Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-29
niannion in the North

We have no fear of any sudden or violent
dissolution of the Union. A work of such
stupendous iniquity cannot be accomplished
in one generation. We have many hopes that
tTgedy, so full of woe as that would be
may never occur. But the preservation of the
institutions. bequeathed us by the revolutions
~ patriots, will be owing to the firm and
| hearty co cooperation of the Northern, and es-
pecially of the Western Democracy with the
dsinterested and chivalrOus devotion of the
South The Fusion Party, wherever it has
consummated its unholy alliance with aboli-
ton, can claim no part in this good work.
The United States are bound together by
many cords, religious, political, social, and
legal. The Freesoil party have long been
! trying to break them ALL Its history is a his
tory of repeated attempts at injuries and
usurpations, having in direct object the sub
version of constitutional government. Hap
PLY for humanity, its power is not equal to
It's malignity.
Our proposition is that every man who I've
longs to the Freesoil party, or co-oPerates with
it, is surrounded by Il poisonous atmosphere
whose effect must he to engender diseased
, antipathy to the Federal Union. The seeds
of the disease are planted by every Freesoil
speech to which he listens and responds,-by
every Freesoil paragraph which he reads and
: approves. We appeal to the universal expe-
rience of observing men to sustain us in the
assertion that the spirit, the animus, which per-
vades Freesol politics and literature is one
: of hostility to the South as part ofthe Union
We do not now complain of the course Of Po-
litical action proposed. Men may honestly
; differ about the interpretation-of the constitu-
{ ton; they NAV honestly think that the Mis-
]. souri, COMPROMISE should be perpetuity, and,
/, even, that the constitutional pledge for The
surrender of fugitive slaves is in the nature of
treaty-stipulation which each State is to en-
: force by its own laws. Fair arguments to
l convince the people of these things are not
{ Objectionable. But we complain of the state
{ Of feeling, of the bitter anmosity to the South,
because she holds slaves, which has lead men
S 10 use arguments in themselves not destitute
of some plausibility, as mere mask behind
: which 10 disseminate sentiments of alienation
! and dislike to our Southern brothers,
e We call their arguments a mask and so
5 they are Suppose the Democracy, contrary
! to the opinions of the contemporaries of the
constitution, contrary to the immemoral leg
isation of the government, contrary to the
n adiudcations of the Supreme Court of the
. United States and of many of the highest
!. judicial tribunals of the respective States,
m should concede that each State should make
% laws for itself to secure the surrender of fiI-
! eitiye slaves. Would Free-Soil Legislators dc
: it? They are dishonest if they pretend that
they would. How disingenous, then, is the
,e sophistry of portion of this party in pre-
tending to find fault with particular provisions
% in the Fugitive Slave law of 1850. Every
Ia one knows, and the bold hearted among them
70 selves confess, that the real source of ohjec-
= ton is not to the provisions of that law, but
b to the provision of the constitution on which
If it is based Their abuse of the law, instead
= of the constitution is mere shutting, unwor
Ia thv of honest men and only fit for trckster
\ who cheat ct cards
No If we must fight fanatacism, give u
=, the fanaticism of LLOYD GaRRIsoN and FRED
- DOUGLAS. Honorable men prefer any amoun
a of error in opinion and violence in conduct t.
70 hypocrisy and false pretences. The old coup
10 let expresses the sentiment
Here struts the soldier daring, bold and brave.
i There sneeks the seriyener, exceeding knaye.
he Is Massachusetts, friend of the Union whel
er she sends such nen as SUMNER and WILsoS
E to the Senate ? SUMNER is type of elias
ID with which the Fusion party of the North i
IN now acting in closest harmony, and he wa
he the man who said of the aimable and gentle
ID manly fillmore that /" he had sunk to tn
r depths Of infamy, and that it were better 70
s. him that he never had been born" This wa
n, said because Mr. fillmore, signed a bill which
ly General WASHINGTON would certainly hav,
i'd signed, had he been living, for he signed ont
he essentially like it, and which met the appro
as baton of the wisest and purest statesmen o
ne the land.
r Yet, strange to say! the leaders Of the Flu
rs sion party, though in intimate connection Will
N, habitual violators of the constitution, witt
ID men who repudiate its solemn obligations
a and glory in their shame talk of their love 70
he the Union.
ne Lovers of the Union should strive "to med
r. late between the angry passions of opposing
Id parties, to heal the wounds of sectional strife
ct and to cement, by cohesion stronger thar
'et laws, a distracted people" Instead of picture
mt to in1sme bad passions and excite ill-wil to
pm wards the South, in consequence of the exis
tence of slavery, levers of the Union SHOULD
IS soothe animosity by explaining chow ear
on nestly the South resisted the original imposi
ton of slavery; how consistently she has la
d. bored for its subsequent ameloration; hoy
w uniformly she has sustained every measure
&C. of policy which promised forit peaceful
. termination; and how fercely those who still
-al roll in the unblessed wealth of that blood,
NJ commerce from which it sprang have sough
n to close every avenue for its gradual extinc
&c, ton, and to hem it in to perish amid nationa
-. and social commissions
ne In the days of HENRY CLAY, the WIFI
es, party of Indiana would have pursued thi
10 course. For in those days there was a rationa
81: :u Wing party Of the North But it exists N
ad longer; it is Il memory of departed things
DIST it was buried in the graves of CLAY am
u WEBSTER Where will you find in the Stat
oil of Indiana, journal which echoes the sent
~ ments of those illustrious statesmen /? Som
,re Did fashioned men, indeed, still cling to tn
ag shadow, W len the substance is gone, an
'iS fondly fancy that papers which retain tn
s names of Wing papers are the opponents G
~ NVbto p,.t a.