Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-01
ssNorthern Democrats standing by
the Southern People viii not be
held Responsible for LincOln's

ActS.S'
The above purports to be message from
Montgomery, Alabama, addressed to the Demo
cratic party of the North. Another message,
said to have emanated directly from the head of
the Confederacy, is to the purport that, in the
invasion of the North which was speedily to fol-
low Northern Democrats would he treated as
friends and be protected These emanatons, if
real, show how widespread the misapprehension
is throughout the South of the true feelings of
that portion of the people OF the North who com
pose the Democratic party. So far as our knowl-
edge extends in this State, there is not who
stood firm in the ranks of that party during the
last election who will falter a moment in sus-
tanning the integrity of the government, in main
tanning the flag of the Union at all hazards and
under al circumstances. If the Southern people
had proved as true to the North as the Northern
Democracy have to them, instead of war and
bloodshed and desolation, should have
peace and harmony and good feeling throughout
the land. Ii is painful to be compelled to say
that, whatever evils befall the Southern people,
they must attribute them to the want OF good
faith on the part of their leaders to the Democracy
of the North. Their leaders not only deceived
the masses as to the consequences which they in
tended should follow from the disruption of the
party at Charleston, but it would seem though
they still kept up the deception by lattering the
people of the South that there were thousands
here who sanctioned the revolution which has
been inaugurated for the purpose of overthrOwing
the government of the Union. 1t is passing
strange that such deusion should exist any
where among any class but such opinions can
not be honestly entertained by the leaders of the
South.
With all their eoquenee-with all the patron
age of Mr.. Buchanan's administration-they in
duced less than a thousand to desert from the
ranks of the party in this State out of the seventy
thousand Democratic voters Can they expect to
induce more men to betray their country than
they could to desert the party? If so, the result
will prove that they know nothing Of the Democ-
,racy Of the North. While the Northern Demos
raey have ever stood, and will ever stand, as
firmly By and maintain the rights guaranteed to
the Southern people by the Constitution as they
will those guaranteed TO themselves. there is not
in our opinion, one single true Democrat in
Michigan who will not stand by the Union. They
believe it must be maintained, or that anarchy
viii reign throughout the land
We are led 10 these remarks, because we feel
that il is full time the seeded States should not
fall into the error fatal to themselves that they
have any supporters in the Democratic party in
the course they are now pursuing We have
stood firmly for their rights, and been stricken
down party at home, and then, while pros
trate in the dust, we have seen the South for
whom we have suffered, desert us, and vet we
stand firm, and ready as ever to maintain their
rights under the constitution. But while we saw
this. they should understand that the whole
North will stand against all attempts
to overthrow the Government, let those attempts
come from whatever quarter they may.-DetroH
Free Press.