDDS, Hia motley acK:!ate and QUAI5T AND QHZ7ICAL COMPEER. THE CELEBRATED SIG. CASTILLO, THE CiREAT GIX)DE EQUILIBRIST AKD MAITRK DC ClhQUE. MR. CEORCE SARGENT, The celebrated Histrionic Rider, representing Nautical, Mythological and Olympian rcenei, proneurxed the owt Cnbhed ana graceful Scene Rider in the World. THE LÄZELLE BROTHERS, The Motley Delineator, of the Grecian and Roman School. of Uigh Art, exemplified in their beautiful classic t lyi p!n Melange. S. 3D. BALDWIN, ARBACIAN MASTER OF THE EGYPTIAN SCIENCE, ILLUSIONIST AND PRRST1DIÜ1TATECB EXTRAORDINAIRE. F. WOODS, J. LARUE, MASTER VILLIE, Acrobats, Gjtrnats, and Amphitbeatrical Prcfeors of la haute ecole. THE STUD of HORSES Has beta choen with no less care, and io blood, beauty, and training, can defy rivalry. The Trick Horses & Educated Males Are marvels of eqoiue sagacity, falsifying tbe old adage of "stubborn a a mule' completely bewilder the spectator with buma .l.ke intellect and comprehensible facile rjver. to every particular, the Hippoltmpiad can Jutly c'aim the title of the HIPPO ARKNIC M0D L OF TUS AGE. The principal equine and aemi-eqiine An.muls are the celebrated educated Spanish mule DON CAKIX, the prodigy of the 19th century, .potted aa a 1m par d, aud up-r.or to all others, lu bloed, ij nine try and intelligence, inclad:ng the wonden t,t the mal family, the crig nal comic mules, ULENAN A ATER5, uuhitatir fly pronouueed lie best trained ciules ia this country. At each Exhibition, MR. WILLIAM LAKE WILL INTRODUCE HI SAGACIOUS AND TALENTED TRICK HORSES PF.UCEPHELCS AND " WliXISfANnC ADMISSION, SO CTS.; CHILDREN UNDER TEN, 25 CTS.

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AMUSEMENTS. MBTROPOLITAN THEATRE. Crrrtf Yikmgto and 7V Slrttt$. aasasiajsjr Jlr. . . ittley. Saturday Evening, May 27th, 1865. FAREWELL KINFFIT CF MUS. -W- H. Z-E I QHTON. rosmvr.LY last aiüBTcr Y IV It 10 12 L. O C IC IS . PRIDE OT TOE MARKET aad TA5KEE I!f CTBl. TTT Vooday. May ., Bec.Ct cf Ul.i EMMA CUSHMAJ.

Tairra vr uaiviua. I'.ruett. aud all rea.rvfd f an Tic. Irt.s Circle Wc; fr;ra:s Bois, for alt peron., f S 0; Orcbe.'ra Reata, ?& rent.; lat'.erv and I .mil j Circle, 3 c.ni: Children in arm, Xi. CHANG R OK TIME: Door open at?,lj o'clock prciely. Ortrturecou Bene, af S o'clock preci.elv. PAKTICULAK NDTICK. Tba II..r. Car. lae the Thrater every even'.r.f at tie clue of lb.' pfrforaatre. Peopl. living- at a dl.tanc caa re'.y oa tbla. rELCOME THE RETUHX OF SKIFF & CAYLORD'S MINSTRELS! TUE HUE AT. RASTERS TROUPE; AT THE TVI J JZ 1 IV , c i: , POSITIVELY ON 2 RIGHT OX1.T! Thursday Kreiling. June Uf. ?0 tar I'er former, wbo will anol p alUvely appear in an entirely Dew and original Programme. All tbe 14 favorite. Introducing th latet lern of M ntrlij. Pee oar new Programme. TICKKTA AO t'etita. SKIFF eV ÜATLOKI), Manager. C. F. RlCIIARI)?ON, Agent. tnylT-dit TO AUW CITV s THROUGH IN TWO HOURS a BÜLKAU DS PANO H AM A NEW YORK CITY TK TIIK .IT T roll Porty-ouc 3VX i 1 o rn:;n ;ii i mi Streets of Xow Yock (!itv I AI I III I I M Mi'tW (. I UK BUSINESS. BUSTLE & CONFUSION UUO"1LO' UUO'1- UUIirUOlUn c: i rr ' i a i ii. Ill li v .i hi:k l II x 700 HORSES AND CARRIAGES 1(1,0(11) or ITS PKOPLE, 14 ."Iii" if lii)piiiK A Sf 2iiiir1 Vtrcff sstonJ. jHilit un iontpanirs, Bands of Music, Stiipjmiy, Steamboats, ric. At t-iili KxliiLition :,n f-i ?iiti:ttory I-turo wit! In- iven, K'v'";t r'1'" 'S" ''l' Vnowhilr of ni:v vouii m its ii:oili:. of 'n .it 1 1 ii rt iimv i ti in." r. an! of general ao! iiiKtru. tn- l:.(orin..:i.ii tu KV'KltV HODY. The following building, have been 'laced on itu rstinitua th ltJt year, r.t the expenio of $i,IHh. Thr lr)tul I' a I. ire on Eire, McuariV M.irhli I'alare, Th"1lrlrupillUn llulrl, Tl. vt. Mi ti.ila lltilrl, Tejlt.rV MliMtn i;nd ihr Ipirrnallonal Hotel, lbe Interior f ta)lttra Halooa, The Yr Vo'u llnur of Induslrj, llurnum'- tm.rttun MjMum. Doors uj- ii ti i. ! : i iitioru tun moves) win uk Kviiii!in:;i it hi s mir, MASONIC HALL Knt.irdny. .tlondMy. Titretta!', Writ neadti)'. Tliurf!ay, I ridny mul Kiitiirdiii f ?luy 20 v 2 (, v?l. mOt - miiiI 21. AFTERNOON AM EVENING AT 3 AND H 0CIjOCK. ADM18M10N '25 Cent. No hair price. D. WELLM EK, Manager. It. B. DAWSON, Agent. myldHt INDIANA STATE MUSEUM. 70 Kasl WashhiKioti Mrcct MADAME M.A. ENGLISH PROPRIETRESS. Open for the reception of vLitor from H o'clock A. M. until 10 o'clock T. M. Tbe collections embrace over Three Millions of Curiosities I Of the most amusing and Instructive cbaracter.gatberrd rratn all part, or tbe Globe. ADMISSION SO Cent. MADAMR M. A. ENGLISH, apr5-dtf Proprietreaa. CARPETS, WALL-PAPER, &c. NEW CARPET STORE No. HI Cast Washiimloii St., HchnulPN Old Stund, OPPOSITE THE COURT HOUSE. WE HAVE A LARGE ET OCX OE OAKPETS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, SATIN DELAINES, BBPS PEKIN CLOTHS, Daiua.ki lace. Mualln 4c .ottlngbam All of these Goods having been purcbaaed b tore the lata advance iu the Kat, we will 11 them lower than Xew York wboleaale prices. Also Jnst received 100,000 liece Wall lap ,r nnd Window Shades KRAUSS & CALL. e29'C4-dly DOORS, GLINDS, &C. REDUCED PHICE8. WARRE. TATE, DOOR, SASH & BLIND No. 38 Sooth New Jersey St, INDIAN A PülJS, IND. HAYING an hand a Urge tk o' Door., Blind, 8jb, (ratnes, Ac. I aa se.hng the sane at greatly reduced prices. All vt my saanufactare is wan anted both a. to material, an 4 woramaa.nip. Iealer and Builder, are ao. rcHed to call a-.d eiam'.ne ny stock and price, before purcha-ttg elewLere. A full stock of Peoring, Dreaded Lumber, Weather Boarding. Molding. Bracket a and other Manufactured But diag Atatenaia alwaya oq hand Flooring worked and Laaber dret.rd and sawed to order wtjl dSoa blVt.tli SI AIILfr;. 7 Tf E5KT ALLEN, Sew York Livery and Saletta 1 Bfl So. IS and 14 Eaat erl ttraat.la tba r , , t GUnft's Bl Mk. Ultt

MEDICAL.

Aa IiperleDced Nnrse sad ft aal f kyilcia to taa atUatiow f aa. tkra, aar SOOTHING SYRUP, FOR CHILDREN TEETHING, Wlicb gresüy facilitates tbe process ef Uetklsg, Vy softening the gama, red icing ail Infiamroallss, will allay ALL PAIN and spaimodic action, and Is SURETO REQULATEtheBOWELS , lepeudopon It, Mothers, it will gl. re.t tayourlvos ' and Relief and Health (o Your Infants. We have put op and sold this article for over 3 yearn, ar..lCAN 9 IT INCUNKltE.CK ANUTKUTU ot it weal we have ever ten able to of any other mewictna NEVER HAM ITFAlLfD IN A MNliI.E INSTANCE TO Kr-p-KCI A CUKE, when timely ned. W.ver aid wa knoMln,u ceorUtf.ctlo y anyone w.oe ,t On the contrary, all ara delighted with itaeperationi, and rp-sk lo terms ef comme i datlon of Its msgVal effect, and medical virtue. W. .iak la thia aaattev "WHAT writ 1M KN(IW," after 30 year, .inemare, ' AND M.EWK 01 It BEiTTATIO HtRTfJF FULTILUK NT OF WlUTWK IIKKE D.CLAkD. In alaioat very iii.tanr wbera tb lo ant la RrtDg f roan pals) and eihaatlon, rther will b townd to Cfteea r twent nlnntri alter tU ijrvp I. admlalttrtd. Kull dirertloo. for w.iog will aecanpay bl. Nona (eoulne anU.a tba rac-alnila af CUKTla A PKH KINS, Hew Tork. Ii en tbt oatsldt wrapper, j Sold by DrnggUts througheat the warld. rricc only 35 Centra Dottle . Tho Florcnco Nigktingalo of tho Nurscnj. Ilia fvll.wlng I ao i tract rrta Utter wiittea by the Kev. K. Z Wet.er. to tha Oer In llmfnrmmji U.a. j eager, at Charaler.l'U'g, Ta : A DENEFACTrjzCO. j There I. a woman lathe public ey whoa bane had I all along been e.euclated. la our sniifl, with the Yaa V , - . W I f and ws tfi-aire to wre.t her name from ll such .u plcioua aaaoclatlotis In all other tntnda. Wlktever notions we may have or wumanly a.licacy and (ropriety, we wtll all admit that woman a I one is the ; Muraa the pooef Nur.- tbe ltt Nnrhe. w aether ws ruetl kava remale I'hv.lciana or not. la a question wbich tnuat b 4ecVla4 by time aud principle, and not a matter oftaate. Pride, prejudice, caprice and colors may at vll behave tbeta. rite-., fur 11 there a really a waat. th-ie will alao ba a ...... I I . L. . 4. 1 1 . a . . 1 .... ii mrt D caiiina-, lorr a coming. Nature and hsman society are atwart ef.nprlylng, and tbouKbArl and Ea.hlaa nay h' ler, they cannot prevent. Mrs. Wlnslow does not with to treat yoa gentlemen Nor doe t,e precrlba a reglauen tvr j oar wlea: bat -be tnode.tly appears aa a meaaenger "health and bap plnea to your Infant. In tha cradle 1 there anything Im prop-r In that? A Nurea of '90 years" eipertenca can tn-Wlv aay what la or ta not gor-4 for a babe, a4i ought to bo lutened to. God sreed h'r on her kuahlo and happy mU.lon. she Is tho most .scoeaafbl pkyatclan and mol effectual beneractreaa our little one. ever erjoy.d her doting parente not eicrpled. Ja.t cpea tbe door forhr,ai.d Mrs. Wln.low will prove the Amer iTan Horence Nightingale of tho Nursery. Of this are ao aure, that we will teach ear ""uay" to .ay A r.le.ning oa Mrs. Wlaalow" for htlplug hertosurvlvt and eacapo tho griping, colkklng and toothing elagw. Wo conhrm every wr eet forth in to propectue. jt performs preciaely what It profeaees ft perform, overr part of It nothing le. Away with year "Cordial 'Paro-TOrtr" Irot '"!anllii.,m . w . r . . "v. ( r.Ti j irBfr Marcotlc," by wbkb tbe babel, dragged iuto etipldlty and rendered dull and idiotic for life. Wo hae never aeea Mra. Win.low - kaow ker oatv throoah tbo preparatloa of her "Soothing yrvp for Children Teething." ir wo had tho power wo would make her, at h 1, i physical aavlor to tha infant rac. It-st, llrnlth and Comforf to flottier Htid Child. MRA. WINÄLOW'S ÄtVYTnTrn irvni . -- . ms.v. a ub r I VI CBUurOa . . , luuiDDiuoa II Ims all pa.n, and cures wind cbolic Perfectly safe la . i,,, j T ' --i7 Dourr wno bat a urTerine child, do not let tnir rniiu. - . dice of other., .tend between yoa and jwt aurJertnav '"V7. 7 111 " anre yes, abaolatelj sure-to follow the im of this modlclbe If timely ased. IjOnt rati, m vtincmtr woe innn - - ... oijlj n EOOTHING 8TRCP, for chlldrea teething. Ithaabeea . ueu lor year, wna never laiiing aatety and eacceae be milliun. of mother, fne thle rkiMr it - acidity of the Stoma h, relieves wird chol'.c. regulates ' Ik. k...l. m. A .... k. . t. A m - . uu ibuu. uu.nuu.fo tay aireet, Jiew I org. Jk wiu . mm v. . mt . . w K . nn ?cnT I it Tfirit pur rrriir-v . r Ti-r your .uSertng chiM and the relief that will bo abeoluie Iy sure to follow the of MU. WINSLOW'8 iSOOTU- . v . . . . w 1 1 . w blimij 9i i q . iiodku, rei.evoo wind cbolic, regutatee the bowel a, aoften tho gams, give, re.t to the mother and health to thechlld The folloi lowing le aa attract from a letter written If J. 1. Holm, paitor of tho iVrrepont Street I 'V. nwla Ot.. k I WäV W a the Rev. hantl.t Chorch. BroekUa. !t T tn tv l t. - - - f.ni.ti ura Mewager, Cincinnati. and apeak, olumee la favor ' of that world-rea'-wued mediclno MÜS. WIÜSLOW'l i SOOTH IN 0 STRCP, rOR CHILD HEN TE1TH1SO: S MWe aeo aa aJrertieeraent in yaor eclamn. of MILS WI58IOW-S SOOTUISG 8YRCK Now. weVe, .afd vor la TiToriifinki.i.t . k . ... t, , , , " ikiu wiurr ii twr Ut, bt we feel copeie4 to say to your reaaers that this U n tualtir-w. k inaui it .k. . .. claiM. It la probahly D f ta B,t saoceaaful modi. , lL 4ty teCa U U 0M teat. And thoa. r your readera who have bablee cant do bottar thantiay la a aapply." CAUTION. Th great popmlartty of Mra. Wlaalow'o Sothiag 7Ti). ehiWrea teeth'ng.haa tadaeod woprtadaaj per., to ft up article, Ubo taed fat tbo samo perpoeel la advertiaing which they have aK ooly owpsod our advertlvients aad aottces from tho pre.a, bat have eop.od cenl&catoo aa louera froaa ciergjmea and others, sfiztag other saaoi u tv go um corticate. aWwevo of all I aalt tore. aaarTiavaAwSm-U

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