Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-07-24
The Republican Party SuppressIng N
RcbelIiOn.


According to President Lincoln, il is the Re
publican party which is to put down the Southern
rebellion. In his late message To Congress he
uses this language:
cit is now for them (the American people) to
demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly
carry election, can also suppress n rebellion;
that ballots the rightfu successors to bullets,
and that when ballots have fairly and consttu-
tiOnally decided, there can be no successful ap-
peal back to bullets that there can be no success
full appeal except to ballots themselves, at sue
ceeding elections.
"Such will be a great lesson Of peace, that
what they cannot take by an election, neither can
they take it by war; teaching all the folly of
beginning a war"
That is, those who carried the election last
November now to demonstrate 10 the
world that they ''can also suppress rebellion"
W hat pity the President had not announced this
idea in his proclamation calling for troops to con
quer the South How much farer it would have
been then, to announce that il the party that
elected him, to which he looked for the men and
the money TO sustain his Administration by force
of arms
Ii is a misfortune that the President can not
rise above party considerations in discussing the
momentous questions before the country. As in
his inaugural, he recognized the Chicago plat
form as the guide for his Administration so now
he can not divest himself of the falacy that il is
the Republican party which is to suppress the
rebellion" and sustain the Government. Nor is
the President alone in this absurd notion. While,
in sense, party lines are forgotten, that is,
far to accept the service of Democrats well
as Republicans to fight the battles of the country,
the theory nevertheless runs through all their po-
ltcal calculations, that it is the Republican party
which is to save the Unien, and 10 suppress the
rebellion. Yet il is not often that the idea is so
| frankly expressed in the paragraph we have
quoted from the Presidents message.
Should this war prove successful and the sece-
ded States be reduced to suhjecton, we shallhave
no end of the partisan boast that the party 'who
can fairly carry an election can also suppress a
rebellion" and that il is due to the political or
gsinization which elected Mr. Lincoln, that the
Union was saved from dissolution Ii is insult
ing To the thousands Of men who voted against
the Republican party, but who now fighting
the battles of the Union, or contributing Of their
to be thus officially told that t Is their servi-
ces. but TO those who carried the Presidential
election, that the salvation of the country. if in
deed it shall be saved by war. will be due.
We hope tie Union may be saved from disso
luton, and that the Government will prove equal
70 the immense strain upon il, caused by the pres
ent civil war. We would scarcely stop TO inquire
who saved it--whether Republicans or Demo-
Gratis; but il does seem a little odd that while
calling for troops without distinction of party the
president should announce to the world that one
party alone is to have the honor Of suppresSing
the present rebellion.-N. Y Journal Of Com
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