Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-10-16
Objects of the War.

1t seems strange that there shouldb be division
OF sentiment as to the objects of the war. We
can not expect that the Administration or the
Commanding Generals will prosecute it with
vigOr, energy and success, unless public sen
timent is unit in regard to the ends to be
accomplished. large class, represented by such
men as SUMNER, the abolition Senator from Mas
sachusetts, desire to make it war of emIncipa-
ton. They are influenced by that single idea,
and can see nothing TO be gained bat some mag
inaIy benefit to the negro. Such sentiments and
purposes should be repudiated. In the language
of the Boston Journal, a conservative Republi-
can print, the war should be confined to the ends
proclaimed "by Congress. by the President, by
members of the Cabinet, and by the command
ing Generals in the field. In the language of the
resolutions of Congress, passed with but two dis
sentng votes, the war is not wagad for conquest
or subjugaton, or for interfering with the rights
established institutions of the States, but TO
maintain and defend the supremacy of the Con-
stitution, with their rights and equality under it
unimpaired.' In the comprehensive language of
Secretary CHASE, the object of the war is the
security of liberty, the supremacy of the law.
the defense of the Union, and the maintenance
of popular institutions The President has sol
EMMY expressed his desire TO preserve the Gov
eminent that it may be administered for all as it
was adminsteredby the men who madeit. Loyal
citizens have right to claim this of their Gov
eminent, and the Government has no right to
withhold or neglect it,"
We repeat in the energetic words of that
print:
1--WE must limit the to the purposes so dis
tinctly avowed by the Administration, or the sun
of our national prosperity will set in darkness and
gloom, to rise again, if at all, only after years of
bloodshed and anarchy Proclaim the policy of
emancipation and all hope of reconstruction of the
Union will be crushed out. All the loyal ele-
ments in Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri will
be alienated at once, and every prospect of ava
kening the dormant loyalty in the seeded States
will have passed away. 1t will come to this that
we must sublugate, or he subjugated. The peO-
pie OF the South would defend their homes and
their iresides to the last extremity, would
do should the chances of the favor them.
The present generation would not see the end of
such contest, unless the North should be
quered and subdued by the aid of foreign bayo-
nets or internal discussions. From such war
VIC NCh pray " Dc uchNcfcu
If deviation from the purposes so distinctly
avowed by the Administration" will cause "the
sun of our national prosperity to set in darkness
and gloom, to rise again, if at all. only after
years of bloodshed and anarchy" should not
those who urge countenance this deviation be
pointed out and rebuked? Should not the sheep
be separated from the goatsf Should not those
"bOodshed," and anarchy upon us be de-
signated and denounced? This is what we have
done and of which the Journal complains This
we hold it is the duty ef every honest journalist
to do, and none but those who regard the narrow
interests of party above the broad interests of
country will hesitate to perform it. at may
suit the selfish schemes of political dema
gogues and needy adventures to evade the
issue and cover up political rottenness, I" but
il does not cOmport with disinterested patriotism
and love of country" Party necessity and expo
diency will not be recognized excuse for
hazarding years of bOodshed and anarchy" The
people-the mass of all p,rties-require aboveaI
else the salvation of the counsy-the Constitution
asst as, The GO1ernmeRf as Il scas. We wish for the
success ofno party but the party which labors for
this contamination, and the bolder and the more
distinctly this party stands out from all other par
ties, the stronger will be the evidence of the un
fnching loyalty and patriotism of the people of the
Northand the greater the encouragement it will af
ford the loyal citizens in the border and insurgent
States that the is not for their subjugation,
but for their restoration to all their constitutional
rights. Hence we desire the line to be Clearly
drawn between the ConstitutionaIists and the
RevOlutionists; since the speech delivered by Mr.
SUMNER has lifted the Emancipationists '.out
of obscurity, let the fat of the public voice con-
denim them to the oblivion from which they have
lately emerged.
The Providence Post says, with truth and per-
tinacity, that "the entire Democratic party and a
urge fraction of the Republicans are first and
always fos the Union, leaving slavery to those
who are responsible for it, and who alone have the
right to deal with it, To one or the other of
these ideas must every citizen soon give his adj
hesion- The logic of events is carrying us rapid
ly on to this sole ISSUE And this involves the
question whether we are ready to give up our
coantry2 For ourselves, we do not see, we con-
fess we can not find any hope, or safety or any.
thing in which to trust anything on which to re-
ly.i the solemn compacts Of the Constitution are
to be trampIed under foot simply because we of
the North have the power to do so IL we aban-
don all the legal and constitutional methods of
changing our organic law; il we repudiate the
compacts without which we never should have
had Union; If. in short, by our acts we inaugu-
rate the doctrine that might makes right, then
indeed we may end the war by slave insurrec-
ton, as we shall have yielded up our liberties.
We shall have liberated the negro and have en-