Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-22

The New York Tribune thus foTeshsdows lis
view Of the true policy of the Government in the
present crisis upon the country:
For more than thirty years notification and
disunion have afflicted the land. For nearly the
same period slavery agitation has disturbed tie
general reposc. To aprease the former and s.
lence the latter, all conceivable expedienis have
been tried Presidents have issued anti -nuliifica
ton prOclamations. Senators have sung peans
to the Union. Tariffs have been repealed. and
gag resolutions adopted. Mobs have howlei
through our streets, and compromise measures oil
varied hues have dragged their slow length.
through Congress We have hunted Indians in
the everglades of Florida, and chased RUNAWAY
negroes clear up to the Canada line. We have
acquired Texas. and fought about IT, and backed
down from 81 deg. 40 min, lest we should have
to fight about that We have sacrificed great
statesmen, and elevated paltry politicians. We
have dissolved old parties and formed new ones
discarded ancient doctrines and set up novel tests
of orthodoxy. But all has been in vain.
We will not stop 20 inquire how, nor whence.
nor why, notification, disunion, and slavery agi-
taton, were originally precipitated upon the coun
try, nor by what means, nor from what motives,
their lurid fires have been kept burning till now.
We shall not try TO apportiOn the blame nor the
praise which belongs TO this party or to that fac
ton. All this belongs 20 the past History will
pass its unerring judgment upon il. Our present
purpose is simply 10 say, that we are very sure
that all parties At the North have had enough of
these disturbing questions, and most heartily de
sire TO see them brought 70 an end. The disease
has reached a crisis. It must be eradicated or q
speedy dissolution of the body polite il at hand
Threats of disunion have ripened into acts OF
open rebellion. Notification, covert and cautious
within the Federal Government, has given place
TO armed resistance to its authority and defiant
secession from it.
Men of all shades Of opinion this side Of tie
Potomac long 10 put final finish 70 the cause,
which have engendered these intermnable dis
tracing, and now most pOrtentOus controversies
Even those who are moved by no higher motive
than 4 desire TO be relieved from aa agitation
which, for a whole generation, has absorbed q
much of the time talents and temper of IN,
country, eagerly hail the present exigency the
Heaven ordained opportunity for striking an ex
terminating blow at the root OF the evil. OtheF'
who regard the existence Of our free institution,
as staked upon the issue, demand that the tre'
which has borne such noxious fruits be nov
leveled 10 the earth. Cuti down, say they: win
cumbereth il the groundG
Ii can be done Peaceful expedients hav,
failed. War is the only remedy. Let timidi;-
stand aside, and leave events TO flow ON in an un
interrupted channel. lie: us listen to no compro
mises. Let us stop at no half way measures Il
his recent speech, Daniel :. Dickinson has give
voice 10 the Northern sentiment: Let rs" SAT
that veteran National Democrat, settle this thin
speedily and surely. II may ruin this generation
but we owe it to the next that they should hav
no such troubles as we have had. Let Us strik
now in our might, and, if necessary, wipe th
rebels from the face of the earth. Let Us finis
things while we are about il, and leave nothin
behind u.s.