Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-07
How Long Shall the Bloody War
Go Out

Abraham Lincoln, in his inaugural address, on
the 4th of March last. declared as follows:
Suppose you 60 to war. you cannot fight al
WAYS, and when, alter much loss on both sides,
and no gain either, you cease fighting, the old
identical questions as to terms of intercourse are
again upon you.
Just So Fight as long as we may-after sac
rificing thousands of lves-wasting millions of
treasure-the old original questions will come up
for settlement; and what is more, they will have
to be settled, rs they might be settled now, by
compromise Let the people not only remember
that Lincoln himself has declared that after all
the fighting. the old questions will come up for
settlement, but insists Oh settling them now.
How? the reader will ask. Why just as easily
now as ever. BY precisely the same means that
must be resorted to after the proposed national
debt of hundreds or thousands of millions Of dol
lars shall have been sadded upon ourselves
and posteritv, and thousands more of our best
men have been slain or MANNED. By a national
convention of delegates from all our thirty four
States which might be called, to be elected and
meet this fall, some slight constitutional amend
ments might be agreed upon that would remove
all source of future misunderstanding and meet
with general acceptance by the people OF all the
States. The Southern States would be as glad
AS we, to meet us ia such spirit of concession
as should save our country from further ravages
of ruthless war, that will spread ruin throughout
both sections equally.
Has not enough blood been shed already to
show that the idle boasts of Southern braggarts
OF superiority of proves is lille and unfounded
as the crazy teachings of Greeley about the ease
with which we might whip the South into su6jec
tionl Does not every man of common sense
know that war nfcts its evils equally on both
sides? One gains victory one day, and the
other the next-and the best blood is split on both
sides. What would it profit us to finally succeed
in whipping the South, from Maryland to Mexico,
if in the meantime we ruin ourselves and fill our
land With the walls of widows and orphansY
We urge upon citizens to set down and
calmly think over what the American people are
fighting for And what either the North or the
South will gain by the war in the end. 1t is adj
mitted by every one that the expense will be
enormous, over FIVE hundred millions per year, or
one tenth of the value of all real estate the non
slaveholding States. You men of the country
will have to paw the bulk of this expense in the
shape of taxes and the low price of your produce
And what will you gainl Let him answer who
CAM
Let the people demand of those ounces and
maniacs i'm Congress, who still resist all measures
to arrest the war-let the people demand Ma
tional Convention. Let all citizens who have in
huence with our rabid Republican representatives
write them word that the people--Republican as
well as Democrnts-desire National Conven-
ton, and if once convinced that their opposition
to such a measure will destroy their own political
prospects in the future, they may be constrained
to call such convention and thereby perhars re
store the Union, the Constitution and our
country's former peace add happiness, and save
us from rivers of blood and utter ruin, anarchy
and despotism.-Bannero of Liberty.