Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-05
plan or Compromise.

vile, from the neutral ground" of Kentucky,
we take from the New York Journal Of Com
MERGE. The article exhibits not only true spirit
of patriotism, but very clear conception of the
real difficulties under which we labor. The
remedies are plausible, and probably would prove,
seffectual, except the relating to the shorten
] ing of the Presidential term:
1 MEssRs. EpIroRs:-Why is this Union dissolv-
fling? Because of disagreement on the question:
7 of slavery in the Territoresr Or the Tariff The
Charleston Mercury, the leading secession organ
says no. but that it is because of the usurpations
sby the General Governments of powers reserved to|
4 the States.
In NV Judgment no one of these is the true
scause II is, rather, that great fact which has
demonstrated ITSELF and can no longer be ignored
sthat our country is split into two great and oppo
asing sections, of interests and ideas so dvergng
2that they can not live together in union unless
Reach holds a constitutional negative over the
Mothers action This fact has demonstrated itself
lin the election by of the sections of a man to
act as President of all the States who represents
IA party and principles so insufierably odlous to-
#the people of fifteen of those States that he did
mot get a majority in any county of them, and I'M
al probability not single ~ote in them of native
4of Southern soil.
81 Where bad laws are enacted, or good laws per-
4verted from their spirit so as to produce unequal
faction, revolution inevitably asserts itself.
q Lincoln's election is in accordance with the
letter OF the law, bat not with its spirit, for the
spirit of our Constitution is that all shall have
2voce in choosing the President of the nation, and
3the presentation and election OF such a man by
81 the majority of section, demonstrates the neces
Ssity of change i'm the letter of the law, because
Viz has permitted the di franchisement OF the whole
3ffteen Southern States. To say that the South
Xerners have not been deprived Of the elective fran
|4chise because they voted at the same time for
2other candidates, is but to aggrayate the wrong;
Eff ANYTHING in tie shape of respectable minority
ahad voted for Lincoln in the slave States, such a
7pea would be correct, but not, when rs at present
Che is utterly repudiaIed.
u Where sections are so marked, interests so
3clashing, and all ideas divergent, as in our
3 North and South, union is only made possible by
ggiving to each part full power of sefdelense, so
;athat they may feel easy, and not have cause to
fear oppession.
q To be magnanimous is the first duty Of power
therefore propose that the Constitution be
amended that the States which
&now hold slaves and any future accessions of slave
Estates shall constitute the Southern section, and
&the present ee States and any future aecessions
3of free States shall constitute the Northern sec
Elton; and that no man shall be declared elected
y president Vice President unless he shall have
received n majority of the electoral votes of each
section respectively; and no man shall be declared
Rejected Speaker of the House of Representatives
Hunless he has received a majority of the votes of
a Representatives from each section respectively.
s. If the electoral college or House of Representa-
&tives do not succeed in making election by
Hthree ballotings in this way, then let them pro-
3ceed to ballot for an entirely new set of candi-
dates, (ruling out those first balloted for and so
zgo on casting only three ballots for any one set
8of On nddatAs until elactiOn il had
q Mr.. Calhoun's plan of two Presidents might be
dftly represented by two pillars standing side by
s side without point of union, and liable to he
Hseparated AT THE TOP by any force acting between
them.
a Mine, / think, has for its emblem the human
Sbody-two feet separated, TO prerenf loss of bal
lance and insure progress-and head i'm common
Ito unity the aim of all progressive exertion.
a The Senate has heretofore been the balance
Swheel of our system. and to keep up equality
There, has been the cause of the South's contin
3ued grasping for territory in order to main
'ztain the power of selfdefense.
y The balance wheel having become disordered
athe machine is tearing itself to pieces.
i My plan provides a new balance-wheel.
a BY this mode, the veto power, and the appoint
sment Of the committees which shape the legisla-
Z ton of Congress, would be in the hands of those
xchosen umpires by both sections and North
5and South could feel safe from sectional outrage
'xThe utter mpossibility of any party then accom-
Splishing any election or legislation without de-
( ferring to both sections, would tend to Danish
ssectionalism from our national councils, as the
&proper division of cares and mutual Difference
88best promotes cordial and united feeling between
4man and wife.
q The President should not be eligible for a
&second term, and the term OF that Office should
3be shortened to three or even two years, as to
fgive ambitious men sufficient chances for attain
ling the position to prevent them from Inaugural
4ting revolution, and at the same time give more
3chances for the reform of abuses and the proven
3tion of so much venality and corruption as we
3have had, by thus lessening the Presidents pa
3tronage without lessening his efficiency an Ex
&ecutive, which latter is done when his power of
appointment and removal is restricted. When
your Constitution was framed there were sectional
nterests, it is true, but not sharply defined nor
z3consoidated into two OF such imposing magnitude
E9and opposition as we now have.
n The division of our country into two great and
3opposing sections must now be recognized as an
3uncontrollable fact, and one that will endure for
Never. To act for the future on the supposition
&that we will one day be all free or all slave, car
3end only in disruption and war, unless the blacks
aare extermnated.
81 ANY union whatever of the sections which il hon
8orable is preferable far preferable for both. to
Hdisunion. twill give each strength against out
aside enemies, and if in such union provide
4 for defense against each other, we have accom-
Hplished all that is possible.
81 Providing for territorial acquisitions and divis
lions is merely temporizing, but the idea l have
above presented goes directly to the fountain head
8 and makes a radical change in the organic law
(which exactly meets a radical change in the pc
3litical character of our PEOPLE.
"a IL changes sectonalism from its present form
!4of positive and aggressive power, into merel,
s5nega-ive power, powerless for any greater evi
t3than that of producing deadlock
81 IL is a permanent settlement. The North OBJ
81 ects to recognizing slavery national any more
3than is done in the present Constitution. The
above plan recognizes it just as the present, viz.
3that there are States in which slavery exists.
8 The North objects to protecting slavery nation
Tally; the above plan only gives to the slave States
the power of themselves protecting it from un
Nfriendly legislation.
q If National Convention meets, in which al
Hthe States are represented and the above plan o.
Hsomethng as fair and equal is presented as bein:
Unsatisfactory to the South, it will assuredly be &C
5cepted by the North, for am fully confident tina
F4the North is such unit now against the SOutl
@only because our former friends there feel tina
tadisunion is attempted without their having beer
Nalowed an honorable and constitutional chanc
81 to wright the wrong, which has in consequence o
81 aid from secessionism to fanaticsm, been com
United by their section.
l The ruling desire among the great mass Of tn
Northern people is, that this nation shall not b.
aforced to abate an inch of its dignity among th
3powers of the earth. NATIONAL PATRIOT.
u Gold Coming.
n We notice from our exchanges that in GU
~ Western towns cold is already hecinnino To ma K