Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-10


While in others, in Virginia, North Carolina.
TenLessee and Arkansas, the Union sentiment
VAS nearly repressed and silenced.
The course taken in Virginia the most re-
perhaps the most important. A con-
gention elected by the people of tie State, to
consider this very question of disrupting the Fed
sral Union, was in session at the capital of Nir
yinia when Fort Sumter fell. To this body the
people had elected large majority of professed
Union men. Almost Immediately after the fall
Of Sumter, members of that majority went over
to the original minority, and, with them, adopted
m ordinance for Withdrawing the State from the
Union. Whether this change was wrought by
their great approval of the assault on Sumter, or
their great resentment at the Governments re-
sistance to that assault, is not definitely known.
Although they submitted the ordinance for ratih
cation to. a vote of the people, to be taken some
what more than a month distant, the conven-
ton, and the Legislature, which was also in ses-
sion at the same time and place, with leading men
of the State not belonging to either, Immediately
acting as if the State was already out
of the Union. They pushed military preparations
forward all over the State. They
seized the United States armory at Harper's Ferry
and the navy yard at Gosport, near Norfolk.
They received, perhaps invited into their State,
large bodies OF troops, with their warlike APP
pointments,. from the so-called seeded States.
with the so called Confederate States, and sent
members to their Congress at Montgomery. And
finally they permitted the insurrectlonary govern
ment to be transferred to their capital AZ. Rich
mond.
The people of Virginia have thus allowed this
giant instruction to make its nest within her
borders, and this Government has no choice left
but to deal with it where it finds it, and it has the
less to regret as the loyal citizens have, in due
e - .s- lr.~-,l s~.Ss
gems the Government is bound to recognize and
protect as being in Virginia.
In the border States, so-called-in fact, the
middle States-there are those who favor policy
which they call armed neutrality; that is, an
arming of those States to prevent the Union
forces passing one way or the disunion the other
over their soil. This would be disunion com
pletely. Figuratiyely speaking, it would be the
building of an impossible wall along the line of
separation, end yet not quite an impossible one.
Tor. under the guse of neutrality, it would tie the
hands of Union men, and freely pass supplies
from among them to the insurrectionists, which
it could not do to an open enemy. At stroke it
would take all the trouble off the hands of seces-
sion, except only what proceeds from the external
blockade. 1t would do for the disunionists that
which Of all things they most desire-feed them
well, and give them disunion without a struggle
of their own. 1t recognizes no fidelity to the
Constitution no obligation to maintain the
Union. While very many who have favored it
are doubtless loyal citizens, it is nevertheless very
Injurious in effect. $50 49, !
Recurring to the action of the Government. il
may be stated that Mt first call was made for
IS 900 militia, and, rapidly following this, pro.
clamation was issued for closing the ports of the
insurrectionary districts by the nstiuting in them
of a blockade. ntar -t
So far all was believed to be strictly legal. A,
this point the insurrectioniss announced their pur
pose to enter upon - practice of prvateering
Other calls were made for volunteers to serve
three years, unless sooner discharged, and also
large additions to the regular army and navy
These measures whether strictly legal or not were
ventured upon in what appeared to be q popular
demand and public necessity. trusting then, as
now that Congress would heartily ratify them.
1t is believed that nothing has been done beyond
the constitutional competency of Congress.
Soon after the first call for militia, il was con-
sidered a duty to authorize the Commanding
General in proper cases, according to his discre-
tion to suspend the privilege of the kabeos corpus
or, in other words, to arrest and detain, without
resort to ordinary processes and forms of law,
such individuals as he might deem dangerous to
the public safety. This authority has .purposely
been exercised but very sparngly. Neverthe-
less the legality and propriety Of what has been
done under it are questions. and the attention OF
the country has been called to the proposition that
one who is sworn to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed should not himself violate
them. OF course, some consideration was given
to the questions of the power and propriety be-
fore this matter was acted upon. The whole of
the laws which were required to be faithfully exc
cuted were being resisted, and, failing of execu-
ton in nearly one third of the States, must they
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