Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-08


The New York TuibHne of Wednesday advo-
Gates most strenuously the "su6jugatiOn'' of the
Southern States. Itopposes all "half measures"
and says the Christians of the North must pursue
the people of the South with the sword and fire
until they find poverty at their 6re-sides, and
see privation in the anxious eyes of mothers and
the rags of children" We quote the following
extract from that leading Republican organ to
show the spirit which animates that portion of the
party which it represents
We mean to conquer them-not merely to de
feat, but to conquer, to sUBJAGATE them-and we
shall do this the most mercituly the more speedily
we do it. But when the rebellious traitors are
overwhelmed in the field and scattered like leaves
before an angry wind, it must not be to return to
peaceful and contented holmes. They must find
poverty at their tire-sides, and see privation in
the anxious eyes of mothers and the rags of chill
dren. 1t is little enough the slaves will do when
masters are at the wars, and to be idle and waste
full is the least harmful thing in which they
likely to engage themselves. There will be lit
tie cotton raised in the Southern States this year,
and that little must pay the enhanced expense of
a route to market, if allowed to go ut all,
the price thereof to be returned in the bare nee
essaries of life in limited quantities. at starvation
prices. The whole coast of the South, from the
Delaware to the Rio Grande, must be a solitude,
save IRON the presence of a bockading squad
ron so that no relief shall come i'll to the beles
CURED people from the sea.
The other great highway, the Mississippi, it is
the duty of the West to hold, and to prohibit its
use, either partially totally, the obstnacy of
these infatuated rebels shall promise to be OF a
shorter or longer duration The South. even III
the best of times, never feeds herself, and the
want of productive force and productive will,
makes this more impossible this year than ever.
1t is in the power of the West literally to starve
her into submission. Even now but little, we
hear, goes down the Mississippi, except from 81
Louis, and all that trade, and any that should
seek an outlet from the Ohio, could be put stop
to by sufficient force at the mouth of the latter
river The West can drown starve the lower
country, as it peases if continued re5elllous OBJ
stinacy shall compel the North 10 accept the al
tentative. Cairo is already possessed by strong
body of troops. but sufficient force should be
placed in the river, and all trade stopped at once
1t will not be long before there is nothing lett to
eat in all the South western region
And the measure is as wholesome one for the
East as the West. If Maryland goes out of the
Union, and Baltimore continues contumaciOus,
the same means of coercion should be resorted
to. If Baltimore should be anything more than
the name of an extinct city after the secession OF
that State, not another barrel of flour, not an
other buShei oil corn, not another nOS, not so
much a spring chicken, should be allowed to
approach her by land or water Halfway meas
ures will not do with an enemy who will conquer
US and desecrate all this fair land with their ac-
cursed barbarism, unless we conquer them.
But short time ago the same paper which
gives utteranee to the foregoing sentiments de-
clared that any attempt to force the cotton States
to remain in the Union WOULD be contrary to the
doctrines of the Declaration of Independence and
to the principles upon which human liberty is
based. 1t went even further than this in its OPP
position to coercion, by announcing that "when-
ever a considerable section of our Union shall de
liberately resolve to go out, we shall resist al
coercive measures designed to keep it in. W,
hope nerer 10 lire in Republic irhereof one sec
ton is pinned to the residue by bayonets."