Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-29
From the London Times, May 10.
The American Civil War.

All that we can do is to keep aloof from the
dreadful encounter We feel that counsel or me-
diation might as well be offered to the hurricane
which sweeps over the Gulf of Mexico. We may
receive little satisfaction from the assurance of
Lord Palmerston that no direct injury to our own
finances is likely to result from the war; but it is
greater pleasure to be able to think that not
only positive law, but the moral feeling of the
community, will prevent any British subject to
engage i'm the conflict for the purpose of private
gain. The Home Secretary's declaration with
respect to privateering will have the full assent
of the country; and when this strife is over we
shall have the comfort of knowing that not one
drop of blood was shed by us.
30 From the London News Of May 10. a'
There may be more misfortunes to be under
gone by the free section at first, from their I'M
readiness, and the INSCRIPTIONS readiness of their
enemy; but, whatever difference of opision there
might have been in London, ten days ago, about
the respective chances of the beliserents, tire
news of the arming and marching OF the North
forces must have shown where the real strength
lies. Wecan not join in ordinations
about the unexpected and astonishing character
of the convulsion; for, Lord Palmerston says,
any one with common foresight must have
expected it. Nor can we join in any cry about
the horribleness and incredible dreadfulness
of the issue of this long controversy. We
sympathize rather with the solemn Joy of the
free States, who feel, even at this hour of the
crisis, that there is something more precious to
self ruling people than 'blood and treasure"
We congratulate them on having at last thrown
off Their burden OF in:quity, and found themselves
free 10 assert their old liberties, and recover. the
esteem of the best part Of the world They will
show us now. at last, what popular self govern
ment is. The crisis brings out its virtue in fos-
tering love of country, and capacity for self
sacrifice and union of heart and hand on great
occasions. These men have a country and pol
ity which they can fight and die for. The time
past, in which miserable vice in their polity de
moralized and disheartened them, will be lesson
for the future; and this season of emancipation
once over, they may start afresh, and show the
world what popular government may be and do.
when freed from the curse of completely with the
grossest tyranny which man can exercise over
man. f'
From the Liverpool Post of May 10.
The American news looks very had for the
South For the first time since hostities began
we hear of the negroes, and their interposition
begins in a way which threatens very rapidly to
convince their southern masters that they have
made great mistake in provoking TO an issue
"the irrepressble conflict" In Marylund, though
the adhesion of the State to the secession policy
is by no means distinct, general run of the
slaves is reported TO have commenced. With
the terrible contingency which these incidents
pOrtend hanging over them, ana with the prospect
of being completely blockaded by the North, the
Southerners are in a position which all their
courage and determination can not long render
tenable, which a very little wisdom would lead
them to evacuate. and from which, in all proba-
bility, they will soon be driven into a worse by
the stern realities of the war which the North j.
determined to wage against them.
From the Manchester Guardian OF May IL. '..i
1t is impossible not to perceive that the North
will fight at an immense advantage on the ground
which has been chosen. not only on account of its
vast superiority in men and wealth, which would
have been in its favor anywhere, but by virtue OF
a circumstance which ought to have kept what
are called the border States LOYAL To the Union in
spite of all temptations We refer to the fac,
that, while slavery can not possibly be extended
nOrthward there is abundant room for its aboli
ton in the rear of Northern army marching vic.
toriously toward the South Ii is proposition al
most equally safe, that wherever the peculiar in
stituton has been effectually done away with even
for Il short time. il can never be restored. The
well known fact that in the greater part of Mary
land and Virginia slaves are not kept from any alb
solute necessity for negro labor to cultivate the
SOIL and that the abolition Of the system in those
States, by pelceable means, has long been deem
ed probable, is all that need he remembered To
show the practical hopelessness Of the undertaking
on which the Southerners are about to expend the
first offerings of their blood and treasure They
are fighting for acquisition which il is not in
the nature of things that they can retain; while
the North will have an absolute certainty that
whatever may be the political upshot of the war
one of its consequences will be to extend the FROM
tiers of free soil dominion.