Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-17
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For disunion-the separation of the free and slave
States. We quote brief extract from an article
which appeared in that leading mouth piece Of the
Republican party, as soon as the result of the
Presidential election was known, to show the
policy il endesvored to impress upon the country:
Whenever considerable section Of our Union
shall deliberately resolve to 60 out, We shall 70
sist all cOercive measures designed to keep il in.
WE HOPE NEVER TO LIVE IN A REPUB-
Lie WHEREOF ONE SECTION IS PINNED
TO THE RESIDUEBY BAYONETS."
This sentiment was forthwith endorsed By the
JournsI the little satellite Of the Tribune in this
city proving it to be as true its prototype the
needle to the pole. As soon as the Tribune ar
ticls appeared the Journal followed its lead as
follows
"Of what value will Union be that needs links
Of bayonets and bullets to hold it together. IL
any State will 90 from US, let it 60"
We could quote similar expressions from other
leading Republican papers to prove that disuniOn
was the first policy of the Republican party i'm
medistely after its triumph. That such was the
view accepted BY the Journal as not only the
policy of its party. but Of the country, calmly and
deliberately expressed. it is only necessary to
quote the following extract from that print in con.
frmation thereof:
elf South Carolina pre.snds to be an indspsnd.
snt government she must control her own ports,
and if we blockade them she must drive Us out.
IL is as absolutely necessary to her national eK-
istence as the air is to individual existence"
Can any stronger argument be presented to jus
,fy the attack Of South Carolina upon Fort
Sumter?
After denouncing it "trick" unworthy
great nation TO seek preteIt to bring on . war
with South Carolina. declaring it likewise not
only "cowardice" but cruelty" and that there is
no escape from a war if we refuse to admit the
independence Of that State. the Journal says:
eff we fight her we shall fight every State in
the South. 1t is idle to blink the fact.
This we regard a. the inevitable
result of a war with South Carolina. And war,
we believe, is = thousand times worse evil than
the loss of a Stat, or a dozen States that hate
US. and will not stay with US without ruling us.
Mark this language: "A scar Is a thousand
tmrs corse epil than the loss Of State or dozen
States that hate US" And after thus sncourag
ing disunion and advocating peacesble separation.
be Journal thus states the results of coercion:
live attempt to kill it (disunon) with bay
onet and ball. it will wound us fesriully before
we can succeed, and when We have succeeded its
dead body will he as pestent as its living body.
We shall be burthenei badly to carry the
corpse as to bear the FESTIVE and struggling live
carcase"
Even if we suhjugsts the seeded States with
bayonet and ball." if victory should perch upon
the Union banner. in that event the Journal could
only regard the triumph equal to q defeat, for
the North would ''be burthencd as badly to carry
the corpse as to bear the FESTIVE and struggling
live carcase." And what remedy did the Journal
propose? After carefully reviewing all the evils
and benefits Of the Union it came to the follow
ing conclusions:
"Ifsny State will 20 from US. let il CO."
Upon reading the evidence presented. can any
intelligent person doubt but the New York
Tribune and the indianapolis Journal, on the
heels of the Republican Presidential victory in
November last. were willing to see the Govern
ment destroyedf
Who encouraged disunon in the South and
promised "sid and comfort" to the secessionistsi
The New York Tribune answers: We hops
nerer 10 lice in Republic rhereof one section 10
pinned to the residue by bsyonets" The Indian
apolis Journal answers: IF any State piH 90
from US, let it co."
Who wants the Government to be kicked,
robbed and abused, and then when its life 10
threatened by an armed mob, to lie quietly down
and be killed without a word, in order that we
may have peacei If any body thinks this is too
monstrous for any intelligent men with some liz.
tie interest in the Government, to believe "let him
cember and January last. and he will find the fol.
lowing sentiment advocated with all the ability
that the editor of that print could command:
"Of what value will an Union be that need.
links OF bayonets and bullets to hold il togetherf
If any State will go from US, let it GO
The Journal is even more emphatic than this
1t was not only willing to let any State that want
Cd to CO. to depart in peace, but itselfready
to recognize and treat it A. foreign power. Read
it on this point:
1--WE don't believe in standing on trihes or
technical difficulties. Let US consider South
Carolina foreign nation the hour she gives the
in spite of all distractions and questions of pro-
priety. treat with her for an adjustment Of our
common debt and common property, and for the
arrangement of treaties for the continuance of
business"
IL such sentiments are reasonable, is not the
editor of the Journal a double traitor! He s
not only mean enough to prove traitor to his
own teachings and principles. treacherous to his
avowed convictions, but after deliberately coun
selling the destruction of the Government BY ac-
knowledgng South Carolina a foreign nation
the hour she givesthe Federal Government notice
of secession" he charges those with disloyalty
who, while upholdng the Government, believe
that peace and compromise will restore and per-
petuate the Union. but that "coercive meas
ures designed to keep it in" will produce an
irreconcilable division in sentiment, if not
disunion in fact. If the editor of the Jour
nal had any honor. any decency, any manli-
ness. his record should cause him to hide
his head in shams-but we can only account
for his moral and political depravity by the scrip
tural illustration, that "a dog will return to his
own vomit and SOW to her wallowng in the
mire" If there has been disunionis. in the
land, openly and arowedly SUCH it is the editor of
the Journal, and if there has been print which
has given aid and comfort to secsssionists il is
the Journal. II has done more to bring on the
fratricidal strife between the two sections Of the
country which is a disgrace the civilized world,
shan all the Democratic papers of the State could
do. because as the State organ of powerful and
sectional Northern party, il proclaimed, in the
hour Of that partys triumph, eff any State will
so from US. let il CO." And after thus pressing
its willingness to let any State that might desire
to leave the Union. depart in peace, and after
eleven States have manifested their intention to
leave the Union-in fact, pronounced their con.
rection with the Federal Government at an
snd-ths Journal. with fendish dishonesty and
malignity, cries "havoc and let slip the
dogs Of war" and advocates the subiug..