Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-05-29
From the Louisville Democrat.


From the Louisville Democrat
Neutrality.
Ii puzzles many to understand it, chiefly be-
cause they don't want to understand it. Ire
pressibles on the Northern side can't abide the
neutrality of this State. Sensible men on both
sides see the justice of Kentucly's position
A party formed exclusively in one section of
the Union, based on hostility to an institution in
the other, aiming to get the whole political power
of the Federal Government, and control it exclu
siyely upon its own sectional ideas and notions in
spite of the other, and in contempt and defiance
of the other, was an unpatriotic and pestilent
ganization.f 1t was never intended that one part
of this Union should establish domination over
the other. 1t is impossible for Union to exist
in such condition. Kentucky protested from
first to last against such an organization. We
foresaw what it had violent tendency to pro-
woke. 1t would be just as well for the South to
be governed by despot at once as to be gov
erned by the opposite section of the Union She
would submit to a government in which she had
no voice, OF in which she had we'll have none
This great wrong has been done in the NORTH
rather attempted to be done. As we said, Ken
lucky protested against il from the start, with al
most certain forebodngs of its consequences. No
State looked on with more GOODNESS ut this mis-
chiev0us and dangerous movement Of the Repub-
lican party, and none saw more clearly its disas-
trous consequences. She saw, moreover, that it
was easy to meet the emergency and counteract
the natural tendency of it. The result showed
that the people of this country were against this
movement, by majority of nearly a million.
Congress and the Supreme Court were against it.
1t succeeded only in electing a President accident
ally, and this was accomplished by the conniyance
aud contrvance of ambitious men South, who saw
that they had lost power and patronage in the
Union
After the election we had the Republican par
ty wholly in the wrong, and the power to infct
the penalty upon the wrong, We had the Presi
dent prisoner, without power to move on with
his Administration The Republican party had
been often in more favorable position, when it
had one House of Congress and not the response
bility of the Administration. This sectional
movement would have been broken down disas
trously. We had it completely in check. Their
game was played out, and could hardly have
been revived in generation. For reasons well
understood, an Administration can not expect its
second Congress to support it, The causes for
this were all aggravated in the case Of Lincoln.
He was condemned by the legislative department
at the start and had still worse fortune to expect
with the next. So favorable an opportunity to
break down and crush out sectional parties had
not occurred since the origin of the Government
Instead of standing up to the duty of allegiance
to their country. and their duty to the Government
their fathers made, watched over with anxious So
licitude, and bequeathed to their sons with many
prayers and tears, part of the South ingloriously
deserted. They denounced the perversions of
the instrument of Government, whrch it had
put into their own hands the means of
correcting. They were unfaithful to the Con-
stitutonitsef IN refusing to use the means it gave
them to correct vice which threatened to per-
vert it. They played false, not to the Repubi-
can party, but to patriotic men everywhere. If
they will not use the means their Constitution
gives them to preserve it in its purity what security
they give that any Constitution will be better
treatedf What is the use Of Constitution, If
those who live under il will not avail themselves
ofthe means it provides to prevent any perver-
sions of itg We say a part of the South deserted,
most unphilosophically, treacherously and meanly
deserted, under the lead of State which was
mostly Tory in l776, and not much better since;
whose political ideas are unlike those of any other
State, and can hardly be called Republican,
State long ambitious to break up the Union, and
only waiting an opportunity, which this sectional
party. most alphabetically, gave her. They had
Lincoln and his party in the wrong in undertake
ing to establish q sectional domination; and, in
stead of holding him to a strict account for it,
which they had the power under the Constitution
their fathers gave them to do they placed them
selves and the So1th in the wrong, and relieved
Lincoln and his party.
| The world will forget the wrong of Lincoln
and his party, in looking at the guilt of choosing
bloody remedy when a peaceable one was at
hand. This guilt will be augmented in the mind
of every patriot in this country, when he sees the
fall of the best Government on earth--an ocean
bound Republc-and substituted in its place des-
potsm now. and, perhaps, the sacrifice of liberty
| forever. rsf 81. -- i1-s SOS 8
Look at this spectacle and then blame the neu-
trality of Kentucky.
| We condemn and detest the conduct of the
revoIutionists; but, Republicans how much bet
ter are you? Do you come into court with clean
hands? The secessionists have enabled you to
shift the issue; you now fight to preserve the
Government; but you have not spent years abus.
ing the South to preserve the Government; you
ddn the plain provisions of constitutional
law to preserve the Government; you didn't null.
lily law to preserve the Government; you didn'i
elect Lincoln to preserve the Government, You
were not aiming at sectional domination to pre-
serve the Government. tsrGse e 1as =.
Now, you Republicans. if you successful
in this war, what then? Now you want to pre-
serve the Government That Kentucky desires
to see done. She would give her last dollar and
her most precious blood to restore 1t in its integ
rity, and spend million in bonfres to celebrate
the event. ..s s1F -
But if this war is successful on the part of the
President, what is to come; are these sectional
IDEAS upon which your party il built. to be car
ried out? Is it to be victory of your party and
your platform? Is sectional domination to be es-
tablished, and the Chicago platform to be the Con
/ stitutionf kentucky wants answer to these
Questions; the Union men of the South want an
answer.
It's unreasonable and unjust to expect the
Union men of Kentucky to give men or money
in this fight, until We get aapsXer: We have
vague promises that no constituencies rights are
to be disturbed; but no definite guaranty of-these
rights has been offered. We belese the peopls
of the North will give these guarantees. if they
ever get chance. We have indications Of that
but the powers that be up to this have shown
little more than sulcn defiance. No compromise
with traitorsl is the cry. They need not utteI
that cry. Those they call traitors spurn com
promise. No compromise viii, ever be made by
them. It's the Union men of tho South, and
they are legion, who ask these guarantees. They
are as anxious to preserve the Government as the
most anxious what is il to be when preserved
If this war, if successful. is to end in scctiops
domination, il is not our Governments. Let vi
have definite security against this, and there vii
be no neutrals among the Union men of the South
We do not fear this sectional domination iii
impossible. There is not power in this countr,
to establish it. The fight to preserve the Gov
eminent is popular Millions would shed thei
blood for that. Kentucky would do il but in
tight for sectional domination, the Union men o
the South must be conquered. s i's.1
We want understanding of this now it maj
save oceans of blood and treasure. Let's se'
what the Government is to be when it is pre-
served. Until then, not a man or a dollar cal
Kentucky furnish. Federal laws will be execu
ted, Federal rights respected. There is no nee
of forces to execute these laws or protect thes
rights. We can attend to that ourselves Blu
we want to know what's to be established by thi
war ON the part of the Government. A satisfac
tory reply to this will do more to end this wa
than all the treasure and blood to be spent. LIE
the Administration consider this it is wort
more than all its armies. r.
For Separation.
The Cincinnati Press, Republican, still adro
Gates the policy of separation Of the Northern
and Southern States. II thus closes an article il
its issue of yesterday: