Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-13
washington Correspondence.
washington COrrespOndenCe.
No hope Of an Adjustment-Th Bullet before tn,
Ballot-TAe English Journals on the Crisis
The Patriotic Altitude Of the Northern Dem
oeroey.

Ih Fdtriotc Attitude of the Northern Dem
ecrocy.
wAsISeroS, February 4, 1851
To the Efiforof TIE Daily State Sentinel:
Sir: There is no longer any room for doubt or
hope. Our friends here were quite sanguine.
few days ago, that the convention to meet in this
city to-day would be productive of much good,
but now their hope has given way to despair.
The Chicago Platform is the primatum and ulti-
matum of the Republicans
The Commissioners appointed by the Governor
of Pennsylvania are all Black Republicans, and
are instructed-frst, to oppose any and all amend
ments to the Constitution; second. to refuse the
right of transit to the STAKEHOLDER with his slave
through the Northern States; and third. to demand
protection to Northern men when temporarily So
iourning or travelling through the South. Thus,
instead of evincing disposition to compromise,
Pennsylvania instructs her Commissioners not to
compromise; nay, she sends them with an insult
and taunt in their mouths to further provoke. If
possible, and influence the Southern mind What
can be the intention of this menace on the part of
the Republicans of Pennsylvania? II can have
but one meaning-to drive the South out of the
Union, and to inaugurate civil war. They want
disunion. And yet all winter these hypocrites
have been shedding crocodile tears over the Union
AT times their looks of devout sincerity accom-
panied by the most intense expressions of patriot
ism and love for the Union, did deceive many a
shrewd and sensible man, innocent of trickery
and deception. In this manner they actually
fooled Douglas, Crittenden and others of our
friends completely But now the bold, glaring
and infamous deception stands revealed before
them. The character of the men appointed by
| the Republicans to this convention and the in
structions by which they are hampered, conclu-
sively demonstrates that it will break up without
doing anything to the Union. After its ad-
journment the work of secession will be short and
rapid. The South will then be convinced that
| the Republican leaders have resolved that there
| shall be no compromise--no lowering of the Re
publican fag-no Union on the basis of the Con
stitution
Yet, after all this, how ardent, how derofed
how intensified is the love of the Republicans for
the Union! All we ask of them is to allow a vote
of the people to be taken on the several PROPOSE
tons of compromise. But they are afraid to of
fer the people the ballot instead they proffer the
bullet. The ballot is the representative of Amer
ican civilization. the bullet of barbarism True
TO their nature, they distrust the people
lie English journals are beginning to show their
hands quite plainly. Even the London Tunes
which heretofore has seemed to be very beIlig.
erent towards the South not only moderates its
tone, but is shifting over on their side In a re.
cent article it says that if the border slave State.
go into the Southern confederacy," it would. in
fact, make the Southern Federation the real
United States, and reduce the North to what our
ancestors would have called Rump;" every nat
ural advantage would be on the side of the slave
States.
'ln the mean time, all the riches of the New
World would be in the grasp of the Southerners
Instead of exploring the inhospitable regions in
the neighborhood of the British frontier, which
would be all that remained to the North, the
slave owners would carry their "undeniable prod.
erty" into lands blessed with every advantage OF
climate, soil and mineral wealth. Texas has ter
ritory enough TO make three or four great States